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| About the recent "Anti-Muslim" movie that caused riots and the Libya killings by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 09/14/2012, 2:23am PDT | ||||
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| You may have heard about the short film that has gotten a lot of people in the Middle East so outraged that there have been riots and our Ambassador to Libya was murdered. The news media talk about how it's supposedly an anti-Muslim film. how it was thought by some protesters to be an actual full-length film made by a commercial production company like a major motion picture studio, and intended to be released in theaters and such, and other things that are reported, much of which are indications of what is wrongly believed about this film.
You get teasers about how it's available on YouTube, and that it's just a short of about 13 minutes, but one thing I wasn't hearing much of until very recently, was the name of the film, probably because the media doesn't want to get tagged by the Muslim community as encouraging people to see it. But a news report I saw finally announced it. You can look for the film on YouTube by name. "Innocence of Islam". Here's a search link on YouTube for "Innocence of Islam full movie" and you can use that if you choose, but I have found one link that claims to be the full movie, and at something over 13 minutes is about the right size, so I'll inline it here. I have not had a chance to watch it yet, so I don't know much about it. I'm suspecting that it's probably not all that good, what usually happens with these sorts of films is that, if it's anti-Muslim , simply believed to be anti-Muslim or says something bad about their religion (or merely imagined to be against their religion) it's automatically heresy deserving of hatred up to and including the level necessary to kill people. Which then usually causes demands the work be suppressed or banned, and such demands almost always practically cause an automatic trigger of the Streisand Effect, making people think if it's that important that they'll try to keep people from seeing it or kill people over it, that it must be something worth watching, causing their outrage to do the exact opposite of what they want, making the ideas that they oppose seem more important and more worthy of public attention. Salman Rushdie wrote a book - or more accurately, created an execrable piece of garbage - that is so unreadable that practically no one would have looked at it (e.g, if you don't like some of what I write, consider what Rushdie did was probably equivalent to about 10 times worse than the worst and most offensive thing you've seen me write), except that Rushdie's book was considered insulting to the Muslim religion, which caused the Ayatollah Khomeni - yeah, the one that took over Iran - to issue a fatwa ordering Rushdie's murder, which made the book The Satanic Verses into a worldwide best seller and got Rushdie international fame and the requirement to have permanent security supplied by British Military. And the book was a piece of crap, I couldn't get through more than the first 30 pages myself. So we'll see how this film actually is, and those who want to can take a look and make their own judgments. What's most amazing about the whole Satanic Verses incident was that when Khomeni issued the death fatwa against Rushdie, the book was only available in English, no translations had yet been made. So, Khomeni issues a death sentence against a guy for writing a book that had ideas he didn't like, based on what someone else told him was in the book! Talk about hatred of free speech! |
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