What is a Fitna?

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Fitna (film), a 2008 short film by Geert Wilders Fitna (word), an Arabic word referring to schism, secession, upheaval and anarchy at once The First Fitna (656–661 CE) the first Islamic "civil war" The Second Fitna (c. 680/683-c. 685/692 CE), the second Islamic "civil war" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitna Sep 01 08, 6:38 AM

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Fitna is a 2008 short film by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders. The film explores Qur'anic motivation for terrorism, Islamic universalism, and Islam in the Netherlands. The film's title comes from the Arabic word fitna, which is used to describe "disagreement and division among people" or a "test of faith in times of trial". The movie has been on the Dutch government’s worry list since the very first day it was mentioned in the Dutch media, on Nov. 27, 2007. The Dutch government has tried its best to distance itself from Wilders and distributed evacuation plans to its consulates and embassies worldwide in case an emergency should arise in light of the forthcoming film, also tightening security measurements around certain military installations abroad. At 16 minutes, “Fitna” is neither a movie nor a film. It is rather a kind of slideshow using five verses from three chapters of the Quran with accompanying translations in addition to press and television footage of terrorist acts including the 9/11 attacks, the beheading of Jack Hensley by al-Qaeda terrorists, capital punishment for gay men and adulterous women, female genital mutilation and child abuse. The verses were specifically selected from among verses that can be interpreted as calls for war, anti-Semitism, “Ummah-exclusive-ism” and a conquering ideology when taken out of context. http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=137624 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitna_(film) Sep 01 08, 6:40 AM

jk18	Fitna: temptation or trial; sedition; social unrest or civil war. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fitna Sep 02 08, 3:26 PM

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Fitna (فتنة) is an Arabic word, generally regarded as very difficult to translate but at the same time is considered to be an all-encompassing word referring to schism, secession, upheaval and anarchy at once. It is often used to refer to civil war, disagreement and division within Islam and specifically alludes to a time involving trials of faith, similar to the Tribulation in Christian eschatology. The term originally referred to the refining of metal to remove dross [1], but became common in apocalyptic writings and is often used to refer to the First Islamic civil war, in 656–661 AD, a prolonged struggle for the caliphate after the 656 assassination of the caliph Uthman ibn Affan. The Second Fitna, or Second Islamic civil war, is usually identified as the 683–685 AD conflict among the Umayyads for control of the caliphate. The third one refers to the taifas in the end of the Caliph of Córdoba's rule. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitna_(word) Sep 02 08, 4:35 PM