Hans Rustad 
Geert Wilders motstandere sier at hans meninger nå er legaliserte. De mener det ikke som noe kompliment. Der andre ser en seier for ytringsfriheten, ser de en seier for mørke krefter.
Den marokkanske foreningen vil legge saken inn for FNs Menneskerettsråd! Som om ikke det er fullt av autoritære og undertykkende regimer.
«This means that his political views are condoned by law, his political rhetoric has been legalized,» said Andre Krouwel, a political scientist at Amsterdam’s Free University.
«This has made him stronger politically. He is needed for a political majority, he is basically vice prime minister without even being in the government.»
Reuters er kjølig/kritisk til Wilders, uten å bli direkte fiendtlig.
At frikjennelsen av ham var en seier for ham personlig og politisk, synes hevet over tvil.
Farid Azarkan of the SMN association of Moroccans in the Netherlands said he feared the acquittal could further split Dutch society and encourage others to repeat Wilders’s comments.
«You see that people feel more and more supported in saying that minorities are good for nothing,» Azarkan said.
«Wilders has said very extreme things about Muslims and Moroccans, so when will it ever stop? Some will feel this as a sort of support for what they feel and as justification.»
Minorities groups said they would now take the case to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, arguing the ruling meant the Netherlands had failed to protect ethnic minorities from discrimination.
«The acquittal means that the right of minorities to remain free of hate speech has been breached. We are going to claim our rights at the U.N.,» said Mohamed Rabbae of the National Council for Moroccans.
Tanken synes ikke å streife Rabbae at UNHRC har så dårlig rykte at en uttalelse mot Wilders i dette forum snarere vil bidra til å øke motsetningene. OIC – Konferansen av islamske stater – dominerer UNHRC, og kommisjonen har allerede lav status. Men hvis UNHRC tar saken kan FN bli innlandet i spørsmål om ytringsfrihet i Europa.
«I think it is good that he has been acquitted,» said Elsbeth Kalff, an 83-year-old retired sociologist in Amsterdam.
«He has been told that he has been rude and offensive but it is on the border of what the criminal law allows. It is good, the Netherlands is, after all, a tolerant country and we should keep it that way.»
