Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Prossimamente sui Vs.schermi

ITALY: VAN GOGH FILM SCREENED AT ITALIAN PARLIAMEMT
Dopo essere stato cancellato dai Film festival di tutta Europa, con una
decisione degna di un vero Capo, lungimirante e tesa alla armonizzazione tra
due comunita`, sara`proiettato su tutti gli schermi televisivi...alla faccia
della comunita`islamica italiana.
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Rome, 19 April (AKI) - The short, but highly controversial film which cost
its Dutch director - Theo Van Gogh - his life on November 2, has been
screened in the Italian parliament. 'Submission', which lasts almost eleven
and a half minutes, is about the treatment of women in Islamic society. It
was aired in full in the Italian lower house on Monday and was being shown
in the Senate on Tuesday, organised by a member of parliament from the
successionist Northern League party, Edouard Ballaman, as part of what he
calls a "campaign against censorship".
The film also forced its writer, Somalian-Dutch refugee-turned-MP, Ayaan
Hirsi Ali, into hiding. She is now living under police protection. Van Gogh
was shot and had his throat cut in Amsterdam when he was attacked as he
cycled to work. His killer also left a letter pinned to his chest with a
knife, in which he threatened Hirsi Ali. Last week, Mohammed Bouyeri, a
27-year-old Dutch-Moroccan man charged with the murder, made his first
appearance in court.
The film features a young woman, naked, but covered from head to foot by a
transparent veil. She has writings from the Koran drawn on her back and
legs, which are scarred from the 100 lashes she says she received for
adultery after telling Allah of her love for a young man she met called
Rahman. She also talks of the man she was forcibly married to at 16 who hits
her, and says: "Allah, I obey his commands, sanctioned by your words." She
also talks of being raped by her uncle in her parent's house and of her
dream of feeling the wind through her hair and the sun on her skin. At the
end she prays, saying: "I have done nothing my whole life but turn to you
and now that I pray for salvation under my veil, you remain silent, like the
grave I long for."
'Submission' - which was broadcast on Dutch television in August last year -
is due to be screened at the European parliament on Wednesday. Parts of it
are also due to be aired on Tuesday night by a TV channel in the north of
Italy, despite the film's producers banning it from being publicy broadcast.
Plans to show it at the Rotterdam Film Festival had to be dropped at the
request of the production company, who says it doesn't want Theo Van Gogh's
image, because of the scandal, to remain linked to this work, which was made
to be shown in a particular televisual context, accompanied by discussion on
the subject. They believe that screening the film at an event with major
media exposure, such as a festival, could be dangerous for all of those
linked to it.
While some members of the Muslim community in Italy are opposed to
Ballaman's initiative to air the film, others believe hiding the film away
is wrong. Saida Ahmed Qacle, a Somalian immigration lawyer who lives in
Turin and knew Hirsi Ali's sister - who used to study and work in Italy -
told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera: "Not giving into terrorism is a
matter of principle. I am against any kind of censorship. The film should be
seen." Souad Sbai, a leading figure in Italy's Moroccan community is equally
adamant that the film should not be censored: "Not screening Van Gogh's film
would be like killing him twice. It would be a grave error to give in to the
ransom of the terrorist who killed him," he said.

 Italy, despite the film's producers banning it from being publicy broadcast.
Am.

"amalric" <ama...@TOGLIMIaliceposta.it> wrote in message
news:tgCge.885894$b5.39...@news3.tin.it...
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Molto probabilmente abbiamo ragione tutti due. Fu proiettato alla
televisione Olandese , ma bandito dalle sale cinematografiche del film
Festival di Rotterdam, per ragioni di sicurezza.
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