Dutch anti-Islamic film's Internet site suspended

Breitbart / AFP ^ | March 23, 2008

[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.

[Content Provider]

Exactly what I thought, too. Saves a ton of money on bandwidth, and there’s nobody the Muslims can threaten or kill to stop it from being seen.

[cyberkada]

With more and more Muslim/ Arab states (UAE mainly) buying up American and Western companies, this will be the norm. Sharia law imposed by company policy.

[Stoat]

With more and more Muslim/ Arab states (UAE mainly) buying up American and Western companies, this will be the norm. Sharia law imposed by company policy.

A chilling prospect.  Hopefully thoughtful Americans will be able to effectively remind them that we have a different way of doing things around here.

If we fail, we're lost.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Why not use it as an internet "viral email" test? There has to be some tracking company that would kill (and pay big bucks) to have exclusive rights to release it and track it?

Use the Noodle, man! The demand is there and the data from tracking it could cut the rug out from under the movie industry and start a whole new industry?

[Excellence]

What is involved in hosting this film? A server? How big does it have to be?

[Chickensoup]

Is there anything we can do as Freepers?

[cyberkada]

Thats why everyone should have been against the Dubai ports deal, Citibank, Sony, AMD and other purchases by the UAE (Abu Dhabi) government. - OK its a sovereign wealth fund, but its the same thing in my book. This goes along with YouTube banning any video critical of Islam, while letting Jihadi vidoes remain. You do remember the case of a Florida woman fired from her job because she ate pork at work? Once Muslims own companies that will be enforced by company policy.

[Excellence]

Paging Jim Robinson...

[mamelukesabre]

Just thought you guys might enjoy listing to this brit’s rant.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dXGJ2rYdA

[FunkyZero]

yes, indeed they did. and I was kind enough to deliver. Hope you all do the same.

[infantrywhooah]

They caved, very disappointing.

[the invisib1e hand]

Is there anything we can do as Freepers?

Start up FReepTube.

[Levante]

I don’t get it.

Why fear a “backlash” if Islam is such a religion of peace? (sarc).

[lesser_satan]

anybody up for some DDOS?

[choose4urfuture]

only a matter of time before turbines are mandatory men ware in the netherlands

[Stoat]

I notice that you are The Trusted Keeper of the DelMarVa pinglist, and so I’m wondering if you might be so kind as to ping the Virginia Chapter President to this thread?
I regret that I don’t know who that is or I would do it myself and not bother you :-)

My reason for doing this is that according to their website, Network Solutions is based in Herndon, Virginia, and considering the nature of what this company is doing, I’m wondering if the FR Virginia Chapter might be interested in pursuing some sort of public FReep in this matter.

Thanks very much! :-)

[Stoat]

What is involved in hosting this film? A server? How big does it have to be?

If you want to host it at a website and either provide a player there or allow HTTP downloads for the public, then you'd need a web server, and the film is only 15 minutes long so it won't take much space at all, probably less than 700 megabytes for a low-res version and maybe 3 gigs for a high-res version.

But as was mentioned earlier, you don't even need to have a web server, just place one complete copy on a standard PC, create a Torrent tracker, upload it to a Torrent file hosting site and soon you'll have ten thousand complete copies on computers all over the planet and then the next day you'll likely have millions, considering how incendiary this film probably is and how it's going to strike a chord with millions all over the world who are tired of 6th century ethics being shoved down our throats.

So, if he doesn't care about making money with it, getting the film out to the world is easy and can be done at near-zero cost, but that doesn't excuse Network Solutions for appeasing the Islamofascists.

[Gondring]

Network Solutions is a nasty company, IMO. I had an opportunity to get in on the IPO, but declined for moral reasons (knowing how they operate). Now I wish I'd participated, dumped the pumped-up shares, and used the proceeds to point out their bad practices. Whether this is just spinelessness or something else, I don't know.

[Red in Blue PA]

A nail on the head post.

Sadly, the high gas prices combined with a free-market-at-anycost govt vision enables this very type of thing.

And they know it.

[FatherofFive]

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

They need to ban the koran and hadith.

Sura (2:191-193) - "And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution of Muslims is worse than slaughter of non-believers...and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah."

Sura (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"

Sura (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"

Bukhari (52:177) - Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."

Tabari 7:97 The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared,"Kill any Jew who falls under your power."

Ibn Ishaq: 327 - “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”