AP, March 23, 2008
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands—A website where a Dutch legislator was promoting an upcoming film that criticizes the Qur’an has been suspended by its U.S. hosting service.
The site had shown Geert Wilders’ film’s title, “Fitna,” the words “Coming Soon” and an image of a gilded Qur’an. Now it shows a note that the company is investigating whether the site violates the firm’s terms of service.
Wilders has not described the 15-minute movie, due to be released by March 31, in detail but has said it will underscore his view that Islam’s holy book is “fascist.”
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Wilders said he would release his movie on the Internet after television stations refused to air it.
“In this situation with the dialogue that’s happening throughout the world we’ve made the choice to suspend the site as of last night,” said Susan Wade, spokeswoman for Network Solutions. “This site is suspended so people can’t see the content right now but the customer still has access to their site. They can make whatever changes are necessary as we complete our investigation.”
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“How many ways are there left for me to be worked against?” [Wilders] was quoted saying Saturday night by Dutch press agency ANP.
“If necessary, I’ll go hand out DVDs personally on the Dam,” he said, referring to Amsterdam’s central square.
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(Posted on March 24, 2008)
Comments
Notice how the left blocks truth from the right but encourages anything that depicts the Religion of Peace as peaceful.
Posted by at 5:51 PM on March 24
“How many ways are there left for me to be worked against?” [Wilders] was quoted saying Saturday night by Dutch press agency ANP.
“If necessary, I’ll go hand out DVDs personally on the Dam,” he said, referring to Amsterdam’s central square.
Please inform Gert Wilders of the existance of something called YouTube.Whatever his DVD is about it cannot be anymore offensive than what I have seen on YouTube.
Posted by Tony Soprano at 6:13 PM on March 24
I am thankful for Amren website…too bad the Dutch are chicken….thanks Amren….hope no one shuts this website down!!
Posted by lydia at 7:31 PM on March 24
We need 100,000 politicians like him to set the course straight.
Don’t think I will hold my breath.
Posted by at 7:36 PM on March 24
Reminds me of what happened n 1979 or 1980, where PBS was going to air a documentary called “Death of a Princess” where a Saudi princess was executed for having dalliances with a Westerner. Saudi Arabia raged, and Exxon (I belive) took out full page ads in several newpapers, pleading with PBS not to air the presentation. PBS did so anyway.
Imagine. A multinational oil company, at the behest of a foreign government, trying to decide what Americans were to see on their televisions. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but now I realize how frightening it all is, in view of developments of the past few years.
I hope Wilders’ film gets shown on the Internet. Let the chips fall where they may.
Posted by Soprano Fan at 9:43 PM on March 24
It is not a difficult thing to set up a server. And who is hosting those radical Islamic websites that allow Osama bin Laden and others to pass on information and advertise for Jihadists?
Posted by Whiteplight at 10:30 PM on March 24
…….”I am thankful for Amren website…too bad the Dutch are chicken….thanks Amren….hope no one shuts this website down!!”
Posted by lydia at 7:31 PM on March 24
You may be right, Lydia, but these little Northern European countries are overwhelmed with Muslims and are facing real everyday dangers. Denmark published those cartoons and have republished them - and no one in the U.S. would touch them!
So while the Dutch may be chickens, we are even bigger chickens.
Posted by Whiteplight at 10:33 PM on March 24
Dear Whiteplight….yes I agree OUR MEDIA AND OUR GOVERNMENT are bigger chickens…but we the people are not….maybe those cartoons should be posted here…but then what good would it do??? We NEED TO FIGHT BACK IN OTHER WAYS…but again…the media would never be on our side nor would our own govenment…we can still keep on speaking out…but do you ever notice the media calls us ignorant white people. Maybe if we keep on persisting it would help…but then the media is on the side of people like obama…they think hes the best thing since sliced bread. A VOTE AGAINST THIS MORON WOULD SEND A MESSAGE…WE DON’T WANT YOUR KIND IN OUR LAND!! NO ONE believes hes a muslim or against us Christians and Jews but he is….if he gets elected….kiss our country goodbye! Bad enough what we have in washington now…it would be worse than we could ever imagine!!
Posted by lydia at 11:28 AM on March 25
I was constantly harrassed by AOL about “terms of service” violations while I was using AOL’s dialup service, until I became fed up enough with them that I told them I had “terms of payment,” they had violated, whereupon I cancelled dialup service and arranged for DSL from the phone company.
These folks are much more dependant on our money than we are on their service, at least in the USA; it is a buyer’s market here, so don’t let them push you around.
Posted by Michael C. Scott at 4:11 PM on March 25
This doesn’t surprise me at all. In fact, do you know how many ISPs claim that “racist” behavior is against their terms of service? Most of them. Here’s an excerpt from Verizon’s policy:
Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes, without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, an illegal threat, discriminatory, racist, or violates export control laws.
So now “racism” is grouped in with activities that are literally illegal. This is as close as you can get to declaring a “thought crime.” I suspect “criticism of Islam” will be the next thing added to the list.
Posted by Tim in Indiana at 4:48 PM on March 25
