Apparently people in the Netherlands are just as sick of elite opinion about the wonderfulness of diversity as Americans are. A recent poll from the country found an uptick in the favorability toward the political party run by MP Geert Wilders, the Party for Freedom (PVV).

A few days ago, Wilders was convicted of hate speech by a court for agreeing with a crowd of supporters that “fewer” Moroccans would be an advantageous policy and one he would pursue.

Here’s his YouTube response to the conviction:

GEERT WILDERS: Dear friends, I still cannot believe it, but I have just been convicted. Because I asked a question about Moroccans. While the day before yesterday, scores of Moroccan asylum-seekers terrorized buses in Emmen and did not even had to pay a fine, a politician who asks a question about fewer Moroccans is sentenced. (Transcript continues)

It should be noted that the recent trial was third time Wilders had been brought before a court on “hate speech” charges. I wrote about the first trial in 2010 , and this legal persecution of a conservative politician for free speech is getting old. Perhaps the judges will chill now that they have their desired scalp. Or maybe not.

Below, Geert Wilders appeared at his first free speech trial in 2010.

Incidentally, the Netherlands is one of the more densely populated nations on earth (#30 out of 241), so calling for less or zero immigration generally is entirely sensible.

Finally, the trend in Europe has been to criminalize any criticism of Islam — not the way free nations should behave.