Iran Officially Warns Dutch Not To Screen Film
TEHRAN - Iran has urged the Netherlands to prevent the screening of a film in which a right-wing populist lawmaker plans to lay out his view of the Koran, a news agency in the Islamic Republic said on Saturday.
Justice Minister Gholamhossein Elham expressed concern about what he called the making of an offensive film against the Koran in a letter to his Dutch counterpart Ernst Hirsch Ballin, the Fars News Agency said.
He called on Ballin to prevent this “provocative and satanic act on the basis of European Convention on Human Rights,” the news agency report, picked up by the BBC in London, said.
“We must not allow the freedom of speech … to be used as a cover for assaulting the sensibilities and exalted moral and religious values which are respected by all of humanity,” Elham, who is also government spokesman, said in the letter.
(Reuters)
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Fuck Iran…lets film it and if mooslims wanna protest worldwide then we’ll at least find the traitorous pricks on the home front at the protests.
I say we drop a nuke on Tehran and Damascus and call it a day, but thats just me.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:42 pm“We must not allow the freedom of speech … to be used as a cover for assaulting the sensibilities and exalted moral and religious values which are respected by all of humanity,”
I am part of humanity and I don’t respect the mis-guided moral and values of the so called ‘Religion of Peace’……and I say fuck you Iran!
February 16th, 2008 at 4:01 pmTo Iran I say STFU!!!
February 16th, 2008 at 5:34 pm“We must not allow the freedom of speech … to be used as a cover for assaulting the sensibilities and exalted moral and religious values which are respected by all of humanity,”
Thats rich… all of humanity except Iran that is.
They are crying about something they haven’t seen yet.
February 16th, 2008 at 6:01 pmThey fear the truth.
They fear women… a big danger to them.
They should show it just to enjoy free speech.
February 16th, 2008 at 7:54 pmAll I can do is parrot what those so far have written.
February 16th, 2008 at 11:54 pmlol reminds me of an old ICE-T song “Freedom of speech just watch what you say!”
Irony = Iran talking about human rights and freedom of anything
February 17th, 2008 at 5:18 am
We all know that the Dutch have some really extreme liberal views on certain social issues, but they apparently also have one of the biggest sets of cajoles in Europe. Good for them. I hope they show the rest of the surrender monkeys of Europe how to stand up for what is right and not let Akbar and Habibtell you what to do.
February 17th, 2008 at 7:45 amWhen I was in the Netherlands my friends there were so proud to show me the memorials of the WW2 American tanks and liberating army that kicked the Nazis out of their towns. After 50 years they were still proud of The United States.
Fuck Iran. Let freedom have its way in The Netherlands. Showing that film shows some real guts. Stick it in Iran’s ear.
February 17th, 2008 at 1:31 pmI haven’t even heard of/seen it yet and I’m already giving it 2 thumbs up!
February 17th, 2008 at 5:37 pmI hope someone gets a copy in Iran and shows it publicly there.
February 17th, 2008 at 9:10 pm