Update:
The Dutch government is ready for any possible fallout of a planned film by far-right MP Geert Wilders that attacks Islam as an “inspiration for murder,” Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said Friday.
“We are ready to react quickly, it is our role to be prepared for calamities,” Balkenende told journalists at his weekly press briefing.
Earlier on Friday Dutch media had reported that the government had compiled a secret document on how best to deal with reactions to the film.
Wilders, the head of the far-right Freedom Party, announced in November that he planned to release a 10-minute film this month that will show that Islam’s holy book, the Koran, “is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror”.
Observers say Wilders might burn or tear up the Koran in the movie. In February last year the MP called on Muslims to “tear out half the pages of the Koran and throw them away”.
The Hague fears a repeat of riots when thousands took to the streets in Muslim countries to protest cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that appeared in a Danish newspaper in 2005.
The protests left some hundred people dead, Danish embassies were attacked and Danish goods were boycotted.
Balkenende said he could not comment on Wilders’s film project because he had not seen the actual movie but stressed the government would not censor anything beforehand.
“The Netherlands has a tradition of freedom of expression and freedom of religion but also a tradition of mutual respect, and provocations do not fit into that. I call on everybody to take their individual responsibility,” he said.
* Freedom of speech is a “provocation”. Truth is a provocation.
According to the De Volkskrant newspaper and RTL-news, the government has already prepared for a possible evacuation of Dutch embassies and citizens from the Middle East.
* Unreal!
But Foreign Ministry spokesman Bart Rijs told AFP Friday that there were no special emergency measures for Wilders’s film in place at the moment.
“We always have scenarios for possible calamities at our embassies, consulates and other Dutch representations abroad. They are regularly updated,” he said.
“There is no reason to believe the Dutch government is now implementing an emergency scenario and there is no reason now to evacuate anybody,” Rijs stressed.
Wilders, whose party holds nine of the 150 seats in parliament, insists he will go ahead with his movie despite the uproar.
“Now that everybody is already in a state (over the film) I see it as a confirmation that I should go ahead. I would not be worth a button if I were to capitulate now,” he told the HP/De Tijd magazine.
Wilders is known for his harsh anti-Islam stance and has been under round-the-clock protection since the November 2004 murder of outspoken Dutch columnist Theo van Gogh by a radical Muslim.
Van Gogh was killed after he directed a controversial film written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former political ally of Wilders, that examined the subordination of women in Islamic society.
Wilders has received a number of death threats.
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Muslims Keep Demonizing Geert Wilders
The Dutch Government says it is concerned about the reactions in the Netherlands and in foreign countries. What the Government means is, they fear reactions of muslims in Holland and in islamic states. This proves Wilders’s point. Fear is governing Holland.
The chairman of the Dutch muslim council regrets the fact this movie is being made. He fears the worst when this film shall be shown to the public. “Our boys in the street shall have the last words”, he says. This remark can be considered to be the first threat. ’…and we can’t stop them. Look what happens in France” he said.
Muslims and their dhimmi allies (non-Muslims afraid of Islam) who oppose Geert Wilders want to stop him and are assembling a counter movement. Mohammed Sini, the chairman of the foundation of islam and citizenship is planning to build this movement. “This is definitely going to happen. I also call on to all muslims to stay calm and to accept that the are being insulted” he said today in the Telegraaf. “Wilders is evil and evil has to be stopped”. (see their poster below)
This poster from Muslim shows how Europe will look in the future. Muslims will try to stop freedom of speech everywhere. Make this development stop. Make a difference. Join SIOE!
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The Arab European League (AEL) is going to bring out a film to counter the film on the Koran being prepared by right-wing politician Geert Wilders.
HILVERSUM – The Arab European League (AEL) is going to bring out a film to counter the film on the Koran being prepared by right-wing politician Geert Wilders.
Abdou Bouzerda of the Dutch branch of the AEL said this Thursday evening on the current events programme NOVA.
The AEL hopes in its film to show the other side of the Koran and Islam. “I call on all Muslims to join the public debate,” Bouzerda said.
Expatica
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What Islamofascism really wants:
Can’t wait for this film to come out.
What an insult! To label Geert Wilders as ‘far-right. It is used as a ‘put-down’. He is a patriotic Dutchman and it is a tragedy that there are not more patriotic Europeans with his courage and love of their homelands. The world desperately needs many thousands of Geert Wilders if the canker of Islam is to be eradicated from Western civilization.
The Nazi Party was ‘far-right’. Mr. Wilders is not advocating the killing of mohammedans or transporting them to death camps as the ‘far-right’ Nazi Party did to Jews, gypsies, and others.
All he is doing, is to explain and expose the Koran and Islam for the monstrosities that they are. It is the mohammedans that are Far-Right. Just look at their record in killing and stifling free-speech and enforcing Islam onto peoples, through all the centuries since their paedophile prophet walked on the earth.
I am glad the Dutch are doing something – it is about freaking time!
According to WND this is a 10 minute film, not a 2 hour blockbuster, but Mo’s followers are
already threatening dire revenge, & timid Western governments are working on appeasement.
Contrast this film, which I assume won’t involve the harming of humans or animals, with
Mo’s followers snuff movies, like the beheading of Daniel Pearl, which appears to be widely
available on the net. The Daniel Pearl Foundation does not seek dire revenge against his
butchers, but instead seeks to further the ideals that inspired his work.
Sites that host the Pearl snuff movie include the treasonous La Voz de Aztlan – http://www.aztlan.net/pearlvideo.htm (no, I didn’t look at it – it is just a sample of Allah’s
gift of death)
The best way to handle reaction to the film is to instruct the police to crack heads at the first sign of trouble. There won’t be ANY excuse for seeing hundreds of torched cars ala France because the authorities know ahead of time.
The most sad thing about this affair is, that it shows beyond doubt how far the politicians have removed themselves from the defense of free speech. Far from fighting terror they have embarked upon a waive of muzzling its critics. One such Dutch activisist – a former Christian workers union boss called Terpstra – has initiated a Wilders counter movement and uses fascist methods to shut up what he perceives as a fascist, a piece of pathological projection that is usual in this type of Narcissistic hive minders.
Wilders’ job as an MP is to check and balance the government. Instead the government and their minions are leaning on him to shut him up. The sad thing is, we are well on our way to a dictatorship. The EU is moving towards the abolishment of nations and raises instead a huge post democratic super state in which we will all be her clients. The only remaining question is, how enlightened (or not) this dictatorship will be.
“From time to time, the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.”
Thomas Jefferson