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2007-02-27 Home Front: Culture Wars
Film's View of Islam Stirs Anger on Campuses
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Posted by Fred 2007-02-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 The movie was so well crafted and emotion manipulating that I felt myself thinking poorly of some aspects of Islam

Must be some movie! I have not seen it and already I think poorly of most aspects of Islam.
Posted by SteveS 2007-02-27 00:40||   2007-02-27 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Video clips or documentaries of Muslims urging attacks on the USA-Europe/West has already been shown on CNN's, MSNBC, FOX, and Big Three - ANTI-HATE CRIME PROTESTS ARE BIT LATE, AND BIT MOOT.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-02-27 01:21||   2007-02-27 01:21|| Front Page Top

#3 I've met many people who are still in the give-peace -a-chance Kumbaya phase even after 5 years of Islamic Terror. You have to wonder what it will take to wake these people from their slumber.
Posted by mhw 2007-02-27 05:43||   2007-02-27 05:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Mhw - these types will never wake to reality.
I've said it before and I'll say it again; the "blame America firster's" will beg forgiveness from the Islamutts even as they are having their throats cut.
Posted by GORT 2007-02-27 08:05||   2007-02-27 08:05|| Front Page Top

#5 mhw -

They can't even begin to conceive that people can be that barbaric for religious reasons. Cognitive Dissonance (a psychological theory) can explain why. They need to conclude something else -- other than the unbelievabe horror that a religion can elicit -- that fits. And they do. Hence, they ascribe the violence to the "poor, downtrodden, desperate" state of the muslims who are "oppressed" by the west and jooooos.

When the palis were the only suicide bombers out there, it was plain to see (for them) that jooos were miserable creatures. After 9/11, they had to extend that notion to the entire western world, otherwise they'd have to reevaluate every notion, every belief they had.

What's ironic is that it's simple Psych 101. Any college student who took the class would recognize it. They can't right now, though. They're too busy seething.
Posted by PlanetDan">PlanetDan  2007-02-27 08:50||   2007-02-27 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 "They can't even begin to conceive that people can be that barbaric for religious reasons"

Ahem...

They can if the object of their hate is evil "Christers."
Posted by Ernest Brown 2007-02-27 09:35|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]  2007-02-27 09:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Dan I have to disagree. Islam was founded in this kind of violence. Personally I think the communication ability gained by the web have allowed this pure form of Islam to spread like wildfire.

I strongly suggest Burgers take 10 minutes and watch this abrided version of the movie.
Posted by Icerigger 2007-02-27 09:36||   2007-02-27 09:36|| Front Page Top

#8 At Pace University in New York, administrators pressured the Jewish student organization Hillel to cancel a showing in November, arguing it could spur hate crimes against Muslim students.

Yeah, because the Jooos, Hindus, Mormons, Baptists, Amish, Agnostics, Atheists, Buddhists, Jainists, Taoists, and heck, even David Koresh's crowd are SOOOOOOO prone to "suicide" bombers, propaganda, brainwashing 3 year olds into Zionist-Crusader hatred, etc. Jeebus, they'll (the LLL in charge of Education) will really flip a lid when the shooting starts here at home won't they?
Posted by BA 2007-02-27 09:37||   2007-02-27 09:37|| Front Page Top

#9 In an all-too-familiar pattern, I've yet to hear of any films being made to explain what the 'true' religion *does* espouse. For all the bitching from folks who don't want to be lumped in with radical murderers, none have done anything to dispel the misconceptions. What the fuck DO these people believe and what IS their rationale for dismissing the many quotes in the Koran that unambiguously justify killing innocent people?

I, for one, really would like to be convinced that a few bad apples are spoiling the bunch. And I believe we should all fight the urge to jump to conclusions about Islam until we have educated ourselves on all its tenets. For the majority of us, that's no easy feat - until the mythical 'moderate' Muslims stand up and tell us what THEY believe, the rest of us will educate ourselves the only way we know how: watching the news, which we all know favors the bad over the good any day.

Americans aren't the only ones losing the PR battle in the WOT. Moderate muslims are, too.
Posted by Geoffro 2007-02-27 09:47||   2007-02-27 09:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Robert Fisk was being beaten by children in the streets and yet he blamed himself, i.e. us. He would continue to blame himself/us even as he slipped into the void. Not that I would toasted made popcorn approved of that turn of events had it transpired.
Posted by Excalibur 2007-02-27 10:06||   2007-02-27 10:06|| Front Page Top

#11 Hey! They're using our own words against us!
They can't do that!
Posted by tu3031 2007-02-27 10:09||   2007-02-27 10:09|| Front Page Top

#12 The idea that it's the rest of us who had to be protected from hate crimes perpetuated by Muslims doesn't seem to percolate into some minds. Of course, there are all these hefty Saudi donations to US universities.
Posted by gromgoru 2007-02-27 10:56||   2007-02-27 10:56|| Front Page Top

#13 “The question is how to break down the stereotypes facing the two religions.”

Perhaps, look for ways that will allow one side to stop the cradle to grave indoctrination of hate that promotes the notion that indiscriminate killing is a legitimate vehicle for change. On the flip side, find ways to have discussions that don’t ultimately result in arrogant speculations of motivation.
Just a suggestion.
Posted by DepotGuy 2007-02-27 11:26||   2007-02-27 11:26|| Front Page Top

#14 
At Pace University in New York, administrators pressured the Jewish student organization Hillel to cancel a showing in November, arguing it could spur hate crimes against Muslim students.


Letd's try two variations "a movie abourt lynchings of Negros was cancelled arguing it could spur hate crimes agasint KKK students"

"a movie about exterminatioon camps was cancelled arguin it could spur hate crimes against Nazio students".


People can do nothing about their race but I see no reason an murderous ideology should get special treatment from other other murderous ideologies just because it is a religion.

And unlike your race you can change your idelogy so don't whean about hate crimes.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2007-02-27 12:20||   2007-02-27 12:20|| Front Page Top

#15 The left thinks they are special; that if muslims just knew them they would love them. WRONG. Wake up! The threat is here; it is now. The left, some members of Congress, and the main stream media need to quit apologizing for the actions of barbarians; they need to quit hating America. They need to quit providing comfort to the enemy. WE ARE AT WAR. THE RADICAL MUSLIMS DECLARED WAR ON US. They would kill you, your children, your mother, your grandmother, your dog, and your cat in a heart beat. Quit sticking your heads in the sand and ignoring the problem. It won't just go away if it is ignored. What the hell part of 911, etc., etc, etc. don't you understand?
Posted by JohnQC 2007-02-27 15:09||   2007-02-27 15:09|| Front Page Top

#16 I just need to know one thing about this vile picture...

Where can I buy the DVD?
Posted by rjschwarz 2007-02-27 15:45||   2007-02-27 15:45|| Front Page Top

#17 I bought my copy off of Obsession's website.
I don't remember the url. I just did a search for "Obsession the movie".
Posted by Dreamsmith">Dreamsmith  2007-02-27 16:46||   2007-02-27 16:46|| Front Page Top

#18 I've read the Koran, and I've had contact with Muslims. Their "religion" is an extremist satanic death cult, and needs to be eliminated. Anything else is whistling past the graveyard, whether it's done by the "left" or the "right". It's not that we can't adjust, but that THEY can't change. It's not allowed by their death cult.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2007-02-27 18:29|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2007-02-27 18:29|| Front Page Top

#19 Correct, OP. Before we can kill them all, however, we will need to convert all of the Kurds and many others who are with us in this. We need to find some way to get them to spit on the pedophile god and his comic book of blood and death. So, naturally, we have to get serious soon.
Posted by wxjames 2007-02-27 19:00||   2007-02-27 19:00|| Front Page Top

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