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Anti-Islamic Film Clarifies the Difference Between Islam and the West

A clip from the film
A film called "The Innocence of Muslims" has created a furore in the Islamic world.  This film was produced in the USA.  The USA is supposed to value freedom and free speech more highly than other countries so how have the American authorities treated the film makers?

"In Los Angeles on Saturday, a California man convicted of bank fraud was taken in for questioning by officers investigating possible probation violations stemming from the making of the video. He has denied involvement in the film." (Reuters).

"A Californian man believed to be the producer of a crude anti-Islamic film which has prompted riots throughout the Muslim world, is being interviewed by police for probation violations." (Guardian)

"The Innocence of Muslims (click to view film)", is slightly hilarious and amateur.  It has actors floating above the CGI backgrounds to scenes and a feeble script.  However, it is the right of Americans and British people to make second rate films.  We cannot all be Quentin Tarantinos.  But the Islamic reaction to Western freedom of speech and expression is not limited to second rate movies, according to the Reuter's article above:

"The furore prompted an Iranian organisation to increase the reward for anyone killing Salman Rushdie, the British author condemned to death for blasphemy in 1989 by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic".
"Surely if the sentence of the Imam (Khomeini) had been carried out, the later insults in the form of caricatures, articles and the making of movies would not have occurred," said Hassan Sanei, head of the religious foundation offering $3.3 million for Rushdie's death.

If the Islamic world threatens our oil there is hell to pay but when it threatens our way of life the press and the authorities are supine, even helping the Islamists in their persecution.  Journalists and media organisations, as usual, are too cowardly to stand up for our way of life.  If the media covered these events properly, showing the cartoons, films and quotations that offended Islam, then our freedom would not be threatened.  Foreigners could not attack everyone who spoke out.  It is because the media censor anything that is anti-islamic that individuals such as Rushdie are put at terrible risk and free speech is suppressed.


This rather pathetic film has done us all a favour.  It has clarified the real difference between Islam and the West: freedom.  A freedom that is being eroded by our own media and politicians as well as by the Islamists.  Islamic societies say they want "freedom" but do not include in this freedom the freedom to criticise traditional values.  They want the freedom to change their government but not the freedom to question the foundations of politics or society.

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Postmodernism-poststructuralism-postmarxism - what is wrong with the media.

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