Recommendable! This article was written by Geert Wilders himself. He is a controversial Dutch politician. But his story is well known and shocking even if some of it is exaggerated or distorted.
"... I stayed and founded my own party, the Party for Freedom (PVV), which is currently the largest party in the Netherlands and the largest party in the ruling government coalition. ...
Fatwas are a direct assault on freedom of speech. The Iranian Ayatollah Khomeini has never been taken to court for his 1989 fatwa condemning the British author Salman Rushdie to death, but he should have been. ...
Some “believers” take these fatwas very seriously, as was illustrated when Junaid Iqbal, a 26-year-old Pakistani, was arrested in The Hague in August 2018 for plotting to “send the dog Wilders to hell.” In February 2021, the court in The Hague sentenced Mr. Iqbal to 10 years in prison for preparing a terrorist attack on me.
In September last year, the court in The Hague also sentenced another Pakistani citizen, 37-year-old Khalid Latif, a former captain of the Pakistani national cricket team, to 12 years in prison for offering an amount equivalent to $23,500 for murdering me. ..."
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