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Iran Calls for mobilisation against film "Submission 2"

Mark | 19.04.2006 15:52 | Analysis

Iran wants to block the production of a Dutch film about the condition of homosexuals in Islamic countries. The director of Submission 1 was murdered in 2004 in Amsterdam. The murderer pinched on his body a paper with death threats for the scriptwriter of both films, a Somali woman.

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Iran's Parliament Speaker Gholamali Haddadadel has called upon Islamic countries to mobilise to block the production of the second part of the Dutch film 'Submission'. Haddadadel said the film represents "a danger for the Islamic religion and a new attack against the Muslims after the publishing of the cartoons offending the Prophet in many European newspapers," international Arab daily Sharq al-Awsat wrote today. His appeal was made to the Islamic parliamentarians who were taking part in the meeting of parliamentary representatives of the countries of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) in Istanbul. The second part of the film 'Submission', a project on which the deputy at the Dutch parliament of Somalian origin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, is working (she was also scriptwriter of 'Submission' I), is expected to tackle the theme of the condition of homosexuals in Islamic countries. Theo Van Gogh, director of 'Submission' which denounced the conditions of the Muslim women, was murdered in November 2004 by a young Dutchman of Moroccan origin who was later sentenced to life in prison. (ANSAmed).

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