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To: knighthawk

Who is this person?


10 posted on 02/12/2009 6:47:24 AM PST by stayathomemom (Cat herder and empty nester)
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To: stayathomemom

From Wikipedia:

Fitna is a 2008 short film by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. Approximately 17 minutes in length, the film shows a selection of Suras from the Qur’an, interspersed with media clips and newspaper clippings showing or describing acts of violence and/or hatred by Muslims. The film wishes to demonstrate that the Qur’an, and the Islamic culture in general, motivates its followers to hate all who violate the Islamic teachings. Consequently, the film argues, Islam encourages, among others, acts of terrorism, antisemitism, violence against women, and Islamic universalism. A large part of the film deals with the influence of Islam on the Netherlands.

The film’s title, “fitna”, is an Arabic term used to describe “disagreement and division among people” or a “test of faith in times of trial”.[1] Wilders, a prominent critic of Islam, described the film as “a call to shake off the creeping tyranny of Islamization”.[2]

On March 27 2008, Fitna was released to the Internet on the video sharing website Liveleak in Dutch and English versions. The following day, Liveleak removed the film from their servers, citing serious threats to their staff. On March 30, Fitna was restored on Liveleak following a security upgrade, only to be removed again shortly afterwards by Wilders himself because of copyright violations. A second edition was released later.


18 posted on 02/12/2009 6:54:14 AM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: stayathomemom

He’s a member of the Dutch parliament who has been banned from entering Britain because of his anti-Islamic views. Some of the radical muslims in Britain were threatening to amass 10,000 people to prevent his entry, and the pathetic British government sided with them.


20 posted on 02/12/2009 6:56:49 AM PST by Junior_G
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To: stayathomemom

My son was telling me about this last night. Evidently, this guy has made an anti-Muslim film about the Islamic take over in the Netherlands. He is very anti-Muslim because his father or someone was killed there, by Muslims, for making anti-Muslim statements or writings.


58 posted on 02/12/2009 8:38:50 AM PST by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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