A Dutch court on Wednesday ordered prosecutors to try Geert Wilders, an anti-immigration member of parliament, for incitement to hatred and discrimination after he compared Islam to Nazism.

Mr Wilders, who controls nine of 150 seats in the Dutch parliament, made the comments in an article in August 2007 calling for the “fascist” Koran to be banned as Mein Kampf is in the Netherlands. He also released a film criticising Islam in March.