Yeah his tactics are quite unseemly...but it's also disgusting when some fundamentalist hacks some guy's head off and puts it on the web for all the world to see. I don't agree with Wilders provactive tack, but I do understand the angst.
When they killed the Archbishop of an already beseiged Christian community in Iraq, I didn't hear any Muslims crying a river.....it's a two way street.
Yup. >>plays "Imagine" to make herself think happier thoughts<<
Indonesia blocks YouTube, file-sharing sites to stop viewing of anti-Islam film
9 April 2008
Source: Southeast Asian Press Alliance (SEAPA)
Major Internet service providers in Indonesia have reportedly blocked several file-sharing websites in adherence to a government order prohibiting people from viewing online a controversial short film that paints a demonic image of Islam.
On 31 March 2008, the Information Ministry gave YouTube a one-week deadline to remove "Fitna" ("strife" or "disturbance" in Arabic) - a short film which features shots of terrorist acts juxtaposed over Quranic verses - failing which it would be blocked. On 7 April, a few ISPs started to deny access not only to YouTube but also MySpace and Google Video.
Around 150 other Internet service providers in the country have yet to implement the order, which stays until the websites remove the film, reports said.
Home to the biggest Muslim population in the world, Indonesia nevertheless maintains a secular government, which justified its disproportionate action in denying access to millions of videos on account of one film by claiming that the said film "could disturb relations between the faiths".
The 15-minute film found its way to the Internet on 27 March after its creator, the anti-immigration Dutch politician Geert Wilders, rejected conditions for local television broadcast, chiefly on the right to edit.
Wilders said the film was intended as a warning of a "tsunami of Islamisation" in the Netherlands, where there are nearly one million Muslims. Nonetheless, the controversial film has generated mostly condemnation from Muslims around the world, and the threats have spilled over onto online media providers who posted it, driving some to remove the film out of fear of harm befalling them.
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uhhh. so that's why.
the government was pretty late anyway. I already saw that movie... on Youtube
the terrorist thing is true, but the fact that he connected all that stuff with the Quran is just dumb.
Wilder is a retarded a$$, for making that movie, and especially becoz that movie made this country block youtube _________________
Hatemongering isn't the answer, we both agree. Guilty fanatics on either end of the spectrum.
Yes, in all cultures and in all religions. I think it's disgusting regardless, and it doesn't matter who is doing it. I see it in the school I teach in every day and it's scary. You have parents with hate built up in them and they breed armies to brainwash. It's really sad.
monta wrote:
and especially becoz that movie made this country block youtube
lol!
Yea, he's fuming hate with hate. It's a vicious cycle that people are too dumb to recognize. _________________
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