“…a belief system that fails to accept, let alone uphold, freedom of conscience, freedom of speech, equality before the law, and other basic precepts of Western-style liberty. Palkot practically begs Wilders’ to soften, i.e. censor, his views so as not to inflame the Islamic world, including those ‘moderates’ whose so-called moderation morphs into radicalism at the first barb of criticism.
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“Wilders explains he cannot do this because such self-censorship would concede victory to those who would impose Islamic law on him and his country.”
