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Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders waits on October 15, 2010 for the start of his trial in the courtroom in Amsterdam. Wilders, a shadow partner of the new, rightist coalition government inaugurated on October 14, went on trial last week for calling Islam "fascist" and likening the Koran to Hitler's "Mein Kampf". Dutch prosecutors argued in the hate speech trial of Wilders on October 15 that criticizing religion was not a crime. Wilders risks up to a year in jail or a 7,600-euro fine for comments made between October 2006 and March 2008 in Dutch newspapers and on Internet forums. AFP PHOTO / POOL / PETER DE JONG
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