Update:Geert Wilders has now posted the full video online, and I have of course added it to this site.
Click here to see Fitna now.
Further Update:
The video was originally posted in LiveLeak.com, but you'll notice that the copy on this site is just that, a copy. LiveLeak were seriously threatened by Muslims because they added the video to their site, and were forced to pull the video to protect the safety of their employees.
While anyone, anywhere, is allowed to post material which is critical and indeed opening promoting hatred of race, women, homosexuality and any number of other identifiable groups of society, when it comes to doing the same for anything remotely Muslim, we are all, all of us, running scared.
Should you need further proof of that, the US hosting company 'Network Solutions' has now closed a web site which was being used to promote a short film criticising Islam, saying that they are 'investigating complaints that it may have breached guidelines on hate language'. The first thing which should occur to you is that they (a) closed the site and then (b) are only now investigating. Apparently 'guilty until proved innocent' is the policy with Network Solutions, which is of course a total reversal of what the law demands.
The BBC news site has this story about the case:
Dutch Islam film website 'shut'
A website that a Dutch right-wing politician was planning to use to release a film expected to be fiercely critical of Islam has been suspended.The US hosting service, Network Solutions, said it was investigating complaints that it may have breached guidelines on hate language.
Dutch politician Geert Wilders says the 15-minute film describes Islam as "the enemy of freedom".
The planned release has sparked angry protests in many Muslim countries.
The Dutch government has disassociated itself from Mr Wilders' views, but there are fears the film will spark protests similar to those that followed the publication in Denmark two years ago of cartoons seen as offensive to Muslims.
The film has already been condemned by several Muslim countries, including Iran and Pakistan.
Hate messages
Mr Wilders' film is entitled Fitna, an Arabic word used to describe strife or discord, usually religious.
Mr Wilders wrote a commentary in a Dutch newspaper on Saturday.
"The film is not so much about Muslims as about the Koran and Islam. The Islamic ideology has as its utmost goal the destruction of what is most dear to us, our freedom," he wrote in De Volkskrant.
Geert Wilders has ignored pleas to shelve his project
"Fitna is the last warning for the West. The fight for freedom has only just begun," he said.
He had been using Network Solutions to promote the film.
But on Sunday, Network Solutions said it had received a number of complaints that were under investigation.
It said the site was suspended until it was established whether the content of the site violated Network Solutions' terms of acceptable use.
They include "material that is obscene, defamatory, libellous, unlawful, harassing, abusive... hate propaganda" and "profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable material of any kind or nature".
Mr Wilders has had police protection since Dutch director Theo van Gogh was killed by a radical Islamist in 2004.
I'm often asked why I only ever criticise Christianity, when in reality Islam is a far more dangerous threat to our freedoms and way of life. There are two simple answers:
- If I do, my web site and YouTube account will be targetted and shut down. There have been literally dozens of YouTube accounts, showing Islam and Muslims in a critical way, which Muslims complain about and are subsequently removed by YouTube. Muslims are well known for flagging YouTube videos out of existence, and there is a huge amount of evidence to prove that they are organised in this, and large in numbers.
- Perhaps more pertinently, if I criticise Islam and become widely known for doing so, I may, just may, be threatened, attacked and killed.
It only takes one story to focus every Muslim eye on a web site. If I made a particularly good attack on Islam, perhaps it would end up being a popular video, linked by hundreds of web sites. Maybe it would get into the press, the worldwide media, and ultimately to the attention of the types of people from whom Geert Wilders now needs police protection.
I don't want to take that risk, and risk it is. Even if it's a low-level risk (hey, I'm not that popular!), it only takes one person, one fanatic, to decide to track me down and attack me. There are enough Muslim fanatics willing to die for the sake of defending their religion. I'm not willing to die opposing it.
Nobody who criticises Islam is safe. We have no freedom of speech where Islam is concerned. It's a fight against terror we've already lost.
Footnote:It's Easter Sunday of course, and the Pope yesterday baptised someone who has converted to Roman Catholicism. Nothing unusual, but as
this article says:
Late on Saturday, the Pope baptised a controversial, Muslim-born journalist.Magdi Allam, 55, is deputy director of the leading newspaper Corriere della Sera and has angered some Muslims with his views.
Mr Allam has been an outspoken critic of Muslim militancy and a strong supporter of Israel. He says such views have provoked threats on his life, and he is now protected by a police escort.
The fact that 'outspoken critic of Muslim militancy' is these days invariably tied to 'protected by a police escort' only reinforces my point.
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