As it is read in the plot outline, "this is a short documentary directed by Theo van Gogh on the mistreatment of women in the Islam. It shows abused women, with Koran texts on their body that validate their mistreatment."
First of all, you should all know that the director himself was not only stabbed but also shot to death sometime after the release of this documentary. Now there are many reasons to this.
This movie is propaganda at its best, in my opinion. It does so many things wrong and is a fine example of why the immigration in many European countries is not working. Many Europeans have expressed rage because of murder of the director, which everyone can understand.
Many Muslims have expressed that this movie provokes their entire religion and is a disgrace. Now I agree with many of you when you say: In Europe we have Freedom of speech. Yes we do indeed. But don't we also have laws that say we are not to discriminate minor ethnic groups? Don't we have laws that say we are not to create blaspheme? We do in Denmark, and I know this because I live here.
Now I have been watching the debate ever since it started and I must say many things of have shocked me. About a week after the murder, the Muslims in Denmark were on TV again, expressing how much this movie provoked their religion. This was completely ignored by the right-wing politicians who soon after decided to give a prize to one of the staff members that helped create this short documentary. Later on when Muslims decided to sue the TV networks for airing this movie, the politicians tried to change and remove a certain paragraph that would leave the Muslims with no options.
I do not understand how we in Europe can go and on about Freedom of Speech and Human Rights when at times we violate them ourselves.
What about the laws on discrimination? What about human rights? What about freedom of religion? Now when it comes to this, Europeans unfortunately are not the best. We sure could learn a thing or to from the Americans that we like to label as "over weighted idiots". We have a famous right wing politician in Denmark called Pia Kjaersgaard. Now this woman's view upon immigrants and Muslims is amazing. She openly uses the word "Perker" when referring to immigrants, which is the same as calling black people "n*ggers" and yet this woman gets away with a small slap on her hand.
Now one thing I am quite certain of, in the USA if you use a word such as "n*gger" on public TV, your political career is pretty much over and you risk being charged legally. Why? Because the law clearly says "No discrimination". We have the same laws in Europe but do we apply them the same way?
Or how about this? A little freedom of religion for you. Turkey which is now trying to join the EU has been criticized for so many years with violations of human rights. I was in Istanbul this summer and something really shocked me. In Istanbul (note: a Muslim country) you find hundreds of Mosks of course but you also find many Synagogs and about 30 Churches. In Denmark on the other hand.. the government still refuses to give Muslims a fully Muslim burial ground, forget about the Mosk.
If we as people cannot respect others because they are different than us, their looks, names, culture is different, then we have a problem. And these problems need to be discussed. The issue is the way we discuss them. How would your average Christian react if the Muslims created a move where Jesus was seen naked as a pedophile?
Hate on hate leads to more hate, more terrorism on terror results in further terrorism. Extremists trying to fight Muslim extremists (in this case) only leads to more extremism. Which was precisely the result of this movie, the director was shot to death.
Provoking and pushing people does not immigrate them. Taking their rights and controlling their freedom doesn't either. It only turns them into the thing we don't want them to become.
First of all, you should all know that the director himself was not only stabbed but also shot to death sometime after the release of this documentary. Now there are many reasons to this.
This movie is propaganda at its best, in my opinion. It does so many things wrong and is a fine example of why the immigration in many European countries is not working. Many Europeans have expressed rage because of murder of the director, which everyone can understand.
Many Muslims have expressed that this movie provokes their entire religion and is a disgrace. Now I agree with many of you when you say: In Europe we have Freedom of speech. Yes we do indeed. But don't we also have laws that say we are not to discriminate minor ethnic groups? Don't we have laws that say we are not to create blaspheme? We do in Denmark, and I know this because I live here.
Now I have been watching the debate ever since it started and I must say many things of have shocked me. About a week after the murder, the Muslims in Denmark were on TV again, expressing how much this movie provoked their religion. This was completely ignored by the right-wing politicians who soon after decided to give a prize to one of the staff members that helped create this short documentary. Later on when Muslims decided to sue the TV networks for airing this movie, the politicians tried to change and remove a certain paragraph that would leave the Muslims with no options.
I do not understand how we in Europe can go and on about Freedom of Speech and Human Rights when at times we violate them ourselves.
What about the laws on discrimination? What about human rights? What about freedom of religion? Now when it comes to this, Europeans unfortunately are not the best. We sure could learn a thing or to from the Americans that we like to label as "over weighted idiots". We have a famous right wing politician in Denmark called Pia Kjaersgaard. Now this woman's view upon immigrants and Muslims is amazing. She openly uses the word "Perker" when referring to immigrants, which is the same as calling black people "n*ggers" and yet this woman gets away with a small slap on her hand.
Now one thing I am quite certain of, in the USA if you use a word such as "n*gger" on public TV, your political career is pretty much over and you risk being charged legally. Why? Because the law clearly says "No discrimination". We have the same laws in Europe but do we apply them the same way?
Or how about this? A little freedom of religion for you. Turkey which is now trying to join the EU has been criticized for so many years with violations of human rights. I was in Istanbul this summer and something really shocked me. In Istanbul (note: a Muslim country) you find hundreds of Mosks of course but you also find many Synagogs and about 30 Churches. In Denmark on the other hand.. the government still refuses to give Muslims a fully Muslim burial ground, forget about the Mosk.
If we as people cannot respect others because they are different than us, their looks, names, culture is different, then we have a problem. And these problems need to be discussed. The issue is the way we discuss them. How would your average Christian react if the Muslims created a move where Jesus was seen naked as a pedophile?
Hate on hate leads to more hate, more terrorism on terror results in further terrorism. Extremists trying to fight Muslim extremists (in this case) only leads to more extremism. Which was precisely the result of this movie, the director was shot to death.
Provoking and pushing people does not immigrate them. Taking their rights and controlling their freedom doesn't either. It only turns them into the thing we don't want them to become.