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Pakistanis protest Dutch anti-Quran film

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"Dozens staged an angry protest in Pakistan on Friday in response to a Dutch lawmaker's anti-Quran film, but Dutch Muslims appealed for calm and said it was less inflammatory than they had feared.

The 15-minute film by Geert Wilders, posted on a Web site late Thursday, sets verses of the Quran against a montage of images from terrorist attacks and rhetoric from Muslim clergymen urging ``jihad,'' or holy war. Shortly afterward Dutch television channels rebroadcast segments of it."
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2 responses // Pakistanis protest Dutch anti-Quran film

  • http://current.com/items/88879158_wilders_releases_movi...
    for the original movie see this link:
    yonie
  • Seems like fair comment from Geert Wilders. The Netherlands has, like most of Europe, a long and hard won tradition of satire and political/cultural free speech.
    Do the protesters in Pakistan presume they have a right to pervert those traditions and rights?

    Are the Dutch not a distinct nation? A cultural, political and historical entity that has managed for thousands of years without Pakistan. In all honesty I despair at our 'rainbow' multicultural nations.
    All cultures are not equal.
    To pretend they are is doing a disservice to the sovereign nation states that 'host' the various groups of immigrants.

    Nations and cultures change over time - a long time. Multi-cultural experiments are artificial and meaningless.

    If you don't want your children to be Dutch don't move to Holland.
    cochrane

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