Fitna the Movie is out...
long awaited. its a very different film.
Director/Producer/Writer: Geert Wilders, a Dutch politician (rightist).
core stuffed with an unbalanced ideology and the shell adorned with impressionable caricaturization.
the plot of this 10 minute odd film does NOT revolve around anything. the plot simply sticks to the basic point. it lashes out hard at Islam, the teachings.
there has been a lot of hue and cry about this movie from either ends. the free world fundamentalists call it curtailing of the freedom of expression while the Islamics are emotional about the gross picturization of the film in itself.
i just saw the 10 minute flick....
the disclaimer is called in the first very frame of the film.
"Warning: The movie contains disturbing material".
next we have the Quran Sharif (the Central religious text of Islam) opening. an extraordinary looking, ornate-back book. Quran is an Arabic word that means the recitation.
i looked back to check if it did open from exactly the opposite end as regular books. without a doubt.
next on roll is one of the ever famous and controversial cartoons of Prophet Mohamed by the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. The Prophet has a ticking bomb in his turban.
Basically the Quran Sharif is broken down into Surahs (meaning: an entity enclosed by a fence) which are chapters and further into verses. the director has centered on a few Surahs that are interpreted by the Islamic extremists to the best of their understanding giving rise to something like a 9/11 massacre.
The camera rolls to Quran's Surah 8, vers 60. the interpretation boils down to the fact that the Quran preaches to terrorize the enemies of Islam as an enemy of self. this is spiced with a few breathtaking pictures of the 9/11 attack which we all would have seen before, followed by the train station blasts in Madrid.
the Muslim clergy (Imams) follows next, evangelizing the idea of extremism by killing non-muslims. these are some real footages.
hold your breath when the film reel touches 2:30 on the timer. there are actually some disturbing pictures of baked corpses waiting for the maggots.
Quran's Surah 4, vers 56 attacks the disbelievers in Islam. the movie again has some very aggressive interpretations alongside the Imams (clergy) at the best of their provocation.
a short interview of a three and a half year old lovely Muslim girl follows. she's asked what she thinks about the Jews. rap comes a reply... "they are monkeys and swines". this according to the toddler is what Allah says in the Quran.
the Muslims praise Hitler, ridicule Jews with their expression in public. its a crystal clear depiction of the thoughts and acts of Muslims.
Surah 47, vers 7 in the flick again points out at disbelievers. according to the interpretation
the throats shall be slit of such people. Theo van Gough, a film director with a strong critical viewpoint on Islam was murdered in a street of Netherland by a Morroccon Muslim Mohammed Bouyeri. the director adds some clips from T. van Gough's interview before the murder and a statement by Bouyeri wherein he claims that given another chance he would re-act the whole murder sequence.
Please Note that the picture shown is not that of Mohammed Bouyeri but of a Morroccon-Muslim rapper Salah Edin.
Surah 4, vers 89 is the last one to take the interpreters' toll. Islam is glorified and rated above all other religions. ex-muslims threatened and abused, salman rusdhie being one of them.
the last shot very smartly plastered wherein one of these pages from the Quran is held firm and in the next very darkened frame a paper ripping sound is heard.
running text in the end suggests to Muslims to take a call on their Holy Book. to learn from the good and rip the hatred.
then there is a slight shift in the agenda and the text reads "Stop Islam from spreading - defend OUR freedom".
ending with the focus on the same cartoon where it all began. the focus precisely on the ticking time-bomb on the head of Prophet Mohamed with the added sound effect of the tick-tocking of a clock as the background score.
in my opinion, the Muslims fighting against this movie are justified. as this i feel is a gross glorification of the extremism that has been inculcated in Islam as a religion.
i can watch this movie and express my opinion with ease. neither am I a Muslim nor was i there at the WTC on 9/11.
but what astonishes me is that i could have been Mohommed dRoZzY or dRoZzY Nelson at the WTC. and i could have still come from a similar family of high values. what would i have then thought about Fitna.
let us all be just to one another. let us be just to humanity. God does not make Allah or Christ...
He makes human beings in His factory. some of His productions are like Mohommed Bouyeri and some like Geert Wilders. the rest of the products are you and I...
if one sikh killing Indira Gandhi gets over 5000 random sikhs butchered in the National Capital Region of India then the random Muslims needs to find another planet sooner than now.
You may watch Fitna the Movie here...
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MF! *GRIN*
@skeeter: YF, after a long time...
Did not read the post, just wanted to let u know that I had dropped in....
@Anjuli: great to have you here :)
a very detailed review...
different interpretations of Quran Sharif and thus different reactions.extremists have been successful to brainwash youth using one of these interpretations of the Holy Book.when i say this,believe me it is happening at a HUGE level.
yes,there were missionary scholars like Max Mueller who was translating Indian scriptures with a political motive(Aryan invasion & Reg Vedas) but these muslim extremists have just taken this to next level.
these extremists are using the past to make a future which nobody is sure of.reminds me of a very censored line in rand de basanti
""ek pair kal pe te dooja pair aane waale kal pe tabhi to hum aaj pe mut rahe hai” (we have one feet on yesterday, one on tomorrow and that’s how we pee on today)"
I will stop now because this is a very debatable topic ,it can go on in pages.
i do have some really close muslim friends and all i can say is ...
a Religion is just a WAY of life and nothing else.
your line "if one sikh killing Indira Gandhi gets ....."
Totally agree ..have put it really well. Did i say you write very concisely and i love reading it.
*aint feeling well(high temp) but couldnt resist commenting here
i ditto geet. HA!
that's my new commenting shtyle..concise, to the point no much blabbering and the movie i didnt watch, me dont wanna spoil my sunday by watching butchering..and come to think of it am also turning into a vergetarian so i don wanna puke on a sunday.
And I blabbered.
islam ka niyam hai
jo bande galat kaam karte hai unke mann mein drr baithao..and wat america is doing to dem is really wrong so i think dey have succeded in terrorizing dem...
wateva ppl say
muslim religion was never a very tolarant and timid
it was always the religion of the fighters..so most of the verses are not like preaching ..its like giving verbal tonic to the soldiers before going to the war..
so..kuchh bhi kaho
actually muslims k genes mein ladna likha hai..and wateva dey are doing though i am against dem but they have maintained the world order which wud had got destroyed if america remained unchallenged..
about the brutality of killing dat m not in for..but
think
in a war
if one kills 10 and the other can only manage to kill one..the war strategy say make it look like a terror so that enemy has fear or revengeful of getting in to the war itself and an afraid or angry warrior is an easy pray...
and about islam
I really hate a warrior tribe growing nearby ..becoz if the war stops the next target will be civilians because dey don kno anything but to fight.......
god save earth as he had made the religions
@geet: wonderfully said.
the point that i again boil down to is that every religion in this world has a flavor of extremism in it. this basically comes from the fact that each religion has had to fight for its existence. now the intensity of this extremism is directly proportional to to the current size and the spread of the religion.
we have Christians, Jews, Islamics, Hindus and even the Sikhs who till date sustain their ill-willed clergy and evangelists.
damn these guys. butcher them on the street. i guess it is the 'secular' tag of the open world that is the basic cause of trouble.
my idea was just to highlight that eventually the folks killed were neither extremists nor the the policy makers.
they were you and I...
@elusive: Fitna is not that a bad watch too. :)
you need to know the cruel face of the very cruel world that we call our home.
for all possible reasons, I someday, could be a victim too.
@sourish karmakar: God forbid, but if you had three children where one suffers from a communicable terminal disease, would you kill the whole family beforehand???
i have a close Muslim friend who eats what i eat, wears GAP, drinks diet coke, works like i do but prays differently.... does he deserve to die when another WTC comes down???
Wilders is Dutch, not French.
@thabet: honest mistake. corrected!!!
I'm so against the killing of innocent people!
@niyara: i am sure...
yup...you have conveyed your point very aptly in the post.. but i was thinking of the next step.. now we know the reason...how can this be put to a stop? a practical soln!!
just talking my mind...
Its nice to see people like you are blogging, even dogs are blogging nowadays.
I thinks people like you and me whom i assume are educated should stop writing hate speeches on web and also not support them.
By doing this we are iginiting a subtle anger in the minds of people against religion.
i found this film very interesting because the producer has done much research to show and say which Quran and never said.
i agree that one sentence can have 1000 interpretations. but one with a grey matter should think about it.
I was born muslim ,and i am through with quran and arabic as well.
but now i am an athiest.
not because what Islam follows is wrong, other religions have thousand weak points too.
but for people like you , i am sorry to say we should think beyond and start doinging something to bring all indians together by spreading peace and tolerance.
Zabeeh
@geet: do you 'still' think that i am thinking to doing something about this... now once again i seriously give a damn.
@Media Activist: i am at a complete loss of words. i would still thank you for bringing to my notice a third viewpoint to the whole issue.
before anything else i need to apologize if i would have hurt your sentiments anyhow...
- about me being educated: you guessed it right.
-about writing hate speeches: it's my viewpoint (what you think is a hate speech) and i do not think that anyone can curtail it.
-about Islam: i have never thought that it is wrong... or what it preaches it aggression... so whats the point?
-about people like me should think beyond: think beyond what??? i write what i feel. i wished your view because i thought that you'd remember the last few email exchanges. thats all mate. i dont even see an anthill here...
lastly...
about dogs blogging: trust me buddy... these days dogs are doing much more than just blogging...
i think this film has only filmed the exteremists ?? i have many muslims friends..not all of them are close i admit..but many of them are n i have never faced hostility...
but i guess the point is about the random muslim u meet not ur friend... yes ..there certainly is hostiliy.. from both the side.s.. cange should come..but i dnt see it coming anytime soon....
I hate extremism and I dun u'stand such ppl. Neither do I wanna watch a movie on em. God help em all!
btw that post is up :)
Keshi.
I'm definitely gonna watch the movie...will give my comments then
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great review!!
must say it was one of the best things ive read here!
at no point of time did i read extreme opinions, it seemed all too factual!
now i really wanna see the movie! but do lemme knw what fitna means!
hey youtube isnt showin d whole thing...just half of it!!:(
@samby: thats a great thought at least. honest to the core.
@keshi: oh that kinky post... damn you
@crasiezt: sure. let me know. i expect something very honest from you.
@freesherry: and i still do not know about my secret admirer...
@gunj: i'll send you a report and follow up on fitna... it means some kind of a boundary if i am not wrong.
dont say that this is the best post here... :(
depresses me... i have one of my best somewhere dug deep inside this blog... its about my grandmother.
youtube could have pulled the video off... search fitna at youtube direcly
I suggest you to watch "Khuda Ke Liye" which released today. The first Pakistani movie to release in India.
Needless to say ts BRILLIANT!
Well,thanks a ton for talking about it here.I would probably have missed out on this.Its awesome
@rohit: i shall definitely watch this one...
@mishra: you are always welcome mate
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