SCHLUSSEL: "Kingdom of Heaven," Bin Laden's Slanted Crusade Movie

DebbieSchlussel.com ^ | May 5, 2005 | Debbie Schlussel

[Cool Chick]

“Kingdom of Heaven”: Bin Laden’s Slanted Crusade Movie May 5, 2005 By Debbie Schlussel

Mark Twain said, “History tells us that the truth is not hard to kill, but a lie told well is immortal.”

“Kingdom of Heaven,” Ridley Scott’s extremely boring movie version of the Crusades, is Twain’s words in action. Scott is serial killer of truth—giving immortality to 1,000 lies—in this propaganda film.

The wannabe-epic is being panned for its lack of accuracy by a host of Islam experts, like Robert Spencer. Crusades expert Jonathan Riley-Smith says it’s basically “Osama bin Laden’s version of History.”

But the folks at HAMAS-front group CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) and ADC (American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee) just love “Kingdom.” That speaks volumes, since both groups never met an Islamic terrorist group they didn’t like.

Perhaps Scott is doing penance for having the chutzpah to make “Black Hawk Down,” about which they still whine incessantly.

But one needn’t be versed in the history of the Crusades to see that this Riefenstahl-esque drama is agenda-laden fiction.

Here’s the Cliff’s Notes version:

Christian Crusaders are crass, violent murderers. They lie, sleep around with multiple women, and father multiple illegitimate, abandoned children. They are stupid, foolish, power-hungry, and vengeful. They are boors warring for land, not principles, and kill fellow Christians—even priests—over nothing.

Muslims, especially Saladin, are honorable, devout, decent, peaceful people. They just want to be left alone and only attack when attacked upon. They are wise, honest, kind, generous, and even offer Christians safe passage.

[Alouette]

Orlando Bloom's character has a 'Fellowship of Muslims, Jews, and Christians.'

I thought that was a Fellowship of Elves, Men, Wizards, Dwarfs and Hobbits.

[Cinnamon Girl]

That I could believe. ;)

[Alouette]

Please post those plenty of sources you found saying that Maimonides converted to Islam. Rambam is one of the most important commentators in Judaism and I think we'd all know if he'd actually converted to Islam.

Returning from Google: there are no authoritative Jewish sources confirming conversion to Islam by Maimonides. He did have to flee with his family at least three different places in order to avoid such forced conversion.

Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon

Maimonides/Rambam

Rambam - biography

[k2blader]

Confirmed: You are definitely on crack. You submit, all right, to Islam (which, by chance, means submission).

So using your "logic" anyone who likes the movie is "on crack" and has "submitted to Islam"?

You are an embarrassment.