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January 22, 2009
Is the Wilders movie 'Fitna' a distortion of Islam?
Andrew Bostom
Rick Moran's blog entry "Geert Wilders to face anti-Islam charges," is uninformed with regard to his claim that the film Fitna distorts Islam. Wilder's documentary Fitna (watch it here) is entirely faithful to classical, mainstream Islamic exegesis on the Koranic verses cited in the film (see Robert Spencer's excellent analysis from March 2008 here; and for details on the jihadist and Antisemitic Koranic verses and their classical exegeses, see my two books here and here) -- regardless of what faux "scholars" -- i.e., cultural jihadists, and their witting or unwitting abettors, may claim.
As Dutch Prosecutor Otto Van Der Bijl told CNN, a paltry total of nine persons filed complaints with the Court of Appeal, which is now drafting an indictment that charges Parliamentarian Geert Wilders with "incitement of hatred," based upon the contents of his short documentary film Fitna, and Wilders' discussion of the film. Fitna merely demonstrates how various Koranic verses - based upon orthodox, mainstream Islamic interpretations of these verses - are used by Muslim clerics and political leaders to incite Muslim populations to violence. It is beyond Orwellian to prosecute Wilders - who simply holds up a mirror to Islamic societies - for being in any way responsible for the Koranic incitement and Muslim violence his documentary faithfully records, and he appropriately condemns.
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