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3.27.2008

Fitna the Movie: Geert Wilders' film about the Quran (English)



From Yahoo! News:
THE HAGUE (AFP) - Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders on Thursday made good his pledge to post a controversial film critical of Islam on the Internet, featuring violent imagery of terrorist attacks in New York and Madrid intertwined with Koranic texts.
The first minutes of the 17-minute movie -- titled "Fitna" and posted on www.liveleak.com -- show a Koran being opened and the text of a sura from Islam's holiest tome, which translated from Arabic implores the faithful to "terrorise the enemies of Allah".
The opening scenes were followed by images of airplanes flying into the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11, 2001, with soundbites from phone calls to the emergency services on that day.
The film continues with grizzly images of bloodstained bodies in the aftermath of the Madrid train bombings in March 2004 in which 191 people were killed.
All the imagery appears to have been taken from existing video footage, mixed with Koranic text and put to a dramatic soundtrack by Tchaikovsky and Grieg.
Wilder's movie plans had already drawn complaints from religious groups and warnings from the Dutch government that it could provoke violent protests around the world.
Despite pressure from The Hague not to release the movie, Wilders pushed ahead. Dutch officials fear a repeat of violent protests that erupted when European newspapers printed cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed.
LiveLeak is a British-based video sharing website, similar to the more popular YouTube, with an emphasis on current affairs, politics and reality-based footage, including images of war from around the world.

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