Mar 28 2008
Coming Soon to Europe: More Enraged Muslims
UPDATE: LiveLeak video service banned download of Fitna because of death threats to its employees, presumably from adherents of the ‘religion of peace.’ You can download it here via Torrent.
Flynn Files posts this about the release of Dutch conservative Geert Wilders’ film Fitna. Fitna deals with the reality of the Islamic threat to Europe, and by extension, to the rest of the world. And if the Islamic cartoon debacle was any indication - and it probably is - death threats will fly and Europe will soon be in flames, thanks to the ‘religion of peace’.
Music by Tchaikovsky, ugly visuals supplied by Islamic terrorists, a script straight from the Koran, Fitna is horrifying and graphic. Please do yourself a favor and don’t watch, if you (as I am) are appalled by unpleasant images of gruesome deaths. It is, as the moving music and too-grisly images suggest, propaganda. But propaganda is not necessarily false.
It’s theme suggests that Islam is not a peaceful religion hijacked by extremists, but an extremist religion that has hijacked otherwise peaceful people. It supports this thesis with copious quotes from the Koran, a book I have not read in its entirety. Thus, I can’t attest to whether the quotes accurately reflect the spirit of Islam, or whether they, like mined quotes from the Old Testament, distort the overall message of the religion.
A second theme seems to be whether tolerance of intolerance is actually the enemy of tolerance. Allowing hordes of Mulsims to invade the Netherlands has led to assassinations, death threats, violence, and the loss of what made the Netherlands the Netherlands. Don’t let this movie come to a country near you is the explicit warning. Is Fitna an alarm bell signaling Europe to “wake up” or the cinematic chronicling of how Europe slept as an intruder murdered it? This is a debatable point, which in itself is amazing given the death threats and censorship the mere idea of this fifteen-minute film unleashed. While the merits of the film are thankfully up for debate, the filmmaker’s courage is not.
You can also see it at Jihad Watch. [UPDATE: The JihadWatch link now goes to the LiveLeak statement explaining why they banned the video.]
March 31st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
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