The following is my comment as posted on Haris Ibrahim’s blog, but I believe it is a sombre and serious message for all Muslims who may come across this post.
If you haven’t seen even seen the film or read the summary, please do before you go off and protest too!
Watch: Michelle Malkin or Moonbattery or The Jawa Report
Read: Wikipedia on Fitna
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From http://harismibrahim.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/fitna/#comment-12447:
Sir Haris, I too am saddened to note that – yet again – the Muslim leaders of the world are venting their outrage at Westerners deemed to be mocking Islam by portraying it as a violent religion…
Yet not one of them utters a peep about the extremists who call for death and jihad against nonMuslims as featured preaching hate in the film – the same ones who cause Westerners to view Islam as a violent religion.
Those extremists are the ones hijacking and ‘rebranding’ Islam as a religion of war and intolerance in the public eye. Yet none of the moderate Muslim leaders denounce or reject them.
Instead, they issue more calls for boycotts, more protests, perhaps more fatwas against Wilders, a man whose image of Islam is coloured by those very extremists and their multiple death threats against him (even before the film).
What image does this portray to the West when every single time, the Muslim leaders of the world attack the messenger (Wilders or newspaper cartoons), but not the message (extremists who are successfully using Islam as a rallying cry for violence and hatred)?
I’ll make an educated guess on the above question: Westerners will suspect that the so-called moderates secretly support the views of those extremists.
In fact, I am certain that Wilders is counting on such a knee-jerk reaction from Muslims, with maybe some riots and spontaneous murders or innocent bystanders thrown in (like what happened with the Jyllands-Posten controversy), in order to prove his point to the world.
If his aim is to influence public opinion into seeing all Muslims as violent extremists, then I’m afraid that Mahathir and all the rest of the prominent Muslim moderates are only aiding his agenda.
Muslims of the world, fix this PR disaster now – denounce the extremists featured in Fitna along with Geert Wilders!
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Related news links:
Yahoo News: Malaysia’s Mahathir says Muslims ‘annoyed’ by Dutch film
The Star: BN Youth condemns Dutch film
The Star National Fatwa Council rules Fitna an insult, calls for boycott of all Dutch products
The Star: Muslim Consumers Association of Malaysia calls for boycott of Dutch goods
The Star: Mydin stores mark Dutch products so consumers can avoid them
Reuters: Muslim nations condemn Dutch MP’s provocative film
Michelle Malkin: Fitna follow-up: The usual suspects do the usual thing
Wikipedia on reactions to the film’s release
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