Article: Dutch government not to seek ban on anti-Islam film

Dutch government not to seek ban on anti-Islam film

BRUSSELS, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said Wednesday that the Dutch cabinet has no plans to ask the courts to ban the controversial film Fitna, due to be released this month by right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders, Dutch news service ANP reported.

"We looked at the possibilities and there are none," Verhagen was quoted as saying.

His comments came after former Dutch foreign minister Hans van den Broek, now a government advisor, called on the cabinet to take the issue to court.

Dutch paper De Volkskrant published an interview Wednesday in which Van den Broek said Dutch people around the world could become ...

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