This is good, but it will change nothing. Pakistan certainly won’t extradite these two, and they will go about their business and likely continue to call for the murder of Wilders. Still, it is good to see at least one government in the West taking even a symbolic stand for the freedom of expression, when so many others are capitulating.
“Prison sentences of 14 and 4 years for Pakistanis who called for the murder of Wilders,” translated from “Celstraffen van 14 en 4 jaar voor Pakistanen die opriepen tot moord op Wilders,” NOS, September 9, 2024:
The court in The Hague has sentenced two Pakistanis who called on their followers to murder PVV leader Geert Wilders to prison sentences of fourteen and four years.
The heaviest sentence, in accordance with the demand of the Public Prosecution Service, is for the 56-year-old spiritual leader Muhammad Ashraf Asif Jalali. The other convicted person is the 29-year-old Saad Hussain Rizvi, leader of the extremist party Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP).
The court finds it plausible that Jalali’s followers took his calls seriously. The religious leader also made his statements in English and addressed an international audience. The court sees these calls as a crime with a terrorist intent.
Rizvi was partly acquitted of a crime with a terrorist intent. Insufficient leads were found to make it clear that this was Rizvi’s goal, the court says. That is why Rizvi is sentenced to four years in prison. The Public Prosecution Service had demanded six years.
No extradition treaty
Neither Jalali nor Rizvi were present in court. The Netherlands does not have an extradition treaty with Pakistan, which means that the country is not obliged to extradite the two to the Netherlands. The chance that they will serve their sentences is therefore small. Wilders himself was present in court….
Hoi Polloi says
At least a country is finally treating their anti-islam leaders as human beings under threat.
somehistory says
I had read that there was to be a trial, but had not seen the result. Of course, the pakis will never allow them to be punished. Now if they were Christians saying something the pakis didn’t like, they wouldn’t last long enough to be extradited.
And Mr. Wilders will keep on telling the Truth about islam and he will continue to be under threat of mozlums wanting to silence him.
gravenimage says
Netherlands sentences Pakistani jihadis to prison for calling for murder of Geert Wilders
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Of course, Pakistan will *never* extradite these Jihadists–but at least tney aren’t going to be able to waltz into the Netherlands, either. Kudos to them for taking this threat at least somewhat seriously.
Tony Rice says
At least the Netherlands has got guts. ( self respect really ) in contrast to the Police in Rotherham.
Hudders. says
Only a few more million to go.
Though sadly they won’t see the inside of a prison for their crimes.
abu taleb says
It is too late to stop Islamic terrorism unless Islam is totally banned. There are a million or so muslims in the Netherlands, jailing 2 of them hardly means anything.
What the west should do is to totally expose Islam’s evilness and ban Islam completely based on its evil teaching. Those who still stick to Islam will have to make a choice between going to consentration camps or leaving the country.