To protect the freedom of expression, Dutch politician Geert Wilders is planning to organize a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest at his party office in Dutch parliament. He is awaiting approval for the event from security officials.
The right-wing politician and leader of the country’s largest opposition party, the Freedom Party, took to Twitter to announce the news. “Dutch Counter-terrorism Agency NCTV gives green light to Muhammad cartoon contest in secured PVV quarters of Dutch Parliament later this year,” Wilders tweeted, along with a Muhammad cartoon. “So that’s what we’re going to do and organize! With cartoonist/ex-Muslim Bosch Fawstin! Freedom of speech is most important of all,” he wrote.
Wilders has been campaigning for a ban of the Qur’an in the Netherlands. According to him, Islam is a totalitarian faith and can’t adjust with modern values and democracy.
In his free speech events, cartoons are exhibited on Islam and prophet, despite protests from Muslim groups. In 2015, Wilders was a keynote speaker at a Muhammad cartoon contest in Garland, Texas, where two gunmen were killed after opening fire on a security officer. He later aired a slideshow on Dutch television of the cartoons from the Texas exhibition – after claiming that he had been barred from exhibiting the cartoons at the parliament.
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