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| DATE | 2009-01-21 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] and you wonder why we have problems
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I a countrty where Dutch Artist, teddy vanGough was stabbed to death on
the streets of Amsterdamn with a note that said "this is what happens to
enemies of the Koran" ... we get this....
Islam film Dutch MP to be charged
A Dutch court has ordered prosecutors to put a right-wing politician on
trial for making anti-Islamic statements.
Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders made a controversial film last year
equating Islam with violence and has likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler's
Mein Kampf.
"In a democratic system, hate speech is considered so serious that it is
in the general interest to... draw a clear line," the court in Amsterdam
said.
Mr Wilders said the ruling was a "black day for me and for freedom of
speech".
"I am shaken. I had absolutely not expected it," he told the Dutch news
agency, ANP.
'Fascist book'
In March 2008, Mr Winders posted a film about the Koran on the internet.
The opening scenes of Fitna - a Koranic term sometimes translated as
"strife" - show a copy of the holy book followed by footage of the bomb
attacks on the US in 11 September 2001, London in July 2005 and Madrid
in March 2004.
Pictures appearing to show Muslim demonstrators holding up placards
saying "God bless Hitler" and "Freedom go to hell" also feature.
The film ends with the statement: "Stop Islamisation. Defend our
freedom."
Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said at the time that the film
wrongly equated Islam with violence and served "no purpose other than to
offend".
When asked about the impact of his film, Mr Wilders said: "It's not the
aim of the movie but people might be offended, I know that. So, what the
hell? It's their problem, not my problem".
He also once wrote in a national newspaper: "I've had enough of the
Koran in the Netherlands: Forbid that fascist book."
Mr Wilders has had police protection since Dutch director Theo Van Gogh
was killed by a radical Islamist in 2004.
Correspondents say his Freedom Party (PVV), which has nine MPs in the
lower house of parliament, has built its popularity largely by tapping
into the fear and resentment of Muslim immigrants.
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