Google Video's Presentation of Geert Wilder's "Fitna" -the Clash of Civilizations or Moral Revolution?

Fitna is an '08 short documentary by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, which explores Qur'anic foundations for terrorism, Islamic universalism, and Islam in the Netherlands. The film's title comes from the Arabic word fitna, used to describe "disagreement and division among people", or a "test of faith in times of trial."

Author Robert Wright gives a brilliant video talk of "grim inspiration" about history's arrow - progress in the modern world toward moral truth and the unfolding apocalypse known as the "Clash of Civilization" between Islam and the West and the possible death-spiral of negativity which is so profoundly and disturbingly framed in Geert Wilder's anti-Islam documentary (video below).

Wright warns that our unwillingness to understand one another, as in the clash between the Muslim world and the West, will lead to all of us losing the "game."

We recommend watching the Geert Wilder Video first (please be warned -it's extremely disturbing), followed by Wright's presentation on history's arrow and the modern dilemma of the Clash of Civilizations.

Posted by Casey Kazan.

Fitna -The Geert Wilder Film

Robert Wright on Clash of Civilizations

 

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Comments

[greeeni]

good stuff. thanks for the post.
here's a related link to our blog post, dealing with honour killings, http://anthrolog.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/honour-killings/ which also contains
Theo Van Gogh’s “submission".

It adresses the question about the relation of "culture" and "religion".

[Mark Cremona]

Dear Geert, bless him, you cannot help but feel pity for the Dutch, as a UK expat living and working in the Netherlands It didn't take me long from working alongside the Dutch to realize they are the most racist xenophobic people on Earth, cleverly they have dressed up their phobias in Liberalisms but when you dig deeper into their culture you see a different picture, we should not forget the Dutch were the inventors of Apartheid and the founders of Slavery, the workplace in modern Holland is still segregated with little or no cultural mixing with the Surinam people who were previously their slaves, in white collar environments such as where I work, black people are routinely referred to as 'Neggeren' often to their faces, can you imagine that in the UK or the US ?
Now they have massive muslim immigration whose low paid labour is effectively supporting their economy, principally from Morocco, these hard working close knit people are treated with scorn and as third class citizens even though they do the work that the Dutch would not spit on, part of their hatred for the Muslim 'slaves' is born out of the fact that they are reproducing at 3 times the rate of native Dutch people, meaning that, in such a small waterlogged country, they will very soon be in the minority, so we should not be surprised that such a small nation built on racism and Mud should be so vociferous in its Hatred of Muslims. Not to worry, within 100 years the North Sea will have swallowed up their land and the Netherlands will be part of History.

[Dave]

Dear Mark
It's very difficult to agree with a fanatic like Wilder, but the video gives other reasons why Muslims are hated and this begs to be addressed also. I had a post to post conversation with a Canadian Muslim who wished for me to understand that it was the Sunni's who were more of a problem and this wasn't clear in the video. It was my understanding of the video that it wasn't the variation on the theme, but the theme itself (religion and in this case Islam) that was the target of this video. I found it difficult to look at the scenes (that were not a fictional movie, but reality) and not get angry. This video did not make me angry at Muslims. It made me angry with those who use religion to incite violence.