Indigo Jo reviews Geert Wilders’ controversial, new film “Fitna”:
The flaws are not hard to spot. This is basically Jihad Watch or Little Green Footballs as a film, and is not intended to try and convince anyone not of that mindset. For a start, only a small minority interpret the verses Wilders cites to justify the acts depicted; the majority of Muslims in the world simply do not behave like this and mainstream scholars reject such interpretations.
Austrolabe also presents some interesting legal ramifications of “Fitna” within its own review:
As far as such things go, Wilder’s film is quite a weak effort. It’s unlikely to provoke anyone to anything except, perhaps, fall asleep or yawn. [...] The thing that strikes me more than its offensiveness is its lack of originality. Wilders, apparently unable to come up with a suitably offensive shtick of his own, attempts to ride on the coattails of the Danish cartoons; appropriating one of their cartoons — without permission — and using that to start and close his video. He’s now being sued for that. He used footage from an interview with Theo van Gogh without permission. And the owner of that footage is considering legal action too. Where he was original — perhaps too original — was in using the photo of a Dutch-Moroccan rapper instead of a terrorist. He’s now being threatened with legal action for that. Fitna is proving to be more of a fitna for Mr Wilders than for anyone else.
This is a stuppid movie made by a sun of bitch who itself has no father. That bastered should be punnished and should be taken to the fire.. all the muslims and non muslims who have the heart, should boycott such people because Quran is an inproved form of Bible and no one has got the right to say anything against the Holy Book.
For goodness sakes, people…
There is no such thing as a holy book! There are only books written by people who have their own motives, and they should all be treated as such.
Also, those who decide to take the route of ‘Islam is a peaceful religion’ only need to take a look at how these people react when they see something they don’t like. They call for beheadings, war, kidnapping, and all sorts of other awful things in the name of protecting their ‘peaceful’ religion.
There are crazy and ridiculous things in most ‘holy’ books, calling for all kinds of violence to nonbelievers, Islam isn’t the only one. It’s just unfortunate that not everybody has the same respect for human life. Religion is the only thing that can make an otherwise thoughtful and rational person a crazy and irrational criminal – if I had my way I’d get rid of all of them.
Believing in anything without proper proof is a waste of time, and if somebody thinks that I should be thrown in the fire for that, I feel sincerely sorry for them.