UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Friday condemned an anti-Islamic video broadcast in Holland as "hate speech and incitement to violence" and urged calm after its release on the internet, according to Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa. In a statement issued by his spokesperson after Thursday's airing of the film, Fitna, Ban acknowledged the efforts of the Dutch government to stop broadcast of the work produced by a Dutch opposition lawmaker, and appealed "for calm to those understandably offended by it." "Freedom must always be accompanied by social responsibility," he said. "There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence. The right of free expression is not at stake here."
