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Sunday, March 30, 2008
Fitna
The release of Dutch Parliamentarian Geert Wilders's privately made and financed short documentary Fitna is the most important event of the decade, possibly of the century. It eclipses even the atrocities of Black Tuesday in its global import. This is not because of its content, but because of the reactions against it by Muslims and their mouthpiece groups all over the world, and because of the pusillanimity of so many Web servers in banning it, and that of several national governments in condemning it...some without even having seen it.
Fitna, whose title is the Arabic word for "chaos" or "disharmony," is a simple film. It presents the viewer with a long series of scenes of Islamic rage and violence, juxtaposed to explicit verses from the Qur'an which have been used to justify them. This is entirely in line with Wilders's stated intent: to illustrate how the Qur'an, which Muslims maintain is the explicit and immutable Word of Allah, never to be amended or reinterpreted, encourages violence in the name of Islam. The only opinion it offers is that it's up to Muslims, not Westerners, to remove the orientation to violence from their scriptures and their creed.
I have acquired an AVI copy of Fitna, which can be played by Windows Media Player. You can view it (left-click) or download it (right-click) from the right sidebar. (Be aware that it's a 75 Megabyte file; over a broadband connection, Windows Media Player takes about a minute to download enough of it for play to begin.) I am committing myself to keeping this documentary available on the World Wide Web for at least the rest of 2008, regardless of what it takes to do so.
You who believe that it's possible to have Muslims intermingled with "infidels," here in the Land of the Free or in the nations of Europe: Watch Fitna. Survey the news reports about Muslims' reactions to it. Then ask youselves whether you might have misled yourselves out of innate benevolence and a desire to embrace something exotic...the impulse David Brin has called "otherness."
We shall see.
(P.S.: No Rumination today. I sense that my soul needs some work, and that I must attend to it promptly. Perhaps next Sunday.)
Comments
Good on ya Francis. I’m also angling to get it uploaded to my blog, the size and the format are the problem right now. Must find a way around it.
Posted by MK on 03/30/2008 at 07:45 AMI watched it yesterday. I’m not sure I see where this is controversial.
The verses quoted are from the Quran, are they not? The holy word of God?
The images shown are either produced by or are newsreel footage of the activities of Muslims—many of whom seem to be the selfsame fundamentalists who have their loincloths in a twist over the film.
What’s the problem, Bunky? This is the face you want shown to the world anyway, what’s the issue, here? Truth hurt?
M
Posted by Mark Alger on 03/30/2008 at 11:21 AMI agree with Mark Alger. The contents are not, in my view, controversial at all. It may be true that some (many?) Muslims regard the actions of the people portrayed therein to be extreme and perhaps even wrong, but unfortunately those people are not in charge and so their opinions have no practical effect. They are like the “good Germans” of WWII who disagreed with Hitler and his thugs, but kept their mouths shut in order to avoid becoming victims themselves. This is an understandable reaction, to be sure, but Wilders’ point is well-taken that it is precisely up to those people to effect change within their religion.
Posted by on 03/30/2008 at 12:23 PMAlex, those people, the good Muslims, will do nothing. Like the good Germans or the good Russians or the good whoever you choose, they will sit and hope things will get better. And so they will, after millions who did not have to die have died and the lives of millions more have been uprooted and turned around forever. Yes, the opinions of the good Muslims are against the hijacking of their faith by the frothing fanatical moonbats; that and a couple of bucks will get you a ride on the subway.
Posted by on 03/30/2008 at 02:46 PMThank you for posting this to your page! I hope the downloads don’t eat up all your bandwidth.
Posted by Liquid Egg Product on 03/30/2008 at 03:21 PMIf it does, Egg, I’ll pay for the overage and be grateful for the privilege of doing so. Geert Wilders has literally put his life in danger by making this little film; it would be petty of me to decline the honor of disseminating it over a few dollars’ expense.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of liberty and justice.
Posted by Francis W. Porretto on 03/30/2008 at 03:26 PMIf you need a tipjar hit to pay for bandwidth, you let me know.
Posted by og on 03/31/2008 at 11:47 AMDownloaded. Thank you, sir.
Posted by on 03/31/2008 at 01:49 PMI saw the film thanks to islamismad.com The Dutch, Danes and Swedes are defending our freedom against this fascist mind-control and information cult. Why are Americans not making films and exposing the inherent violence as Geert has done? The weaknesses of the film are not important compared with the fact that Moslems have decided not to respond to it in order to minimize the damage caused by the film. This is revealing. They obviously expect the damage caused by “Fitna” will be substantial. Every word and deed up to the last 60 seconds comes from Islam. They are comdemned by their own mouth and by their holy book, 51% of which is hate-filled messages directed against infidels. The ranting of Islam’s hate-preachers, the repellant venom against Jews, the hate lessons given to small children, the beheadings...It is all revolting and every civilised person must be resolved to resist and condemn this barbarism until it ceases. This is a job for all of us. It’s time for Generation X to make a commitment to freedom.
Posted by on 04/05/2008 at 11:14 PM
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