Wilders is refusing to say what possibilities he still has up his sleeve . . .
Amid rampant speculation and widespread consternation in the blogosphere that Geert Wilders’ film FITNA does not in fact exist, Dutch News reported today that the bleach-blonde MP is continuing to insist the long-awaited film will be released before the end of the month.
Those who think Mr. Wilders has made his point by crafting an elaborate April Fools joke, and that the actual movie would thus be anticlimactic, themselves have a point. Indeed, his threat to make a film dramatizing the Koranic sources of jihad violence and Islamic militancy has Muslims the world over in a tizzy. He’s even got the attention of Osama bin Laden, and complaints by outraged Muslims to Mr. Wilders’ American Internet host, Network Solutions, have resulted in the US service provider pulling the plug on fitnathemovie dot com. Further, the news report notes that a local Islamic group is filing for a “preventive ban” on the film under blasphemy laws. The Dutch will definitely have to rethink those, but anyway it’s unclear how something no one has seen can be determined blasphemous. Even not-so-inquiring minds want to know. Mr. Wilders has made quite a point, and quite an uproar, indeed.
But it it would be a disaster to rest on the point Mr. Wilders has already made, and if his only intention was to make a sensational point and not to make a movie, he’d better get one made fast, because not to produce a film now would be a resounding victory for radical Muslims and their dhimmi collaborators, who will be vindicated and thus emboldened to continue using intimidation and threats of violence over every perceived slight to their faith, their prophet, or their holy books.
I for one am all but certain Mr. Wilders knows this and has, in hand, a film of some kind. The only question is how he’s going to show it and where. I’ve heard lots of good suggestions in that regard, and various major websites have offered to host it as well. Apparently, Glenn Beck has even offered to host it on TV, which if I’m not mistaken would solve a lot of Wilders’ technical difficulties. I have to believe, though, that the great Geert Wilders, who may not have much up his sleeve, is nevertheless going to pull a rabbit out of his hat by April Fools Day.
Except, in the spirit of the occasion, maybe it will be a big, fluffy pig instead–just to piss ‘em all off even more.
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