Fitna update

Although Liveleak.com was politically brave to host Geert Wilders' film, Fitna, on their website, they decided not to be physically brave in the face of threats of violence. It's an acceptable excuse -- much more so than the a priori decisions of other Internet companies not to host the film, including Network Solutions.

Thoughtful defenders of Western, liberal values will see the irony here: a film about radical Islamic violence is stopped by the threat of radical Islamic violence. It proves Wilders' point.

But the violent censors -- the same ones who threaten to kill Salman Rushdie, and who have killed other Dutchmen, like filmmaker Theo van Gogh -- aren't interested in winning any debates, or even engaging in debates. They're interested in killing infidels like Wilders, and making the rest of us submit without a debate. It's a Western ethnocentrism to think that radical jihadists can be reasoned with or compromised with, or even debated with. That's not what they're about; to them, there is truth and there is blasphemy; there are believers and there are infidels; there is the peace of submission and there is permanent war -- jihad -- against the rest. There is no splitting the difference with these folks.

If you want to see the movie, you can see it on the website of Wilders' political party, here.