The famous British video-blogger Pat Condell has spoken out about Geert's case. He denounces the court decision to prosecute Geert Wilders as an unacceptable limitation of the freedom of speech, that shames not only the Netherlands, but Europe as a whole.

Geert Wilders has told Foxnews.com that the prospect of losing his freedom, should the case against him end in a conviction, does not scare him.

Geert Wilders fears he will not receive a fair trail. "I have already been convicted," he told Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad today. "This is banana justice." Wilders admits to having been taken completely by surprise by the verdict of the Amsterdam appeals court that he is to be prosecuted for his criticism of Islam.

A commentary in The Wall Street Journal argues that the decision to prosecute Geert Wilders for his criticism of Islam, amounts to an importation of Saudi Arabian blasphemy norms to Europe. The author points out that if freedom of speech means anything, it means the freedom of controversial speech.