Spoof video of Wilders’ murder causes uproar

In his own party:

The Freedom Party of Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders has reacted furiously to the trailer of an online movie spoofing a murder attempt on Mr Wilders.

The trailer is available on the website of publicly-funded radio station FunX, which targets a young urban audience. Freedom Party MP Martin Bosma has said his party will ask Media Minister Ronald Plasterk whether “an over-subsidised multi-culti radio station” should be receiving government money if it is putting out “suggestive” movies. A government spokesperson explained to reporters that there is no preventive censorship in the Netherlands. Only after a broadcaster commits an offence can legal action be taken, according to the spokesperson.

The Freedom Party points out that Mr Wilders is living under constant heavy police protection following a number of credible death threats. “It is disgusting to turn that into entertainment.”

via Party furious over spoof Wilders murder film | Radio Netherlands Worldwide.

😯 Above link has the video, if someone wants to watch it. I haven’t watched it as I find it particularly disgusting and of really bad taste.

Before: Wilders’ trial: only three witnesses allowed.

2 comments on “Spoof video of Wilders’ murder causes uproar

  1. I refuse to watch the video.

    Geert Wilders is being subjected to the harshest of tyrannies by being put on trial. Now this joking about killing him?

    Civilization is breaking down!

    • Claudia says:

      Well, some people consider that this is a “just” payment for “Wilders’ attacks on Muslims“. As I have also commented at IBA, I have only considered Wilders’ attacks on Islam ideologic ones.We can be more or less in agreement with them, but considering that he is attacking Muslims by quoting some of them in their violent speeches, it’s an exaggeration, at the least.
      But that ideologic dispute, must remain an ideologic one. A video in which Wilders is killed like Pym Fortuyn was, has nothing of “ideology” and a lot of menace. Perhaps it’s done as a joke (a very bad taste one), but it’s just joking -with public funds, including those given by Wilders- about killing someone who has already received death threats.
      Really disgusting.

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