Assploding irony.

(Radio Australia) — A Muslim film-maker in Indonesia is urging support for his movie after it was dropped by one of the country’s biggest TV stations because of pressure from an extremist group.

The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) threatened to storm the SCTV Channel last Monday night if the film was aired.

Release of the film, titled “?”, was to coincide with the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The film’s director, Hanung Brahmantyo, told Radio Australia’s Asia Pacific program that the FPI had no right to ban his work.

“I don’t understand why our government let them do anything, anything they want,” he said.

“They disagree with the liberalism, they disagree with pluralism, but they don’t have a right to hate something.”

Mr Brahmantyo’s movie deals with religious tolerance and violence.

He said it aims to show the Islam he knows — one of acceptance and peace.

“I want to talk about the responsibility to tell someone especially Westerners that Islam is not a religion of terrorists, not a religion of fundamentalists, that Islam is a religion of peace.