This is one update I wish I did NOT have to post. For those of you that have no idea what this is all about, first check out this post… “The Third Jihad”
This email came to me today with the attached info. Just thought I would share this with anyone that is following this incredible story.
Gio- 
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I hope this letter finds you well.
I just wanted to update you with the latest news about the “Facing Jihad World Tour” for ‘Fitna’.
Though Geert Wilders’ controversial film was scheduled to be screened in the House of Lords in London on January 29, complications forced the screening to be postponed for two weeks (PLEASE NOTE: New information confirms that Lord Nazir Ahmed’s threats to organize mass demonstrations and storm the parliamentary chambers did not force the postponement.). The new screening date is this Thursday, February 12.
The full details are attached or can be found here: http://pitch.pe/4322
Please let me know if you need any additional information.
All the best,
Elie
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UK Parliament to show controversial film ‘Fitna’
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Parliament has ordered extra security for a House of Lords event with the controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders.
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Parliament has ordered extra security for a House of Lords event with the controversial Dutch MP Geert Wilders. The private screening of Wilders’ film Fitna was initially postponed to allow time for clarification on issues concerning freedom of speech. Despite threats of demonstration from a British Peer and Muslim community leaders, the meeting will go ahead on Thursday 12 February.
Wilders’ film Fitna features verses from the Quran alongside images of the terrorist attacks in the US on 11 September 2001, Madrid in March 2004 and London in July 2005. The film equates
Islam’s holy text with violence and ends with a call to Muslims to remove ‘hate-preaching’ verses from the Quran. It provoked protests in Muslim-majority countries including Indonesia and Pakistan.
The leader of the Dutch Freedom Party, Wilders has lived under 24 hour police protection since 2004. Following Fitna’s release online in March 2008 al-Qaeda issued a fatwa calling for Wilders’ murder.
Wilders currently faces prosecution in Holland for incitement to hatred and discrimination. The charges are based on his film Fitna and comments in the Dutch press last year in which he argued
that as Mein Kampf has been banned in Holland, the Quran should similarly be banned in under Dutch incitement laws.
Wilders called the Dutch Court of Appeal’s decision to prosecute an attack on freedom of expression. “Participation in the public debate has become a dangerous activity. If you give your opinion, you risk being prosecuted,” he said.
The court ruled that prosecution does not conflict with Wilders’ right to freedom of speech. “Statements which create hate and grief made by politicians, taken their special responsibility into consideration, are not permit ted according to European standards,” the court said in a statement.
The House of Lords event, originally scheduled for January, was not postponed in response to the threats made by the British Peer, Lord Ahmed. However, Lord Ahmed told the Pakistani press
that the decision to stop the screening was “a victory for the Muslim community.”
Following the private screening there will be a press conference:
“The Quran and Freedom of Speech”
A screening of Fitna (2008 – 17 mins)
Q&A with Geert Wilders MP (Holland)
No. 1 Abbey Gardens
Thursday 12th February
6:00 – 7:00pm
Notes to editor:
1.) The House of Lords event is hosted by Lord Pearson, a UKIP Peer with a special interest in the European Union, Islamism and education. It will be chaired by Baroness Cox, a crossbench Peer and a human rights campaigner with a strong commitment to
humanitarian aid and education; she is a founder of The International Islamic Christian Organisation for Reconciliation and Reconstruction.
Contact: Lord Pearson of Rannoch
Telephone UK: 207 735 3170
E-mail: PeersandMPs@aol.com
Gio,
The chickensh*ts in the UK blinked.
The latest news is that “Dutch filmmaker Geert Wilders, whose film “Fitna” warns that Islam is threatening Western civilization, now has been banned from the United Kingdom…. Wilders, the leader of the Dutch Freedom Party, has been living under 24-hour protection from police since 2004. All-Qaida has called for his murder. According to a report on his website, Wilders was told today in a letter from the British embassy he would not be allowed to enter the UK.”
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88528
Eowyn,
This is a very sad turn of events indeed. If the UK had any freaking collective brains, they would surely know that they have handed radical Islam a huge victory!
There now seems to be a global race to see which group/s and/or entities will be the first to destroy the United States. Radical Islam, Communism, or Liberal ideology. I wonder if these groups have any idea how they are helping each other?
Dumb question!
Gio-
Gio,
You left out the Lunatic Greens (although they can be part of “Liberal ideology”).
There is a good case to be made of the Red-Green-Jihad alliance. All three groups are united by their common hatred for what used to be the United States. You know that ol’ adage: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Insult is now added to injury against Dutch lawmaker & director Geert Wilders. He was detained upon arrival at Heathrow Airport and will be returned home.
“Banned From Britain, Dutch Lawmaker Denied Entry at Heathrow”
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,491505,00.html