Posted on 03/28/2008 8:34:42 AM PDT by Nachum
(IsraelNN.com) The long-awaited and controversial movie Fitna, which graphically portrays Islam as a religion seeking to dominate the world and slaughter non-believers, finally debuted on the internet on Thursday night.
Within two hours of the film's release on Britain's LiveLeak.com video site, close to two million people had seen it. More than half of them were from Holland, home to the film's producer, Dutch politician Geert Wilders.
The screening of the movie had been in doubt after the world's largest website name registrar, Network Solutions, decided to block the movie's home site. The decision to censor the film bolstered concerns that the extent of the fear of Islamic violence has even affected WWW content.
On Thursday, the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution against the movie. Proposed by Islamic countries, the resolutiion passed by a 21-10 vote, over the opposition of Europe and Canada.
Despite all, LiveLeak stepped in to film the movie, at , explaining, "There was no legal reason to refuse Geert Wilders the right to post his film on LiveLeak.com, and it is not our place to censor people based on an emotive response." Many websites feared even to list the URL at which the movie could be seen.
Response to the film has not been as intense as feared - though Dutch police had upped security precautions to near-top levels. The movie was condemned by Iran, Indonesia, and the Netherlands, but no rioting or other reactions like those that followed the publication in Denmark of anti-Mohammed cartoons have broken out.
Fitna includes graphic footage of Moslem terror attacks around the world, including beheadings, disfigured bodies, destroyed buses, and the like. The scenes are accompanied by the relevant verses in the Koran, such as, "Prepare for them whatever force and cavalry ye are able of gathering to strike terror, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah and your enemies." This particular verse is followed by clips of a plane slamming into the World Trade Center and setting the building afire, and imams calling for the annihilation of all infidels.
One Moslem cleric is seen calling for the murder of Jews; he unsheathes a sword and cries out in nearly uncontrollable frenzy, "By Allah, we shall cut off the Jew's head! Allah is great! Allah is great! Jihad for the sake of Allah!" The audience, in a similar frenzy, cheers him on.
The film ends with the sound of a page being torn out of a book, followed by stark sentences on the screen reading, "It is not up to me, but up to Moslems themselves to tear out the hateful verses from the Koran. Muslims want you to make way for Islam, but Islam does not make way for you. The government insists that you respect Islam, but Islam has no respect for you. Islam wants to rule, submit, and seeks to destroy our Western civilization. In 1945, Nazism was defeated in Europe. In 1989, Communism was defeated in Europe. Now, the Islamic ideology has to be defeated."
The war has been going on, in hot and cold phases, for 1300 years. Remember the Crusades? America is just new to the party.
I think showing stoning would have more impact.
Why not both?
There are many robust and well-seeded torrents running now. The AVIs are diffusing out into the world in many languages.
Real Prophets climb mountains to be closer to God.
They don't crawl into caves to listen to the hissings of The Serpent.
I think showing stoning would have more impacts.
Countdown until Glenn Beck condemns the movie and declares his support for the ROP.
NOT A PEEP.
nothing but dead air.
It's making big news in the Netherlands:
De Telegraaf (a daily paper) has it on their home page, but down about 1 screen. There are five separate stories about the film.
Algemeen Dagblad, another daily newspaper, has a few stories, also down one screen. At the top banner, you can click to view the movie (Bekijk hier Fitna).
De Standaard, a Dutch language newspaper in Belgium, has a story about it on the top of its website, but the article is about the reaction in Netherlands. They also have a link to view ("Bekijk")
The movie is in Dutch, or at least, it has Dutch subtitles to Arabic or whatever the people are speaking when they aren't speaking Dutch.
Me too. Every time I see that plane approaching the Trade Center and then disappearing within the building I get a wash of rage that comes over me.
Yes, painful indeed, but also beautiful.
Especially chilling is the beauty of the Arabic chanting of the Koranic texts, contrasted with what they are actually saying. Notably that one text, which I don’t recall having seen before, to the effect that we will burn you and then Allah will give you a new skin so we can burn you again—coming after the words of that woman on the phone from the WTC, and the pictures of the bombed buses and trains and victims of the bombings.
The film skirts extremely close to gratuitous violence, but IMHO never quite crosses the line.
It’s not pleasant reading something like Oedipus or King Lear, either, but they are still great works of art.
I think there was a bit of a delay between the publication of the cartoons and the rioting. First the imams had to whip up their true-believers into a frothing fury.
I had an apartment on the Battery at that time. I was seated at the window having breakfast when the second plane came by my window on the 29th floor, before rising to hit the second tower behind me at a higher level.
I can briefly see my apartment building, with my window just at the left of the frame, as the plane flies toward the building in this film. Shortly afterward, we were evacuated, and I saw the flames coming from the plane-shaped holes in the two towers from a few blocks to the south.
In the years after it happened, I walked by Ground Zero many times, to try to come to terms with it and to pray for the dead.
63 Muslim countries (as defined by the CIA) from Afghanistan to Zanzibar, without a single 9/11 WTC (non-hijacker) fatality.
4 Muslim countries with 9/11 WTC fatalities:
Indonesia (92% Muslim) 1 dead
Lebanon (75% Muslim) 3 dead
Nigeria (75% Muslim) 1 dead
Usbekistan (88% Muslim) 1 dead
Giving a grand total of 6 fatalities from møøselimb countries.
Just for comparison: 140 Israelis died in the rubble of the WTC...
Don't leave out Saudi Arabia(99% Muslim): 15 dead.
FU UN. Get that abomination out of this country and put it in the Sudan were it belongs.
I’ve updated my original file to make that clearer. Thanks.
Jeez Cicero. I can only imagine the anger in YOUR heart. After my visit to GZ and St. Paul’s I never what to see that hole in the ground again. I’m usually stone hearted, but that little visit broke me down a notch or two.
The truth is that real prophets go to the quiet of the desert to listen to God. This Muslim “god”, Allah is simply SATAN.
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