April 1: Indonesia says it would block access to YouTube unless the video-sharing website removes the film within 48 hours. Communications and Information Minister Mohammad Nuh said the government sent a letter to the site informing it of its demand.

Protests across the world

February 2008: Pakistan internally bans YouTube for several days after reports of a Fitna trailer. This accidentally causes the YouTube site to be unavailable worldwide for two hours. Pakistan has called for a discussion of Fitna at the next Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit

March 30: Wilders is the subject of a fatwa, allegedly associated with the al-Qaeda, calling upon Muslims to assassinate him

March 30: Syria’s Grand Mufti Ahmad Badr al-Din says that if Wilders pictures the image of a burning Quran in his film, the Dutch people will be held responsible and possible attacks against Western public interests are not out of the question

April 1: Iran threatens to review its diplomatic stance with Netherlands should the film be aired

April 1: Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, says it would block access to YouTube unless the video-sharing website removes the anti-Muslim film within 48 hours

April 2: Malaysian dairy producer, Dutch Lady Milk Industries, takes out newspaper advertisements to denounce the film in a bid to appeal to Muslims not to boycott its products

April 2: In Afghanistan, Dutch and Danish flags are burnt outside the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture. The protesters, mostly women, ask Danish and Dutch troops to leave Afghanistan.

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