blackrave said:
No, no, no.
You're doing it wrong.
Instead of organizing protest, just hire bunch of lawyers and sue their ass
That is how you deal with such things in civilized manner
Also, isn't praying to Allah for punishing author of this movie a more suitable course of action?
Or almighty suddenly became a wimp? And if He is ok with this movie, then who are you to not be ok with it?
P.S. In the end- if you ignore this movie, nobody will give a crap about it, and it will eventually go away. But if you bring attention to it, then people will start noticing it, and watching it, an etc. Good job of dealing with things you don't like, assholes
P.P.S. Also, watch this movie, before feeling offended. Maybe you're overreacting.
Alas, no.
That's not how Islam works, neither the Qur'an all by itself nor the Sunnah expect "Allah" to do something supernatural. As a muslim believer, it is your duty and your responsibility to uphold (and spread) the ways and the truth as portrayed in the Qur'an and the Sunnah. Those raving, ranting and frothing beardymen we see burning stuff down and killing people, however, are not 'extremists', they are merely doing as they are being told by their special flavour of holy scripture , version 3.0. Every other muslim that is not raving and terribly offended by the crap movie, the crap caricatures or
whatever is just doing it wrong and, depending on their place and purpose in the Ummah, would actually pretty much deserve a death penalty according to the Shari'a, because they are not defending their prophet with swords in hand and some merry battle chant on their lips.
I have watched the 'movie', and it is of rather poor value - production, cultural, artistic, you name it, it's pretty much as bad as it can get. Then again, most 'facts' that are presented, no matter how poorly or in what distasteful manner, are all pretty much straight from the very same Islamic sources the beardymen consider to be the very fundamental truth on which to build the pillars of Islam. Thing is, just portraying Muhammad is considered worthy of the death penalty, and, sometimes, telling the truth is actually more unwelcome and more dangerous than lying or exaggerating. Just my using the names "Allah" and "Muhammad" without praising their names every time I mention them deserves some severe spanking.
Fact is, these people do not want Kuffar, disbelievers, non-Muslims to know anything about the oftentimes very offensive and very non-peaceful source material. This 'movie', whatever its intentions, poorly shows some core flaws of the Muslim faith, which, to any Muslim, should be absolutely unacceptable, especially when coming from non-Muslims. However, the practice of shooting, maiming and gutting the messenger and then dragging the remains through the streets is still very much in effect.
One cherry-picked example would be the fact/law/truth that a pregnancy in a human female can last up to four years. You cannot argue this one Islamic truth, as it is written and recounted thusly. Islam is not much about emancipation, equality, logic or reason. You submit to the word and law of Allah and Muhammad, that's it. There is no 'cause and effect', there is no truth beyond or above the holy scripture. If you happen to be a moderate Muslim living in freedom in the 21st century, you're living in sin. Some beardymen will come after you once all the other problems are solved and all the other undesirables are handled properly.
And, no again - they don't need to watch it themselves. They are, actually, not even allowed to watch it. They are being told at, say, the Friday merry mosque meeting that there is a blasphemous thing that warrants and requires a response. That's all. That's how this works.
