{"id":2832,"date":"2011-03-31T13:32:41","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T13:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2011-03-31T13:32:41","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T13:32:41","slug":"why_americans_should_cherish_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2832","title":{"rendered":"Why Americans Should Cherish The First Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/netherlands\/8416583\/Geert-Wilders-to-face-trial.html\">UK Telegraph<\/a>&nbsp;posted a story about the trial of Geert Wilders.&nbsp; A judge has refused to dismiss the case against Mr. Wilders.&nbsp; Mr. Wilders is facing trial on charges of incited hatred and discriminations against Muslims.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"thirdPar\">\n<p><em>&#8220;But reading out the ruling on Wednesday, presiding judge Marcel van Oosten said the case would go ahead. He rejected most of the defence&#8217;s objections such as its questioning of the court&#8217;s authority to hear the case in the first place and of the way that the prosecutors had pursued the trial. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\">\n<p><em>&#8220;However, judges did agree with the defence that part of the indictment against Mr Wilders should be dropped. In it he allegedly refers to the Koran as &#8220;fascist&#8221; and said it should be banned. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\">\n<p><em>&#8220;The judges said that in including the quotes in the indictment prosecutors were going beyond the brief set out by the Amsterdam appeals court.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This is a dangerous case.&nbsp; One aspect of Sharia Law is that any criticism of Islam is illegal.&nbsp; Criticism of Islam can result in very harsh penalties.&nbsp; To condemn this man because he has spoken out against the extreme control radical Islam has over those who practice it is a step toward endorsing Sharia Law and will negatively impact the right of all of us to be honest about what we believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the UK Telegraph&nbsp;posted a story about the trial of Geert Wilders.&nbsp; A judge has refused to dismiss the case against Mr. Wilders.&nbsp; Mr. Wilders is facing trial on charges of incited hatred and discriminations against Muslims.&nbsp; The article reports: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2832\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}