UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday condemned as “offensively anti-Islamic” a Dutch lawmaker’s film that accuses the Koran of inciting violence.
Ban acknowledged efforts by the government of the Netherlands to stop the broadcast of the film, which was launched by Islam critic Geert Wilders over the Internet, and appealed for calm to those “understandably offended by it.”
“There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence,” Ban said in a statement. “The right of free expression is not at stake here.”
The short film, titled “Fitna,” an Arabic term sometimes translated as “strife,” intersperses images of the September 11 attacks on the United States and Islamist bombings with quotations from the Koran.
The film urges Muslims to tear out “hate-filled” verses from the Koran and starts and finishes with a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad with a bomb under his turban, accompanied by the sound of ticking.
Several Muslim countries, including Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia, have also condemned the film.
“Freedom must always be accompanied by social responsibility,” Ban said.
“We must also recognize that the real fault line is not between Muslim and Western societies, as some would have us believe, but between small minorities of extremists, on different sides, with a vested interest in stirring hostility and conflict,” Ban said.
(Reporting by Lewis Krauskopf; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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The European Union said the film inflames hatred, and Iran’s Foreign Ministry called the movie “anti-Islamic and insulting.”
The foreign ministry called on the EU, the Netherlands, and Britain to take action to put an end to its showing, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The Danish Union of Journalists said it was suing Wilders for using a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed drawn by one of its members, newspaper political cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. It said Wilders used the picture – which shows Mohammed with a turban shaped like a bomb – without permission.
The film, titled “Fitna,” opens with Westergaard’s controversial caricature, followed by translated portions of Islam’s holy book, the Quran.
The passages are interspersed with graphic images of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks against the United States juxtaposed with audio from 9-1-1 calls made by the victims trapped inside the World Trade Center in New York and other video clips.
The world leaders at-large feel the Film was a tool to spread hate and such demonization of any faith cannot be tolerated.
Thank You! UN and EU 
PS: If Islam was such a voilent religion, then the Spanish peninsula as well as arab lands would be purely Islamic, but the hard truth is Islam was never spread by the sword. There remained non-muslims who were free to practice their faith.
The point is that there are people who get carried away and commit inhumane acts, but to pin their actions on the Faith as a whole is a shameful act and a disservice to the religion of Islam. A religion that respects, accepts, and recognizes all Prophets.
Let us learn to be tolerant and live with each other and think before we speak.
On a closing note, i think Informative films are good. They should be made to shed light on important issues. Criticism can be very healthy, but only when it addresses the issues at hand. Quran is neither the issue, nor the doctorine of Hatred or violence. If Wilder wants to make a film to make the bad apples look really really bad, then he should/should have talked to Muslim scholars who have spent most of their lives studying and interpreting Quran, and with their help he could guide the misguided souls and show that it is those groups of people who make the religion look bad. That would serve the purpose. Most, i believe all muslims would support that. But for a non-muslim, and a politician (we know how credible politician are!), to criticize a sacred text, is just pathetic and shows intolerance on the part of this individual ‘Wilder’…
