Dutch MP Geert Wilders (Google Images)

Despite a plethora of absurd legal complaints against him in the Netherlands, not to mention the recent Jordanian attempt to collect him to stand trial in Amman for blasphemy, courageous Dutch politician Geert Wilders is now planning a sequel to his controversial film FITNA, it was announced Tuesday in an Amsterdam daily.

It remains to be seen what sort of film Mr. Wilders is planning. To be sure, without risking redundancy there remain uncited by Wilders plenty of offensive passages in the Koran to illustrate the canonical source of jihad violence, if his intention is in fact to pick up where he left off. Truly, if Muslims are incensed by the relatively tame FITNA, they may be in for quite a shock, considering all the Islamic scripture that jihadists routinely quote to justify violence and hatred in the name of Allah. The great majority of that material didn’t make the cut in Wilders’ first movie, but he may just be frustrated enough to go for broke this time around.

What would you do if radical Islamists threatened your life while many of your own people and prominent elements in your own government insisted that you are the criminal? Just try to imagine the stress under which Mr. Wilders must operate, with complaints, threats, fatwahs, charges, proceedings, and vile incriminations coming relentlessly from all quarters. Would you pull out your Edvard Grieg records and sit down to create yet more of that which presently has multitudes hating you? Would you thumb your nose at them all? That takes some super-sized cojones.

My lifelong friend Jimmy Ryan, an octogenarian Irish janitor, accustomed in his time to having his cojones under someone or another’s boot, used to call it, defiantly, despite the anguish, no matter the pain—and the consequences be damned—giving the bastards “a bit o’ the nose.”

Here for the time being is the revised version of Geert Wilders’ FITNA, which at least has the merit of being kinder and less offensive to Kurt Westergaard, the Danish cartoonist who threatened to sue for copyright infringement over Wilders’ use of the infamous Mo-bomb cartoon in the original film.

Westergaard in his announcement made some lame statement that his cartoon was aimed at Islamic terrorists and not at Islam itself, and so I just have to wonder if this blinkered woodentop actually watched the movie or just had a hissy fit when he saw his drawing–used by everyone, everywhere online–in the movie’s opening sequence.

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Google video — Geert Wilders’ film FITNA (English)

I’m taking time to reflect on the developments of the last couple days and to savor the victory. Make no mistake: this time, this battle, we win, and radical Islam loses. Muslim extremists and their dhimmi collaborators thought they could suppress the film or at least prevent it from being widely viewed. Their threats and intimidation had the Dutch playing their cards close to the vest, and Internet giant Network Solutions checked and folded its hand. Pakistan’s best hackers were determined to crash whatever site hosted the film, and they flexed their muscles by showing YouTube what they could do.

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Photo by Jerry Lampen (Reuters)

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.

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