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Location: Israel Posts: 2,735 | Anti-Quran film expected to test the limits of Dutch tolerance
Anti-Quran film expected to test the limits of Dutch tolerance Quote:
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - A maverick lawmaker's planned anti-Quran film has the Dutch wrestling with the limits of their centuries-old traditions of tolerance and free speech.
It also has the government scrambling to limit potential fallout in the Muslim world if the film is aired
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Wilders says his film _ which he has not yet finished, nobody has seen and is expected to be only about 10 minutes long _ will expose how the Quran fosters intolerance of women and homosexuals and is used by radicals to incite violence.
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Heinz-Christian Strache and Filip Dewinter, leaders of far-right parties in Belgium and Austria, disagree with banning the Quran.
«Burning books is always wrong. I respect every religion as long as they don't dabble in politics,» said Strache at an anti-Islamization event in the Belgian city of Antwerp this week that attracted politicians from 15 European cities.
De Winter agreed. «Sometimes he (Wilders) goes too far to get attention,» he said.
Small and peaceful protests have already started in the Netherlands, with several activists arrested last weekend in Amsterdam for carrying placards fashioned after health warnings on a cigarette pack calling Wilders an extremist and «harmful to Dutch society.
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