BY: W. Shadid, 10-4-2008

In response to Wilders’ film, Raed al-Saeed from Saudi Arabia has made a film of 10 minutes with the title ‘SCHISM’ by which he denounced the cruelties of the Bible and Christianity. He wanted to show that it is not difficult to select ‘black texts’ and ‘black pages’ from any ‘holy book’ and to relate these to horror activities of armies and wars as to demonstrate the cruelties of Christianity and its followers.
However, the end product, the video ‘SCHISM’, indicates that the producer of that film is much wiser than our MP Geert Wilders. He writes at the end that his film is just as reprehensible as that of Wilders. Furthermore, according to him he spent not more than 12 hours to search for video material on the internet and to construct the film, while Wilders spend 3 months completing his. The film is noticeably of an amateurish quality such as that of Wilders.
He ends his film with the statements that “There is only one God… And that is God”, and “Let us make the world a better place”. The producers’ apologies to every one who might feel insulted by his film ‘SCHISM’, indicate to my opinion that he himself, and therefore his culture as well, possess a high level of civilization and that the ‘freedom of expression’ by which topics and problems can be discussed, need not necessarily to be offensive or insulting.
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Prof.dr. W. Shadid is professor of intercultural communication. For more info: see page “About”