http://tinyurl.com/ctw7w4

 

Reza Moradi (See my website, Musicweaver, for more information on him), a member of  the Council of ex-Muslims in Britain (CEMB)’s Executive Committee, has produced Fitna Remade in response to Geert Wilders' Fitna, the Movie, May 20, 2008    He said: "Fitna, the Movie ... doesn’t really criticise Islam and more importantly the political Islamic movement.  Rather, it attacks immigrants, labels millions as ‘Muslims’, and implies their support for a movement that millions have opposed, resisted and fled from.  I had to do a remake to show the real story from one of these millions."   (The video, available on the web, was also shown at the CEMB's 1st International Conference in London - I've done a report on this conference if anyone wants it.)

 

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"To stop terrorism we must be against poles of terrorism, the US terrorism and the Islamist terrorism; being against one should not lead us to support the other one. No one must be allowed to legitimize and promote killing people …”
-- Shiva Mahbobi, 30/9/2006 (For Maryam Namazie's blog see below*)

 

From discussion (see link on website):

“[Wilders] has got his own [very right wing] agenda [and] his basic concern is [about] immigration into Europe [as well as] the threat that he thinks Islam poses to Europe. [I]f it wasn’t for that he would have absolutely no concerns about Islam and so his agenda really doesn’t coincide with ours at all…”

 

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Maryam Namazie:  “[I] thought how dare [Wilders]. The political Islamic movement has wreaked havoc for decades, long before September 11, long before the Madrid or London bombings.  In Iran, we have lost an entire generation to this movement and we have struggled and fought against this movement. How dare he equate all of us as one and the same with the political Islamic movement? It made me quite angry.”

 

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Fariborz Pooya, summing up the discussion [§], says: "Fitna, as mentioned here, doesn’t fundamentally criticise Islam; it doesn’t criticise the political Islamic movement and Islamic states that is destroying the lives of millions every day. And effectively its anti-immigrant tone distorts the whole picture. The reality is that millions of people are fighting against the political Islamic movement and that’s the movement that needs to be supported. Freedom of expression and the right to criticise Islam and religion and is a fundamental right that needs to be upheld."

 

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I have transcribed the commentary from Fitna Remade (any errors are mine, Brian R).  (Link to the video, and also to a discussion on Wilders’ original film, are on my website, Musicweaver. Please scroll as necessary.)

 

Note (from Musicweaver website):

Fitna Remade can be seen here:
http://www.fitna-remade.com/Pages/fitna-remade.html
 
(I have NOT included a link to Wilders’ original, which can still be found around the web.)

 

There are also links to a discussion on Wilders' film, an article by Johann Hari, a Rally (in which I participated), as well as a counter-protest by Reza Moradi during Tony Benn's speech at a STWC anti-war rally, Sept '06.

 

The link again to all this:

 

http://tinyurl.com/ctw7w4

 

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