Fitna: Iran flexes its tongue muscle and threatens violence

Report on Arrakis checks in with this: Iran threatens violence if Fitna is not banned.

Iran has warned the Dutch government that if it does not ban Geert Wilders' upcoming movie, Fitna, that violence will ensue. Not only that, they suggest the Dutch government can ban the movie under the 1948 Human Rights declaration's 29th article:

"...that individual rights may be limited in the interest of respecting other
people's freedoms and "meeting the just requirements of morality, public order
and the general welfare in a democratic society."

The article goes on to state:

"Freedom of speech is not unlimited," Tehran's ambassador to the Netherlands, Bozorgmehr Ziaran told a small group of reporters at the Iranian Embassy. The film, he added, "would just breed violence." Wilders, Ziaran said, "is not a peacemaker, Mr. Wilders is a warmonger."

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Ziaran condemned Wilders for making the movie at a time of already strained relations between Muslims and the West.

"We do not need further confrontation. Things are already boiling," he said. "We need wise people to bridge the gaps."

Sounds like someone needs to slip you a FREE SPEECH tongue, buddy. If I have to listen to your blather you sure as hell are going to listen to mine.

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