Sunday, February 05, 2006
Confusing "respect" and fear
2 Comments:
By 
Gordon Smith, at
Sun Feb 05, 11:50:00 PM:
Hiya, Tigerhawkers,
I've been out to lunch on the whole cartooning crisis, but it made me think about fundamentalist religious responses to offensive works. I stumbled across this:
"Finally in 1988, The Last Temptation of Christ was completed and released to theaters.
Protests against the movie from the religious community began before the film had even finished production. The studio was expecting a backlash due to the controversies revolving around any media treatment of Christ (see dramatic portrayals of Jesus Christ), but the protests accompanying Last Temptation were unprecedented. Major religious leaders in the United States blasted the film in fiery sermons, and condemned its subject matter as pornographic.
On October 22, 1988, a French catholic fundamentalist group launched molotov cocktails inside the Parisian saint Michel movie theater to protest against the film projection. This terrorist attack injured thirteen people, four of them where severely burned."
Pulled it off Wiki...
Anyone who burns down an embassy is a violent person. Anyone who's moved to violence due to some cartoonin' isn't all there. There's a broad belief across the Muslim world that Islam is under attack and that this 'toon is another example of that.
I guess I fall into the "don't burn down embassies, and don't offend people just for the sake of it." To someone who sees the GWOT as a religious struggle, and there's evidently plenty of 'em here and abroad, this is just another building block towards some righteous zeal.
Fundies of all stripes cause more problems than they solve.
By Final Historian, at
Mon Feb 06, 02:26:00 AM:
"Fundies of all stripes cause more problems than they solve."
Generally, yes.
