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Anti-Islam film put on hold
AFP
Published:Jan 26, 2008
THE HAGUE - Dutch far-right deputy Geert Wilders said in an interview published today that his controversial anti-Islam film will air in a few weeks, later than he had previously announced.“The film is not yet finished. It’s so much work. It will still take us a few weeks,” Wilders told De Telegraaf, the Netherland’s biggest selling daily.
Wilders announced last November he planned to make a short film showing that Islam’s holy book, the Koran, is “a fascist book” that “incites people to murder”.
The leader of the PVV party - which has nine of 150 seats in Parliament - initially said the film would air at the end of January.
De Telegraaf said it had viewed some opening images from the film, which for weeks has been breeding worry in the country.
“The opening shot shows to the left the cover of the Koran, and to the right the words ’Warning: this book contains shocking pictures’,” it said.
Then images such as “a decapitation in Iraq, a stoning in Iran and an execution in Saudi Arabia, where sharia (Islamic law) is applied” are shown, it said. “Those who find that shocking should not get angry with me, but with those people who did these things,” said Wilders.
“The film does not only talk about the Koran, it plays out within its framework,” he said. “The edges of the book will be permanently visible (in the film) and within this frame, we show images of what is described in the words of the Koran.”
Numerous Muslim associations have already urged Muslims in the country to stay calm and not allow themselves to be provoked.
Wilders has been under heavy police protection since the 2004 murder of Dutch director and columnist Theo van Gogh. Van Gogh was killed by a radical Muslim after he directed a film criticising women’s position in Islam.