Dutch Muslim Channel Offers to Air “Fitna”
This is hilarious: the only channel in the Netherlands that wants to broadcast Geert Wilders’ movie “Fitna” is… wait for it… the Dutch Muslim Channel (Nederlandse Moslim Omroep). When asked whether that isn’t a little bit strange, a spokesman for the channel said that he doesn’t find it strange at all; the channel frequently allows Islamcritics to say what’s on their minds.
Wilders, however, isn’t pleased. Where he said a few months ago that if a channel wanted to broadcast his movie, they were allowed to watch it before airing it (as to be sure that it’s high quality, and that airing the film doesn’t break any laws), he now changed his tune: the NMO wants to broadcast “Fitna,” but it wants to watch the movie first… which is logical considering the fact that most networks want to know what they’re broadcasting. Anyhoo; suddenly Wilders says “no, you can’t watch it.”
In other words: Wilders doesn’t want the NMO to broadcast “Fitna.” That much is clear. Theirs is not an unreasonable demand. Wilders should put his film where his mouth is.
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It’s a stroke of sheer brilliance on the part of NMO. What better way to combat the affirmations of Wilder than by showing yourself to be perfectly willing to tolerate criticism? NMO is probably also more inmune to being accused of "Islamophobia" since it’s a Muslim channel. I’ve always thought that the best way, indeed the ONLY way, Muslims could fight this would be to allow the movie to air, and then have nothing happen. No treats, no riots, no killing, maybe some angry letters to the editor like normal regular people do. That would defeat Wilders, anything else will only reinforce his message.
Leave it to the European Muslim community to stand up for free speech in the face of corporate cowardice.
They may not like the film
but they have more "galvones" then
the cowards at Network Solutions.
Who’s defending the Freedom of Speech?
Well…
it ain’t the CEO of Network Solutions.
He’s nothing but a coward.
good luck
This is not what Wilders wanted to do. What he wanted was to have the NMO declare that the film doesnt break any laws and is acceptable material. If a Muslim organization declares this, this helps a lot. Thats why he told NMO that that must "make sure" (in other words, accept and confirm) that the film doesnt break any laws. This kind of thing would be helpful in many ways obviously, if a muslim organization "approves" the film. That was his goal.