Saturday, September 15, 2012
A moral victory of Christianism over Islam: A possessed anti-Islam consultant + a soft porn movie director + a Coptic Christian promoter with criminal past + a Christian charity = a C-rated movie and the first victims of a new religious Crusade.
This is becoming a very convoluted story but because of the ultimate sad outcome (many deaths) and the underlying very tangible and repulsive crusade-like sentiment in the American society (thanks GWB!), I try to summerize what my current understanding of the circumstances is.
A menacingly anti-Muslim ass - I don't often use this term -, one Steve Klein, apparently found the right company in an ex-con Coptic Christian movie promoter, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, to forward his sick Islam-degrading message. In the process, Nakoula now added an unforgivable moral crime to his previous criminal records. The two found an apparently clueless soft porn movie director, Alan Roberts, who thought he was making a historical movie. A Christian charity, or perhaps a mixture of various extremist Christian organizations with Terry Jones Florida preacher and alikes, apparently financed the movie.
Initially there were also indications that Israeli-American Jews may have raised substanital amount of money for the making of the movie. I placed this statement separate from the previous paragraph because the credibility of this information recently has been questioned: the State of Israel denies the existence of the claimed Israeli citizen in the movie.
A strange twist in the story is that the participants allegedly haven't been aware of the movie's ultimate goal of belittleing Islam. The characters' voices were dubbed over after the production.
To Nakoula, Terry Jones, and other Christian participants I only have one question: how will their God absolve them for this deadly "mischief"?
Oh, I almost forgot: in the name of self-rightousness.
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Members of the "Religion of Peace" have utilized this movie (which, so I understand, may not even exist), to kill, destroy, and maim. Yet, though you apparently claim the moral high ground of a pacifist, you neglect to mention the this and instead focus on the apparent horror of "belittling Islam."
ReplyDeleteSir, it is sad to say, but your bias is only surpassed by your arrogance.
My bias is for fear-free coexistence of people with various backgrounds in an ever flammable world.
ReplyDeleteI don't condone the murder of diplomats and hope the killers will be brought to justice.
The purpose of this musing however was to condemn the instigators who released this violence.
If this makes me arrogant to some, i aplogize to them - not an act commonly accepted where the weight of argument is proportional to the weaponry that supports it. I am ready to shed my percieved arrogance for an honest discourse about subjects of disagreement.
So I can assume that those who produce movies such as "The Last temptation of Christ," or "The Da Vinci Code," or works of "art" such as "Piss Christ" stand equally condemned by you?
ReplyDeleteIf any of those movies were produced with the intent of hurting religious feelings and nothing else, I would condemn them.
ReplyDeletePiss Christ sounds tastless - haven't seen it and have no desire to do so. It certainly sounds like a movie that could deserve my condemnation, but can't say for sure without seeing it - and I won't.
The Last temptation of Christ is on my list to watch. If I feel that it was made with the sole intent of showing disrespect toward Christianity, I'll condemn it.
I saw, and enjoyed Da Vinchi Code. It was advertised from the start as fiction, nobody should have taken it as an insult to Christianity. It is regretful that some Christians felt offended by the movie but the intent of the writer and director was simply to present a suspensful fiction. They also didn't dub over the voice of the characters to change the meaning of the film.
We both know that intent makes no difference to the followers of The Profit. There is a fatwā calling for the death of Kurt Westergaard for a cartoon. Salman Rushdie and Ayaan Hirsi Magan Ali also have fatāwā against them. In each of these fatāwā call for the execution of the the person because they have "insulted" Al-ʾIslām, The Prophet, or the Qur'an.
ReplyDeleteThe two movies I mention are insults to Christianity and yet you reserve judgement until you have an opportunity to view them? That they may be fiction makes them no less a purposeful insult to Christianity. Have you seen the movie that has supposedly caused this particular Islamic uprising? I am of the opinion that you have not since there is some question as to whether or not the movie, beyond the trailer, actually exists!
And what do you think the reaction would be if a movie of the type of the "Da Vinci Code" were to be made, but with Islam and The Prophet at its core? The mere depiction of The Prophet is enough to "insult" Islam, can you imagine a movie, fiction or no, where the prophet is accused of having an affair with a whore?
As for "Piss-Christ," it is a "work of art" that was supported by the US' "Endowment for the Arts!"