Geert Wilders’s Film “Fitna”” Learning from the Enemy [Archives:2008/1144/Reportage]”

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April 7 2008

Neue Zurcher Zeitung 2008 / Qantara.de
For months, the information had been circulating that the Dutch right-wing populist politician, Geert Wilders, had made a film denouncing the Koran for its allegedly fascist character. Now the film has been made available on the internet – and, says Angela Schader, it largely tells us things we've read before

Geert Wilders's “Fitna”” was surrounded by mystery and argument until the last minute. No public broadcaster was prepared to show it; the website which was to have hosted it was suspended by its provider on March 22nd; a British internet portal copied the way “”Fitna”” was presented