About a week ago a friend of mine sent me a link to the English version of movie “Fitna”. I was just about to shut down my computer, but watched part of the movie thinking, I would view the end the next day when I had more time.
But the next day, when I wanted to watch the end of the movie, I couldn’t view the film because it had been banned by the British video-sharing website, LiveLeak,com, after the organization reported "serious" threats to its staff members.
Instead I was reading this announcement:
"Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers. " - This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support.
"Following threats to our staff of a very serious nature, and some ill informed reports from certain corners of the British media that could directly lead to the harm of some of our staff, Liveleak.com has been left with no other choice but to remove Fitna from our servers. " - This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support.
Today however the movie “Fitna” can again be watched, because LiveLeak staff and their families upgraded their protection, and once again put this video live on their site.
Why would people have to fear for their lives just because they made a movie?
The film was produced by the Dutch politician, Geert Wilders, leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Dutch parliament. The film's title comes from the Arabic word “fitna” which is generally regarded as very difficult to translate but at the same time is considered to be an all-encompassing word referring to schism, secession, upheaval, anarchy, - describing "disagreement or strife among people".
The 15 minute movie shows texts from the Koran, as well as Moslem clerics calling for murder and violence towards all non-believers. It starts with the bomb-headed Mohammed cartoon that previously triggered riots throughout the world, and then juxtaposes Koranic verses with grisly scenes of carnage carried out by Muslims in recent years, and we hear Muslim clerics calling for murder and violence towards all non-believers.
The documentary shows how these violent verses of the Koran directly connect to global terror.
One of the quoted verses: "Therefore, when ye meet the unbelievers, smite at their necks, and when ye have caused a bloodbath among them, bind a bond firmly on them." A Muslim preacher is then seen saying calmly, "Throats must be slit and skulls must be shattered - this is the path to victory."
The film shows clerics calling to behead Jews, and Koran passages equating Jews to "apes and pigs". In one case a frenzied Imam pulls out a sword and acts out the beheadings he would like to carry out: "By Allah, we shall cut off the Jew's head! Allah is great! Allah is great! Jihad for the sake of Allah!" The audience, similarly enthused, cheers him on.
Another one of the Koranic verses quoted in the movie reads, "Those who have disbelieved our signs, we shall roast them in fire. Whenever their skins are crispy like a turkey's skin, we shall substitute new skins for them, that they may feel the punishment. Verily, Allah is sublime and wise." This is followed by scenes of civilians being dragged through the streets, a bombed-out bus in London, an Imam calling for death to all Jews, and photos of demonstrators promising "another Holocaust" and praising Adolf Hitler. The signs at these Moslem rallies read, "Be prepared for the real Holocaust," "God bless Hitler," and "Islam will dominate the world."
Imams and Muslim leaders are shown preaching, "Islam is a religion that wants to rule the world. It has done so before, and eventually will rule it again... By Allah, the day will come when we will rule the entire world again! The day will come when we will rule America! The day will come when we will rule Britain! ... You will take over the USA! You will defeat them all! You will get victory!"
The movie ends with a call for Europe to defeat Islamic ideology, just as it defeated the threats of Nazism and Communism in the past.
The film very clearly documents the violent nature of fundamental Islam. But Arab Muslim leaders condemned the documentary as a derogatory and defamatory insult to their religion. - The movie has drawn condemnation from Arab countries around the world, as well as from some other countries like Australia, Holland, the European Union and the United Nations.
Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith, for example, rejected the film's premise of equating Islam with acts of terror and violence and said it is an attempt to incite racial hatred.
In Cairo, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit called Wilders' film "a humiliation" to Islam.
I ask myself: “How can a documentary showing authentic Koran verses and video-recorded speeches from Imams, be condemned as slander and hateful speech? Isn’t it merely reproducing what was said by these people?”
It reminds me of Steven Emerson’s film “Jihad in America”. He went undercover into the mosques in America and videotaped what was preached from their pulpits. - Today he must use a collapsible mirror to check if there are no bombs underneath his car. He has to stay away from windows, vary his routine, make occasional U-turns when driving to make sure no one is following him. He has to wear inconspicuous clothing, and change his routes and the times he leaves his home.
And all of this because of the peaceful religion of Islam? I guess the movie was named appropriately: "Fitna" brings strive among people.
See for yourself: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1206624103
Shalom - Lilo
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