10-25-2008, 01:47 AM
ham Wrote:Little Arminius Wrote:The whole thing is kind of humorous and isn't really about providing any serious social commentary although the students involved would say otherwise. If students somewhere really want to make a controversial movie and pseudo-social statement, they should consider a movie in which the prophet Mohammed is a vampire or a zombie and see what kind of reaction it gets! It would get tons of free publicity and instant notoriety
this is true as well.
But how strange...lately many (not all, not most but many ) lefty 'special interest' & advocacy activists have started to deviate from the core communist thesis of the union of all oppressed people (negroes, women, toilers, queers AND third-world immigrant among whom muslims are a majority ) and to discover -oh suddenly!- what's unpleasant about Islam and related cultures...
It was only a matter of time before that they realized that true believers in Islam aren't going to change their strongly-held beliefs because of exposure to "progressive" politics. Devout Muslims* aren't going to let an improved standard of living cause them to change their views on drugs, alcohol, homosexuality, anything transgendered, women's role in society, etc. The sooner everyone, including the extreme left-wingers, understand this, the sooner we can come to a consensus on how we will deal with the Islamic world for the long-term.
*Many Muslims who have immigrated to the West have been "corrupted" by Western influences but quickly conform when they return home due to the strong grip of Islam over every aspect of life in majority-Muslim countries.