Fitna The Movie; Coming To No Screens Near You Soon
Dutch authorities are in full scale panic mode after Prime Minister, Jan Peter Balkenende, pleaded that “there is no reason for panic”. Controversial politician, Geert Wilders, has made an anti-Islamic film called ‘Fitna’ (the Arab word for ‘discord’) and according to the Washington Post is threatening to show it on a special website, www.fitnathemovie.com, after all of Holland’s national broadcasters have refused to air the 15 minute film. The socialist Interior Minister, Guste Terhoorst, has even accused Wilders of ‘destabilising the entire country’.
Said Wilders, “The film will show that the Koran isn’t a dead work, but the face of Islam - a tremendous hazard”. He calls the Koran “the latest test to Western democracies since Nazism and communism”. The Iranian justice minister has requested his Dutch counterpart to ban the film, calling it “satanical and undermining”.
The Dutch government has thus far refused to act, citing the principle of free speech. The film is rumoured to be shown on Easter Sunday - the most important day of the year for Christians. Read more »
