Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Veiled Threats and the Iranian Jesus

Here is a priceless example of dishing out medicine, but not being able to take your own: an Iranian film portrays the Islamic and decidedly warped parody of Jesus.

Are Presbyterians rioting in Memphis over it? Methodists throwing stones in the streets of Nashville? Lutherans overturning and setting ablaze cars in St. Paul?

What does your intuition tell you would happen were a western nation to do turn about fair play regarding the Prophet -- make a movie of his life? Even a retelling of his life as accepted by all of his religionists downstream to this moment? Would it be accepted as a token of appreciation and admiration? Yeah, right.

Take for instance the recent words from Sheikh Ahmed Badreddin, better read as veiled threats: "A simple piece of information can spark a war. If a man dies because of information that you have made public, his death will be on your conscience."

As noted in the article, his words mean 'that he is telling Europeans that if they dare to publish certain things (described vaguely, and with the intent to obfuscate, as "information that you have made public"), and this maddens Muslims, and causes them to commit acts of violence, and someone dies -- an Infidel, or possibly a Muslim in a riotous mob -- then the "death will be on your conscience" -- that is, it will be the fault of the Infidels for having dared to "make public" certain "information." '

Here is proof positive regarding two points: (1) so far Christians still know how to turn the other cheek; and (2) Islam is and always has been in mimetic doubling rivalry with the biblical faiths. How they'd love for Christians to get their shorts in a bunch over their film on the Islamic Jesus -- they just don't understand we're ignoring the ignorant.

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