Egypt State Information Service- Culture – Cairo Film Festival rejects Denmark, Netherlands' participation

Posted on February 28th, 2008 by martijn.
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Egypt State Information Service- Culture – Cairo Film Festival rejects Denmark, Netherlands’ participation
Cairo Film Festival rejects Denmark, Netherlands’ participation

Cairo International Film Festival for Children rejected Wednesday 27/2/2008 the participation of Denmark and the Netherlands in the 2008 session to be held on March 6 through 13.

The decision was taken in response to a film and cartoons produced by the two countries mocking Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, the festival’s chairman Fawzi Fahmi said.

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Egypt State Information Service- Culture – Cairo Film Festival rejects Denmark, Netherlands’ participation

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Egypt State Information Service- Culture – Cairo Film Festival rejects Denmark, Netherlands’ participation
Cairo Film Festival rejects Denmark, Netherlands’ participation

Cairo International Film Festival for Children rejected Wednesday 27/2/2008 the participation of Denmark and the Netherlands in the 2008 session to be held on March 6 through 13.

The decision was taken in response to a film and cartoons produced by the two countries mocking Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, the festival’s chairman Fawzi Fahmi said.

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AAJ Television – Taliban warn of attacks if Dutch 'anti-Islamic' film shown

Posted on February 28th, 2008 by martijn.
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NEWS : AAJ Television: Pakistan’s Premier Channel
Taliban warn of attacks if Dutch ‘anti-Islamic’ film shown

KABUL Afghanistan’s Taliban movement warned on Thursday it would step up attacks against soldiers from The Netherlands if an ‘insulting’ anti-Islamic film by a Dutch parliamentarian is broadcast.

There are around 1,500 Dutch troops in Afghanistan as part of a 40-nation Nato-led force that is helping the government battle an insurgency led by the Taliban.

The film by far-right Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party, is ‘an insult to Islam,’ a Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, told AFP.

“We in Afghanistan will increase our attacks against Dutch forces if the film is broadcast,” he said in a telephone call from an unknown location.

“We call on the United Nations to step in and stop any such acts which creates drifts between Muslims and the rest of the world.”

The Dutch government on Wednesday warned Wilders about the dangers of broadcasting the film entitled “Fitna,” an Arabic word used to describe all things that can test faith and sometimes synonymous with evil.

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AAJ Television – Taliban warn of attacks if Dutch ‘anti-Islamic’ film shown

Posted on February 28th, 2008 by martijn.
Categories: Misc. News, Public Islam.

NEWS : AAJ Television: Pakistan’s Premier Channel
Taliban warn of attacks if Dutch ‘anti-Islamic’ film shown

KABUL Afghanistan’s Taliban movement warned on Thursday it would step up attacks against soldiers from The Netherlands if an ‘insulting’ anti-Islamic film by a Dutch parliamentarian is broadcast.

There are around 1,500 Dutch troops in Afghanistan as part of a 40-nation Nato-led force that is helping the government battle an insurgency led by the Taliban.

The film by far-right Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party, is ‘an insult to Islam,’ a Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, told AFP.

“We in Afghanistan will increase our attacks against Dutch forces if the film is broadcast,” he said in a telephone call from an unknown location.

“We call on the United Nations to step in and stop any such acts which creates drifts between Muslims and the rest of the world.”

The Dutch government on Wednesday warned Wilders about the dangers of broadcasting the film entitled “Fitna,” an Arabic word used to describe all things that can test faith and sometimes synonymous with evil.

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Wired.com TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib

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TED 2008: How Good People Turn Evil, From Stanford to Abu Ghraib

By Kim Zetter

As an expert witness in the defense of an Abu Ghraib guard, Philip Zimbardo had access to many images (NSFW) of abuse taken by the guards themselves. Some of these images have never been published before. For his TED presentation he put together a short video of some of the pictures. The sound effects in the video were added by Zimbardo. Many of the images are explicit and gruesome, depicting nudity, degradation, simulated sex acts and guards posing with corpses. Viewer discretion is advised.
Courtesy Philip Zimbardo
Monterey, California — Psychologist Philip Zimbardo has seen good people turn evil, and he thinks he knows why.

Zimbardo will speak Thursday afternoon at the TED conference, where he plans to illustrate his points by showing a three-minute video, obtained by Wired.com, that features many previously unseen photographs from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq (disturbing content).

Salon.com published 279 photos and 19 videos from Abu Ghraib in March 2006, one of the most extensive documentations to date of abuse in the notorious prison. Zimbardo claims, however, that many images in his video — which he obtained while serving as an expert witness for an Abu Ghraib defendant — have never before been published.

Zimbardo conducted a now-famous experiment at Stanford University in 1971, involving students who posed as prisoners and guards. Five days into the experiment, Zimbardo halted the study when the student guards began abusing the prisoners, forcing them to strip naked and simulate sex acts.

His book, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil, explores how a “perfect storm” of conditions can make ordinary people commit horrendous acts.

He spoke with Wired.com about what Abu Ghraib and his prison study can teach us about evil and why heroes are, by nature, social deviants.

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