I cobbled this post together from several different stories I found on the web.
First up is this one about Dutch citizens so fraught with guilt that they are posting videos on YouTube apologizing for Geert Wilders’ film, “Fitna.”
Hundreds of Dutch citizens have uploaded videos to YouTube showing themselves holding signs with apologies for the film. In other anti-Fitna clips, the subjects simply say the words, “I’m sorry.”
Fitna, a 17-minute film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders, juxtaposes passages from the Islamic holy book with graphic footage of terrorist attacks in the United States and Europe. In one scene, the sound of paper ripping can be seen as a reader pages through the Quran.
A website called Sorry for the Film encourages users to upload photos of themselves to indicate they do not support the views propagated in Fitna. Mediamatic, a technology collective based in Amsterdam, posted instructions for making “Sorry Fitna” videos.
Next up is one where Dutch prosecutors are planning to take legal action against Wilders.
THE HAGUE, March 31 (RIA Novosti) –
The Dutch prosecutor’s office is preparing to take legal action against the maker of an ‘anti-Koran’ film in an attempt to ease tensions over the film’s release, the Dutch foreign minister said on Monday.
As if that will do what, exactly?
Meanwhile, as we beat ourselves senseless over our guilt, no such thing takes place on the other side, where our religion of peace and tolerance brethren hang out.
We see them threatening to kill Geert Wilders simply because he spoke the truth. He threatened no one and westerners are falling all over themselves apologizing or prosecuting him.
Outcry over a Dutch politician’s anti-Islam film continued Monday, with hard-line Muslims in Indonesia calling for the man’s death.
A group of about 40 demonstrators from the Islamic Defenders Front gathered outside the Dutch Embassy in Jakarta, some of them carrying placards saying “Kill Geert Wilders,” the film’s creator.
“It is a great insult to all Muslims,” said the group’s spokesman Soleh Mahmud, who admitted he has not seen the film but was outraged nonetheless.
“The Dutch government must arrest him. Wilders must be killed because he has declared war on Muslims.”
Anyone see any Muslims apologizing for these “radicals” and “hate-mongers”? Hmmmm??!?!?!?!?!
Then we have a Palestinian TV show wherein a kid repeatedly stabs President Bush.
A child stabs President Bush to death and turns the White House into a mosque in a children’s puppet show broadcast on the television channel of the ruling Palestinian Authority party, Hamas.
In the Al-Aqsa TV skit, aired yesterday, the child confronts the American leader: “I have come to take revenge with this sword – revenge for my mother and my sisters. You are a criminal, Bush! You are despicable. You made me an orphan! You took everything from me, Bush! I must take revenge on you, with this sword of Islam, the prophet’s Al-Battar sword.”
The Bush character tries to appease the child with food, toys and a visit to the White House but is rebuffed, as seen in a video clip translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI.
“You are impure, Bush, so you are not allowed inside the White House,” the child figure says, because “it has been turned into a great mosque for the nation of Islam.”
The child declares: “I will kill you just like Mu’az killed Abu Lahab (an enemy of Islam’s prophet Muhammad). I will kill you, Bush, because that is your fate.”
The child stabs Bush repeatedly: “Ahhh, I killed him.”
WOW! Great tolerance, there, guys! Way to show the rest of the world that you are as crazy as we think you are (at least those of us who refuse to apologize.)
Again, I see no Muslims stepping up and submitting videos of verbal self-flagellation over this horrid show.
However, all of this is explained by this story where in a poll 55% of Arab Muslims believe violence is justified over simply “offensive words.”
No poll numbers were given about their support (or lack thereof) for when THEY THEMSELVES utter violent words or commit violent acts.
