Geert Wilders Fitna Movie (Information)

10-1997  Wilders becomes a member of the municipal council of Utrecht, the fourth largest city of the Netherlands.

08-1998  Wilders becomes a member of the Dutch House of Representatives for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD).

09-2003  Wilders report first threatening mails and publishes his Ten Points Plan:

• the VVD has to take a right-wing course,
• Turkey will never be a member of the E.U.,
• maximum driving speed must be lifted,
• money spend for development work must be halfed,
• fighting terrorism stands above personal privacy,
• after three violent crimes lifelong imprisonment,
• if integration does not work emigration follows,
• the government can only make a rule if two other are removed,
• reviewing the election system is futile, politicians with guts and the will to act are needed,
• if the choice is between ruling with a Purple government or opposition, the choice will be opposition.

09-2004  Wilders splits from VVD, because he is against talks with Turkey for E.U. membership, and starts his own party, named Group Wilders.

10-2004  MSN-website Jama'at Al-Tawheed Wal Jihaad shows a video containing a call to behead Wilders.

03-2005  Wilders publishes his Political Manifesto which he calls the Declaration of Independence. The manifesto has the same points as his Ten Points Plan, and points like:

• a ban on Islamic headwear in in public functions,
• close all doors for asylum seekers,
• a maximum of 5000 political refugees,
• 5 year stop on brides of foreign countries,
• a dramatic tax decrease,
• decreasing number civil servants to 50%,
• stop on enlargement E.U.,
• five prisoners in one cell,
• build feeding camps and discipline schools,
• more police, and use of army within public zones,
• deport criminals with a dual nationality,
• ban on Islamic schools,
• test children on knowledge about national identity,
• administrative reorganisation of provinces and government,
• closing the Dutch Senate,
• limit public television to a single channel.

05-2005  Wilders campaigns against European Constitution, and issues for a burqa ban.

02-2006  Group Wilders changes name to Party for Freedom. Wilders shows Danish cartoons on his website in support of the Danish cartoonists and freedom of speech.

03-2006  Wilders publishes his party program under the name Klare Wijn meaning Clear Language. The program has the same points as his Political Manifesto, and a call to remove the first article of the Constitution of the Netherlands, which is about equal rights (non-discrimination).

10-2006  Wilders talks about a tsunami of Islamisation threatening The Netherlands.

11-2006  The Party for Freedom takes nine seats (5.9% of overall vote) in the Dutch House of Representatives.

02-2007  Wilders says that Islamisation is part of a World War III, and for Muslims to stay in the Netherlands they have to tear out half of the pages from their Qur'an.

03-2007  Wilders issues a motion of distrust against secretary of state Ahmed Aboutaleb and Nebahat Albayrak, because they have a dual nationality.

04-2007  Security officials ask Wilders to nuance his criticism of Islam, because of anger by clerics in Arab countries. They tell him Ayatollahs call for revenge, varying from a fatwa to kill him, a boycott of the Netherlands, and the recalling of ambassadors.

08-2007  Wilders makes his plans for an anti-Qur'an movie known.

01-2008  Wilders says he does not want integration, but assimilation of Muslims. Dutch ministers keep secret meetings about the movie Fitna. Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmad Badr al-Din says that if Wilders burns a Qur'an in his movie, the Dutch people will be responsible. The International Film Festival for Children in Cairo was boycotting the Dutch.

02-2008  Pakistan blocks YouTube for several days because of a video believed to be a trailer for Fitna. Wilders receives a fatwa to kill him from Al-Qaeda (al-ekhlaas.net). The Taliban threatens to step up attacks against Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan.

03-2008  The movie is made public on 27-03-2008, watch the movie at: Watch Video's

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