| KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A supermarket chain in mainly Muslim Malaysia has marked Dutch products with red labels, giving customers the option of boycotting them to protest an anti-Islam movie by a Dutch lawmaker."I think as a Muslim, we have to take a stand," Ali Mydin, managing director of Mydin Mohamed Holdings Bhd., told The Associated Press on Tuesday, adding that 40 of his stores would take part in the nationwide campaign.Supermarkets would put up notices and posters to explain to customers how they could choose not to buy Dutch products, Ameer said. Mydin buys 60 million ringgit (US$18.8 million; ?11.9 million) worth of Dutch goods a year, from dairy and cosmetics to electronics.Several other Malaysian groups have also called on Muslims to boycott Dutch goods, saying the 15-minute movie by lawmaker Geert Wilders creates unnecessary tensions and misleads viewers to link Islam and violence.Malaysia's Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned the film as disrespectful and insensitive. Some 60 percent of the country's 27 million people are Muslims.
The film, titled "Fitna," or "ordeal" in Arabic, was posted online Thursday. Though it was removed from the site, LiveLeak.com, on Friday, it has since been available on other file-sharing sites.
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