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Dutch anti-Islam deputy Geert Wilders (R) and his lawyer Bram Moszkowicz (L) get ready in the courtroom in Amsterdam on October 21, 2010. Wilders, 47, went on trial on October 4 for inciting hatred by calling Islam "fascist" and likening the Koran to Hitler's "Mein Kampf". One of his defense lawyers rejected accusations of hate speech and xenophobia against Wilders on October 19, urging judges not to "shoot the messenger". Wilders, who will give parliamentary support to a new, rightist coalition government inaugurated last On October 14, risks up to a year in jail or a 7,600-euro fine for comments made in his campaign to "stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands".
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