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Director of controversial film on Islam to speak in Jerusalem
By The Associated Press
Tags: Geert Wilders, Koran 

National Union MK Aryeh Eldad said Wednesday that a controversial Dutch legislator and filmmaker will speak at an upcoming Jerusalem conference on combating radical Islam.

Geert Wilders' film Fitna linked attacks by Islamic militants to texts from the Koran, Islam's holy book. It sparked angry street protests in Muslim countries earlier this year and Jordan has informed Interpol he is wanted to face charges there.

The conference in December will be tailored to European legislators seeking to unite in opposition to militant Islam.
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Eldad told a news conference Wednesday that the Europeans who would attend the gathering would represent the political mainstream in their countries and not the far-right.

Eldad said Fitna would be screened and the visiting politicians, "acting as a defensive coalition in the European Parliament, would discuss common action to counter militant Islam and its culture of Jihad, or holy war."

Other participants will include Baroness Caroline Cox of Queensbury, an independent member of the House of Lords, the British parliament's unelected second chamber, he said.

Eldad showed journalists a brief clip from Fitna which juxtaposes quotations from the Quran with images from the 2004 bombing attacks that killed 191 people on four trains in Madrid and the 2005 London blasts which killed 52 commuters.

Islamic militants claimed responsibility for the Madrid bombings, and the four London suicide bombers were all British Muslims.

"Not all Muslims are terrorists, but most terrorists are Muslims," Eldad said. "I don't want to offend Muslims, I just want to expose the true nature of Islam."

MK Ahmed Tibi, a Muslim Arab, said Eldad's initiative and his comments were incendiary and Islamophobic, but Muslims should not allow themselves to be goaded into violent protest.

"We should not cooperate with this provocation, that's to say we will not demonstrate, we will not destroy, we will not burn. Our protest should be only vocal," he told Associated Press Television News.
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  1.   This is commendable and long overdue 15:35  |  Freethinker 03/09/08
  2.   "The mother of The World Greatest Danger`. 16:06  |  Akram Zekaria 03/09/08
  3.   israeli in holland 16:11  |  rafiq 03/09/08
  4.   about time the truth be told. 16:13  |  mona 03/09/08
  5.   freedom of speech 16:20  |  manijeh 03/09/08
  6.   MOST websites have been intimidated to delete it,however 16:26  |  PETER SM 03/09/08
  7.   THANK YOU MR. WILDERS 16:44  |  MOSHE 03/09/08
  8.   Let the truth be shown 17:20  |  Daniel 03/09/08
  9.   No To Protocol of Islamic Elders 17:27  |  NoToPropaganda 03/09/08
  10.   Not Everybody Go To See This! 17:39  |  Yosemite 03/09/08
  11.   Freedom of Speach and not Hatred of Speech 18:39  |  John 03/09/08
  12.   God bless Mr. Geert Wilders 19:10  |  Avenger of Israel 03/09/08
  13.   3 rafiq,truly spoken ! And this guy seems to be an attention 19:37  |  lakshmi 03/09/08
  14.   rafiq 21:13  |  jojo 03/09/08
  15.   What is wrong with film 21:37  |  Jackie 03/09/08
  16.   #13 lakshmi...Wilders is in the parliament 22:30  |  Lynn 03/09/08
  17.   he dares to speak, which is unusual in eu 22:53  |  gui 03/09/08
  18.   rakik you are unclear 22:55  |  jabotinski 03/09/08
  19.   haaretz is a controversial newspaper 22:56  |  julian 03/09/08
  20.   Geert is a mensh 22:57  |  carillo 03/09/08
  21.   muslim terrorists 23:00  |  brant 03/09/08
  22.   i advise evrybody to see his movie 23:21  |  michel 03/09/08
  23.   Birds of the same feather flock together. 23:36  |  Abu Ali 03/09/08
  24.   LAKSHMI which part is untrue? a challenge for you. 23:41  |  PETER SM 03/09/08
  25.   Progress is being made in the muslim mind 00:57  |  lizardking 04/09/08
  26.   PETER SM of MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA @#6, THANK YOU!!! 01:01  |  Akiva P 04/09/08
  27.   Abu Ali @# 23 01:10  |  Akiva P 04/09/08
  28.   Tibi`s (MKReaction 01:31  |  Brad 04/09/08
  29.   M.K. Tibi`s Reaction: Muslims and Terrorism 01:39  |  Brad 04/09/08
  30.   Tibi: you will not burn? Only if it was a cartoon? 01:52  |  Alain 05/09/08
  31.   Director of controversial film on Islam 13:54  |  Ali 18/09/08
  32.   Yes to Mr Geert Wilders 22:32  |  Benedictos Mohamad 26/12/08
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