Jonah Goldberg on Fitna

Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online comments on the film "Fitna" today. He writes:

Wilders’ film could easily get him killed. It picks up the work of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, who was murdered in 2004 by a jihadi for criticizing Islam. Fitna is provocative, but it has good reason to provoke. A cancer of violence, bigotry, and cruelty is metastasizing within the Islamic world. It’s fine for Muslim moderates to say they aren’t part of the cancer; and that some have, in response to the film, is a positive sign. But more often, diagnosing or even observing this cancer — in film, book or cartoon — is dubbed “intolerant,” while calls for violence, censorship, and even murder are treated as understandable, if regrettable, expressions of anger.

Read it all here.

A man has put his life on the line to allow Muslims to tell the truth about their own religion, i.e., that it hates the West and hates Jews, and that it intends to conquer or kill us. The least you can do is to view the film.