Wilders Visits Denmark

COPENHAGEN. The prominent Islam critic film maker and politician Geert Wilders is going to visit Denmark 1Th of June 2008 to hold a speech at the Danish Parliament building, Christiansborg. The event is hosted by Trykkefrihedsselskabet (The Danish Free Press Society).

Ibn Warraq: Geert Wilders is a hero of our time

“Geert Wilders is a hero of our time”, Ibn Warraq in Spiegel Online. [in German]

“Man kann nur hoffen, dass Geert Wilders’ Film ein großes Echo im Westen findet. Dort hat die Mehrheit immer noch nicht erkannt, dass die Freiheit, die sie für selbstverständlich hält, ständig bewacht werden muss. Dass ihre unpolitische Sicht auf das Leben unverantwortlich ist und sie für Freiheiten kämpfen müssen, die Tag für Tag von denjenigen bedroht werden, die allen von uns eine totalitäre Ideologie aufdrängen wollen.”

Excerpt (roughly translated by Danish Affairs):

“We can only hope, that Geert Wilders´film will cause a large echo in the West. Where the majority still haven´t realized, that the freedom, they take for granted, always must be guarded. That their apolitical view of life is irresponsible, and that they must fight for freedoms, that are beeing threatened day after day, by those who want to pull upon us a totalitarian ideology.”

“Wilders sollte als mutiges Individuum gefeiert werden – ein Held unserer Zeit – der es wagte, gegen den Islamofaschismus aufzustehen.”

Excerpt (roughly translated by Danish Affairs):

“Wilders should be celebrated as a brave individual – a hero of our time – who dared to protest against the Islamofascism.”

Hat tip: Snaphanen

“Bomb-Wilders” by Danish Mohammed Cartoonist

Apart from the socalled prophet Mohammed, Geert Wilders carries no turban. And since Wilders has never argued for terror or war, the bomb Kurt Westergaard placed on his head seems a bit misplaced?

Fjordman Reviews ‘Fitna’

Fjordman Reviews Geert Wilders´islam-critical film “Fitna” at Gates Of Vienna:

“I liked it. It is impressive how much they managed to squeeze into just 15 minutes. I notice several of the comments at Jihad Watch say Geert Wilders could have made it worse. Yes, he could. He left out quite a few things, but what he kept was authentic and bad enough…”

Read the brief review at Gates Of Vienna

Some of them want to abuse you. Some of them want to be abused

Mohamed-drawer Kurt Westergaard is not happy with Geert Wilders´ “misuse” of his famous drawing in the movie ‘Fitna’.

But who is misusing who? And if this is misuse, then how do we use a Mohamed drawing properly?

Kurt Westergaard:

“My cartoon has been misused again. It has been pulled from its original context and set in a completely different one”

“It is a drawing aimed specifically against Islamic terror that uses interpretations of the Koran and Islam as spiritual ammunition,” Westergaard said.

“Wilders has not asked me for permission, so it is simply a case of violation of copyright rules,” Expatica.com

Kurt Westergaard has described himself as a “cultural Christian, a culture-liberal Atheist“.

The culture-liberal atheist´s reactions to the recent development of the Mohamed crisis tend to a surprisingly sympathetic, almost regretful view upon the religion Islam.

That the drawing wasn´t meant as a critique of Islam as such, and his strong emphasising of the context rest on the premises that clear distinctions between islamism and Islam, between Islam as religion and Islam as a political ideology do exist are are self explanatory.

The cartoonist thereby walks away from the drawing desk and is now navigating the muddy waters of vaguely defined concepts of islamic terror, islamism, religious fundamentalism, moderate Islam etc.

Using a copyright lawsuit the ‘islamic-terror-critic’ (not to be confused with ‘islam-critic’) cartoonist is re-branding himself by criticising what he calls “radical right-wing forces”.

According to Jyllands-Posten March 28th Westergaard´s lawyer is currently trying to close down the website SIAD.dk (Stop Islamiseringen Af Danmark). SIAD has made use of parts of KW´s Mohamed drawing during a recent protest demonstration against Sharia loans. SIADs website also hosts the Fitna movie.

The Danish Union Of Journalist (DUJ) supports Westergaard´s case and DUJ is preparing a lawsuit against Geert Wilders.

To defend a drawers copyright is understandable and reasonable. But on the other hand it is quite ironic that a journalist union is opposing what essentially is a common interest; a struggle for freedom of speech, which makes copyright issues a completely irrelevant detail.

Grave abuse of Danish cartoon in Dutch film

The Danish Union of Journalists (DUJ) and Kurt Westergaard take vigorous exception to the use of Westergaard’s drawing in the Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ film. DUJ intends to take legal action against the politician for grave violation of Westergaard’s author’s right (copyright). It was never the intention of Kurt Westergaard that his drawing should be used in the manner and context it is used in the film “Fitna” by the Dutch politician Geert Wilders. Therefore, DUJ is now taking the first steps towards filing suit against the politician for his unauthorized abuse of the Danish drawing.

DUJ Press release in english (opens PDF)

Ehsan Jami anti-islam film to be released April 20th

NETHERLANDS. New dutch anti-Islam film to be released April 20th by Dutch-Iranian politician Ehsan Jami. The new movie is an animated story about Mohammad as a child, and the movie seems to have the potential for keeping a lot of protesters occupied with flag burning and embassy raids for a long time.

The anti-Islam film announced by Ehsan Jami last year is an animated film that will be released on 20 April, Jami said Wednesday evening on current affairs programme Netwerk.

Jami’s production is bound to come up against opposition. The Contact body for Muslims and the Government has already announced it will take legal steps against the film.

Netwerk showed a drawing from the film, which is entitled The Life of Mohammed. The drawing shows the prophet Mohammed in the company of his 9-year-old wife Aisa. The prophet is on his way to a mosque to deflower his bride.

Themoviefitna.com

Ehsan Jami was interviewed by Weekendavisen last year (in danish).

Fitna movie released

Geert Wilders´movie about the Quran, Fitna has finally been released.

Watch Fitna at RuTube (Hat tip: Hodja)

Themoviefitna.com

Download Fitna (English version) at Pirate Bay (Movie size 38 MB.)

Download Fitna (Dutch version) at Rapidshare

Danish, German, and Swedish versions: Gates of Vienna:  A Rosetta Stone for “Fitna”

Fitna Press Release

Press release from Network Solutions regarding their customer Geert Wilders. Hosting providers interfering with customer ´s web content is always somewhat suspect. The legal department of Network Solutions must have worked hard to produce this text – trying to balance between explicit political condemnation and apolitical corporate neutrality. Hopefully Geert Wilders get his money back and find a way to set up his own server independent of commercial (and political) interests.

Network Solutions’ Statement Regarding the Suspension of Fitnathemovie.com

Herndon, VA — March 24, 2008 — Over the last month, Network Solutions received a number of complaints regarding the website FITNATHEMOVIE.COM. At the same time, our hosting customer for this site also made several public comments regarding their plans for the use of this site. In response to the complaints and the customer’s public comments, Network Solutions has made repeated requests to discuss the matter with our customer. We have also requested to review the planned content prior to it being loaded onto the site to determine whether the content violates Network Solutions’ Acceptable Use Policy. We are still waiting to hear from our customer. In the interim, we have temporarily suspended the site.

During this suspension, the customer has full access to the site. If the customer provides Network Solutions with the content and it is determined that the content does not violate the Acceptable Use Policy, then the customer will be permitted to post the content. However, if it does violate our policy, then the customer is free to post the content using another number of other avenues, but not with Network Solutions.

Network Solutions is by no means taking any action to limit freedom of speech or to preemptively censor content. Our company also does not proactively police the content of our customers’ sites. If a complaint is received, however, we do conduct a review to determine whether the site’s content violates our company’s Acceptable Use Policy.

Fitna – Fitna the movie

Update: 

To download Fitna – please visit Fitna movie released

Update: Part 1-12 of “Islam, what the west needs to know” by mistake supposed to be Geert Wilders´movie Fitna are avaliable at Youtube.

Part 1:

This post will be updated with new working links and information about the real Fitna movie (if and when possible).

Geert Wilders Fitna Site Suspended

Geert Wilders´site for the movie Fitna www.fitnathemovie.com has been suspended by the hosting provider Network Solutions (CBA News).

The URL http://www.fitnathemovie.co.uk/ seems to be a hoax.