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Outrage Over Dutch Anti-Quran Movie
Right-Wing Legislator's Film Short Says Islam's Holy Book Incites
Violence
By Mike Mike Corder
Corder
Associated Press Writer
Right-wing Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders
speaks during an interview with the
Associated Press in the Hague,
Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008.
(AP Photo/Fred Ernst)
The Hague, Netherlands, March 3, 2008
(AP) Protesters already have torched Dutch flags in Afghanistan ahead of a
new Dutch film portraying Islam's holy book as a "fascist" text that incites
violence and preaches the oppression of women and homosexuals.
A Dutch Cabinet minister postponed his trip to Somalia on Friday due to
"specific threats" linked to the film, and the Dutch government has urged
lawmaker Geert Wilders to scrap his film for the safety of its citizens abroad.
But Wilders said Monday he has begun negotiations with Dutch
broadcasters about airing the 15-minute film, "Fitna." He said he will only
allow them to show it in its entirety, and if they refuse, he plans to show it to
the media and post it on the Internet. "We have never learned to be
intolerant toward people who are intolerant toward us, toward cultures that
are intolerant toward us," he said in a recent Associated Press interview.
The right-wing legislator previously warned of a "tsunami" of Islam
swamping the Netherlands and said Muslims should tear up half of the
Quran if they want to live here. Wilders has lived under round-the-clock
security since the 2004 murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic
radical enraged by his short film, "Submission," a fictional study of abused
Muslim women with scenes of near-naked women with Quranic texts
engraved on their flesh.
The film "Fitna" - an Arabic word meaning discord - puts the centuries-old
Dutch traditions of religious tolerance and freedom of speech on a collision
course.
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