LONDON: Far-right Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders visited London today

to show his anti-Islam film in Britain’s House of Lords, despite threatened protests.

Wilders was refused entry when he first tried to show the film

in Britain last February, but

his travel ban was overturned

and he made a first visit last October, before scheduling the screening of his film.

“Fitna”, which likens Islam to Nazism and juxtaposes images of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States with pictures of the Koran, has been described as “offensively anti-Islamic” by UN chief Ban Ki-moon.

Wilders’ trip to London was hosted by Lord Malcolm Pearson, a member of parliament’s upper House of Lords who invited him for the first abortive visit and the subsequent successful trip.

The visit came days after the 46-year-old leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) — who has compared the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf — scored a symbolic election victory in the Netherlands.

Wilders’ party this week celebrated winning its first municipality — Almere, a city of nearly 190,000 people near Amsterdam — in a show of strength ahead of general elections in June.