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A Dutch politician and film-maker is to be prosecuted for inciting racial hatred against Muslims, after he made a number of anti-Islamic comments. Geert Wilders made headlines in March 2008 for his short-film Fitna, which juxtaposed shots of the 9/11 attacks on the US with quotations from the Quran, the text Muslims believe to be divinely revealed. In 2007 he had called for a ban on the Quran and compared Islam to Nazism. On Wednesday, Amsterdam's appeals court ordered his prosecution, overruling the public prosecutor who had previously decided against a criminal trial. A summary of the court's decision read: "The court considers this so insulting for Muslims that it is in the public interest to prosecute Wilders. "The court also considers appropriate criminal prosecution for insulting Muslim worshippers because of comparisons between Islam and Nazism made by Wilders." 'Offensively anti-Islamic' The MP said the ruling marked a "black day for me and f...