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http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6103039578050427112&q=LiveLeak+video+Fitna&total=14&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080327/world/netherlands_islam_film_politics
Dutch MP posts anti-Islam film on the Internet
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THE HAGUE (AFP) - Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders on Thursday made good his
pledge to post a controversial film critical of Islam on the Internet,
featuring violent imagery of terrorist attacks in New York and Madrid
intertwined with Koranic texts.
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Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who had earlier called on Wilders to
reconsider posting his film, said Thursday that he regretted it had aired.
"The film equates Islam with violence. We reject that interpretation," said
Balkenende in a statement several hours after the film, titled "Fitna,"
appeared on the LiveLeak video sharing website.
The first minutes of the 17-minute movie show a Koran being opened and the text
of a sura from Islam's holiest tome, which translated from Arabic implores the
faithful to "terrorise the enemies of Allah".
The opening scenes were followed by images of airplanes flying into the World
Trade Centre in New York on September 11, 2001, with soundbites from phone
calls to the emergency services on that day.
The film continues with grisly images of bloodstained bodies in the aftermath
of the Madrid train bombings in March 2004 in which 191 people were killed.
All the imagery appears to have been taken from existing video footage, mixed
with Koranic text and put to a dramatic soundtrack by Tchaikovsky and Grieg.
LiveLeak is a British-based video sharing website, similar to the more popular
YouTube, with an emphasis on current affairs, politics and reality-based
footage, including images of war from around the world.
The site stressed in a statement that it does not defend the content of the
film but stands firm that Wilders has the right to post it.
Wilders' movie plans had already drawn complaints from religious groups and
warnings from the Dutch government that it could provoke violent protests
around the world.
Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen told AFP that he had been in contact with
Dutch embassies in the Muslim world but that so far there were no reactions
being reported.
He added that he also informed the EU presidency of the film and the
government's reaction to it.
The Dutch ministry of internal affairs reported Thursday that the situation in
the Netherlands was calm.
By 11 p.m. central European time (2200 GMT) the film had been viewed by over 2
million people.
In comments to the Netherlands' domestic ANP news agency Thursday, Wilders, 44,
said that he can understand that Muslims could be upset about the film, but
stressed: "It remains widely within the framework of the law".
He told journalists he is not anti-Muslim.
"I make a distinction between the ideology of Islam and the Koran and Muslims.
My problem is with the ideology not with the people.... I have nothing against
Muslims," he said.
Wilders' film includes images of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh who was shot and
had his throat cut in 2004 by a Muslim radical for making a film also critical
of Islam.
The new film concludes with someone leafing through the Koran, accompanied by a
tearing sound.
"The sound you heard was from a page (being torn out) of the phone book. It is
not up to me, but up to the Muslims themselves to tear the spiteful verses from
the Koran," says a text that appears on the screen.
"Stop Islamisation. Defend our freedom," the film concludes.
The final image is a reproduction of the Danish cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed
with a bomb as a turban. The fuse coming from the bomb is lit and as the screen
turns black there is the sound of thunder.
Balkenende said Thursday that he regrets Wilders posted the film.
"We believe it serves no purpose other than to offend," he said.
The prime minister added that the government felt heartened "by the initial
restrained reaction by Dutch Muslim organisations".
In initial reactions, those organisations seemed relieved that the scenes from
Wilders' film were not as bad as expected. Some feared Wilders would destroy a
copy of the Koran in the film.
"I note that he apparently was sensitive to our warnings not to tear up the
Koran," Verhagen said.
The government announced that the public prosecutor's office was investigating
the film to see if it broke any laws.
Wilders, whose Freedom party holds nine seats in the 150-seat Dutch parliament,
is no stranger to controversy.
Even before he announced his film he had already received numerous death
threats and lives under round-the-clock protection following the murder of Van
Gogh.
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