Dozens protest anti-Quran film

Ap via Yahoo ^ | March 28, 2008 | Toby Sterling

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dozens staged an angry protest in Pakistan on Friday in response to a Dutch lawmaker's anti-Quran film, but Dutch Muslims appealed for calm and said it was less inflammatory than they had feared.

The 15-minute film by Geert Wilders, posted on a Web site late Thursday, sets verses of the Quran against a montage of images from terrorist attacks and rhetoric from Muslim clergymen urging "jihad," or holy war. Shortly afterward Dutch television channels rebroadcast segments of it.

The leader of a group representing members of the Netherlands' large Moroccan immigrant community said the film was "less bad" than expected, and another prominent Muslim dismissed it as an attempt by Wilders to gain votes by trying to make people fearful of Islam.

The film recycled film clips from terrorist attacks in the U.S., Spain and the Netherlands, and began and ended with one of the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad published by European newspapers that provoked violent protests in Islamic countries two years ago.

The Danish Union of Journalists said it will sue Wilders for copyright infringement for using the cartoon. It said the cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, did not give Wilders permission to use the image in his film, which it called "political propaganda."

[txzman]

Awww...truth’s a bitch.

[arderkrag]

Dozens. Not hundreds, not thousands. I think that’s telling in and of itself.

[wideawake]

Apparently they couldn't get a hundred people to come out to protest a film that is a hundred times more damning of Islam and offensive to its sensibilities (one scene features a burning Koran) than the Jyllands-Posten cartoons.

[roaddog727]

WOW.

Dozens. That’s HUGH and Series!

[Abathar]

Think about it, in a place where any gathering of any size will almost always guarantee a suicide bomber would you want to join in a big protest? The ball-less wonders are far more afraid of their own kind now than they are of us.

[Tribune7]

dozens protest. wow.

what outrage.

[MrB]

Notice that both Muslims and leftists get enraged when you tell the truth about them?

[Tribune7]

The Danish Union of Journalists said it will sue Wilders for copyright infringement for using the cartoon. It said the cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard, did not give Wilders permission to use the image in his film, which it called "political propaganda."

I thought that the cartoonists invited dissemination of the images.

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The ball-less wonders are far more afraid of their own kind now than they are of us.

Wilders will probably face more danger from Muslims in the Netherlands than this demo in Pakistan was able to produce.

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I thought that the cartoonists invited dissemination of the images.

I'm guessing the Danish Union of Journalists don't like Wilders' politics.

[vietvet67]

Just compromise. Run a Porky Pig cartoon before the film.

[facedown]

ping

[ZX12R]

I guess simple cartoon depictions just work better. More on their level. Perhaps a “MO the Molester” comic book series would work too.

[WakeUpAndVote]

[Jonah Hex]

Did anybody notice the article never mentioned the NAME of the "provocative" movie? Prior censorship, anybody?

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Enough is Enough

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

” (one scene features a burning Koran)”

I watched the English version and there was no koran burning; there was a scene where a hand was grasping a page as if to tear it out, but the screen faded to black as you heard the sound of paper tearing. Immediately after, was a sentence stating that the sound you heard was a page being torn out of a phone book, and that it was up to muslims themselves to tear out the hateful pages from the koran.

[Missouri gal]

Already viewed by about 5 million according to a post elsewhere on the web. Does that tell you anything?

Meanwhile, however, a more effective response to Islamic hate is Christian love. Rev. Botros, Coptic priest, has been dishing out plenty in a broadcast that Muslims are simply unable to ignore, on “Life TV.” Muslim clerics and scholars are very angry because his soft approach is winning tens of thousands for Christ. Secularism and atheism cannot win. They are dead ideologies that have stripped formerly Christian lands of their culture. Only Christ can win. Only love can beat hate.

[montag813]

I saw the film. He quotes the Koran. He shows tapes of Imams preaching hate. Where is the controversy? All of this is real, is factual.

[junkman_106]

some help for an old-school guy...where is link to video? Thanks in advance. (I checked the local newspaper movie schedule and it wasn’t there).

[dfwgator]

This would be just like Nazis protesting “Triumph of the Will.”

[ChuxsterS]

It's on YouTube. You'll need to log in (or create an account) to view it.

[junkman_106]

Thanks !

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

BTW it's only about 15 minutes long. Also while I can't remember exactly the title is something like: “ftli”

[Antoninus]

Ah, so the AP thinks that dozens protesting in Pakistan is now newsworthy. And yet when tens of thousands of pro-lifers march on DC, it's met with a yawn.

You can't spell Pravda without AP.

[Antoninus]

Secularism and atheism cannot win. They are dead ideologies that have stripped formerly Christian lands of their culture. Only Christ can win. Only love can beat hate.

Amen to that. Christ is the only solution--both on earth and in heaven.

[Lurker]

Thanks.

[knighthawk]

Thanks for the ping, but I bet a lot of people feared there would be total chaos and bloodshed over here. So a few dozen protesters won’t make it lol