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June 18, 2006
Dutch Fear Muslim Reaction To Movie About Intolerance To Gays
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Friday, June 16, 2006 [Washington Blade]
Photo Right: Ayaan Hirsi Ali recently resigned her post in the Dutch parliament after years of death threats based on ‘Submission.’ Now she plans to release ‘Submission 2.’ (Photo by Rob Keeris/AP)
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — Dutch authorities fear that “Submission 2,” soon to be released new movie by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, might make the Netherlands a target of angry Muslims worldwide, the Brussels Journal reported June 9. The movie criticizes Muslims for their intolerance of gays. Hirsi-Ali, a controversial Somalia-born former Dutch M.P., resigned from parliament in May. In a report published last month, the country’s National Anti-Terrorism Coordinator warned of a possible international Muslim boycott of the Netherlands, similar to the boycott of Denmark earlier this year over the Muhammad cartoons, the newspaper said. “Controversial debates or artistic quotes about Islam in the Netherlands can be abused by radical Muslims abroad to agitate against the Netherlands,” the report says. Hirsi Ali gained international notoriety in 2004 as the writer of a controversial film on violence against Muslim women, “Submission,” after her collaborator, filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered by a radical Islamist.
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Moving stories: Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Behind the Veil: A Muslim Woman Speaks Out
Hirsi Ali on Film over Position of Women in Koran
Submission The film - Wikipedia
Submission, Part I - Film Clip from short Submission (2004)
This metaphorical look at the harsh realities of the lives of Muslim women in the Netherlands got filmmaker Theo van Gogh assassinated November 2, 2004.
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