Holland: Will There Be Blood?
January 24, 2008
Dutch politician Geert Wilders is set to release a short film in two weeks which shows the Koran being torn up. Dutch authorities are preparing for riots and violence. The Iranian government has warned Holland about allowing the film. And Wilders has reportedly been told that he may have to leave the Netherlands for his own safety. Wilders says the Dutch government is dominated by “fear of Islam.”
It may look like Wilders has a death wish, but I think he knows exactly what he is doing. This is a deliberate strategy on the right in Europe to provoke violence from Muslims in order to whip up more public opposition to immigrants and Islam. I don't know if this was the strategy of
Austrian right wing politician Susanne Winter, who recently called Mohammed “a child molester” who wrote the Koran during “epileptic fits.” But we're seeing a pattern all over Europe where leaders on the right are joining with free speech defenders on the left to purposely provoke Mulims to violence.
Says Wilders: "If I had announced that I was going to make a film about the fascist character of the Bible, would there have been a crisis meeting of Holland's security forces? Would I have received as many death threats as I have done since announcing I was making a film about the Koran? Of course not."
"The fact that a 10-minute film not yet shown could, according to some, lead to economic boycotts, riots and other horrible things says everything about the nature of Islam. Nothing about me. The cabinet acknowledges with its panicky reaction that Islam is not comparable to Christianity, but is a unique ideology. And this ideology thus demands a separate, unique approach. The Koran film has thus already demonstrated its usefulness."
You’ll recall that Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh was murdered in Amsterdam in 2004 because of his mockery of Islam. Van Gogh mocked all religions in the crudest way, and he made disgusting jokes about the Holocaust. But Van Gogh was killed by a Dutch Muslim.
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