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November 17, 2005
Holland: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Completes Script For Film on Gays And Islam
The brave, outspoken and stunningly beautiful Dutch MP, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has announced that she has finally completed her script for a sequel to her earlier film on Islam, states the BBC, Reuters and XinhuaNet.
Her last film, Submission, was an examination of Islam's treatment of women. This film gained notoriety because shortly after its completion, the director was assassinated. Theo Van Gogh was shot as he was cycling in a street in Amsterdam, then nearly decapitated by Mohammed Bouyeri, an Algerian Islamist. A note was found skewered with a knife to Van Gogh's chest, indicating that others, including Ayaan Hirsi Ali, were going to be killed.
Since that time, she, and also right-wing MP Geert Wilders, have had to live in hiding. However, she worked with Van Gogh on a plan to make a sequel to Submission, and now she has finished it. As Submission focused on the oppression of women, Submission 2 will explore how Islam oppresses and murders homosexuals.
To protect the identities of those taking part in the film, no credits will be given on the film for director, producer, etc. The identity of actors will not be shown in the filming technique either. She told De Volkskrant, a Dutch newspaper: ""I examine the position of homosexuals in Islam in the film Submission II. In the movie, they are called Allah's creatures."
Already she has been denounced for embarking on this project by the imam Sheikh Fawaz Jneidin of the Hague. He wrote on an Islamic website called elqalem.nl that Ali is being "blown away by the wind of changing times", and that "she should be weighed down by the curse of Allah." The Netherlands public prosecution department is examining the posting, but the imam states that his letter is not to be viewed as a threat, only an exercise in freedom of speech.
This comment reminds me of the famous line, that freedom of speech does not entitle one to shout "fire" in a crowded theatre. Long may Ayaan Hirsi Ali's light continue to shine.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at November 17, 2005 9:26 PM
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