RE: [mukto-mona] “Innocence of Muslims” is a Condemnable Video.

      This is not the time to make sweeping communal remarks.  But Kamal Das's chhagol-sense does not know how to restrain from his communal MyAAAN  MYAAAA.  We know about the situation of Muslim Brotherhood hamla on the Copts. But still, the two communities do live side by side there, and recently when an eminent Coptic Patriarch died the whole Egyptian society paid respect, with Muslim religious leaders paying special homage.

       Here's more about the Coptic Christian person who was involved in the making of the stupid movie:

According to the most credible reports, this repulsive film was written, produced, and directed by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, an extremist anti-Muslim Egyptian-American Coptic Christian in his mid fifties. Nakoula is a felon convicted in California on bank fraud charges, for which he received a suspended 21-month sentence and was fined $790,000. According to press reports the low budget movie was filmed last year and starred sixty actors who recently released a statement stating that they were never told that the movie was about the prophet Muhammad. They also maintained that most of the offensive language was later dubbed over their images. Screened last June in a Hollywood theatre the movie was a flop that barely registered on anyone's radar. The producer then contacted another Egyptian-American extremist Copt, Morris Sadek, 70, who for decades has led an anti-Muslim campaign in the U.S. Nakoula asked for his help in promoting and distributing the film.
 
According to the Associated Press Sadek then contacted his friend, Florida Pastor Terry Jones, who is infamous for his calls to publicly burn the Qur'an. Even though Jones promoted the film on his website and announced that he would screen it on the anniversary of Sept. 11 as well as conduct a mock trial against the prophet Muhammad, his announcements drew very little attention from the public or the media. By early September less than 50 people had actually viewed the film's 14-minute trailer on YouTube.

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              Farida Majid
 

To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
From: subain1@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 07:58:19 -0700
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] "Innocence of Muslims" is a Condemnable Video.

 

I would not dig into the life of anyone that lived on this Earth fifteen hundred years back for the sole purpose of denigrating him/her. For I realize that such a long time back people in most parts of the world knew less and lived a primitive and uncivilized life. I would be willing to do academic research on the lives of big heroes and villains in order to learn virtues and discard vices. However, raw insults and mocking do not do any good, especially when the subject in question is revered by millions of people with a lot of emotion, even when everything said is based upon facts.

 

However, I would be against hatred and injustice during my time, no matter what religion or philosophy endorses them. I think the world would be a lot better place if the powerful political and economic forces did not play games with, and did not tolerate, hatred and injustice due to religions. I am not talking about cheap insults on anyone or on any religion; I am talking about methodical removal of hatred and injustice from the world.

 

Sukhamaya Bain   

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From: Kamal Das <kamalctgu@gmail.com>
To: mukto-mona@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [mukto-mona] "Innocence of Muslims" is a Condemnable Video.

 

It may be condemnable.  Yet it hasn't portrayed anything that does not already exist in the Islamic literature about the 'holy' prophet.

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 4:07 AM, Sukhamaya Bain <subain1@yahoo.com> wrote:

 

(Re-sent with a typo correction.)

I was disgusted looking at a 14 minutes trailer of the video, "Innocence of Muslims", on the internet. I do not see anything good in this video. I do not see anything good that the makers of this video could accomplish here. I do not see anyone learning anything good from this video. I do not see any good sense of entertainment here. I do not see how this video could help any class of people in any way.

 

I express my strong condemnation of this video. I am also pleased that the US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has expressed her disgust after watching this video.

 

While I strongly believe that religious people, both the innocent and the hate-monger kinds, need education in rationality, I do not think this kind of insults and mocking of religions helps any cause in any way. It does not help educate or advance any kind of people in the world. It only alienates and antagonizes the followers of religions. It can make religious people stubbornly defensive against, and hostile to, not only people who committed the insulting, but also who are not followers of the religion in question.

 

Having said the above, I also think that the violent demonstrations against the video, especially targeting people who had nothing to do with the video, were wrong, and indicate a poor state of human development of the demonstrators. I am pleased that only a protest demonstration, with no violence, took place in Bangladesh due to this video.

 

Sukhamaya Bain

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