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28 February 2008
KABUL – The Taliban has threatened to step up attacks against Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan if Geert Wilders releases his "insulting" anti-Islam film.
The PVV MP's film is an "insult to Islam", says Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the Taliban, in a telephone interview from an undisclosed location.
"We in Afghanistan shall step up the attacks against the Dutch troops if the film is aired." He added that the Taliban will call on the UN to stop these kinds of actions in order to prevent a rupture between Islam and the rest of the world.
Ministers Ernst Hirsch Ballin (Justice) and Maxime Verhagen (Foreign Affairs) talked to Wilders about the film on Wednesday afternoon in a continuation of a discussion that started last year when the government first expressed its concerns about the consequences of the film in the Netherlands and abroad.
Geert Wilders said after the meeting that he had felt 'intimidated' during the talk.
Minister Verhagen however says he feels it is his duty to point out to Wilders what his film could unleash.
The minister said on Radio 1 on Thursday that he found it "entirely incomprehensible" that Wilders felt the meeting was intimidating. Verhagen thinks that the truth is perhaps too confrontational for Wilders. He said he explained to Wilders the emotions that have already flared up abroad in response to news of his film. Verhagen is very concerned.
Verhagen referred to demonstrations, possible attacks on embassies and damage to Dutch institutions and businesses abroad. "A list has already been drawn up of Dutch products. A dairy company like Campina can suffer significant damage." Many countries may decide to boycott the products. He also pointed out the threat from the Taliban to step up attacks on Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan.
Verhagen does not think these are matters that Wilders can just "shrug his shoulders at and say it's nothing to do with him." Because Verhagen says not only the freedom of expression is at stake but also human lives.
[Copyright Expatica News + ANP 2008]
There's that old Religion of Pieces again (tm)...
why would the ministers lobby on the behalf of islamofacist terrorists and their ilk?
It's time the dutch govt. grow a backbone and call it what it is.... terrorism, and extortion, based on threats and intimidation of those that dare to point out the host of faults withing the cult of death
I have obviously not seen the film and my feeling is that it will not be of value to our society and will insult Islam without inspiring the much needed dialogue we all need.
But since when has freedom of speech been measured with the effects of Dutch companies abroad etc.? If a film offensive to Christianity was in the offing, the Minister would not plead for this not to be issued. It seems terrorism has won, it is all about intimidating and forcing other people to do what you want through the use of random violence and taking of innocent lives. The Minister is playing their game, with their rules and falling victim to the pressures of terrorism.
why do western parliamentarian democracies or republics need to curb their civil freedoms and change their tolerant culture to accomidate backwards and violent foreign religion? I know many European countries have a long history of curbing freedom of speech lest they offend an interested party or group (holocaust deniers come to mind) but even in this case allowing a person to speak their mind seems, at least to me, to be better than allowing ideas to be presecuted and ideas/movements to go 'underground'. In fact persecution of ideas can actually help promote them due to the press, paranoid thinkers, etc. Even worse though is when the TRUTH about a certain subject, in this case radical Islam, is deemed to be 'offensive' and thusly condemned or prohibitied. You think not allowing people to learn the TRUTH about many of the Islamic immigrants or movements in other countries will solve the problem or protect the nation?? Absurd. Denial doesn't make a problem go away.
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