Cahaya’s Rants

TEHRAN (FNA)- A Non-Governmental Organization in Iran has started production of a documentary called ‘Beyond Fitna’ to respond to far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ provocative dissertation ‘Fitna’.

The Iranian organization called ‘NGO Islam and Christianity’ started production of the documentary after the Dutch lawmaker displayed his movie which urges Muslims to tear out “hate-filled” verses from the Qoran and starts and finishes with an insulting cartoon of Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him).

The NGO’s documentary called ‘Beyond Fitna’ deals with incitement of violence in the Bible. Muslims believe that the book deemed holy by Christians today is a distorted version of the original Bible.

‘Beyond Fitna’ focuses on the orders given to worldwide Christians in the (distorted version of) Bible for stoking violence, committing genocide, attacking others, beheading and burning women and children who have been taken into captivity.

The documentary recycles film clips from crimes committed by extremist Christians under the inspirations of the said Bible teachings, and aims to provide a response to the allegations made by Pope Benedict XVI, who called Islam a religion of violence after misunderstanding certain Organic verses.

‘Beyond Fitna’ is produced while an overwhelming wave of protest is shown by worldwide Muslim and Christian communities against Wilder’s movie.

Wilders’ provocative dissertation Fitna hit the Internet March 27. Even before the seventeen minute film’s release, protests erupted.

More here.

Responding to the release of Fitna, Mahaguru58, a frequent contributor to Malaysiakini, an online news portal, said he too “can do a tit for tat movie clip showing you all the murders, violence, hate crimes against Muslims of the world and jack up the animosity of my fellow Muslims against the ones irresponsibly trying to stir trouble amongst us the people of the world”.

Mahaguru58, I am still waiting for your video clip. Never mind. The Iranians are doing it. I am waiting for the release of Beyond Fitna, not because I am waiting to see whether I will be offended or not because I know I won’t, but to see if it will be anything like Fitna.

I am waiting to see what verses from the distorted bible they will be quoting and how they are going to relate these verses to the violence committed by Christians in the name of their religion.

You can bet though, that there won’t be any protest in the streets, nor will there be calls for the deaths of the producers of Beyond Fitna for daring to insult the Bible and Christianity. You can also bet that nobody will call for LiveLeak or YouTube or Google to pull the film of their sites and neither will there be anyone threatening the lives of those people who work for these video sharing companies for daring to host the film.

And one other thing, nobody will be calling for the boycott of Iranian goods just because some group in Iran is producing a film called Beyond Fitna.

I am encouraging the Iranian NGO to produce that film quickly before the furore among the Muslims caused by Fitna becomes a dim memory.