[Eala]

French cinema chains are refusing to distribute or screen Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ because of fears that it may spark a new outbreak of anti-Semitism.

Well, I guess I'd have to say that the French cinema chains know the French people better than I do. So if the chains think this movie (which is doing nothing of the kind in the US) will provoke the French into a massive new outbreak of anti-Semitism, I guess I have to believe them.

/ sarcasm

[buffyt]

EXCELLENT POINT! No problem here in Lake Jackson Texas. The theater was full of Christian church groups when we saw it LATE Wednesday night, and many of the movie goers had the mark of the cross still on their foreheads, put there by pastors and priests, with ashes. They were not an angry mob after the movie, everyone sat there in silence when the movie was over. No one moved for a few moments. No one ate their popcorn during the movie. It was very intense. It was very moving. It was NOT mob arrousing or angering.