Geert Wilders has been denied entry into the United Kingdom. The Freedom Party leader was invited to show his film Fitna in the UK's House of Lords. Upon arrival at Heathrow Airport he was detained and told that he would not be allowed to enter Great Britain. "I am in a detention centre at Heathrow," Wilders told The Times. "They took my passport. I will not be allowed to enter the country. They will send me back within a few hours.”

An online poll on the website of British newspaper The Daily Mail shows that an overwhelming majority of Daily Mail readers feel Geert Wilders should be allowed to adress the House of Lords. The responses in the comment section below the Daily Mail's article on the Wilders ban are equaly critical of the British goverment's actions.

The Daily Telegraph reports that the decision to ban Geert Wilders from showing Fitna in the House of Lords has sparked a diplomatic row with Holland. In the article the Freedom Party leader tells the newspaper that he was "surprised and deeply disappointed" by the British Government's stance, but hopes this decision serves to help wake people up to the reality of the appeasement policies currently being practiced in the face of islamic threats and bullying.

The British television station Channel 4 has this report on Geert Wilders' ban from entering the UK