Media News - Friday, March 28, 2008
Dutch government rejects parliamentarian’s anti-Islam movie
The Dutch government rejected an anti-Islam movie released yesterday by nationalist party leader Geert Wilders in which he links the Koran to violence. The 15-minute movie ‘Fitna' features verses from the Koran alongside images of the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Madrid train bombings in 2004. The movie was posted on the Internet. ‘The film equates Islam with violence. We reject this interpretation,' Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende told a news conference in The Hague yesterday. ‘We regret that Mr. Wilders has released this film. We believe it serves no purpose other than to cause offense, but feeling offended must never be used as an excuse for aggression and threats.' (Bloomberg)
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