I had heard a lot about this film and expected it to be a bit more professionally produced, given it had been commissioned by a politician. However, much of it feels like a medium length amateur Youtube video, at under twenty minutes, and contains poor editing, extensive use of clips, no narration etc. It looks as if it was cobbled together on an old version of Powerpoint.
In regard to the content, it mainly consists of clips of Islamic hate preachers, and excerpts from the Islamic scriptures condoning violence. This is pretty much what I expected from the hype.
As this film is trying to build a case against Islam, I didn't expect to see any of the other side, and I didn't. No surprise there. But I felt that Fitna also ignored a number of factors in the growth of radical Islam. For one, it focusses a lot on immigration and birthrates, and very little on the fact that the west has actively financed and armed Islamic fundamentalists in various parts of the world to bring down various governments e.g. in Afghanistan during the 1980s. The role of western ally Saudi Arabia in financing such organisations is also largely ignored although Iranian leaders are seen. The role of war in driving large numbers of Muslims into Europe was also ignored, whereas it should have been a central part of Wilders' premise. If western governments, and NATO had spent less time making war on these countries and funding extremism, then there would be fewer Muslims coming to Europe in the first place.
In regard to the content, it mainly consists of clips of Islamic hate preachers, and excerpts from the Islamic scriptures condoning violence. This is pretty much what I expected from the hype.
As this film is trying to build a case against Islam, I didn't expect to see any of the other side, and I didn't. No surprise there. But I felt that Fitna also ignored a number of factors in the growth of radical Islam. For one, it focusses a lot on immigration and birthrates, and very little on the fact that the west has actively financed and armed Islamic fundamentalists in various parts of the world to bring down various governments e.g. in Afghanistan during the 1980s. The role of western ally Saudi Arabia in financing such organisations is also largely ignored although Iranian leaders are seen. The role of war in driving large numbers of Muslims into Europe was also ignored, whereas it should have been a central part of Wilders' premise. If western governments, and NATO had spent less time making war on these countries and funding extremism, then there would be fewer Muslims coming to Europe in the first place.