Statement: Muslim Bloggers Alliance rejects “Fitna”

April 16th, 2008

In brief:

The Muslim Bloggers Alliance (”MBA”) rejects and utterly condemns all manifestations of anti-Islamic sentiments, xenophobia and racist expressions. These include Geert Wilders’ recently screened Islamophobic movie, Fitna (Discord), on the Internet. MBA recognizes the value of freedom of expression but such freedom should not be utilized as a facade for a broader ulterior, xenophobic and bigoted motive.

Fitna is merely but one in a chain of such events. Other examples include the publication of the cartoons in the Danish papers as well as the political machinations of politicians such as Filip Dewinter and Christoph Blocher — both of whom are critical of the building of minarets on mosques.

We also call upon all our members, as well as Muslim ummah in Malaysia and all over the world, to initiate a boycott of Dutch products as a symbol of our dissatisfaction at the insulting nature of Geert Wilders’ video, as well as pressuring the Dutch government to force Wilders to resign from his post as Member of Dutch Parliament.

Full statement from the Muslim Bloggers Alliance on the short polemical movie by Geert Wilders may be read here.