Post by nymos on Jan 10, 2006 0:45:26 GMT -5
Nymos, where did you get the information that muslims liked Mel Gibson´s movie on Jesus?
Was it just your impression from the streets or did you read an article on that?
Was it just your impression from the streets or did you read an article on that?
This was reported in the news at the time.
Here are three articles attesting to that. Try and read them all.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3604051.stm
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/05/entertainment/main610279.shtml
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/04/01/MNGH35UO881.DTL
I mean, it would really surprise me, since the story line, (pretty much the gospels), goes against muslim beliefs on God and Jesus. That would be akin to the Saudi royal family financing a movie which shows how the disciples of christ corrupted the Gospels and "catholics" supposedly loving it.
I agree, it is surprising, but at the same time it's not. I'll leave it up to you to decide why they would make an excpetion in this case.
like rabbi´s flooding newspapers all around the world with articles on how horribly anti semitic a movie which literally displays something that has been read in every sunday for almsot 2 milleniums in hundreds of thousands churches around the world is, and how it would make jews be persecuted and increase anti semitism,
You know, stuff that in retrospective, seems ridiculous, paranoid, whiny, because non of that ended up happening, and there was never a reason for that to happen to begin with.
You know, stuff that in retrospective, seems ridiculous, paranoid, whiny, because non of that ended up happening, and there was never a reason for that to happen to begin with.
You know what they say -- hindsight is 20/20. I think it is unfair to say that it was ridiculous or paranoid because it never materialized. The reaction, after all, did not spring out of vacuum. One only has to look at history to see the reason over their concern. But I'm not making any justifications.
Here's a summary of some of the concerns over anti-Semitism.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ#Controversy_about_anti-Semitism
Here's an ADL Q&A on the film worth reading through
www.adl.org/Interfaith/gibson_qa.asp