FEW ATTEND UK SCREENING OF WILDERS' FILM

The film Fitna was shown in the British upper house of parliament on Thursday despite the British authorities' refusal to allow its maker, Dutch rightwing populist MP Geert Wilders, into the United Kingdom.

Only around 30 people attended the screening, five of them members of the upper house. All 743 members of the upper house were invited, as were the 646 members of the lower house, none of whom attended.

Wilders returned from London to the Netherlands on Thursday evening. At London's Heathrow Airport he was refused entry by the British immigration authorities, who put him on a plane to Amsterdam shortly afterwards.

Wilders said he was furious at the incident, describing it as a blow both to himself and to freedom of speech. He called British PM Gordon Brown "Europe's biggest coward". read more (radionetherlands.nl)

WILDERS DIPLOMATIC ROW RUMBLES ON read more (dutchnews.nl)
UK SENDS WILDERS HOME read more (radionetherlands.nl)
PROTEST MUTED IN LATEST WILDERS SCANDAL read more (spiegel.de)GEERT WILDERS STOPPED IN LONDON read more (nrc.nl)
DUTCH PM 'DISAPPOINTED' read more (expatica.com)
DUTCH MP WILDERS REFUSED ENTRY UK read more (radionetherlands.nl)
WILDERS' RIGHT TO SPEAK read more (nrc.nl)

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February 16, 2009