Posted on 12/08/2008 1:15:16 PM PST by knighthawk
THE HAGUE, 09/12/08 - MP Geert Wilders has started an international tour with his anti-Islam film Fitna. Countries where the Party for Freedom (PVV) leader will show the film include Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom and France, he announced yesterday in television programme Goedemorgen Nederland.
The seventeen-minute film was released on the internet on 27 March. The government had investigated the possibility of a preventative ban. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende warned repeatedly that the film could cost the lives of Dutch nationals abroad.
But Wilders can count on more moral support abroad - in the US and Israel in particular. The MP said yesterday he would receive the American Freedom Award next spring. This prize is presented every year by the American Freedom Alliance to an individual or organisation that has defended freedom in the world with courage and dedication.
Wilders told Goedemorgen Nederland that he made Fitna to show the dangers of the Koran and Islam. He wishes to put the subject of Islamisation "more broadly on the agenda" with the help of politicians, writers and intellectuals and "make alliances for freedom".
Wilders will show his anti-Koran film in Jerusalem on Sunday of next week. Screenings are also planned in the UK and France. The film was already shown in New York three weeks ago to a "full and enthusiastic audience", he declared in Goedemorgen Nederland. Wilders is not prepared to give details yet of his for security reasons, but he will speak at all the places he visits.
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Kudos to Wilders.
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