This just in the from insano-delusional land (credit CBC.ca):
“Many Muslims find it offensive to depict the Prophet Muhammad in any fashion, much less in an insulting way.
This week’s attacks on U.S. diplomatic outposts in Egypt and Libya, the latter of which claimed the lives of U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens and three others on Tuesday, erupted after a 14-minute trailer of an obscure movie by a California real-estate developer. The film was posted on YouTube in English and later in Egyptian Arabic.
Ultraconservative Islamists were suspected of being behind the attack in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi. Advocating a strict interpretation of Islam, they have bulldozed Sufi shrines and mosques that house tombs in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, and other cities, including ancient sites dating back to 5,000 years ago.”
So, like the danish cartoons, the publishing of this film somehow gives people the right to flip out the buttered insane fuck-crumpets and burn shit up and kill people? This is part of the trailer that has incensed the reality challenged.
Wow. This film ranks below Poolboy:Drowning out the Fury on my list of awful movies.
So, full marks for beating out PoolBoy, but not really a honour one should be striving toward. Let’s recap so far, some dude makes a crumby, ass-pustule of a flick and because it makes fun of your godhead of choice *you* get to kill people.
“The movie trailer depicts Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman in an overtly ridiculing way, showing him having sex and calling for massacres. An amateur cast performs a wooden dialogue of insults disguised as revelations about Muhammad, whose obedient followers are presented as a cadre of goons. The film was being promoted by an extreme anti-Muslim Egyptian Christian campaigner in the United States, and was financed with the help of more than 100 Jewish donors according to Sam Bacile, who wrote and directed it.”
Yep. I can totally see how shedding innocent blood is called for in cases like this. Chris Stevens and three others were destined to give their lives to fanatics hepped up on righteous god-juice over a D-list movie.
Let me reiterate, religion is harmful to people and society if it is not kept in check by a strong secular state the kind of irrational bullshite that our muslim friends demonstrated in Libya happens. Believing in magic and mythology for the nth time, has no place in the modern world. We commit plenty of atrocities without the help of those who lose their shit when you depict their ooga-booga of choice.
Indeed, religion does poison everything it touches and creates the nightmare world which we striving to leave behind us.
9 comments
September 13, 2012 at 11:06 am
witchylisa
Preach it sister!
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September 14, 2012 at 5:29 am
Titfortat
You do realize that the only reason most people turn to a dogmatic religious interpretation is because they are desperate and in need of some kind of hope. The powerful will always ensure that there are plenty of desperate people in the world. :(
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September 14, 2012 at 9:30 am
The Arbourist
@Titfortat
And this somehow justifies murder? I am aware of the ugly cycle of poverty and oppression the West has set up in the middle east (those people having the nerve to live on top of *our* oil). I also realize that we are responsible for much, if not all, of what is happening in the Middle East today.
It doesn’t give a free pass for people who take the law into their own hands.
Agreed.
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September 14, 2012 at 11:11 am
Titfortat
I didnt say it justified anything. As far as your guilty conscience goes try not lumping me in with it. I havnt done anything specifically in relation to the middle east. I think the individuals there own it way before I would ever be involved.
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September 15, 2012 at 9:08 am
The Arbourist
@Titfortat
Oh, so you don’t you gasoline or any plastic products derived from oil? My compliments to your living off the grid lifestyle. The thing is that I’m guessing you do use gasoline and oil-derived products. Where do they come from? Oh yes, that would be the middle east, where your foreign policy has been “intervening for stability” since the 1920’s.
Now you don’t have to feel personally responsible, or feel any particular way I suggest you feel. When you ignore historical and geopolitical realities here on my blog, I’ll call you on it. :)
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September 15, 2012 at 12:44 pm
Alan Scott
The Arbourist ,
Why on Earth are you not for the Muslims ? They hate Christians even more than you do . And unlike you they do something about it, they kill them .
I try to make sure that all of the Petroleum products I use originate from Canada . Or so I tell myself because I want all of you Canadians to prosper . I often wonder whether you Canadians would have any money at all with out the oil you sell to us stupid Americans .
I also wonder, do you Canadians secretly hate us while at the same time selling us your black gold ?
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September 15, 2012 at 12:56 pm
The Arbourist
@ Alan Scott
How did you get into my spam filter Mr.Scott? Prescient, but odd.
Err..we have this little thing called civilization? Right? Killing people never solves anything in the long term, what it does do is inflame passions and the motivations for revenge. This tends to work against your cause in the long run.
We did okay before NAFTA and other free investor agreements, and of course with the market as it is, can sell our oil to the highest bidder so its nothing particularly special about you. Unless of course, you don’t believe in the free market?
I am not all Canadians Mr.Scott, just saying. I’m guess though that we might not approve of many of your political policies, or certain societal priorities, but outright hate? Seems a little strong of a word for it, no?
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September 15, 2012 at 2:25 pm
Titfortat
@arbourist
The oil I use comes from the tar sands. My cousin works there and sends it to me via “family care packages”. :)
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September 15, 2012 at 2:35 pm
The Arbourist
*grins*
Nothing says “family care” like a bladder full of oil in the mail. :)
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