Geert Wilder To Edit “Fitna” Under Legal Threat
Related: After hiding family members from Muslim Religion Of Peace killers, Liveleak reposts “Fitna”
Guardian and agencies:
A Dutch MP and author of a film about Islam that has drawn worldwide condemnation has said he will edit out a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad shown in the movie.
Fitna - which sometimes translates as “strife” in Arabic - is a 15-minute film by far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders that accuses the Qu’ran of inciting violence. The movie shows images of September 11, the 2003 Madrid bomb attacks and the death of murdered Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh, interspersed with quotations from Islam’s holy book.
The movie has attracted condemnation from world leaders since it was released on the internet last week, with UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon labelling it “offensively anti-Islamic”. Protests also took place in some Muslim countries, including Indonesia and Pakistan.
Wilders said yesterday he would remove images of a cartoon of the prophet Muhammad, showing the Islamic prophet wearing a turban with a bomb in it. The picture, one of the 12 Danish cartoons that led to violent protests across the Muslim world in 2006, was included at the beginning and end of Fitna.
Wilders’s announcement comes after the Danish Union of Journalists said it would sue the MP for copyright infringement. The picture’s author, Kurt Westergaard, said he was not contacted with a request for permission to use the picture. “I don’t want my drawing to be used in something that I don’t know anything about. Had Mr Wilders contacted me, we could have talked together and I could have found out what he wanted with the drawing,” he said.
Wilders’s office said the picture would be replaced with another cartoon of the prophet Muhammad. Additional, minor edits will also be made, said Wilders’s representatives.
Meanwhile, UK website Liveleak.com, which removed Fitna from its website on Friday after staff received death threats, reinstated it two days later. “We will not be pressured into censoring material which is legal and within our rules,” reads a statement heading the video.
“We apologise for the removal and the delay in getting it back, but when you run a website you don’t consider that some people would be insecure enough to threaten our lives simply because they do not like the content of a video we neither produced nor endorsed but merely hosted,” it added.
About 40 hard-line Muslims demonstrated outside the Dutch Embassy in Indonesia in a protest that began Monday and continued Tuesday, calling for Wilders’ death. compound before dispersing.
Malaysia’s Islamic opposition party delivered a protest note to the Dutch Embassy and urged Muslims worldwide to boycott Dutch products.
Wilder’s party holds nine seats in the 150-member Dutch parliament, said the film was intended to warn the West of the dangers posed by Islam.
On Monday, Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen met with ambassadors of countries belonging to the Organization of the Islamic Conference to assure them the film “in no way reflects the opinion of the Dutch government,” spokesman Rob Dekker said.
He said the diplomats inquired whether Wilders would be prosecuted for violating hate speech laws. Prosecutors have said they have not yet decided whether to take action.
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Wish you weren’t in this situation, Geert. But as long as the message gets out, I suppose “it’s all good.” Too bad artists putting crucifixes in jars of urine won’t get the same treatment.
Libtards
April 1st, 2008 at 6:25 amHow does one “edit” truth?
Pat.. Please tell me you will keep the un-edit version up?
April 1st, 2008 at 6:35 amYes, the unedited version shall remain.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:51 amPat, I’m glad you did not show the cartoon, it is so offensive, I do not think I can bear to see it.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:59 amWhat happened to Eddie Adams Pulitzer Prize winning photo of the SV police chief shooting of a Viet cong officer? Some like to point to that photo as the turning point of US sentiment during the Vietnam War. Everyone of the images in Fitna is far more disturbing but they have only stirred up islamic fury and once again provide a beacon for loonie liberal tolerance. If Geert is going to edit (make a censored, I mean PC version) Fitna he should stick Adams picture in it for the viewing benefit of the liberal islamic apologist and their hypocritical sensibilites.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:37 amthis bad boy has already gone viral. it cant be stopped now, it has become its own force of nature
you’re the man Pat and keeping it up and posting it right in the beginning contributed to alot of real truth reaching alot of people.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:41 amBravo Pat
Bravo Geert
For bravery in the face of evil. Radical islam is a scourge that threatens the entire world. Some people prefer to hide, deny, or cross sides. others stand on the front lines.
It always cracks me up that the arab world response to a film depicting muslims as violent, is to riot, issue fatwas, threaten, destroy public property, etc. Where is the voice of moderate islam? does it exist?
April 1st, 2008 at 9:15 amFitna is spreading like wild fire across the globe. The more the Mosseheads bitch, the more people will be drawn to watch it…
Tee-hee. The cat’s out of the bag Nazis….and you ain’t going to stop it….
April 1st, 2008 at 10:10 am@Jim Jam:
Oh, you should have seen the comments made at YouTube by our moderate Mooselimb friends. It was a laugh-a-minute with claims made (in extremely bad English) that the Koran does not have any violent passages.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:11 amon top of all that, i’m not sure if anybody got this but this is live feed from usmc recruiting station in berkley california. give it a minute to go through commercial and load.
April 1st, 2008 at 11:23 amhttp://www.foxnews.com/video2/player06.html?liveSiteStream_::_7&Live_Site_Stream&Live Stream&acc&Live Stream&-1&News&180&&&new
Show your support of Geert Wilders by signing this petition:
April 1st, 2008 at 11:47 amhttp://www.petitiononline.com/wilders/petition.html
“…diplomats inquired whether Wilders would be prosecuted for violating hate speech laws.” As soon as they start prosecuting the rag heads for the same thing. Have you ever seen their protests? Can you say HATE? Start arresting the hooded chickens who are too afraid to bear their ugly faces in public for THEIR hate speech and terroristic threats against freedom and the west. But do you not even dare to arrest someone like Geert if you will not arrest the coward mooselimb murderers.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:58 pmThank you Pat.
April 1st, 2008 at 1:22 pmhey Dan
Thanks for that link. i just signed it, even allows you to write your own comment to go along with it.
Would be cool if we could have this posted somewhere on the site to make sure everyone sees it. Geert needs our support
April 1st, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Thanks Dan (The Infidel) for the petition info for Geert. That was way cool! I enjoyed signing it.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:23 pmMarc the Infidel
Pat, THANK YOU for keeping the unedited version here.
April 1st, 2008 at 5:31 pmAll:
My pleasure…Geert Wilders deserves our support. Piss on the raghead Nazis.
April 1st, 2008 at 6:26 pmThis is a pure copyright issue, this time. Not Islamophiles piling on.
April 1st, 2008 at 7:31 pmThe QURAN and HADITH are hate speech!
April 1st, 2008 at 8:48 pmTHE CARTOON IS TOO OFFENSIVE!!! Videos of mass murder, execution, and spewing hate….eh, not so bad.
April 1st, 2008 at 11:04 pmRead on:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-goldberg1apr01,1,508571.column?track=rss
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:26 amAs horrible as they are, the public should be able view the beheadings and other atrocities commited by the Knotheads. As we all know, the major, and minor, news outlets never show what truly happens. Let everyone see the complete video of Daniel Berg as he has his head sawed off. Show in all it’s repulsive detail the newly discovered mass graves, and how the people were tortured before getting a slug in the back of the head. But we all know that will never happen. We will continue to self flagellate over things like Abu Graib, and a litte redneck girl pointing at Jamal’s wee wee. Hell, in Key West, it would cost you to get into a pile like that. The truth is, if we as a country, do not realize that right now we are our oun worst enemies, and we should focus on the people who want to kill us.
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