Monday, March 31, 2008

Political Mavens » The Question about “Fitna” Is…

Political Mavens » The Question about “Fitna” Is…

Criticism and Islam - WSJ.com

Criticism and Islam - WSJ.com: "The message of 'Fitna' is that the Quran is the living inspiration for jihadists. Without the Quran's violent passages, the film suggests, Islamic terrorism would not exist. Mr. Wilders shows verses from the Quran alongside hate speeches by imams and graphic images of Islamic terrorism -- from 9/11 to the Madrid train bombings in 2004 and the London attack a year later. He uses footage from the video-taped beheading of a hostage by Islamic terrorists. He also shows the most famous of the Danish cartoons (the one with a bomb on Muhammad's head) that triggered demonstrations across the Muslim world two years ago.

The Western world long ago learned to criticize, even mock, religion. Think of such movies as 'The Life of Brian' and 'The Da Vinci Code' or more serious texts on Christianity by Nietzsche, whose famous phrase 'God is Dead' is part of popular culture. Competition of ideas is fundamental to the Western way of life. The Islamic world isn't accustomed to such discussions.

As in other countries, the terrible attacks of 9/11 raised existential questions in the Netherlands that remain the subject of heated debate to this day. They paved the way for the political rise of Pim Fortuyn, a flamboyant, openly gay former university professor and writer. Fortuyn fulminated against the dark sides of political Islam -- terrorism, the subjugation of women and homo"

The Baton Passes to Asia - New York Times

The Baton Passes to Asia - New York Times: "It’s the end of the era of the white man."

Sunday, March 30, 2008

"Fitna" Film on Islamo-Fascism

Much has been made recently about the "racist" film by Geert Wilders, an MP in the Dutch Parliament. This film, "Fitna", describes the brutal dangers of Islamo-fascism, particularly to Europe, and its roots in the Koran. It is sobering, brutal, and totally politically incorrect, for, among other things attacking/portraying the Koran to be a violent roadmap to destruction of non-Muslims. The film has been censored -- and censured -- by Western governments and press, seeking, hope beyond hope, to hang onto the hope that these radicals disappear on their own accord if we refrain from insulting them, and not through making their heinousness open and apparent to everyone (especially to "moderate" Muslims who are the only ones truly capable of eradicating these Islamist monsters by cutting off their oxygen flow -- disaffected Muslim youth). Wilders has described the film as "a call to shake off the creeping tyranny of Islamization".

The 15 minute film itself can be seen here "Fitna", and should be seen soon -- every time this film shows up somewhere, it is quickly removed by scared politicians or lawyers.
See the Wikidia summary of the film at "Wikidia Link".

Holland is being over run by Muslim immigrants and their children (now over 15% of the population), and the Dutch Right has made films like this before, further polarizing Dutch society. Van Gogh was murdered over his film, "Submission" , about Islamic abuse of women.

Also see the 48 minute British BBC documentary, "Undercover Mosques", on the preaching in Mosques in Britain (not as successfully repressed on the Web as some of the Dutch content), and of course, the 11 minute abridged version of HonestReporting's "Obsession -- Radical Islam's War Against the West".

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