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''Fitna'' may refer to a short [[polemic|polemical]] film by [[Dutch]] [[parliament|parliamentarian]] [[Geert Wilders]], designed to inflame anti-Islamic sentiment by juxtaposing key phrases from the [[Koran]] with dramatic real world events - such as the [[9/11|September 11th]] attacks - which Wilders argues are the inevitable consequences of the phrases.   

''Fitna'' may refer to a short [[polemic|polemical]] film by [[Dutch]] [[parliament|parliamentarian]] [[Geert Wilders]], designed to inflame anti-Islamic sentiment by juxtaposing key phrases from the [[Koran]] with dramatic real world events - such as the [[9/11|September 11th]] attacks - which Wilders argues are the inevitable consequences of the phrases.   

Wilders ended his film with a picture of the Koran, followed by the sound of pages ripping to portray the idea that Wilders has torn the Koran in two, an intolerable act of [[desecration]] to any devout [[Muslim]]

Wilders ended his film with a picture of the Koran, followed by the sound of pages ripping to portray the idea that Wilders has torn the Koran in two, an intolerable act of [[desecration]] to any devout [[Muslim]].

 

In [[Islam|Islamic]] [[apocalypse|apocalyptic]] writings ([[eschatology]]), a '''fitna''' is a time of tribulation and great civil unrest.  The term may have common usage, however, to describe merely a [[civil war]] within the [[Dar al-Islam]], with no apocalyptic assumptions.

In [[Islam|Islamic]] [[apocalypse|apocalyptic]] writings ([[eschatology]]), a '''fitna''' is a time of tribulation and great civil unrest.  The term may have common usage, however, to describe merely a [[civil war]] within the [[Dar al-Islam]], with no apocalyptic assumptions.