But what you are doing is watching Geert Wilder's film, and then claiming that it gives understanding about Muslims.
Since you have not seen the film, your comment/analogy is completely wrong.
I've seen the footage of the Allies liberating Nazi concentration camps. Since the Nazi's didn't make those films they must be false, nicht wahr ??
Actually, you brought up a good point-I decided I should see the film to help better understand the hatred of Muslims and the propaganda campaign against them, and I just watched it.
And no, your analogy about footage of the camps is not even close in comparison. This was a 20 minute screed with random quotes, cheesy music, and videos spliced in of brutal murders and some guy speaking like a psycho here or there. A video of a concentration camp is proof that speaks for itself. A video of some clown with a sword with the notation that it was on Saudi Arabian TV (you know, the Saudi TV that no Muslim gets to vote on?) is not the same thing.
Seriously, did you watch this thing and think "ah, there's a good documentary piece on Muslims...lots of info"
Because I saw a screed with no names, a few subtitles, and then an ominous chart of the growing number of Muslims in Europe...with the obvious ugly subtext that somehow "the numbers need to be reduced, comrades!"
So let's recap this:
20 minute film including:
1. Not even names of most of the people featured.
2. Less than one minute soundbites from each.
3. Highly charged videos of crowds doing who knows what, with cheesey music in the background.
4. An appeal to cut down the number of Muslims in Europe because it is growing too fast.
That is different from anti-semitic propaganda how? And in what sane world is this a starting point for gathering information on Islam?
This was Mr. Wilder's propaganda piece, pure and simple. It is a badly done screed with soundbites, a crappy soundtrack, and extreme gore mixed in to evoke an emotional reaction. There is really not a single ounce of material in that piece that would contribute to an honest and unbiased discussion of Islam and its role in the world, for any time period or place.