MetaFilter posts tagged with fitna

"It is easy to take parts of any holy book and make it sound like the most inhuman book ever written"

Flackjack47 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:04:27 -0800

A Saudi national has made a short film intended to illustrate how all religions can be depicted as preaching violence. The Daily Telegraph reports that "Schism" is Raed al-Saeed's answer to Geert Wilder's "Fitna".

Indonesia bans YouTube and MySpace

BobsterLobster — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:39:22 -0800

As a result of the Dutch film Fitna, Indonesia has blocked several websites including MySpace and YouTube. This follows hot on the heels of a new bill which could see people face six years of jail time or a 1 billion rupiah fine for being caught sending out porn, “false news” or racial or religious slurs on the Web. The Indonesian government will start censoring the Internet next month with specialised software. Very disappointing for a country which had a reasonably free press.

Fitna

DreamerFi — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:39:44 -0800

Fitna , a Koranic term translated as 'strife', shows footage of the attacks on the US in September 2001, and images of the bomb attacks on London and Madrid. Geert Wilders, Dutch politician and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV), has called his just-released Fitna a ‘respectable film’. He admitted that Muslims may not be happy with it, but emphasised that he had always stuck to the facts. He said he believes that the film is also ‘one thousand kilometres within the framework of the law’. Muslim organisations in the Netherlands were quoted as expressing relief: “The film is not as shocking as expected” and “represented a caricature of Islam”. National alert levels, which recently went up, have not been raised any further. The movie has more or less dominated dutch news the last few weeks (if not longer), and has recently reached international notoriety, when Network Solutions yanked the site "fitnathemovie.com". Wiki has more on the history of this movie.