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Dutch anti-Islamic film's Internet site suspended
Breitbart / AFP ^ | March 23, 2008

Posted on 03/23/2008 3:34:44 PM PDT by Stoat

 

Dutch anti-Islamic film's Internet site suspended
Mar 23 10:20 AM US/Eastern
 

 

An American network provider Sunday said it had suspended a website that Dutch MP Geert Wilders had reserved to post his anti-Islamic film, which has sparked wide condemnation and fears of a backlash.

"Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation," the provider said a message posted on the Internet.

Although his website is offline, Wilders on Sunday insisted he still wants to put the movie "on the internet quickly" but did not specify how.

He also told the Dutch ANP news agency that he would not allow anyone to see the film before it was broadcast.

Until Sunday, his site (www.fitnathemovie.com) had shown the cover of a Koran on a black background with the text: "Coming soon: Finta".

Network Solutions said it investigating whether the website conforms to its guidelines, saying it cannot allow "any material in violation of any applicable law."

This includes material deemed harassing, hate propaganda, threatening, harmful or "otherwise objectionable."

The service provider also cites technical reasons for possibly taking the site offline including "excessive use of services which shall impair the fair use of other Network Solutions customers".

Far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders plans to release a movie attacking Islam and the Koran, despite complaints from religious groups and warnings that it could provoke violent protests around the world.

Wilders said in November that the 15-minute film would show the Koran was a "fascist book", a claim which has already drawn complaints from several Muslim countries, including Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt, Iran and Afghanistan.

No one has seen the film in its entirity 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 the Prophet 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.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dhimmitude; dutch; film; filmjihad; geertwilders; holland; internet; islam; islamofascism; korananimals; movie; movies; networksolutions; notworksolutions; paginggeorgeorwell; wilders
From a related Fox News article:

Wilders told FOX News in January that he believed Western culture was better off than the "retarded" Islamic culture. He also likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler's book, 'Mein Kampf.'

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1 posted on 03/23/2008 3:34:44 PM PDT by Stoat
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To: Stoat

Yes, I almost posted this story - sounds like that site had a little talk with CAIR.


2 posted on 03/23/2008 3:36:53 PM PDT by Baladas
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To: Stoat
Network Solutions

marx must be laughing, when "free enterprise" does the work normally thought of as belonging to totalitarian regimes.

3 posted on 03/23/2008 3:37:04 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Free New York)
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To: Stoat
"contact us."

Well, they asked for it.

4 posted on 03/23/2008 3:39:04 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Free New York)
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To: Stoat
Network Solutions said it investigating whether the website conforms to its guidelines, saying it cannot allow "any material in violation of any applicable law."

Anyone who has has web sites for a decade or more can discuss the "merits" of Network Solutions.

I won't. There is just nothing bad enough to say about them without shouting and swearing. Just leave it that I am not surprised in the least. They love non-negotiable fiats.

5 posted on 03/23/2008 3:40:47 PM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: Stoat

P2P it.


6 posted on 03/23/2008 3:43:24 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: Gorzaloon

I just looked over their website. Gotta wonder what sort of wet-paper-bags are behind such a company. It reeks of political correctness in its communications. It’s got to be a women/minority owned front.


7 posted on 03/23/2008 3:45:20 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Free New York)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Network Solutions

marx must be laughing, when "free enterprise" does the work normally thought of as belonging to totalitarian regimes.

Indeed...it seems also that Network Solutions would prefer the "Final Solution" that Islamofascim promises every single day.

Thankfully, Oriana Fallaci's publisher was not so utterly gutless and limp-wristed as these guys.

 

8 posted on 03/23/2008 3:48:59 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat
utterly gutless and limp-wristed as these guys.

There must be reasons why neo-business is the pissboy of all that is spineless and globalist.

But I can only guess at what they are.

9 posted on 03/23/2008 3:52:18 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Free New York)
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To: Stoat
"Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation," the provider said a message posted on the Internet.

I have a few complaints of my own -- over 10,000 of them...





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10 posted on 03/23/2008 3:52:28 PM PDT by JCG
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To: the invisib1e hand
"contact us."

Well, they asked for it.

LMAO

Hopefully their entire network as well as their phone system will be utterly deluged by thoughtful people registering their entirely justified anger until the bosses rethink this. 

If they think that the spectre of a  CAIR-orchestrated Islamofascist jihad against them is something that they want to avoid, wait until they hear from mainstream, healthy Americans who are not quite ready to bend over for Mohammed quite yet.......

11 posted on 03/23/2008 3:54:58 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: samtheman
P2P it.

Would that solve the problem?

12 posted on 03/23/2008 4:00:49 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Free New York)
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To: the invisib1e hand

If enough people got on board. yes.


13 posted on 03/23/2008 4:02:18 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: Stoat

Gee, do they do the same thing for web sites that glorify Islamic terrorism? Methinks not.


14 posted on 03/23/2008 4:02:41 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: Gorzaloon
They love non-negotiable fiats.

They most likely consider their business to be much like an ATM that spits out as much money as they ask it to, with no end to the cash stream, and they are hoping to avoid controversy and taking a stand of any sort.

They probably never considered that their business is much like a book publisher's, in that they occasionally have to make a choice between taking a stand and being a worm.  Hopefully they will be effectively educated as to their position in the marketplace of ideas as a result of their networks and phone systems being completely overloaded and unusable for the next month or so.  There's nothing quite like having your geyser of cash drying up to make people pause and think really hard about what's going on.

15 posted on 03/23/2008 4:15:17 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

16 posted on 03/23/2008 4:18:09 PM PDT by robomatik ((wine plug: renascentvineyards.com cabernet sauvignon, riesling, and merlot))
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To: samtheman
P2P it.

It will probably end up on the BitTorrent network moments after it's release (or even before LMAO), but let's hope that CAIR won't use this as a cudgel to beat down the ISP's as is happening in Japan.

Japan to strip Internet for illegal downloaders report('Flagrant' filesharers to have 'net cut)

 

17 posted on 03/23/2008 4:19:42 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: the invisib1e hand
But I can only guess at what they are.

Whoever they are, they apparently had no idea what they were stepping into and think that they can diffuse a controversial situation simply by running away from it.  Sorry people, we're at war, and Americans don't like cowards and milquetoasts who prostrate themselves before a few noisy Islamofascists.

18 posted on 03/23/2008 4:26:08 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: rbg81
Gee, do they do the same thing for web sites that glorify Islamic terrorism? Methinks not.

They would probably be delighted to host websites from Hussein-Obama's "church" as well.

19 posted on 03/23/2008 4:28:18 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: JCG
"Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation," the provider said a message posted on the Internet.

I have a few complaints of my own -- over 10,000 of them...

Let's hope that thoughtful people will begin reminding their switchboard operators and account executives of this, beginning bright and early tomorrow morning and continuing until it becomes apparent that they have correctly learned the lesson at hand.

 

20 posted on 03/23/2008 4:33:12 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: samtheman

Exactly what I thought, too. Saves a ton of money on bandwidth, and there’s nobody the Muslims can threaten or kill to stop it from being seen.


21 posted on 03/23/2008 4:34:14 PM PDT by Content Provider
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To: Stoat

With more and more Muslim/ Arab states (UAE mainly) buying up American and Western companies, this will be the norm. Sharia law imposed by company policy.


22 posted on 03/23/2008 4:42:58 PM PDT by cyberkada
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To: cyberkada
With more and more Muslim/ Arab states (UAE mainly) buying up American and Western companies, this will be the norm. Sharia law imposed by company policy.

A chilling prospect.  Hopefully thoughtful Americans will be able to effectively remind them that we have a different way of doing things around here.

If we fail, we're lost.

23 posted on 03/23/2008 4:48:12 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat
Why not use it as an internet "viral email" test? There has to be some tracking company that would kill (and pay big bucks) to have exclusive rights to release it and track it?

Use the Noodle, man! The demand is there and the data from tracking it could cut the rug out from under the movie industry and start a whole new industry?

24 posted on 03/23/2008 4:59:04 PM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (Senator McCain, what did GWB promise you back in 2000? And you believed him? BWAHAAAAA!)
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To: Stoat

What is involved in hosting this film? A server? How big does it have to be?


25 posted on 03/23/2008 5:00:19 PM PDT by Excellence (Bacon Bits Make Great Confetti)
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To: Excellence

Is there anything we can do as Freepers?


26 posted on 03/23/2008 5:03:15 PM PDT by Chickensoup (If it is not permitted, it is prohibited. Only the government can permit....)
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To: Stoat

Thats why everyone should have been against the Dubai ports deal, Citibank, Sony, AMD and other purchases by the UAE (Abu Dhabi) government. - OK its a sovereign wealth fund, but its the same thing in my book. This goes along with YouTube banning any video critical of Islam, while letting Jihadi vidoes remain. You do remember the case of a Florida woman fired from her job because she ate pork at work? Once Muslims own companies that will be enforced by company policy.


27 posted on 03/23/2008 5:05:42 PM PDT by cyberkada
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To: Chickensoup; Jim Robinson

Paging Jim Robinson...


28 posted on 03/23/2008 5:10:11 PM PDT by Excellence (Bacon Bits Make Great Confetti)
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To: Stoat

Just thought you guys might enjoy listing to this brit’s rant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dXGJ2rYdA


29 posted on 03/23/2008 5:59:02 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?)
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To: the invisib1e hand

yes, indeed they did. and I was kind enough to deliver. Hope you all do the same.


30 posted on 03/23/2008 5:59:49 PM PDT by FunkyZero
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To: Stoat

They caved, very disappointing.


31 posted on 03/23/2008 6:01:21 PM PDT by infantrywhooah
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To: Chickensoup
Is there anything we can do as Freepers?

Start up FReepTube.

32 posted on 03/23/2008 6:18:06 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Free New York)
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To: Stoat

I don’t get it.

Why fear a “backlash” if Islam is such a religion of peace? (sarc).


33 posted on 03/23/2008 6:18:27 PM PDT by Levante
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To: All

anybody up for some DDOS?


34 posted on 03/23/2008 6:44:12 PM PDT by lesser_satan
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To: Stoat

only a matter of time before turbines are mandatory men ware in the netherlands


35 posted on 03/23/2008 8:13:08 PM PDT by choose4urfuture
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To: Gabz

I notice that you are The Trusted Keeper of the DelMarVa pinglist, and so I’m wondering if you might be so kind as to ping the Virginia Chapter President to this thread?
I regret that I don’t know who that is or I would do it myself and not bother you :-)

My reason for doing this is that according to their website, Network Solutions is based in Herndon, Virginia, and considering the nature of what this company is doing, I’m wondering if the FR Virginia Chapter might be interested in pursuing some sort of public FReep in this matter.

Thanks very much! :-)


36 posted on 03/23/2008 8:42:29 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Excellence
What is involved in hosting this film? A server? How big does it have to be?

If you want to host it at a website and either provide a player there or allow HTTP downloads for the public, then you'd need a web server, and the film is only 15 minutes long so it won't take much space at all, probably less than 700 megabytes for a low-res version and maybe 3 gigs for a high-res version.

But as was mentioned earlier, you don't even need to have a web server, just place one complete copy on a standard PC, create a Torrent tracker, upload it to a Torrent file hosting site and soon you'll have ten thousand complete copies on computers all over the planet and then the next day you'll likely have millions, considering how incendiary this film probably is and how it's going to strike a chord with millions all over the world who are tired of 6th century ethics being shoved down our throats.

So, if he doesn't care about making money with it, getting the film out to the world is easy and can be done at near-zero cost, but that doesn't excuse Network Solutions for appeasing the Islamofascists.

37 posted on 03/23/2008 9:25:03 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat
Network Solutions is a nasty company, IMO. I had an opportunity to get in on the IPO, but declined for moral reasons (knowing how they operate). Now I wish I'd participated, dumped the pumped-up shares, and used the proceeds to point out their bad practices. Whether this is just spinelessness or something else, I don't know.
38 posted on 03/24/2008 5:19:34 AM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: cyberkada

A nail on the head post.

Sadly, the high gas prices combined with a free-market-at-anycost govt vision enables this very type of thing.

And they know it.


39 posted on 03/24/2008 6:44:35 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: Stoat
This includes material deemed harassing, hate propaganda, threatening, harmful or "otherwise objectionable."

They need to ban the koran and hadith.

Sura (2:191-193) - "And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution of Muslims is worse than slaughter of non-believers...and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah."

Sura (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"

Sura (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"

Bukhari (52:177) - Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."

Tabari 7:97 The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared,"Kill any Jew who falls under your power."

Ibn Ishaq: 327 - “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”

40 posted on 03/24/2008 7:01:25 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED)
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To: FatherofFive

ah the religion of peace

NOT


41 posted on 03/24/2008 10:01:39 AM PDT by manc (o)
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To: manc

The media in the west are either scared of Islam or agree with it, either way they need to report what Islam is about and stop defending or ignoring what muslims are doing nd saying


42 posted on 03/24/2008 10:02:35 AM PDT by manc (o)
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To: manc
The media in the west are either scared of Islam or agree with it

I believe they really don't know the truth about the ROP.

I sure didn't until I started studying it after 9/11. That is one reason I post only a few of the most violent passages as often as I can. People must know the truth.

43 posted on 03/24/2008 10:47:09 AM PDT by FatherofFive (Islam is an EVIL like no other, and must be ERADICATED)
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To: Stoat
Network Solutions is a nasty company, IMO. I had an opportunity to get in on the IPO, but declined for moral reasons (knowing how they operate). Now I wish I'd participated, dumped the pumped-up shares, and used the proceeds to point out their bad practices. Whether this is just spinelessness or something else, I don't know.
44 posted on 03/24/2008 4:22:14 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Baladas

I have a whole server for this guy, plus an offshore registrar. I ain’t scared!!!!!


45 posted on 03/24/2008 5:26:41 PM PDT by auntyfemenist (How many times do the words Islam and Threat have to be used together in the same sentence?)
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To: the invisib1e hand

You bet it would!


46 posted on 03/24/2008 5:27:56 PM PDT by auntyfemenist (How many times do the words Islam and Threat have to be used together in the same sentence?)
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To: cyberkada

Aren’t Jihad videos sort of critical in an accidental sort of way anyway? I mean, they do speak for themselves in my opinion.


47 posted on 03/24/2008 5:30:42 PM PDT by auntyfemenist (How many times do the words Islam and Threat have to be used together in the same sentence?)
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To: FatherofFive
I come from a country which has been bending over backwards at every turn, the country being England.
I came here legally I might add after I left the military as I never wanted my kids to grow up in a place where sharia law and islam is taking over.

Now some might think I am going over the top but believe me their are police forces which now go and tell the local imam they are to make an arrest i.e. giving the community a heads up, thepolice can not go into a muslim home with a dog, they have to take their shoes off before they go into a house, they cannot go into a bedroom or a bathroom as a muslim woman might be there, they cannot arrest the person if they are praying
I kid you not in-fact the no go zones in England are looking now like enclaves , they have burned churches, pubs, etc and yes the media does not report all of this, people have been murdered because they were not muslim and were white.

course the BBC and guardian along with the daily mirror ignore this .

I too looked into islam after 9/11 and was astounded that this so called religion of peace calls for death to non believers infact way over a hundred verses similar to that.

Bin laden and his cronies have said including muslims over 60% have stated that they want to spread Islam and won't be happy until everyone is converted

So yes I tell everyone I can about the dangers of Islam and to me it's not really a religion but more of a cult all based on a man who lived in a cave saying he spoke with God(allah)

It really astounds me that those on the left whether in England or America make excuses and try to put the blame on the west.

Seems Neville chamberlain and Hitler was never looked at to these people for if it was then they would know appeasement is not to peace but to more deaths and destruction

48 posted on 03/24/2008 7:26:04 PM PDT by manc (o)
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