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Dutch anti-Islamic film's Internet site suspended
Breitbart / AFP ^ | March 23, 2008

Posted on 03/23/2008 3:34:44 PM PDT by Stoat

 

Dutch anti-Islamic film's Internet site suspended
Mar 23 10:20 AM US/Eastern
 

 

An American network provider Sunday said it had suspended a website that Dutch MP Geert Wilders had reserved to post his anti-Islamic film, which has sparked wide condemnation and fears of a backlash.

"Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation," the provider said a message posted on the Internet.

Although his website is offline, Wilders on Sunday insisted he still wants to put the movie "on the internet quickly" but did not specify how.

He also told the Dutch ANP news agency that he would not allow anyone to see the film before it was broadcast.

Until Sunday, his site (www.fitnathemovie.com) had shown the cover of a Koran on a black background with the text: "Coming soon: Finta".

Network Solutions said it investigating whether the website conforms to its guidelines, saying it cannot allow "any material in violation of any applicable law."

This includes material deemed harassing, hate propaganda, threatening, harmful or "otherwise objectionable."

The service provider also cites technical reasons for possibly taking the site offline including "excessive use of services which shall impair the fair use of other Network Solutions customers".

Far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders plans to release a movie attacking Islam and the Koran, despite complaints from religious groups and warnings that it could provoke violent protests around the world.

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.

No one has seen the film in its entirity yet but a Dutch paper which has seen some of the opening images from the film, said it shows the cover of the Koran and then images of "a decapitation in Iraq, a stoning in Iran and an execution in Saudi Arabia, where sharia (Islamic law) is applied".

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.

Wilders has said that he will release the film "before April 1", posting it on the Internet because he cannot find a broadcaster willing to carry it.

Computer experts have warned that controversy surrounding the movie could cause network mayhem once it is put online, if too many people try to view it at the same time.

Wilders has repeatedly stated that the content of his film will not violate Dutch law.

On Friday a Dutch Muslim association filed a legal claim asking a court to appoint a panel of censors to view the film before it is aired in order to see if there is a reason to ban it.

The court is set to deliver its ruling next Friday but Wilders has said that he would try to release the film before than to avoid having to show it to censors.

Dutch film-maker and polemicist Theo Van Gogh was murdered by an Islamic extremist in Amsterdam in 2004 after he made a short film attacking Islam's treatment of women.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: dhimmitude; dutch; film; filmjihad; geertwilders; holland; internet; islam; islamofascism; korananimals; movie; movies; networksolutions; notworksolutions; paginggeorgeorwell; wilders
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From a related Fox News article:

Wilders told FOX News in January that he believed Western culture was better off than the "retarded" Islamic culture. He also likened the Koran to Adolf Hitler's book, 'Mein Kampf.'

FOXNews.com - U.S. Web Host Pulls Dutch Lawmaker's Site Promoting Anti-Islam Film - Science News Science & Technology Technology News

1 posted on 03/23/2008 3:34:44 PM PDT by Stoat
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To: Stoat

Yes, I almost posted this story - sounds like that site had a little talk with CAIR.


2 posted on 03/23/2008 3:36:53 PM PDT by Baladas
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To: Stoat
Network Solutions

marx must be laughing, when "free enterprise" does the work normally thought of as belonging to totalitarian regimes.

3 posted on 03/23/2008 3:37:04 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Free New York)
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To: Stoat
"contact us."

Well, they asked for it.

4 posted on 03/23/2008 3:39:04 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Free New York)
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To: Stoat
Network Solutions said it investigating whether the website conforms to its guidelines, saying it cannot allow "any material in violation of any applicable law."

Anyone who has has web sites for a decade or more can discuss the "merits" of Network Solutions.

I won't. There is just nothing bad enough to say about them without shouting and swearing. Just leave it that I am not surprised in the least. They love non-negotiable fiats.

5 posted on 03/23/2008 3:40:47 PM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: Stoat

P2P it.


6 posted on 03/23/2008 3:43:24 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: Gorzaloon

I just looked over their website. Gotta wonder what sort of wet-paper-bags are behind such a company. It reeks of political correctness in its communications. It’s got to be a women/minority owned front.


7 posted on 03/23/2008 3:45:20 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Free New York)
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To: the invisib1e hand
Network Solutions

marx must be laughing, when "free enterprise" does the work normally thought of as belonging to totalitarian regimes.

Indeed...it seems also that Network Solutions would prefer the "Final Solution" that Islamofascim promises every single day.

Thankfully, Oriana Fallaci's publisher was not so utterly gutless and limp-wristed as these guys.

 

8 posted on 03/23/2008 3:48:59 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat
utterly gutless and limp-wristed as these guys.

There must be reasons why neo-business is the pissboy of all that is spineless and globalist.

But I can only guess at what they are.

9 posted on 03/23/2008 3:52:18 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Free New York)
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To: Stoat
"Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation," the provider said a message posted on the Internet.

I have a few complaints of my own -- over 10,000 of them...





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10 posted on 03/23/2008 3:52:28 PM PDT by JCG
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To: the invisib1e hand
"contact us."

Well, they asked for it.

LMAO

Hopefully their entire network as well as their phone system will be utterly deluged by thoughtful people registering their entirely justified anger until the bosses rethink this. 

If they think that the spectre of a  CAIR-orchestrated Islamofascist jihad against them is something that they want to avoid, wait until they hear from mainstream, healthy Americans who are not quite ready to bend over for Mohammed quite yet.......

11 posted on 03/23/2008 3:54:58 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: samtheman
P2P it.

Would that solve the problem?

12 posted on 03/23/2008 4:00:49 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Free New York)
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To: the invisib1e hand

If enough people got on board. yes.


13 posted on 03/23/2008 4:02:18 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: Stoat

Gee, do they do the same thing for web sites that glorify Islamic terrorism? Methinks not.


14 posted on 03/23/2008 4:02:41 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: Gorzaloon
They love non-negotiable fiats.

They most likely consider their business to be much like an ATM that spits out as much money as they ask it to, with no end to the cash stream, and they are hoping to avoid controversy and taking a stand of any sort.

They probably never considered that their business is much like a book publisher's, in that they occasionally have to make a choice between taking a stand and being a worm.  Hopefully they will be effectively educated as to their position in the marketplace of ideas as a result of their networks and phone systems being completely overloaded and unusable for the next month or so.  There's nothing quite like having your geyser of cash drying up to make people pause and think really hard about what's going on.

15 posted on 03/23/2008 4:15:17 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: Stoat

16 posted on 03/23/2008 4:18:09 PM PDT by robomatik ((wine plug: renascentvineyards.com cabernet sauvignon, riesling, and merlot))
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To: samtheman
P2P it.

It will probably end up on the BitTorrent network moments after it's release (or even before LMAO), but let's hope that CAIR won't use this as a cudgel to beat down the ISP's as is happening in Japan.

Japan to strip Internet for illegal downloaders report('Flagrant' filesharers to have 'net cut)

 

17 posted on 03/23/2008 4:19:42 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: the invisib1e hand
But I can only guess at what they are.

Whoever they are, they apparently had no idea what they were stepping into and think that they can diffuse a controversial situation simply by running away from it.  Sorry people, we're at war, and Americans don't like cowards and milquetoasts who prostrate themselves before a few noisy Islamofascists.

18 posted on 03/23/2008 4:26:08 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: rbg81
Gee, do they do the same thing for web sites that glorify Islamic terrorism? Methinks not.

They would probably be delighted to host websites from Hussein-Obama's "church" as well.

19 posted on 03/23/2008 4:28:18 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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To: JCG
"Network Solutions has received a number of complaints regarding this site that are under investigation," the provider said a message posted on the Internet.

I have a few complaints of my own -- over 10,000 of them...

Let's hope that thoughtful people will begin reminding their switchboard operators and account executives of this, beginning bright and early tomorrow morning and continuing until it becomes apparent that they have correctly learned the lesson at hand.

 

20 posted on 03/23/2008 4:33:12 PM PDT by Stoat (Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
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