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(IsraelNN.com) A right wing Dutch legislator is making a film exposing the Arab concept of "Fitna," an Arabic word that is translated as "discord" or "ordeal." Legislator Geert Wilders said his film shows the Koran as a "fascist" book that "incites people to murder." The film is to be aired in March.

Fitna is a term that is used to describe things that test faith, he said. "I use the term in an inverse sense because for me Islam ... is fitna," he told the French news agency AFP. Other legislators fear that the film will cause Muslim riots, similar to those in 2005, when a Danish newspaper published a caricature of the Muslim prophet Mohammed.

Postscript: The film has been published here.