NRO Symposium on Geert Wilders: Western Civilization on trial

The NRO Symposium includes contributions from Bat Ye’or, author of Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis; Paul Marshall, senior fellow at Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom; Clifford D. May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies; Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum and Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University; Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom; and Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch and author of The Complete Infidel’s Guide to the Koran.

Spencer writes: “The Geert Wilders trial ought to be an international media event; seldom has any court case anywhere had such enormous implications for the future of the free world. The case against him, which has all the legitimacy of a Stalinist-era Moscow show trial, is a manifestation of the global assault on free speech sponsored chiefly at the U.N. by the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). If Wilders loses, the freedom of speech will be threatened everywhere in the West.”