Gutsy effort 28/3/2008
Andrew Bolt has weighed the consequences — and they could well be dire — and posted on his blog a copy of Dutch MP Geert Wilders anti-Islamist film. Warning: it is graphic and disturbing.
And that’s not just its content; the attitude of some Dutch politicians in trying to ban Wilders’ film represents such snivelling appeasement that Chamberlain was a breast-beating warrior in comparison.
UPDATE:
Liveleak.com, the file sharer that hosted Wilders’ film, has taken it down after threats against staff.
And surprise, surprise, that bastion of freedom and liberty, the United Nations, has condemned the film, accusing Wilders — not extreme Islamists, mind you — of “instilling hatred or incitement to violence”.
Why liberal democracies bother to have anything to do with this misbegotten assembly of totalitarian toerags is beyond me. I wonder if just one of Krudd’s 1000 “best and brightest” will touch on our membership of the useless UN and how we’d be better served by an organisation of democratic states.
Greetings Slatts,
An email from your readers to the Netherlands ambassador requesting his government support Wilders would help.
Cheers.
Bolt’s “gutsy” all right. Given the reaction from some quarters, I might even stretch that to “crazy brave.” And good on him.
I see that LiveLeak has had to pull the Wilders video due to threats, and that European bloggers who featured it are starting to feel the heat too.
As a side note, I understand that this is Arabic for “I will not surrender.”