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| Muslims accuse Danish TV of incitement to religious hatred |
| 2004-12-06 |
| A group of Muslims has reported a Danish broadcaster to the police for repeatedly airing a controversial film about Muslim oppression of women, Danish media reported on Sunday. Some 20 Muslims are pressing charges against Danish public broadcaster Danmarks Radio (DR) for airing recently murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh`s film "Submission" in its entirety, as well as for repeatedly showing clips from the film in newscasts. "My clients feel deeply offended," Laue Traberg Smidt, the lawyer representing the group, told DR on Sunday, adding that both Muslim clerics and members of the general public were among his clients. "They have all come to me independently of each other because they feel that Danmarks Radio has gone too far, and that it is ignoring that the film is seen as an extraordinarily serious and manipulative insult against their religion," he added. Van Gogh was brutally murdered on November 2 by a suspected Islamic radical apparently angered by his portrayal of Islam in the film, which shows women talking about abuse dressed in see-through robes with texts from the Koran painted on their bodies. DR news director Lisbeth Knudsen rejected that the broadcaster`s decision to air the film and clips from the film constituted incitement to religious hatred. "We are not airing clips from the film to feed on sensationalism or to offend those who have been offended by it (the film). We show these clips to put the debate over limited or unlimited freedom of speech into perspective," she said. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #8 We should be downloading this movie and sending it out as email spam: in the interests of freedom of speech! I tried to download it from Haganah, but i could only get the screen shot. |
| Posted by: Anon1 2004-12-06 8:58:35 PM |
| #7 So, we used to buy TVs from RCA (Radio Corporation of America) |
| Posted by: Liberalhawk 2004-12-06 3:56:38 PM |
| #6 Poor damn victimized Muslims. It seems everywhere they go, everyone turns against them... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-12-06 1:07:22 PM |
| #5 Maybe I'm confused. They showed the film on the radio?... |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-12-06 10:56:09 AM |
| #4 Muslims are accusing others of inciting religious hatred????? Ohh, the indignity, the INJUSTICE!!! |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-12-06 10:50:32 AM |
| #3 No broadcaster has the guts to broadcast it here in the US. Self censorship. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-12-06 10:48:44 AM |
| #2 Jeepers. The "movie" is *10* minutes long. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-12-06 10:44:24 AM |
| #1 Actually they may have a point. Granted, this mini-movie is very important, but it's only one movie. They should produce dozens of others, a wholescale deluge that depicts wife and child abusers as utter monsters, who drink liquor and eat roast pork on the sly and are secret devil worshippers, while pretending to be pious and moralistic. These villains should get their comeuppance, too, by women who suddenly refuse to stand for their antics. Previously abused women who just happen to have a butcher's knife under their dress, which comes out halfway through a beating, and *scene ends*. Well, you wouldn't want to depict *violence*, now would you? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2004-12-06 10:41:33 AM |