about the film is not the film itself but the reaction to it in the West and the Islamic world. The discussion on this site is intelligent debate about whether the film accomplishes its purpose and what that purpose is. But the debate prior to and after its release was shameful. Don't do this says the Dutch government because it will rile up the Muslim world - as indeed, it did. Its release provoked threats that caused LiveLeak to remove it for a while. Whether Wilders is in error or not should be the subject of debate, not whether he has the right to put forth his views. Attempting to cut off his free speech violates all the intellectual and political traditions of the West of which we are so proud. It is ironic that it is easier to find the old anti-Semitic Czarist forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, on the web than it was to dind Fitna.

JohnT