THE HAGUE (AFP)
Dutch far-right deputy Geert Wilders will take legal action against a clip circulating on the internet showing a poster of his picture riddled with bullets, his party's spokesman said Friday.
"Mister Wilders will file a legal complaint against the film" which he finds "disgusting", a spokesman for Wilders's Freedom Party, who refused to be identified, told AFP.
Wilders has been in the spotlight since he announced last November that he plans to make a short film to show the Koran, Islam's holy book, is "a fascist book" that "incites people to murder".
Observers here fear that Wilders will burn or tear up the Quran in the film.
It is unsure if and when the movie will be shown. Wilders initially said late January but this week said he was not finished and it could take another couple of weeks.
The anti-Wilders clip, a little over a minute in length, shows a poster of the Freedom Party front man with the inscription "Allahu Akbar" (Allah is great) and the poster being riddled with bullets.
The clip was initially uploaded on the YouTube website but later removed, but can also be seen on a Dutch website.
Wilders has been under heavy police protection since the 2004 murder of Dutch director and columnist Theo van Gogh. Van Gogh was killed by a radical Muslim after he directed a film criticizing women's position in Islam. |
