"The film equates Islam with violence. We reject that interpretation,"
– The Netherlands Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende

Geert Wilders film FITNA is a 15-minute indictment of Islamic radicalism. This terrifies the government of the Netherlands and it hopes minimize any violent reaction by condemning it. However, saying something does not make it so, no matter how endlessly it is repeated. It is not a matter of “interpretation,” it is a matter of truth; Islam brings violence. Decades of naïve multiculturalism, generous handouts and easy asylum for “Muslim refugees” has made Holland a land of two incompatible belief systems. Islam has become the largest active religion in Holland, its churches do not draw a fraction of the attendance that its mosques do. 

The Dutch Prime Minister also rejects free speech in his condemnation, which is not surprising; the Netherlands may be the first European country to allow Shari’a law to compete with national courts. They may not have a choice. While the Dutch see themselves as eminently civilized and able to negotiate and appease conflict away, Muslim immigrant populations skyrocket. They dither while their country is stolen from under them.

Last October a Muslim radical attacked and seriously wounded two police officers with a knife in the city of Amsterdam. One officer was able to get off a shot, which killed the attacker. That officer nearly died. The event touched off days of riots and car burnings. Moroccan residents ironically claimed they were upset at being “stigmatized” as violent. The attacker, a member of a radical group with a long criminal record shouted “Allah Akbar” as he attacked. The fact that he was shot by a female officer did not help matters. The Dutch press avoided any mention of Islamic radicalism. The government-spun tales of disadvantaged youth, mental illness and economic inequities to distract the citizenry and like the French, deftly side stepped the problem. 

Islam has been eating away at the Netherlands for many decades. Its sway is far out of proportion to it population. It demands special treatment and gets it. The government fears them, they know it, and exploit that fear at every turn. Dutchmen who speak out against Muslim violence toward women, such as Theo Van Gogh, are murdered in the street. Outspoken critics of Islam such as parliamentarian Ayan Hirsi Ali are hounded out of the country by a combination of intimidation and government cowardice. Residents in her apartment building asked for her to move after death threats were made. They did not feel safe. Perhaps the cowardice is cultural.

Europe is being methodically Islamicized. The steady undermining of the rule of law and democratic institutions by Islamic supremacists attempts to create two separate societies, with Islam preeminent. The intrinsic multicultural tolerance of nations like Holland and Belgium is turned against them. Islam is a bully, and the endless concessions to its hypersensitive self-image inevitably go unrewarded. Tolerance is a weakness, one gleefully exploited. Islam does not share the Dutch humanist ideology, an ideology that has transformed from a primrose path to utopia into a suicidal pathology.

“I condemn, in the strongest terms, the airing of Geert Wilders’ offensively anti-Islamic film. There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence. The right of free expression is not at stake here. I acknowledge the efforts of the Government of the Netherlands to stop the broadcast of this film, and appeal for calm to those understandably offended by it. Freedom must always be accompanied by social responsibility.” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the film FITNA

The UN General Secretary, as usual, has it exactly backwards. His muddle-headed timorous leftism supports censorship to appease a violent minority, not social responsibility. When does the accusation of “incitement” translate into intimidation and extortion? At the point where free speech is silenced by threats, when incitement is defined as any criticism, however logical, when our standards of freedom, free expression and reason are overturned.

Wilders film does not incite violence, he merely points out the root cause, Islam provides the rest. The insistence that the Koran does not encourage violence is absurd. Of course it does, one merely has to tally the recorded acts of terror worldwide since 9-11 to see that unfortunate fact. The numbers do not lie. A quick cross reference with their holy book reveals violent virtues on many of its pages, as well as guidance for misogyny, pedophilia and genocidal hatred. They do not consider them metaphors. They act on them.

The outrage about this film is an inarticulate shout from a belief system trying to disguise its innate depravity and hide its hypocrisy. We cannot fight what we do not understand, and we cannot understand unless we examine more than the propaganda of Islamic apologists and their useful idiots. The film asks us to see a truth too many people, and too many governments simply ignore. 

Geert Wilder’s film is easily accessible on the web. It should be spread to the widest possible audience. He says nothing in the film that is not true, nor does he make any unsupportable accusation. He is a man watching his nation and his culture slowly strangled. Making FITNA was an act of bravery and love of country, which has put Geert Wilders in mortal peril. It is a desperate rallying cry that may well be too late. 

“So, fight them till all opposition ends and the only religion is Islam.”  – Qur’an 8:39