The Freedom Party of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders has reacted furiously to the trailer of an online movie spoofing a murder attempt on Mr Wilders.
The trailer is available on the website of publicly-funded radio station FunX, which targets a young urban audience. Freedom Party MP Martin Bosma has said his party will ask Media Minister Ronald Plasterk whether "an over-subsidised multi-culti radio station" should be receiving government money if it is putting out "suggestive" movies. A government spokesperson explained to reporters that there is no preventive censorship in the Netherlands. Only after a broadcaster commits an offence can legal action be taken, according to the spokesperson.
The Freedom Party points out that Mr Wilders is living under constant heavy police protection following a number of credible death threats. "It is disgusting to turn that into entertainment."
- The trailer opens with the fake caution that "This film is based on fiction and is not suitable for viewers." The voice-over is in Italian, a language which is not generally spoken in the Netherlands, hence the Dutch subtitles.
Radio FunX director Willem Stegeman said that the full satirical video will be released next week. "It is an unmistakeable parody. I cannot give away the plot, but I can reveal that it will be a total anti-climax. We are exploring how far we can go, and some may find it in bad taste. But the same can be said of statements by some people in the political spectrum. We are putting an ironic slant on the whole thing, striking a blow against all the ponderousness surrounding Mr Wilders."
Mr Stegeman emphasised that the film makers are not after demonising the nationalist right-wing anti-Islam MP. "But the film's author is definitely drawing a connection with Pim Fortuyn," the popular outcast politician who was assassinated in 2002 following a plea for stricter immigration rules.
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I do understand that some people may find it “in bad taste” but I don’t see why they would even think about censoring the film in the Netherland? Just like the spokesperson said “only after a broadcaster commits an offense can legal action be taken” and obviously they haven’t been doing anything illegal. - http://www.softelgroup.com
"But the film's author is definitely drawing a connection with Pim Fortuyn," the popular outcast politician who was assassinated in 2002 following a plea for stricter immigration rules."
Nonsense, Pim Fortuyn was killed by Volkert van der Graaf, an animal rights activist and environmentalist extremist. Pim Foruyn was assassinated following a plea for intensive animal farming and fur farming.
The timing of this film's appearance is not exactly coincedental with the upcoming local elections. It should serve as an indication of how well the PVV does in the two cities it is participating in. The PVV should be making an effort in every constituency in these elections. The poll for the general elections may put the PVV at 26 seats, but a great deal of grassroots work has to be done in maintaining a political machine, and demonstrating to the electorate it can work to put together a viable coalition to run the national government. The PVV is sending out the wrong message by claiming on the one hand that they are indispensible to the nation's survival, when on the other hand there is no perception of any crisis at all by a general public, many of whom are not even aware of the elections at all. The PVV's non-participation in the elections to a full extent,only reinforces this perception and negates it's own raison d'etre. Everything is now focused upon Geert, which is the weakness of his one-man leadership structure of the PVV. The film is meant to exploit this weakness, especially while Geert is embroiled in the trial while resistance to he and the PVV is growing. Geert needs to make a major power base in the urban areas, to emphasize the crisis atmosphere he and the PVV claims to exist there. With the complacency of the general public towards the local elections, two very different views of daily reality emerge. Why is there no great anticipation of these elections to free the locals at the level where they conduct their daily lives? Where is the need for the PVV to come and save the Dutch and their way of life? The rise of the Greens seem to indicate a far different set and tendancies of priorities at the level of local life, and the PVV is missing the boat. The film is succeeding on keeping the PVV off balance, through exposing Geert as it's own major asset and concern, retreating further back into a one-issue stance. Even those who stand up for Geert are succumbing to this political trap the film and it's makers have snared them into. The next poll on the state of parties towards the comming general election will reveal how much there is a momentum shift towards a mult-issue basis in Dutch politics, and how the PVV can (if possible) to respond to it. David Berridge.
Your bias shows in the choice of photograph you choose to illustrate your article.
The Government's bias against (and fear of) Wilders shows in the choice of projects they throw hard-working Dutch taxpayers' money at - and the kangaroo court they appear to have organised for Wilders.
Geert Wilders is speaking the truth. He is not some 'far-right' nazi freak, as the liberal media loves to represent him. He is, in fact, an articulate conservative with libertarian leanings, who deplores the damage that uncritical multiculturalism and Islamisation is doing to our European homelands and cultures.
I wish we in Britain, your next-door neighbours who face exactly the same problem, had someone of the calibre of Wilders speaking out for us.
Do you trust the EU more than Widers to tell you the truth? Did you know they have a special fund, which pays countries handsomely to take in more immigrants from outside the EU? No? That's because the EU that you trust isn't telling you these things at all.
Those who feel that Wilders should be imprisoned and even further accommodations be made to the Muslims should remember the words of Winston Churchill - "an appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last"
As you sneer at and vilify Wilders, you are flirting with the death of your very culture - and you are about to shoot the messenger.
"I wish we in Britain, your next-door neighbours who face exactly the same problem, had someone of the calibre of Wilders speaking out for us."........ Philip, you, the British, do have someone who is speaking-out for the rights of those British citizens (who are not treated as citizens by the British gov't) who are the original citizens of the Isles and the person is an organisation called BNP. The UK has allowed millions of legally and illegally Muslim people into the kingdom that the face, nature, and culture of the British personality has changed to one of of an Islamic nature. Britain is far worse than the Netherlands. { "As you sneer at and vilify Wilders, you are flirting with the death of your very culture - and you are about to shoot the messenger."......You are right! Britianstan is an excellent example of how the British gov't betrayed it's citizens. What the Germans couldn't do with the Blitz over London, the British politicians did with lack of loyalty to the citizens of the UK. Don't get me wrong, the orginal British citzens were just as wrong as their politicians because they, too, turned a blind eye to the Islamic onslaught then and they still are today. Support the BNP and vote BNP and just maybe the onslaught will stop.
This should be considered a direct threat on Mr. Wilders life and those responsible for this film should be arrested.
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