Re: UN Condemns the Dutch Film
picoico
I don't know what Kindergarten you went to, but it mine we learned never to back down from unprovoked attack. We learned NEVER to offend for the sake of offense...and even at such a young age we learned how sensitive certain topics are and how to tread lightly around them. And this included, of course, religion.
The universal right of the offended is to express their offense...and hopefully the expression will be only commensurate to the offense. What you are suggesting is that people, in effect, shut up and go away. Not going to happen. Nor is that very tolerant, btw. But this isn't really about tolerance...
**Anyone who wants instant fame knows to target Muslims, and as usual, they'll respond with riots, claims of discrimination, etc (more protest dealing with a short film than the treatment of Palestinians (Muslim brothers and sisters).
Learn from your mistakes and stop perpetuating this trend. It's supply and demand. Stop giving these films notoriety and they'll fade away.
You become part of the problem when you perpetuate it.**
Yes...the question is Have YOU? Or are you at least aware of the surrounding narrative that the movie is part and parcel of? Or are you defending something you have little interest in simply because "free speech" is under attack?
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I don't have to see the film to know I respect the right of someone to make their opinion known, no matter how people take offensive to it. It's OUR choice as to how we respond. Likewise, I have passed no positive or negative judgment on the quality or contents of the film, you however, have. You made a claim, I haven't. Your's is a clear bias.
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It's silly to suggest that we can watch this film in isolation (as brain-dead as it is), while ignoring the film makers agenda which is quite transparent.
Please show me how Herc and Krishna are accepted as Prophets (and not GOD/demi-GOD), and then we'll talk.
Jesus/Esa is considered a God, yet Islam considers him a prophet. Considering that many non Abrahamic religions are non-prophetic, avatars may often be likened to them as they are divinely influenced, yet mortal (and these avatars come to serve a purpose for humanity, to guide them on a better path).
Likewise, we can look at Zoroastrianism and ask if Islam considers Zoroaster (Zoroastrianism predating Islam and influencing Judaism). So yes, show me where Islam accepts any such avatar's/prophets. It doesn't. It accepts by name, only those who existed within the middle east, and only those who were taken from Jewish tradition.
What are the other factors? You singled Islam out...so whom is being willingly ignorant?
**I said that Islam was one of the factors. Choosing to negate it's influence (and their perception of Islam), on those who committed these crimes is sheer ignorance. If one, no matter how twisted they are, can find justification for violence in their religious beliefs, we HAVE to examine them, even if it makes you uncomfortable.
The way I see it, the more people complain about this film, the more uncomfortable they are with their own beliefs.
Therefore:
No one attacked you, no one slandered you personally. Let's move along and set our priorities to things that really matter. Instead of complaining about a movie, let's direct that energy to more important things, like genocide.
Or we can act as stubborn children and continue on this tirade. The choice is your's.**