The Dutch government has moved to defuse Muslim anger after a controversial right-wing politician posted a film on the Internet, which is highly critical of Islam.
Far right parliamentarian Geert Wilders launched the video entitled 'Fitna', a term from the Koran which sometimes translates as strife.
It combines passages from the Koran with footage of speeches by radical muslim clerics and images of violence.
Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende denounced the film on national television.
Dutch broadcasters had refused to show the film and a US-based Web service which Mr Wilders had planned to use deactivated the site at the weekend after receiving complaints.
The film starts and finishes with a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed with a bomb under his turban, originally published in Danish newspapers.
That image previously sparked protests by Muslims around the world.
