Court rules in favour of Hirsi Ali

As expected, the court in The Hague has ruled that Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali will not have to restrain herself when speaking about Islam. The judge also denied a request to prohibit Submission 2. Read more on what the case was about here.

I may have a bit more later today. The ruling hasn't been released yet so it's rather hard to give any sort of in-depth commentary.

I'm also working on a fisking of Geert Wilders' "declaration of independence". To summarize: a politician should strive to make matters as simple as possible - but not simpler. It seems to me that Mr. Wilders is guilty of the latter. And never mind the inherent arrogance of naming a few sheets with populist statements after one of the greatest documents about liberty in existence.

Which doesn't mean I think there isn't a political future for Mr. Wilders, nor that I think he couldn't be of benefit to the Dutch political landscape. On the contrary. Populism might be just the right antidote for the pseudo-intellectualism that passes for political debate in The Hague these days.

Or, as Team America would say: You have dicks, pussies and assholes...

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