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Wednesday October 14, 2009
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Amsterdam – Dutch politician and Islam-critic Geert Wilders is due to travel to Britain later this week, the Netherlands’ Freedom Party said Wednesday, following the lifting of a British travel ban on him. The Home Office insisted Mr Wilders would still inflame community tensions if he comes to the UK and is considering whether to appeal against the ruling.
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Wednesday February 11, 2009
Fitna Movie • Islam:
A diplomatic row over a decision by British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to ban controversial Dutch film-maker Geert Wilders from broadcasting his anti-Muslim film in the House of lords has escalated.Wilders insists he will fly to the UK. “If they want to put me in handcuffs, a Dutch parliamentarian and party leader and send me back to The Netherlands, so be it.”
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Tuesday April 8, 2008
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The Islamic Foundation wanted a judgement on the Freedom Party’s leader after he compared the Qur’an to Mein Kampf and called Islam a fascist religion. However the judge ruled that members of parliament have to be able to express their opinions strongly.
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Tuesday April 1, 2008
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Geert Wilders used the cartoon by Danish artist Kurt Westergaard twice in the film Fitna. The drawing, which depicts Islam’s prophet wearing a bomb-shaped turban with a lit fuse, provoked violent protests in Muslim countries when it was published by European newspapers two years ago.
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Saturday March 29, 2008
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Calls from countries with a largely Muslim population to ban Geert Wilders film Fitna have fallen on deaf ears in the Netherlands, where freedom of expression is seen as an unassailable right.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon calls far-right lawmaker’s movie ‘offensively anti-Islamic,’ Iran and Bangladesh warn movie could cause grave consequences, while Pakistan protests to Dutch ambassador.
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Fitna Movie • Islam:
Life imitates art: The anti-Islam film ‘Fitna’ by far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders has been pulled from the internet after the website company which posted it received threats. [video]
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The leader of Netherlands’ anti-immigration party, Geert Wilders, posted an anti-Islam film Thursday that was expected to raise an uproar among Muslims. So far, the fallout has fallen flat.
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Friday March 28, 2008
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Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende rejected the film in a statement Thursday, saying, “The film equates Islam with violence. We reject this interpretation. The vast majority of Muslims reject extremism and violence. In fact, the victims are often also Muslims.” [video]
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The film was not as jarring as anticipated, said Maurits Berger, professor of Islam in the West at Leiden University.
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Thursday March 27, 2008
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Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders has posted a controversial film critical of Islam’s holy book, the Koran, on the internet.
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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.
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Monday March 24, 2008
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Mr Wilders has rejected the proposal. The network first wants to ascertain that Fitna does not violate any constitutional rights. The far-right politician says the demand is unacceptable.
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Sunday March 23, 2008
Fitna Movie • Islam:
The US hosting service, Network Solutions, said it was investigating complaints that it may have breached guidelines on hate language.
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Friday March 21, 2008
Fitna Movie • Islam:
In a joint statement yesterday, the Protestant Church in the Netherlands (PKN), the Council of Churches in the Netherlands, the Muslims and Government Contact Body (CMO) and the Islam Contact Group (CGI) expressed their “great concern” about the anti-Islam film that Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Wilders wants to bring out. (Note: they have not seen the movie…).
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Fitna Movie • Islam:
As Geert Wilders sees it, Dutch and European politicans behave as if they want to protect the members of all religions against insults and abuse, all the while overlooking the fact that it is usually the members of one religion who respond aggressively whenever they are accused of having a propensity for violence.
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Friday March 7, 2008
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Network Solutions has not made specific comment about the possibility of the documentary being hosted on their servers, but a number of reports suggest they are prepared for possible DOS (Denial-of-Service) attacks.
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Mr Wilders has already said that if this were to be the case, his film would be premiered on the Internet. The website which will show the piece has been online since Wednesday.
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Fitna Movie • Islam:
The government is warning that the latest film, due to be released this month by Geert Wilders, might spark unrest and sanctions similar to those triggered when Danish newspapers published a cartoon of the Prophet Mohamed in 2006. [Ironically, this is exactly what the movie is about: Koran-inspired violence].
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Wednesday March 5, 2008
Fitna Movie • Islam:
The website for the anti-Qur’an film Fitna by Geert Wilders is online under the name fitnathemovie.com
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Three years after Theo van Gogh was murdered in Amsterdam for making a film critical of Islam, the Netherlands is embroiled in another row over religion. [video]
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Wednesday February 27, 2008
Fitna Movie • Islam:
Terrorism network Al Qaeda has reportedly issued an order to kill a Dutch lawmaker who plans to release an anti-Koran film in March — thus confirming that Wilders’ view of Islam is correct.
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Tuesday February 19, 2008
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Iran has suggested that it will boycott Dutch products if MP Geert Wilders shows his Koran film in March as planned.
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Monday February 18, 2008
Fitna Movie • Islam:
Geert Wilders, the popular Duch MP whose film on Islam has fuelled the debate on race in Holland, wants an end to mosque building and Muslim immigration.
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Sunday February 10, 2008
Fitna Movie • Islam:
Geert Wilders said he has called the film Fitna, an arabic word that in Islam is used to describe all things that can test the faith and is sometimes synonymous to evil.
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