Just back from Holland where the country is on high-alert awaiting the screening of Geert Wilders' short film 'Fitna'. The papers have it on every page, the government has done everything it can to stop the film, and the nation is now waiting for the backlash - at home, in the Middle East or elsewhere.
I spent part of yesterday afternoon with Wilders and it is amazing the pressure which has been put on him. You would have thought that it is the responsibility of any government to say that whether they agree with the sentiments of his anti-Koran film or not, any killings, burnings or riotings will be put solely at the doors of the killers, burners and rioters. Excusing people from moral accountability is always disgusting, but doing so pre-emptively is an invitation to violence.
