According to the Washington Times, the Dutch MP, Geert Wilders has finished his 15 minute movie of the Qur’an. Mr. Wilders said the film will be finished tomorrow (30.02.08) and will be posted on a Web site, http://www.fitnathemovie.com/, when it airs on television.

Wilders:“The film will show that the Koran isn’t a dead work, but the face of Islam — a tremendous hazard,”

Steven Suleyman Schwartz, director of the Washington-based Center for Islamic Pluralism and a western convert to Islam has this to say about the movie: it was “strange” and “ahistorical” to think that a 1,400-year-old text could become a threat to the West.

Mr.Schwartz will have a very difficult time, if not an impossible one, trying to prove that such an Islamic history ever existed. Professor Efraim Karsh from King’s College, University of London, has thoroughly documented Islam’s threat to the West over the centuries, in his scholarly work “Islamic Imperialism A History“. Here is an excellent interview of Karsh concerning his book.

Another scholar worth mentioning is Dr.Andrew Bostom, whose extensively documented book “The Legacy of Jihad“, cronicales the centrality of the Qur’an and the Jihad ideology throughout the history of Islamic hegemony.

Schwartz continues:“My advice to Muslims is to ignore such trivial provocations, maintain their dignity and faith and work to improve their communities,” Mr. Schwartz said. “Mr. Wilders has a right to make whatever films he wants and Muslims have a right to ignore them.”

Schwart’s suggestion by the way,  is something that the CVF hopes the entire Islamic world would endorse. But most importantly, at the minimum there are at least some 91 million radical jihadists out there, who would be willing to tear Mr.Schwartz from limb to limb for even suggesting such a radical idea.

Perhaps the Geert Wilders‘ film will be provocative, but what is even more provocative than a film about Islam, is the inconvenient truth that many verses within the Qur’an, promotes and espouses violence against the unbeliever and apostates, as well as demanding the head of those who dare to criticize many of its totalitarian precepts. Now that’s what I call provocative. More here.