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Video-sharing website LiveLeak has removed the anti-Koran documentary Fitnaby Dutch MP Geert Wilders after receiving threats. "We stood for whatwe believe in, the ability to be heard, but in the end the price wastoo high," a statement reads. No details were given, except that thethreats were "of a very serious nature".
LiveLeak.com, based in Manchester, says it has strict stance onremaining unbiased and allowing freedom of speech within the boundariesof the law. There was no legal reason to refuse Wilders the right topost his film. "This is a sad day for freedom of the speech on thenet," the site says.
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Over three million people visited LiveLeak before the 17-minute filmwas pulled on Friday. Since then, the movie has gone viral. YouTube isnow one of many sites hosting a ripped version of the LiveLeak video.
Although the film was received calmly in the Netherlands, inIndonesia dozens of people demonstrated outside the Dutch embassy inJakarta, calling Wilders "a Christian terrorist". In Pakistan, about 40supporters of the hardline Islamist party Jamaat-i-Islami staged aprotest. The Malaysian opposition party called for a Dutch boycott andthe 57-nation strong Organisation of the Islamic Conference alsocondemned the film in "the strongest terms".
Dutch foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen has told the ambassadors from26 countries, including Iran and Indonesia, that the film in no wayreflected the views of the Dutch government.
Wilders has no intention to change or withdraw the movie, but hewill amend the production to avoid legal action. A re-edited versionwill leave out a cartoon by Kurt Westergaard, who didn't givepermission for showing his work in the movie, as well as a picture ofDutch rapper Salah Edin, who was mistaken for the killer of Dutchfilmmaker Theo van Gogh, Mohammed Bouyeri.
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On the 28th of March LiveLeak.com was left with no other choice but toremove the film "fitna" from our servers following serious threats toour staff and their families. Since that time we have worked constantlyon upgrading all security measures thus offering better protection forour staff and families. With these measures in place we have decided toonce more make this video live on our site. We will not be pressuredinto censoring material which is legal and within our rules. Weapologise for the removal and the delay in getting it back, but whenyou run a website you don't consider that some people would be insecureenough to threaten our lives simply because they do not like thecontent of a video we neither produced nor endorsed but merely hosted.