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Geert Wilders of the Netherlands has been promising to release his movie FITNA for months now.  (Fitna translated means 'unbeliever.'  He has battled his own government and press in order to have the 'right' to release his movie to speak out about the dangers Islamism is posing to his culture and to his country.  His only option for releasing this movie was to post it on the internet because no publisher or media outlet would open their doors to him.  LiveLeak, here in America posted the movie for us because of their belief in freedom of speech even though they don't necessarily agree with the message.  In less than 48 hours LiveLeak, the internet video posting service, pulled the movie from their site due to threats made against members of their staff.  Our own media is complicit with this silencing of video evidence of Muslim aggression with regards to clips like the planes crashing into the towers during the attacks on the World Trade Center and Daniel Pearl's, Nicholas Berg's, murders which the radicals so proudly posted on the internet and many other examples.  They do so on the basis these scenes are too disturbing while finding no trouble airing video of other murders or assassinations of political leaders.  Remember the lawyer that was shot several times by his disgruntled client?  The end effect is the dumbing down of the American public with regard to the vast array of the threats against Western culture.  The author of 'Roots of Jihad' Dr. Tawfic Hamid and many others who would know tell us how the radical versions of Islam are main stream in Muslim countries' governments and educational institutions.  During his interview on a Canadian news and commentary show, he explained radical Islam as that which teaches Salaf which is the root of Wahabism and moderate or mystic version of Islam is called Sufi.  He explains that the Salafi teacher can point to hundreds of references in Islamic literature that support violent actions whereas the Sufi teacher is not theologically supported.

The 15 minute film displays the results of the murderous works of radical Islam in both their own culture and in our culture and compares these images with verses out of the Q'uran and sermons, speeches, and interviews made by the most popular radical religious, political leaders, and even their teaching institutions instructing their followers to kill the Jews and attack the infidel until he submits, that Islam will rule the world, will defeat and rule the U.S. England, etc.,  There is nothing false presented in the movie and it is offensive to Muslims because they fear retribution against their peaceful members for what the radicals are doing.  I was fully aware of most of these images and the sermons and speeches because I have been blogging on this very topic for the last two years and had posted most of the images in my articles.   The final message in the film is two-fold, "Stop the spread of radical Islam" and "Muslims must be the ones to reform Islam."

The subject of this article is to point out that Islamism is inhibiting free speech in the one country built on 'freedom of the people' and 'self governance.'  The United States of America has been attacked in a far more damaging way than 11 Sep 2001.  This attack is defeating our basic rights successfully and revisiting the question of whether free speech is a legitimate right to our citizens.  We've been through this before with the marches by the KKK.  We hate the message of the KKK but we allow them to say what they say because if they can't speak their message, then eventually we won't be able to speak ours.  The difference in this instance is Islam.  Islam en total is 1.3 billion people around the world and rapidly growing, a substantial number to be sure.  Early into the struggle between radical Islam and the West, it was estimated that the radicals make up 10% of all Muslims.  That comes out to 130,000,000 people who want to force Islam on the rest of the world.  Add to that number the moderate Muslims who are offended by cartoons of Muhammad or videos revealing how extreme and how far spread Islamism has managed to become, because they fear Western retribution will fall on them, and you begin to see consequences of speech in a new light.  Now, due to the threat Muslims are posing to the venues of modern day speech (LiveLeak, YouTube, etc.,) hacking the websites of any and all hosts who've posted FITNA and threatening their staff members and to the Western media's reluctance to look at the whole story, the controversial movie is difficult to access and information is more difficult to get.  There are still sites where you can get it\ but they are increasingly less popular, smaller sites organized by people like Brigitte Gabriel and Dr. Hamid.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7d9_1206624103&p=1