WASHINGTON, March 25 (UPI) -- The Web site on which a Dutch politician planned to broadcast a film attacking the Koran has been "temporarily suspended" by its U.S. Internet service provider.
In a statement, Herndon, Va.-based Network Solutions said it would not allow Geert Wilders to post his film on the site unless it could review it first to check it did not violate the company's "acceptable use" policy.
"If the customer provides Network Solutions with the content and it is determined that the content does not violate the acceptable use policy, then the customer will be permitted to post the content," reads the statement.
The company said it had "made repeated requests to discuss the matter" with Wilders in response to complaints from Wilders' critics and his own public comments about the nature of the film.
"We are still waiting to hear from our customer," the company said. "In the interim, we have temporarily suspended the site."
Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration Freedom Party, which holds nine of the 150 seats in the Dutch Parliament, has compared the Koran to Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf," and he has said his 15-minute film -- titled "Fitna," which means "Ordeal" in Arabic -- would show how Islam's sacred book had been an inspiration for "intolerance, murder and terror."
Network Solutions' policy includes a broad prohibition on obscene or harmful material that includes "hate propaganda" and anything "profane, indecent or otherwise objectionable."
Wilders registered the site, Fitnathemovie.com, last month and last week said he would release the film there by April 1 if his efforts to find a Dutch broadcaster to show it continued to be unsuccessful.
The far-right Czech National Party posted an offer on its Web site Tuesday to broadcast it there, and Wilders has been quoted by Dutch media as saying, "If necessary, I'll go hand out DVDs personally" in the center of Amsterdam.
Media reports about the film and the brief display on YouTube of a trailer for it prompted street demonstrations in several Islamic countries, diplomatic protests and warnings from NATO about an expected, possibly violent, backlash against Dutch peacekeepers in Afghanistan.
