Thursday, January 24, 2008
Dutch politician Geert Wilders is giving Holland fits as they fear his ten minute anti-Koran film will trigger rioting and threats come in from Iran. Wilders has agreed to delay the release and the Dutch government seeks to appease by backing down on plans to ban the burqa in government offices and schools. You may as well get it over with now, Holland, this is the price of freedom in a world full of barbarity.
UK Telegraph: Holland 'governed by fear of Islam'
Those Dutch and their little button noses.
A politician has warned that a "fear of Islam" is governing Holland after he delayed the release of a short film attacking the Koran.
Geert Wilders, 44, the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party, who compares the Muslim holy book to Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, sparked government panic after saying the anti-Islam film would be released tomorrow.
As Dutch police prepared for a weekend of riots and Mr Wilders was told by the authorities that he would have to leave country, he launched a new attack on "intolerant" Islam while announcing that his 10-minute film attacking the Muslim faith would be postponed for two weeks.
"If I had announced that I was going to make a film about the fascist character of the Bible would there have been a crisis meeting of Holland's security forces?" he wrote to the Volkskrant newspaper.
"Would I have received as many death threats as I have done since announcing I was making a film about the Koran? Of course not."
Iran's parliament, the Majlis, this week warned of "extensive repercussions from Muslims throughout the globe" if the film was broadcast.
In an attempt to defuse tensions, the Dutch government will tomorrow announce that it will not implement a ban on the Islamic burqa dress.
Update: More detail at PJM: Holland: Likely to Be the Next Target of Islamist Rage
Hope they release it with English subtitles.
What if there is no such movie? Wouldn't that just be a riot --- tee hee. Get it? A riot! Maybe if someone threatens to release a film insulting the Koran or Muhammed every day from now through 2010, the Islamists will get used to it and cut out the theatrics.
Maybe if someone threatens to release a film insulting the Koran or Muhammed every day from now through 2010, the Islamists will get used to it and cut out the theatrics
That's how the world should have reacted to the Danish Cartoon crisis - or even the death threat against Salman Rushdie. We should have printed the 'offending' verses/cartoons in every newspaper, magazine, t-shirt, wall, tv show, sign, etc. possible.
We didn't, and now this ridiculous Muslim 'outrage' is getting so out of hand...