US Networking Site Shuts Down “Fitna” Webpage

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A website that a Dutch right-wing politician was planning to use to release a film expected to be fiercely critical of Islam has been suspended.

The US hosting service, Network Solutions, said it was investigating http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3766 that it may have breached guidelines on hate language.

Dutch politician Geert Wilders says the 15-minute film describes Islam as “the enemy of freedom”.

The planned release has sparked angry protests in many http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3585 countries.

The Dutch http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3748 has disassociated itself from Mr Wilders’ views, but there are fears the film will spark protests similar to those that followed the publication in Denmark two years ago of cartoons seen as offensive to Muslims.The film has already been condemned by several Muslim countries, including Iran and Pakistan.

Mr Wilders’ film is entitled Fitna, an Arabic word to describe strife or discord, usually religious.

Mr Wilders wrote a commentary in a Dutch newspaper on Saturday.

“The film is not so much about Muslims as about the Koran and Islam. The Islamic ideology has as its utmost goal the destruction of what is most dear to us, our freedom,” he wrote in De Volkskrant.

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2008-03-24