Geert Wilders' film, Fitna

Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician who has taken up the anti-jihadist challenge from the assassinated Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh, has produced this short film on radical Islam in Europe. I think it's a safe bet that there will be riots, boycotts -- and, I regret to predict, Wilders' own assassination.

The film isn't particularly groundbreaking -- there is no original footage. What's novel is its juxtaposition of warlike passages from the Koran, with jihadist exhortations from European imams, with footage of terrorist carnage. It's an effective piece -- and a warning of what's yet to come.

UPDATE: As of midnight ET, the clip had been seen by 1.5 million people in English, and 2.5 million in its original Dutch. That's how the marketplace of ideas works, especially when threatened by medieval censorship. I'm sure Wilders' film would have been popular without all the fatwas against it; but I doubt it would have been seen by 100 people per second. And congratulations to Liveleak, the Internet site that hosted the movie. Not only did they do a brisk business, but they stood up for freedom of speech, something YouTube/Google seems to get worse at every year.