Geert Wilders Held At Detention Center In London

February 12th, 2009 (38) Posted By .

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Times Online:

The far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders was turned away from Heathrow today after testing the Home Secretary’s ban on him entering the country.

Immigration officials denied the Dutch MP entry to the country after the Government decided he should not be allowed to attend a screening of his controversial anti-Islamist film tonight.

Mr Wilders said: “I am in a detention centre at Heathrow … I am detained. They took my passport. I will not be allowed to enter the country. They will send me back within a few hours.”

On his flight to London, he told The Times that the British Government was “the biggest bunch of cowards in Europe”.

”It is easy to invite people you agree with, it is more difficult to invite people you disagree with and this is the proof of the pudding,” he said.

“I am going to Great Britain because I was invited by another politician (Lord Pearson of Rannoch). I am a democrat, I am serving freedom of speech. They are not only being nasty to me they are being nasty to freedom of speech.

He added: “They (the British government) are more Chamberlain than Churchill.”

At 2.20pm, Mr Wilders was escorted through UK immigration by two plain-clothed officers and into the offices of the UK border agency.

At one stage, during the long walk from the plane to immigration, one of Mr Wilders’ bodyguards asked border agency guards to relax their grip on the MP.

The guards kept a tight hold on both Mr Wilders’s arms as they walked him through the airport followed by a gaggle of journalists and cameramen.

As he approached passport control, Mr Wilders was asked if he was nervous. He replied: “I’m not nervous. I’m just anxious to find out what will happen to me. Is this how Great Britain welcomes a democrat?”

Among those waiting for Mr Wilders in arrivals was Gerard Batten, UKIP MEP for London. “I thought it would be a nice touch to turn up and welcome him here if he gets through,” he said.

Mr Wilders, 45, an MP in the Netherlands, caught a British Midlands flight from Amsterdam this afternoon brandishing his passport and boarding pass. He said he would have to be physically restrained from entering the country. “I’ll see what happens at the border. Let them put me in handcuffs,” he said.

The MP was invited to attend a showing of his 17-minute film, Fitna, at the House of Lords by the UKIP peer Lord Pearson.

The film features verses from the Koran with images of terrorist attacks in New York, London and Madrid and calls on Muslims to remove “hate-preaching” verses from the text. Lord Pearson said that the screening would go ahead with or without Mr Wilders.

The Home Office decision to refuse Mr Wilders entry on account of his views provoked Maxime Verhagen, the Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister, to call David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, to protest at the decision. “The fact that a Dutch parliamentarian is refused entry to another EU country is highly regrettable,” Mr Verhagen said.

In the House of Lords today, the peer who invited Mr Wilders to Britain mounted a staunch defence of the right-wing Dutch politician’s right to show a controversial film about Islam.

Lord Pearson aid he disagreed with some of Mr Wilders’ views but believed he should be allowed to express them.

He asked Home Office minister Lord West of Spithead: “Do you think this situation would occur if Mr Wilders had said ban the Bible. If it would not have occurred, why would it not have occurred?”

“Surely the violence and the disturbance that may arise from showing this film in this country is not caused by the film which attempts to show merely how the violent Islamist uses the Koran to perpetrate his terrible acts.

“The violence is coming from the Jihadist, the violent Islamist, and surely the Government in doing what it has done is therefore guilty of appeasement.”

Lord West replied: “I certainly don’t think we are guilty of appeasement in any way whatsoever. I don’t want to go down the route of discussing a hypothetical case of what if he talked about this, what if he talked about that.”

He told peers: “Under European law a member state of the European Economic Area may refuse entry to a national of another EEA state if they constitute a threat to public policy, public security or public health.”

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  • CPLViper

    Stupid. Hey Geert, you are welcome at my house anytime, my good man. Keep fighting the good fight.

  • majortom

    The Border Guards were gripping his arm As if he was a criminal!?! What a slap in the face to treat a politician in such a dishonorable way.
    Shame on England! Appeasement through and through!

  • CPLViper

    One other thing though. Every time I see a picture of him, for some reason I expect him to break out and start singing that 80′s song, “Amadeus, Amadeus” and start dancing badly. It is just that European 80′s one-hit-wonder lead singer look he’s got going on. :lol:

  • Roland

    They sure learn hard and slow or forget easily in the UK. Between those of us that came in Colonial times to the New World and those who left during the postwar “Brain Drain” they may be a bit depleted.

  • mike3481

    UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!
    ………………………….

    Dutch MP Wilders – “On his flight to London, he told The Times that the British Government was “the biggest bunch of cowards in Europe”.
    ………………

    It’s worse than that. The British Government, including the Judiciary are the biggest collection of PUSSY’S in the history of the Britain.

    For the last 18 months, “W” & Co. have been correct, the tipping point in England’s been reached…England is lost to Islam.

    May Great Britain rest in peace…

    OR

    The British people will finally realize that there’s “nasty business” to be done and will get on with it despite the howls heard from their and the rest of the world’s cowardly and or bought-off press and politicians.

    :gun:

  • mike3481

    Whoops. :oops:

    Above should read; “…history of Britain.”

  • Dan (The Infidel)

    You can sent Geert Wolders a note of encouragement here:
    http://www.geertwilders.nl/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=107

    Hit Verstuur Mail when finished.

    Geert Wilders rocks. :beer: :beer:

  • Jeanet

    :arrow: CPLViper:

    :mrgreen: about your comment on Mr. Wilders hair.

    He once stated he dyed his hair and than NOT paint the grown out roots again so people would ever forget him and, as an act of protest. (He has Jewish ancestors.)

    Yeah, what a shameful act at the airport. Hate-preaching immans are welcome in GB, a man who slams the truth in their faces is send back.

    Like I commented yesterday, democracy and frredom of speach has been killed.

    I got the funny geeling that GB has enourmous financial deals with the Middel East and therefore was under great pressure.

    Wilder in – no money :idea:

  • Marked Right

    Geert Wilders should next come to the USA and see how the BHO administration treats him. We are following in the footsteps of Europe economically, politically, and socially.

  • Steve in NC

    This is an incredible story. It should be of great concern to all peoples who appreciate individual human freedom. Great Britain has fallen from the family of nations who covet and defend individual rights. This detention should be reverberating across the globe. I doubt that it is.

    Who is John Galt?

  • mark

    Appeasement by the UK will only encourage the Muslims there to make even more demands. I am sure many Brits are outraged by this band on the Dutchy. Shame on the Limeys.

  • London Caling

    England/Britain/UK is not “lost to Islam”. I’ve lived here all my life and it’s a ridiculous notion.

    Also, I don’t see any connection at all to the appeasement of the 30s. To say it is is just the usual knee-jerk reaction.

    All sorts of people get refused entry, hard-line Muslim clerics, rappers and even Martha Stewart!

  • Steve in NC

    :arrow: London Caling

    really? I have looked to GB for the past 5 years or so as an example of how a strong democratic nation falls in modern time. I have not been proven wrong. You and your neighbor may not agree, but your freedom loving citizens have forsaken diligence for temporary comforts. Your country has embraced the emotional science of human controlled climate change, political correctness to the point of submission and have rejected Christianity. I see the path your country is on and I do fear for the United States and other free nations. Even Australia has begun to slide. If we do not find our way back western civilization is headed to a new dark ages where individual greatness is disparaged and emotional science is embraced.

    Good Luck over there, but I do not see internal revolution in your blood. Most of that came here several hundred years ago.

  • Steve in NC

    :arrow: Jeanet
    Hey! Good to see you post!

  • Dan (The Infidel)

    Free speech is dead in England. Its OK for some haji mullah or progeny of Allah the moon god to say that its OK to undermine democracy and overthrow it, but its not OK to let someone come into GB that can identify who these stealth jihadis are and what their goals actually are.

    Any assault on free speech is an assault on freedom. Governments who wish to grant or take away rights are no longer in the Democratic fold. They are instead facists, totalatarian.

    The spirit that GB showed against the Nazis in WWII is dead.

    All citizens of GB should consider this quote:

    “f ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” – Samuel Adams

    Yes,GB crouch down and lick the hands of the jihadis. Lick their asses while you’re at it. Get used to Dhimnitude. Hell, you’re already there.

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  • mindy abraham

    He should fight for free speech always

  • Buck Hoff

    Geert’s the man with the balls of steel. The world could use a few thousand Geert Wilders right about now.

  • http://http A.L.

    Geert Wilders is a hero. You has the same courage that few had to denounce Adolf Hitler. I am sorry Mr. Wilders that you are treated this way. England is truly lost, and this is a major concern, for what kind of ally will England be to America in the future?

    Thank you Geert Wilders!! :beer: :beer:

  • Tom in CO

    Geert is my homeboy

  • Fishman

    Freedom of speech may be dying but the liberals with fix that with the fairness doctrine!

  • Toe Tagger (Infidel in toto)

    You can’t spell ‘F.U.C.K.E.D.’ without U.K. Is there ANYTHING remaining, worth fighting for over there? I’m having my doubts.

  • London Caling

    “Free speech is dead in England.” What utter crap! If anything, freedom of speech has extended in the last 40 with the lowering of respect for authority. You must be confusing us with China or Zimbabwe.

    The British media has been full of debate on free speech over the past few weeks exploring the boundaries over what is acceptable or tollerable. Carol Thatcher, Russell Brand, Jeremy Clarkson, etc.

    Personally, I think they should have let Wilders in, and on balance it seems, so does most of the British press. I think his approach is all wrong though, the problem is terrorism not Islam.

  • http://www.jihadwatch.org LCpl. Alexander

    The more you speak the truth, the angrier the liars get. Fuck’em. :gun:

  • http://tick-tick-booom.spaces.live.com ticticboom (Will Kill For The Constitution)
  • billie

    :arrow: London Calling

    If the problem is generic terrorism, who are the terrorists you’re concerned about? I believe the IRA laid down its arms in 2005, so obviously they don’t count any more.

  • Shaun

    “Lord West replied: “I certainly don’t think we are guilty of appeasement in any way whatsoever.”

    Yes you are, allowing Sharia Law to be practiced in your own damn country is absofukinlutely appeasing a hostile population.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2247947/Sharia-will-%27inevitably%27-become-part-of-British-law,-says-barrister.html

    London Caling
    “the problem is terrorism not Islam.”

    :shock: And this is why Islam will rule the world, I too use to drink this kool-aid but now I know its just a bunch of BS. When Muslim soldiers can’t fight for their country cough*France*cough (or the Freedom it stands for) because the combatants they are fighting are of the same religion, then there is a serious problem.

    http://www.easybourse.com/bourse-actualite/marches/french-muslim-soldiers-refuse-afghanistan-mission-military-597162

  • Steve in NC

    :arrow: London Caling

    Jeremy Clarkson?! :roll:
    your fucking kidding?! :lol: :lol:

    only the words of the Stig will be allowed soon in the formally great britain

  • billie

    So Geert Wilders is considered a terrorist now? He’s a threat to public security?

    America has the opposite problem with immigration. We allow CONVICTED terrorists to enter the country, like Sheikh Omar Rahman. Rahman entered the U.S. in 1990 even though his name was on the U.S. State Dept. terrorist watch list.

    Rahman was later implicated in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, among other concerns, and is currently serving a life sentence.

    He had preached in New York and called upon Muslims to attack the West: “Cut the transportation of their countries, tear it apart, destroy their economy, burn their companies, eliminate their interests, sink their ships, shoot down their planes, kill them on the sea, air, or land.” (Wikipedia)

    Yeah, Wilders must be of the same caliber because he’s sounding an alarm about a legitimized form of Islamic terrorism. I wonder how many lives he’s saved by putting his own in jeopardy? Doubtless, certain authorities have reviewed his work and, putting two and two together, have revamped or are in the process of revamping their homeland securities. It’s not a popular subject and some of the best work is done in secret, so Wilders won’t be receiving any awards.

  • Jeanet

    :arrow: Steve in NC.

    Thanks!

    Got to stay low-profiled against my will due to a broken right schoulder. Happened 2,5 weeks ago and now I developped a bad inflammation in my right wrist.

    But HAD to react on this post and there’s nothing wrong with my eyes, can read everything I can get my left-hand on :mrgreen:

  • Shaun

    “Doubtless, certain authorities have reviewed his work and, putting two and two together, have revamped or are in the process of revamping their homeland securities.”

    Ya, like deporting the population out the back of a cargo plane over the ocean.

  • London Calling

    :arrow: Steve in NC

    Did you see the Top Gear where he attached a V8 engine to a food blender to make a “Man-Sized” smoothie out of raw meat?

  • London Calling

    :arrow: Shaun

    “ … allowing Sharia Law to be practiced in your own damn country is absofukinlutely appeasing a hostile population.”

    Did you actually read the Daily Telegraph article you linked to?

    This from a previous post of mine:-

    Sharia law has not been incorporated into English law in any form. Violence against women is just as illegal and just as repugnant as it always was.

    If you are in dispute with a neighbour, or a business etc., then you can agree to have it resolved by a third party in arbitration. This can take any form that the parties want, but crucially:-

    1. Both parties must agree on the specifics of the process.
    2. The judgement cannot be contrary to English Law.

    All this is about is if you submit to arbitration the resolution, like any contract, is enforceable.

    The Ministry of Justice said: “Sharia law is not part of the law of England and Wales, and the Government has no intention of making any change that would conflict with British laws and values.”

    “In all arbitrations, decisions will be enforceable by the English courts if the requirements of the 1996 Arbitration Act are satisfied. If any decisions by these Tribunals were illegal or contrary to public policy under English law, they would not be enforceable.”

    Also, Jewish Beth Din courts have handled civil legal cases for more than 100 years in Britain on a similar basis.

    “When Muslim soldiers can’t fight for their country cough*France*cough (or the Freedom it stands for) because the combatants they are fighting are of the same religion, then there is a serious problem.”

    What? The French? Not fighting for their country? Amazing. Never heard that one before …

  • Dan (The Infidel)

    :arrow: London Calling:

    What the fuck are you doing here you multiculturalist slob?
    You can hide your wanker head in the sand all you want to. But the rest of the free world sees the snub of Wilders for what it is: The further stifling of free speech. Your stupid government caved in to one Islamic slug…ONE who threatened to gather 10,000 other Islamo-tard slugs to his non-cause.

    If England had any real balls they would have tossed that Islamic pig out the window and gathered ten thousand Englanders to counter the Islamists and let Wilders speak.

    When government gives out rights, it can also take them away. Whether its guns or the right to speak an opposing view in Parliment.

    Caving into Lord Ahmed or whatever his fucking name is…was proog positive that free speech in England is fucking dead and you are a useful idiot.

    Get the fuck out of here.

  • Dan (The Infidel)
  • London Calling

    :arrow: Dan

    Hi there, nice to see that you are not making up statistics any more. Glad to see you’ve seen the error of your ways.

    Go easy now …

  • Jeanet

    :arrow: London calling.

    Sorry, but you haven’t convinced me about Great Britain NOT being lost to the ultimate delussion, otherwise called “a religion named Islam”.

    I follow British news-reports and, just like in the Netherlands, it seems to easy to come into the country when you are male, wear a dress, have a beard and spit hate where other real human beings who have done far less bad things get refuses to cross the borders.

    As far as I’m concerned, your government is even more retarded than mine.

    BTW, always trying to turn attention towards France when Britain is critised is long over due. We live in the 21-st century, remember…

  • billie

    …Still waiting for LONDON CALLING to answer my question re. his statement that “the problem is terrorism, not Islam.” Who are the 21st-century terrorists? :?: