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| U.N.'s Ban condemns Dutch film as anti-Islamic |
| 2008-03-29 |
| U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday condemned as "offensively anti-Islamic" a Dutch lawmaker's film that accuses the Koran of inciting violence. Did he watch it? Somehow I doubt it. But he has appearances to keep up and political posturing he has to maintain for the good of the world we all live in. Including the women in the video. Ban acknowledged efforts by the government of the Netherlands to stop the broadcast of the film, which was launched by Islam critic Geert Wilders over the Internet, and appealed for calm to those "understandably offended by it." Who, the terrorists? Who cares? Surely the moderates understand that this film is only speaking about terrorists so they aren't threatened enough by it to threaten anyone's life. They probably welcome it as an opportunity to clean up their religion! "There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence," Ban said in a statement. "The right of free expression is not at stake here." Tell that to the extremists that this film documents. The short film, titled "Fitna," an Arabic term sometimes translated as "strife," intersperses images of the September 11 attacks on the United States and Islamist bombings with quotations from the Koran. Ooh, that's gonna be tough to argue against, won't it? Better threaten someone's life. The film urges Muslims to tear out "hate-filled" verses from the Koran and starts and finishes with a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad with a bomb under his turban, accompanied by the sound of ticking. For sure this cartoon is FAR more offensive than the brutal acts depicted in the video. Several Muslim countries, including Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia, have also condemned the film. Why should governments get involved? Unless they are part and parcel of the religion, of course. "Freedom must always be accompanied by social responsibility," Ban said. I think it's responsible to expose extremism, doesn't anyone else? "We must also recognize that the real fault line is not between Muslim and Western societies, as some would have us believe, but between small minorities of extremists, on different sides, with a vested interest in stirring hostility and conflict," Ban said. Is that where all those Angry Muslim Crowds come from? While the moderates all sit at home and try to figure out ways to suppress extremism? |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #3 The aptly named Ban. |
| Posted by: Gabby Cussworth 2008-03-29 18:10 |
| #2 "U.N.'s Ban condemns Dutch film as anti-Islamic" Ever consider that's the POINT, dipship? Another idiot who doesn't see the cognative dissonance of "Kill those who say Islam is violent." |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-03-29 17:27 |
| #1 i.e. Islam's own words and actions are anti-islamic. Keep up the good work, Ban. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-03-29 15:01 |