AMSTERDAM,
November 18, 2005 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Despite
the shockwaves capped with the murder of its director, a Dutch film
dubbed "extremely insulting" by Muslims is to have a sequel,
with controversial MP Ayaan Hirsi saying the second part of the film
focuses on "homosexuality in Islam".
"I
examine the position of homosexuals in Islam in the film
"Submission II," Ayaan Hirsi Ali has told the daily De
Volkskrant, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP) Thursday,
November 17.
Hirsi
told Dutch media that she had co-written the script with Theo Van Gogh
in the summer of 2004, months before he was killed last November after
his short film "Submission", about treatment of women in
Islam.
Van
Gogh was shot and stabbed by a Muslim radical, Mohammed Bouyeri, as he
cycled through Amsterdam in 2004, sparking a series of reprisal
attacks mainly directed at the Muslim minority.
Submission,
the name of the English-language edition, tells the fictional story of
a young Muslim woman forced into an arranged marriage with a man who
beats her.
She
is ordered to keep silent about being raped by her uncle to protect
his honor. She is later punished for having an adulterous relationship
with a man she falls in love with at a market.
The
almost naked body of the actress on which Hirsi Ali painted verses
from the Noble Qur’an, is shown with inflamed lacerations to the
sound of a cracking whip.
Anonymous
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"In the film, they (gays) are called Allah's creatures," Hirsi said.
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Hirsi,
of Somali origins, said the new movie will use anonymous actors and
carry no credits in an effort to protect those involved in the film.
"In
the film, they (gays) are called Allah's creatures," she said.
Gay
marriage is totally
prohibited in Islam as
well as in all the divine religions.
Hirsi,
who describes herself as "lapsed" Muslim, has been under
police protection since the release of "Submission."
In
an interview with the Dutch daily Trouw January 25, 2003, Hirsi
shocked
as many as one million Muslims living in the Netherlands by branding
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) with some abhorrent, repugnant descriptions,
stirring up feelings of anger and antagonism towards her.
Having
no inkling about Islam or Shari'ah (Islamic law) as it appears in her
curriculum vitae, Ayaan said the Prophet (PBUH) was a “despotic,
narrow-minded and violent” man, who killed whoever stood in his way.
Muslim
organizations, as well as the Dutch Liberal Party (VVD), which has
some 28 seats in the parliament, had called for stripping Hirsi of her
parliamentary membership and to pressure her into backtracking on her
degrading remarks.
