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...considered. Freedom of speech Mr Wilders, who faces trial in his own country for inciting hatred, is due to visit the House of Lords on Friday on the invitation of UK Independence Party peer Lord Pearson. He had tried to visit in February...

In this article: Geert Wilders, UK, Freedom Party, Fitna, UK Independence Party, House of Lords, and Heathrow airport

...London next week. In February, he had been invited by Lord Pearson to the House of Lords to show his controversial film Fitna, which caused outrage across the Muslim world when it was posted on the internet last year. When he was refused...

In this article: Geert Wilders, UK, Fitna, BBC, Democracy, Freedom Party, and House of Lords

...lead to "inter-faith violence". Lord Pearson, a Ukip member of the House of Lords, had invited Wilders to screen the 17-minute Fitna, a film that criticises the Qur'an, calling it a "fascist book". Forty-six year-old Wilders was...

In this article: Geert Wilders, UK, Fitna, House of Lords, Ministry of Justice, Ukip, Alan Johnson, Jacqui Smith, and Heathrow airport

...Conservative until resigning from the party to join the United Kingdom Independence Party, when he became its sole representative in the House of Lords. Upon reform of the House of Lords by the House of Lords Act 1999, he was one of many...

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...Geert Wilders, life can be cruel." Wilders is in the UK to thank his lawyers and to meet Lord Pearson, the Ukip member of the House of Lords who originally invited him to screen the 17-minute Fitna. Wilders was refused entry to the UK...

In this article: Geert Wilders, United Kingdom, Fitna, House of Lords, Muslim Council of Britain, Ministry of Justice, Ukip, Jacqui Smith, and Mein Kampf

...the United Kingdom from the European Union. UKIP currently holds thirteen seats in the European Parliament and two in the House of Lords (the latter due to the defection of Conservative peers). It also has around 100 local councillors on...

In this article: United Kingdom Independence Party, Nigel Farage, Conservative Party, European Union, Jose Manuel Barroso, Michael Holmes, Robert Kilroy-Silk, and Bob Spink

...inter-faith violence". The Freedom party leader immediately announced his intention to meet Ukip's Lord Pearson of Rannoch to discuss a showing of his anti-Islamic film Fitna later this month in the House of Lords. Judge CMG Ockelton, who...

In this article: Geert Wilders, UK, Jacqui Smith, Fitna, Ukip, House of Lords, and Lord Pearson of Rannoch

...42 hereditary peers elected as Conservatives, one (Lord Brabazon of Tara ) now sits as a non-affiliated member, having become the House of Lords' Chairman of Committees, and another (Lord Willoughby de Broke ) now sits as a UKIP...

In this article: House of Lords, House of Commons, Labour Party, Margaret Thatcher, Parliament Acts, and Life Peerages Act 1958

The UK Independence Party peer's invitation to the Dutch politician Geert Wilders to attend a screening of his offensively anti-Islamic film, Fitna, in the House of Lords was intended as a publicity generating act of provocation. It has...

In this article: Geert Wilders, Britain, Ch4, Fitna, Separatism, UK Independence Party, House of Lords, European Union, and Lord Pearson of Rannoch