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Add an EventNetherlands: Geert Wilders releases his anti-Islamic film
The closing sequences assert that the Netherlands is being swamped by Islamic immigrants and will eventually be subject to Sharia Law, including capital punishment for gay men and adulterous women, as well as female genital mutilation and child abuse. It ends by equating Islam with fascism and the Stalinist dictatorship.
Dutch television networks would not screen the film, which forced Wilders to turn to the Internet. His own service provider suspended his web site while it investigates complaints regarding the site’s content, and the film was posted March 27 on the Liveleak video sharing web site, but taken down the following day due to threats to its staff.
In 2006, Wilders was one of the first to reprint the anti-Mohammed cartoons published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, when he put them on his web site in early February, commenting that he wanted to show his solidarity with those defending “free speech.”
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Network Solutions has so far,not given any reason other than that they are "investigating whether the site's content is in violation of Network Solutions Acceptable Use Policy".
Network Solutions states that they have received complaints about the site. As I'm sure they have. And clearly they have surrendered to those complaints.
What kind of complaints did they receive?
Probably not polite rational letters with well-thought out arguments. More likely screaming threats of death, annihilation, plagues, and religious war. Plus official guarantees that they might lose business in certain parts of the world....... And be burned in effigy.
See how easy that was?
Then it got put on
English version:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1206624103
But that too was censored.
Their statement below makes clear why:
"This is a sad day for freedom of speech on the net but we have to place the safety and well being of our staff above all else. We would like to thank the thousands of people, from all backgrounds and religions, who gave us their support. They realized LiveLeak.com is a vehicle for many opinions and not just for the support of one.
Perhaps there is still hope that this situation may produce a discussion that could benefit and educate all of us as to how we can accept one another's culture.
We stood for what we believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price was too high."
Their statement was quoted in an article in the NRC Handelsblad:
http://www.nrc.nl/media/article1029097.ece/Liveleak_verwijdert_film_Fitna_na_bedreigingen
[Note: article includes link to YOUTUBE copy of FITNA, which bypasses need to log in or sign up. YOUTUBE also here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCrCsTMokTU]
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