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Critics Decry Plans for a Movie Depicting Life of Prophet Muhammad
foxnews.com ^ | November 25, 2008 | Maxim Lott

Posted on 11/25/2008 5:32:51 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

If film producer Oscar Zoghbi has his way, Americans will be soon be flocking to movie theaters to see a film about the Prophet Muhammad and his followers that Zoghbi hopes will clear up misconceptions about Muslims, including what he says is "the understanding that all Muslims are terrorists."

Zoghbi says he hopes to shoot some scenes for his movie in the holy cities of Medina and Mecca, and he predicts his film, "The Messenger of Peace," will rival Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ."

But some critics predict Zoghbi's movie, which is scheduled to begin production early next year, will be a whitewash, and that it won't tell the whole story about Muhammad or Islam.

Nonie Darwish, the author of the upcoming book "Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law," said the film will likely try too hard not to offend.

"The movie will probably avoid or justify Muhammad's violent and unprovoked battling years in Medina, where assassination and mass murder were done by Muhammad … in order to spread the religion, take control and silence his critics," Darwish said.

"We will probably see the image of Muhammad that most Muslims were spoon-fed in their religious education."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: culturewar; hollywood; islam; islamicimperialism; mohammed; muslimownedmedia
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1 posted on 11/25/2008 5:32:52 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Americans will be soon be flocking to movie theaters to see a film about the Prophet Muhammad

Somehow I doubt it.

2 posted on 11/25/2008 5:34:33 PM PST by marron
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To: Free ThinkerNY

May $$$$ be upon it.


3 posted on 11/25/2008 5:36:11 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The movie will bomb, like many Islamacists....


4 posted on 11/25/2008 5:36:20 PM PST by freebilly
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To: marron
Americans will be soon be flocking to movie theaters to see a film about the Prophet Muhammad

Why? We already saw the live footage.

5 posted on 11/25/2008 5:38:43 PM PST by lilycicero
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Zoghbi hopes (the film) will clear up misconceptions about Muslims, including what he says is "the understanding that all Muslims are terrorists."

I don't think Mohammed was a terrorist. I think the present day extremists who kill innocents in his name are terrorists, and those who will not denounce them, like CAIR, are sympathizers and enablers and therefore just as guilty.

6 posted on 11/25/2008 5:38:53 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspell)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"The movie will probably avoid or justify Muhammad's violent and unprovoked battling years in Medina, where assassination and mass murder were done by Muhammad … in order to spread the religion, take control and silence his critics," Darwish said.

I wonder who'll play the role of his 9 year old wife.

7 posted on 11/25/2008 5:38:54 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They aren’t all terrorists, some are conquering warlords who marry and fornicate with pre-teen children and are worshipped as deities.


8 posted on 11/25/2008 5:40:50 PM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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9 posted on 11/25/2008 5:42:13 PM PST by holymoly (Molon labe.)
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To: concerned about politics
I wonder who'll play the role of his 9 year old wife.

Whoever is the latest Disney actress sending photos of herself by cellphone.

10 posted on 11/25/2008 5:42:19 PM PST by weegee (Sec. of State Clinton. What kind of change is it to keep the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton Oligarchy?)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Who's going to star as his 8 year old wife?
11 posted on 11/25/2008 5:45:24 PM PST by Liberal Bob (looneyleft.com)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
he predicts his film, "The Messenger of Peace," will rival Mel Gibson's "The Passion of The Christ."

Only in Mecca. ;-)

12 posted on 11/25/2008 5:47:53 PM PST by doc1019 (Happy Thanksgiving all!)
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To: weegee
Indeed..just look at this.......will this *movie* tell any truths?

http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/muhammpmad.htm

Excerpt:
Two former Muslims responded June 12 to complaints from Islamic groups that a speaker's comments at the Southern Baptist Pastors' Conference in St. Louis were "bigoted" and "hateful." National media have widely reported that Jerry Vines, pastor of First Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Florida, described Muhammad as a "demon-possessed pedophile" during a June 10 sermon and that Vines inferred that Islam teaches the destruction of non-Muslims. Clarifying that Vines not only quoted from their recent book, Unveiling Islam, Emir and Ergun Caner said Vines also quoted from the Hadith, a highly respected source for Islamic teaching among Muslim clerics and followers worldwide. The Hadith itself verifies that Muhammad married a 6-year- old girl and consummated the marriage when she was 9, the professor-brothers said... The specific Hadith citation concerning Muhammad's pedophilia is in Volume 7, Book 6, Numbers 64 and 65... "The comments in question cannot be considered bigotry when they come from Islamic writings," Ergun Caner said. A lengthy passage from the Hadith, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 1, shows that Muhammad himself believed he was under demonic influence; but it notes that Muhammad's wife is the one who deemed his experience as "divine," Ergun Caner said.

13 posted on 11/25/2008 5:49:19 PM PST by Birdlady
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To: theDentist
Better re-read his biography.

Not just a pedophile terrorist in several respects, but a pedophile brigand, too.

Did I mention he was also a pedophilic pedophile?

And a pedophilic liar, cheat, murderer, rapist, looter, and pillager, as well.

Hard to see how he also had time to be a pedophilic prophet.

14 posted on 11/25/2008 5:49:46 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I don’t believe I have any misconceptions about the murderous, filthy, barbarous damned thugs. That is just my opinion, though.


15 posted on 11/25/2008 5:58:49 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: RobinOfKingston
Start the modern era as the Muslims team up with the Nazis. Have the Muslim unit the Hitler franchised goose-stepping into the history books.


16 posted on 11/25/2008 6:25:58 PM PST by CT (Joe Biden: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTwnwbG9YLE)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“The Messenger of Peace”

SO IT’S SATIRE?


17 posted on 11/25/2008 6:27:57 PM PST by midway
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To: theDentist
I don't think Mohammed was a terrorist.

Are you nuts? Any dentist who could make this statement probably has a rectal probe on their instrument tray!

18 posted on 11/25/2008 6:42:48 PM PST by Eaker (Dutch expression "You can give a monkey a gold ring, but it stays an ugly thing." - EscapedDutch)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Didn't John Waters already do this staring Divine?

No, wait....

19 posted on 11/25/2008 7:01:09 PM PST by muir_redwoods (B. O. Stinks!!!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Now that Michael Jackson has converted to islam he can play the part of Mo! After all he has experience molesting children already.


20 posted on 11/25/2008 9:35:12 PM PST by rfreedom4u (Political correctness is a form of censorship!)
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