Netherlands PM Geert Wilders new movie "Fitna" has been posted on the live leak website. It is a movie that runs for fifteen minutes and shows various passages out of the Koran urging Muslims to commit acts of violence against non-believers. After watching the movie I found very little original material, in fact many of the clips can be found at memri.org or in the 2005 movie "Obsession." That being said I don't believe the purpose of the movie was to be a primer on the political philosophy of Islamism or the threat that ideology presents to all nations of the earth. What the movie does appear to be is volley directed at those who do not believe in Mr. Wilders version of the threat. I fully suspect the motivation behind this film is to provoke a violent reaction from Muslims worldwide similar to the riots that followed the Danish cartoon controversy and the false Newsweek article about U.S interrogators flushing the Koran. The only thing I find useful in this film is the inclusion of newspaper headlines that describe the problems the Netherlands and the rest of Europe are facing.
For those people that are interested in more academic material I recommend the following:
Sheikh Abdel‐Fatah Al‐Khalidi Revitalizes Sayid Qutb
The Ikhwan in North America: A Short History
“The Muslim Brotherhood in the United States: A Brief History”
I also recommend the blog run by Douglas Farah. He has done some of the best work I've seen on the Muslim Brotherhood and the influence it has on modern jihadist groups.
If anyone has specific questions just leave a comment and I will give you what information I have as well as some additional sources. I will also be updating my links list to include other sources that are relevant to the study of terrorism, cults, and other non-state actors.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
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