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Who's The Fascist? Uses Of The Nazi Past At The Geert Wilders Trial, Robert Kahn
Who's The Fascist? Uses Of The Nazi Past At The Geert Wilders Trial, Robert Kahn
Robert Kahn
ABSTRACT: This essay looks at how, during his trial, Geert Wilders and his opponents used references to the Nazi era – including but not limited to the Holocaust – to frame debates over Muslim immigration, Wilders himself, and the acceptability of hate speech trials. The Wilders trial is especially interesting because each side sought to call the other a “fascist.” For Wilders, the Quran was a fascist book, an Islamic Mein Kampf. To his opponents, Wilders was a “prototypical” fascist, one who spoke to the gut not the mind. But perhaps the strongest use of the Nazi past involved victims. …