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Threat of Lawsuits Force Changes to Dutch Anti-Islam Film

31 March 2008

A far-right Dutch lawmaker says he will make changes to a controversial film that accuses the Muslim holy book, the Koran, of inciting violence.

The film, which has drawn widespread protest, contains an incendiary cartoon showing the Prophet Muhammad wearing a turban resembling a bomb.

Geert Wilders (file photo)
Geert Wilders (file photo)
Film producer Geert Wilders confirmed Monday that he will edit out the caricature, after the original artist threatened a lawsuit for copyright infringement.

Dutch entertainer Salah Edin also threatened to sue, complaining the film wrongly identifies him as the Muslim radical who killed a Dutch right-wing filmmaker in 2004.

Wilder posted the film on his political party's Internet site last week, triggering protests in the United Nations and across the Muslim world, where such depictions are considered blasphemy.

In Indonesia Monday, several-dozen members of a hardline Islamic group rallied outside the Dutch Embassy in Jakarta to protest the film.

At the rally, some 40-members of the Islamic Defenders Front demanded that the Indonesian government cut ties with Amsterdam in response to the film.

Wilders says he made the film to show how Muslim immigration is a threat to Europe's democracies. In it, he alternates images of terrorist attacks with quotations from the Koran.

Some information for this report was provided by AP.

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