Unease in the Netherlands over MP's planned anti-Islam film

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2008

THE HAGUE (AFP) — The plans by far-right MP Geert Wilders to make a film that he says will show the Koran is "an inspiration for murder" has caused unease in the Netherlands which fears violent repercussions.

Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende has said that Wilders' plans and the international attention they are getting is causing the government headaches.

"We have seen other crises but this is a substantial one," he told Dutch public television.

Wilders, the head of the far-right Freedom Party, announced in November that he planned to release a 10-minute film this month that will show his view that Islam's holy book, the Koran, "is an inspiration for intolerance, murder and terror".

Nobody knows for sure if the film project will ever see the light...