Source: www.breitbart.comDutch MP Geert Wilders, after being unable to find a distributor for his anti-Islam film, has promised to put the movie on the Internet quickly, with April 1st as his projected deadline. However, now an American network provider has suspended Wilders' website after having received a number of complaints about the site.
The provider, Network Solutions, suspended the website today (Sunday) pending an investigation of the complaints and movie to see if the website conforms to its guidelines and to assure that there would be no violations of laws. Network Solutions' guidelines include banning material it deems harassing, hate propaganda, threatening, harmful, or "otherwise objectionable." The provider also expressed concerns about possible technical difficulties with providing the movie to online viewers, including "excessive use of services which shall impair the fair use of other Network Solutions customers".
Wilders' website ((www.fitnathemovie.com) has been advertizing the coming movie with the cover of a Koran on a black background with the text "Coming soon: Finta."
Geert Wilders is a far-right Dutch lawmaker who has been embroiled in controversy in his country for some time with regards to his anti-Islamic words, as well as for publicizing his movie plans, in spite of complaints from religious groups and warnings of violent, worldwide protests that the movie could cause. The 15-minute film he plans to release is one that attacks Islam and the Koran, claiming that it would show the Koran as a "fascist book." The proposed movie has already drawn complaints from several Muslim countries, including Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, Iran and Afghanistan.
The AFP story continues (via www.breitbart.com):
No one has seen the film in its entirety yet but a Dutch paper which has seen some of the opening images from the film, said it shows the cover of the Koran and then images of "a decapitation in Iraq, a stoning in Iran and an execution in Saudi Arabia, where sharia (Islamic law) is applied".
Dutch officials have unsuccessfully urged him to drop the project, fearing a repeat of the violent protests that erupted in many countries when European newspapers printed cartoons mocking theProphet Mohammed.
Wilders has said that he will release the film "before April 1", posting it on the Internet because he cannot find a broadcaster willing to carry it.
Computer experts have warned that controversy surrounding the movie could cause network mayhem once it is put online, if too many people try to view it at the same time.
Wilders has repeatedly stated that the content of his film will not violate Dutch law.
On Friday a Dutch Muslim association filed a legal claim asking a court to appoint a panel of censors to view the film before it is aired in order to see if there is a reason to ban it.
The court is set to deliver its ruling next Friday but Wilders has said that he would try to release the film before than to avoid having to show it to censors.
Dutch film-maker and polemicist Theo Van Gogh was murdered by an Islamic extremist in Amsterdam in 2004 after he made a short film attacking Islam's treatment of women.
Forgive my naïveté as I submit this story to Muslims Against Sharia ... here I sit in the United States, a woman who today is celebrating the holiest of days for Christians, Easter. I am puzzled with all the violent protests over the Muhammed cartoons from last year, and now puzzled even more as a Dutchman attempts to air a movie he feels passionately about. He is even facing strict control from the Dutch government -- one of the most liberal in the world. And yet, as a Christian, I face a lot of attacks on Christianity. Hollywood loves to portray Christians as idiots, back-water hicks, and hypocritical dimwits while on the other hand frequently portraying Jesus Christ as a psychopath and/or homosexual in the attempt to promote the entertainment industry's agendas. Artists have portrayed some works that were quite blasphemous, such as the infamous "Piss Christ"-- a crucifix photographed in a glass filled with urine. But, there were no violent protests against such hate-filled, christophobic displays of "art."
On the flipside, I can worship freely. I am able to buy a Bible easily, attend church openly, wear a cross around my neck if I wish, or put some cliché bumpersticker on my car. I can practice my faith openly, and so can my Muslim and Jewish brethren. It's not a perfect system, but there is peace and freedom.We all know full well that with freedom comes responsibility. Giving people the right to choose, to live freely, is a very difficult and delicate balance. But, a free society is an open society, and an open society is a free society. And freedom must be closely guarded. I worry that, if Holland were to continue to cower and back down from the challenges to religious freedom and freedom of speech, the collapse of such a free society might have a domino effect on the rest of Europe ... and worldwide.
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