Liberal Dutch MP Geert Wilders lodges formal charges against death-threats by muslim-rappersThe Hague, The Netherlands. August 28 2007 -- Dutch parliamentarian and leader of the 9-member Freedom Party today lodged formal charges at the local police station against various local muslim-rappers who issue very specific death threats against him in their songs, which are widely circulated via YouTube on the internet.
Wilders - who has been under police security ever since the death of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by muslim radical Mohammed Bouyeri -- said the terrorising texts in these threat-songs are 'too loathsome for words' and he finds 'the songs terrifying.' Wilders on Wednesday lodged formal charges at the police station in The Hague. He lodges complaints there regularly - he gets death threats every day, but these rappers are creating a hate-speech atmosphere bordering on terrorism which targets him specifically, he said on his website.
Some songs have names like "Geert Wilders Funeral, and "Who is next", also featuring the murdered Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh. "Anybody who even talks about muslims is gunned down, and if you go on like this, you will be next,' some of the words threaten him.
One rapper ends his song with a pistol shot followed by his name, and also shows imagies with the text RIP Wilders and a picture of the murdered Van Gogh.
He finds these latest threats against him 'really rather sad. If they don't agree with my viewpoints, they should come forward with arguments instead of threats. This is just loathsome."
LINK to original Dutch-language news story:
http://msn.anp.nl/msn/nieuws.do?action=article&id=4719375