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Much of the Freedom Party鈥檚 publicity is generated by its controversial leader Geert Wilders, who brought the party to an unexpected electoral victory last summer, snagging 23 seats in the Dutch Parliament and becoming the country鈥檚 third largest party.
The party鈥檚 winning platform included planks such as banning the Quran and mosque-building and implementing a 鈥渉ead-rag tax.鈥� After the election, Mr. Wilders said on national television, "The Netherlands chose more security, less crime, less immigration, and less Islam.鈥�
Wilders of charges of inciting hatred against Muslims. The acquittal is 鈥渁 sign that his once radical views have become mainstream in a country that for decades was viewed as one of the most liberal and tolerant in the world. 鈥楾he judgment doesn't turn the tide,鈥� says [Egbert] Dommering, [a lawyer and professor at the University of Amsterdam], 鈥榖ut it's symbolic of what's going on in the Netherlands鈥�,鈥� Time reports.