---

Bloomberg, USA
Mar. 27, 2008
Jurjen van de Pol
www.bloomberg.com

---

ReligionNewsBlog.com • Item 20979 • Posted: Thursday March 27, 2008  

---

March 27 (Bloomberg) — A movie critical of Islam by anti- Muslim Dutch politician Geert Wilders was released today on the Internet.

Wilders’s movie, “Fitna,” opens with verses from the Koran and continues with images of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001 and on Madrid trains in 2004.

Plans for the movie’s release have fueled ethnic tension in the Netherlands and sparked anger in Muslim countries including Iran, Egypt and Pakistan. About 5,000 people rallied in Amsterdam on March 22 to protest racism and Wilders’ anti-Islamic rhetoric.

“I think Islam and the Koran are a danger for freedom in the Netherlands in the long term and I need to warn for that,” Wilders told NOS television today, adding the movie isn’t a “provocation.”

Wilder has campaigned against immigration and Muslim culture since he left the Liberals in 2004 to found his own Freedom Party under the slogan, “Stop the Islamization of The Netherlands.”

The last time a Dutch film mocked Islam, in 2004, its director, Theo van Gogh, was slain. His killer, the 26-year-old son of Moroccan immigrants, pinned a note on his body calling for a holy war against infidels.

---

What You Can Do From Here

---

Read More Articles On These Topics Categories: Fitna Movie, Islam Share, Blog About, Bookmark, or Email This Article Subscribe Religion News Blog RSS feed [What is this?] RSS by topic: Fitna Movie, Islam Read Another Article Previous entry: Pastor gets 4 years for sex assault on woman Next entry: Dutch MP posts Islam film on web RNB Homepage with latest headlines Find Related Information Use our custom search engines to find additional research resources on religions and cults Find Related Books Fitna Movie Most Popular Today Scientology’s feet held to the fire in Australia: Struggle between a church and the state

---

Share This Article

---

To share this page simply copy and paste one of these URL's:

• Post a link on your blog or website:
  
• Send in an email or IM:
  
• Post on a forum:
  

Search for information about (religious) cults, cult-like organizations, -- as well as paranormal-, New Age, and pseudoscientific claims -- across 260+ websites, blogs and forums dedicated to cult research, spiritual abuse, ex-cult counseling & support.

Note: results are listed on another domain -- CounterCultSearch.com -- from which you can easily return here.

Search for apologetics articles, books, videos, and other research resources across 135 Christian apologetics websites and blogs.

Note: results are listed on another domain -- ApologeticsSearch.com -- from which you can easily return here.