"Fitna" - the most ironic title of a film. Fitna itself means sedition when translated from Arabic, and it appears that this is what the film attempts to do - to incite hatred and contempt between the Muslims and non-Muslims.
I admit, there are some Muslims deviants and extremists that went against the border. I myself am a Muslim despite the fact that my ancestors had once been threatened and killed by some Muslim extremist group who called themselves the "padri" back in the year 1880's. But Greert's hatred to Muslim as a whole is as groundless as a fairy tale. Hitler was a Christian when he drove the Holocaust on the Jews, so why didn't Greert incite the same type of hatred to Christians in general?
A majority of the American soldiers who were sent to invade and terrorise Iraq are Christians, but they are accepted as heroes instead of terrorists. Once a person has held a weapon and taken away a person's life, is he no different than a terrorist?
It is sad that Greert has abused his country's freedom of speech to produce a piece of crap that managed to tear the world apart. And it is equally sad that a large part of the Dutch population support Greert's misuse of this freedom instead of employing the power of speech to promote more important issues in this world such as anti-war issues, domestic violence, global warming, free trade, etc. Their reaction to Greert's act is like the jury giving a verdict of not guilty to a sadistic terrorist.
I admit, there are some Muslims deviants and extremists that went against the border. I myself am a Muslim despite the fact that my ancestors had once been threatened and killed by some Muslim extremist group who called themselves the "padri" back in the year 1880's. But Greert's hatred to Muslim as a whole is as groundless as a fairy tale. Hitler was a Christian when he drove the Holocaust on the Jews, so why didn't Greert incite the same type of hatred to Christians in general?
A majority of the American soldiers who were sent to invade and terrorise Iraq are Christians, but they are accepted as heroes instead of terrorists. Once a person has held a weapon and taken away a person's life, is he no different than a terrorist?
It is sad that Greert has abused his country's freedom of speech to produce a piece of crap that managed to tear the world apart. And it is equally sad that a large part of the Dutch population support Greert's misuse of this freedom instead of employing the power of speech to promote more important issues in this world such as anti-war issues, domestic violence, global warming, free trade, etc. Their reaction to Greert's act is like the jury giving a verdict of not guilty to a sadistic terrorist.
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