Moderate Dutch Muslims appeal for calm before release of anti-Quran film

The International Herald Tribune
January 24, 2008

http://www.islamist-watch.org/201/moderate-dutch-muslims-appeal-for-calm-before

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THE HAGUE, Netherlands: A Dutch Muslim group appealed Thursday for calm at home and abroad in reaction to an anti-Quran film a right-wing politician says he is making.

Geert Wilders, leader of the far-right Freedom Party, says his film will portray the Quran as a "fascist book" that incites violence and intolerance of women and homosexuals.

The Dutch director of a previous film critical of Islam was murdered by a Muslim radical on an Amsterdam street in 2004, prompting a backlash that included the torching of several mosques.

The moderate National Moroccan Council said Thursday it will try to "neutralize the threat" posed by the upcoming film, which Wilders says is still under production.

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