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InchDeep on Saturday, March 22, 2008 2:30:40 AM
Muslims use the threat of violence to ban a film that dares to criticize Islam.
From ABC News. It's called free speech. Like it, love it, live it, or for heavens sake GO HOME. But they don't want that the want the whole world to be their home.
A Muslim association in the Netherlands has asked a
court to appoint a panel of experts to view a controversial film about
Islam in order to find a reason for it to be banned.
Far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders plans to release a film attacking
Islam and the Koran, despite complaints from religious groups and
warnings that it could provoke violent protests around the world.
The Netherlands Islamic Federation asked a court in The Hague to set
up a panel of censors to review the film, in order to discover if there
is any reason for it to be banned.
The Dutch Government, while calling on Wilders to abandon his
project, has previously said there is no legal way to censor a film
before it appears.
The court will rule on the association's request by March 28.
Wilders has said that he will release the film "before April 1",
posting it on the Internet if he fails to find a broadcaster willing to
carry it.
Wilders said in November that the 15-minute film would show the
Koran was a "fascist book", a claim which has already drawn complaints
from several Muslim countries, including Pakistan, Indonesia, Egypt,
Iran and Afghanistan.
Dutch officials have unsuccessfully urged him to drop the project,
fearing a repeat of the violent protests that erupted in many countries
when European newspapers printed cartoons mocking the Prophet Mohammed.
The case has also recalled that of Dutch film-maker and polemicist
Theo Van Gogh, who was murdered by an Islamic extremist in Amsterdam in
2004 after he made a short film attacking Islam's treatment of women.