Posted on 04/02/2008 9:40:43 AM PDT by yoe
The government of the world's most populous Islamic state says YouTube has two days to take down a Dutch lawmaker's provocative film on the Koran or it will block access to the popular video-sharing Web site.
The warning by Indonesia came as the U.N.'s primary human rights watchdog ended a month-long session amid allegations by Western member-states and non-governmental organizations that Islamic nations are working to curtail free speech.
Geert Wilder's 16-minute film linking Islam's revered text with terrorism has sparked protests in a number of countries. It also drew criticism from the Arab League, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) and the European Union.
In Indonesia, a former Dutch colony, Information Minister Mohammad Nuh told a press briefing in Jakarta Tuesday he had sent a letter to YouTube demanding the film, "Fitna," be removed. If it did not comply, he said, the government in cooperation with Internet service providers would block the site.
As of early Wednesday afternoon Indonesian time, attempts to view at least one earlier-available upload of the movie on YouTube brought up a message saying, "This video has been removed due to terms of use violation."
But the film has been uploaded on YouTube by multiple users and can still be found with a simple search in both its English and Dutch versions.
In response to queries, a YouTube spokesperson said the site allows people "to express themselves and to communicate with a global audience."
"The diversity of the world in which we live -- spanning the vast dimensions of ethnicity, religion, nationality, language, political opinion, gender, and sexual orientation, to name a few -- means that some of the beliefs and views of some individuals may offend others," she said.
Videos that breach YouTube guidelines are removed, and some graphic material is restricted………………
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I didn’t mean it as a bad thing. Islamofascists may threaten violence, but as for FReepers, who is going to bell the cat? FReepers, as a group, would tend to shoot back. Islamofascists never do well against armed opposition in anything remotely resembling even odds.
Every time one of these 3rd world booby-hatches censors this film, they prove Wilders’s point.
Every time one of these 3rd world booby-hatches censors this film, they prove Wilders’s point.
If the same film were created by a Muslim, it would be all over Al Jazeera (and YouTube) as a propaganda film lauding themselves as heroes...
Goes by the same name as the little white things you hit around on a golf course.
Exactly. It’s not so much the content that’s at issue (any bozo can whip up offensive material), it’s that the response is so overwhelmingly full of threats of violence & oppression.
Had practically the same idea yesterday!
Search around for a few minutes, it’s available. IIRC, see Michael Savage’s website.
The more home brew videos that can be posted on the web, the better. There’s so much downloadable footage out there, anyone can slap one of these together in an evening. Use the jihadi IED and sniper videos against them.
Thanks, some of the comments from muslims on that page are “enlightening” as well...
Awhile back I linked to some truly disturbing pictures of smiling Indonesian Muslims racing around on motorbikes cutting off the heads of Christians of all ages and genders.
Yes, “Screw Indonesia”.
Michael Frazier
Islam is most idiotic belief system I’ve ever heard of. It’s an all purpose excuse for these self righteous third worlder type to make asses of themselves and kill non muslims
Agreed.
“If you dare to call me violent again, I will kill you!!”
Idiots.
Try post #13 I saved a copy from googlevideo at my link. That was last night.
Yup, that’s what I figured.
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