mattskramer
Senior Member
Simply this: since, A) Christianity does not call for the death of anyone who mocks it, B) Islam DOES, and C) filmmakers and cultural lights fairly throw their shoulders out of their sockets, patting themselves on the back for being "courageously irreverent" - let's see some real daring. Let's see the Chocolate Mohammed.
I won't hold my breath.
It all depends on how you translate and interpret your religious book.
See my comments at: http://www.usmessageboard.com/showpost.php?p=544689&postcount=12
There are anti-Muslim films and exhibits. They still exist even though Muslims do not like them. Consider the movies Executive Decision" and "True Lies", and the popular television show 24.
Shoot me some links to these incidents, will you, matts? I'd like a more complete picture of what went down, and how. I can tell you - even without such links - that these people were not acting with even the tacit approval of organized Christianity. Islam, on the other hand, DEMANDS violence and retribution.
http://listing-index.ebay.com/movies/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ.html
A French Catholic fundamentalist group protested the screening of The Last Temptation of Christ, fire-bombing a Parisian theater and badly injuring more than 12 people.
See http://www.religioustolerance.org/intol_bibl2.htm#non
It provides ways used by people to interpret the Bible in ways to condone violence, if not murder, against non-Christians.
See http://islam.about.com/od/terrorism/...rism_verse.htm and http://www.islamdenouncesterrorism.c..._of_islam.html
They provide ways used my people to interpret the Koran to oppose violence, if not murder, against non-Muslims.
Again, it is a legitimate comparison (apples to apples or oranges to oranges). You can discuss which interpretations or translations are more accurate. Christian apologetics and research has written books about it. Likewise, Islamic sympathizers have done a lifetime of research and reasoning on what Mohamed really meant and how Islamic scripture is to be applied today. The debate will probably go on forever. I dont care to go on into the we versus them fight. There is good and bad in practically everything. As one famous/infamous person once said Cant we all just get along?