Fitna the Movie by Geert Wilders


The sixteen minute movie shows a selection of Suras from the Qur'an, interspersed with newspaper clippings and media clips. The movie is accompanied by music from the Peer Gynt suite by Edvard Grieg, specifically Aase's Death (Aase is the mother of Per in the play written by Henrik Ibsen).

The movie starts with a warning, stating that the movie contains "very shocking images". During the title screen, a book is subsequently opened that resembles the Qur'an. A page in the book contains a widely-known cartoon from the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, showing the Prophet Muhammad with a bomb on his head. Next to the cartoon, a timer starts counting down from 15 minutes.

The first Sura is introduced, accompanied with Qur'anic recital and translated subtitles (the film is available in English and Dutch, among other languages).

Suras are juxtaposed to video clips of Imams stating Islamic teaching, and videos of violent atrocities committed in the name of Islam, including major terrorist attacks. The source for the English translations is unstated.

Al-Anfal, the first Sura of the film, is translated as: "Prepare for them whatever force and cavalry ye are able of gathering, to strike terror, to strike terror into the hearts of the enemies, of Allah and your enemies." Footage of the 9/11 attacks against the USA is shown, followed by the Madrid train bombings. An Imam declares, "Allah is happy when non-muslims get killed."

The next Sura, An-Nisa, is shown as a justification for Islamic antisemitism. An Imam raising a sword declares: "A Jew is hiding behind me, come and cut off his head. And we shall cut off his head! By Allah, we shall cut it off! Oh Jews! Allahu Akbar! Jihad for the sake of Allah!" An auditorium of several hundred people respond with approving chants and fist shaking.

Following this, a three year old Muslim girl, named Basmallah, calls Jews "apes and pigs" during an interview on Saudi Arabian television channel, Iqra TV. More antisemitism is shown by another Imam, who states: "The Jews are Jews. They are the ones who must be butchered and killed." Child soldiers are shown uniformed and holding guns.

Still pictures of demonstrators holding banners declaring "God Bless Hitler" and "Be Prepared For the Real Holocaust" are shown.

Sura 47, Verse 4 is shown in relation to the murder of Dutch film director Theo Van Gogh, committed by Mohammed Bouyeri. Bouyeri is reported as saying: "If I had the opportunity to get out of prison, and I had the opportunity to do it again, what I did on November 2nd, Allah I would have done exactly the same." Protesters are shown supporting Van Gogh's murder, warning others to heed lessons or "pay with your blood".

Dutch newspaper headlines are reproduced, outlining intimidating threats of murder to prominent questioners of Islam, followed by footage of Jack Hensley's beheading. Hensley's decapitated head is shown held up by Al-Qaeda terrorists.

Sura 4 is heard, and is used to demonstrate Islam's Ummah ideal. The Sura is translated here as: "They but wish that ye should reject faith, as they do, and thus be on the same footing as they, so take not friends from their ranks until they flee in the way of Allah. But if they turn renegades, seize them and kill them wherever ye find them, and take no friends or helpers from their ranks." An Imam declares: "Islam is (more) superior than the Jews, than the Christians, than the Buddhists, than the Hindus. The only (law) Allah accepts is Islam."

The final Suma shown is Sura 8, verse 39: "Fight them until there is no dissension, and the religion is entirely Allah's." This reinforces the previous segment, with Imams delivering proclamations of Islamic superiority to followers:

  • "Islam is a religion that wants to rule the world. It has done so before and eventually will rule it again."

President of Iran, states:

  • "The message of the Revolution is global, and is not restricted to a specific place or time. Have no doubt... Allah willing, Islam will conquer what? It will conquer all the mountain tops of the world."

Another Imam says to his supporters,

  • "We have ruled the world before, and by Allah, the day will come when we will rule the entire world again! The day will come when we will rule America. The day will come when we will rule Britain and the entire world!"

The final segment of the film deals with issues related to Islam in the Netherlands, under the heading: "The Netherlands under the spell of islam". These issues include Islam's opposition to democracy, opposition to homosexuals, opposition to women's rights, and immigration.

An unidentified person claims that "The mosque will be part of the system of the government of Holland", in an apparant refusal to accept democracy. Wilders' political ambitions may be found more readily here, as shown through his use of juxtaposing a newspaper headline "Cabinet: no ban on burqa against a Muslim woman fully covered up. A graph illustrating the number of Muslims in Holland since 1909 is shown, against a background of Muslim women. Dutch police are shown removing their shoes before entering a mosque.

A Dutch Muslim says he will enact an honor killing if his mother or sister "have sex with someone else". Another refuses to accept adultery or homosexuality, saying that "Islam considers something like that a crime."

A postcard is shown, ostensibly from Holland, with pictures of mosques in place of visitor attractions, with the words "Groeten uit Nederland" superimposed.

Audio recordings that are said to have been taken from mosques in Holland show Imams denouncing political parties, "worldly concepts like liberalism [and] democracy." Another states that adulterers must be "stoned" to death. A graphic image of gays being hanged, under Sharia law is a depiction of a possible future dystopia of Holland. Children are shown with blood covering their faces, after being cut with knives by older people. Female circumcision is implied, and a decapitated woman's head is shown lying on a floor. Another woman dressed in a burqa is shot through the head by a man.

Finally, a succession of newspaper headlines are shown, containing stories related to Islam in the Netherlands, their views, actions, ambitions and politics. Some verified headlines are:

  • "Sudanese demand execution of British 'miss teddy bear"
  • Almost half of young Moroccans anti-western"
  • Moroccans throw gay in water"
  • "Throw gays from tall buildings"
  • "Al-Qaeda proclaims death penalty Jihad against Wilders"

The movie ends with a hand seen gripping a page of the Qur'an. As the frame goes black, a tearing sound is heard and the following rolls over the screen:

The sound you heard was a page being removed from a phone book

For it is not up to me, but to Muslims themselves
to tear out the hateful verses from the Qur'an

Muslims want you to make way for Islam
but Islam does not make way for you

The Government insists that you respect Islam,
but Islam has no respect for you

Islam wants to rule, submit, and seeks
to destroy our western civilization

In 1945, Nazism was defeated in Europe
In 1989, Communism was defeated in Europe

Now the Islamic ideology has to be defeated

Stop Islamisation

Defend our Freedom


After these lines have scrolled over the screen, the cartoon that was also shown during the start of the movie is shown, that resembles the Islamic Prophet Muhammad, carrying a bomb on his head, and the counter next to the image reaches zero. A lightning flash is shown, followed by the ending title screen, in which the book that resembles the Qur'an is closed and the characters of "Fitna" blur to "Fin".


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