Former Pakistan cricketer Khalid Latif might get 12-year sentence for inciting murder call against Dutch politician

Spot-fixing convict cricketer from Pakistan, Khalif Latif might be sentenced to a 12-year jail. Apparently, in 2018, the spot-fixing convict put out a video and put a bounty of 3 million Pakistani rupees or 21,000 euros to the one who kills Dutch politician, Geert Wilders. The opposition leader at this point was planning to organize a cartoon competition to draw Prophet Mohammad.

For the unversed, Islam forbids the exchange of images of Prophet Mohammad. Even though the contest was cancelled, Latif’s video about calling for violence had gone viral. Meanwhile, a Reuters report says the prosecution has been asked to slap a jail sentence of 12 years to the former Pakistan cricketer.

Khalid Latif thinks I should be killed: Geert Wilders

The politician gave a speech in the court and this is the excerpt of the entire copy. The readers can read the entire copy in the link given below.

“Today your court is hearing the case against Khalid Latif, a well-known former cricketer from Pakistan, who in 2018 put a bounty of three million Pakistani rupees, then about 21 thousand euros, on my head as a reward for the one who murders me, and would post the video of that murder online as evidence. And if he had more money, he added, he would also give it to the one who kills me.

“Khalid Latif thinks I should be killed because I (and I quote) would insult “the prophet of God” – he is referring to Muhammad – by organizing a cartoon contest.
But of course that is absolutely no reason to put a price on someone’s head, let alone kill someone.

“I organized that cartoon contest – which ultimately did not take place – by the way, because I gave a speech a few years earlier, in 2015, and was able to present the prize to the winner of another cartoon contest in the city of Garland, Texas in the United States. A terrorist attack took place during that meeting, the first attack claimed by the terrorist group ISIS in the US,” a part of Wilders’ long speech to a court in the Netherlands.