[lit-ideas] Re: Passion and "the Arab world"
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 00:57:32 -0700 (PDT)
--- JulieReneB@xxxxxxx wrote:
(snip)
Kuwait bans any movies depicting any of the prophets
> recognized by Islam, but
> one of its top Shiite clerics, Ayatollah Mohammed
> Baqer al-Mehri, has urged
> an exception for "The Passion" because it "reveals
> crimes committed by Jews
> against Christ." The government has not yet made a
> decision on his call.
> The dean of Kuwait University's Islamic Law College,
> Mohammed al-Tabtabai,
> has ordered Muslims to shun "The Passion" on the
> grounds that Jesus is a
> prophet.
> In Jordan, a leader of the hard-line Islamic Action
> Front says Muslims should
> read the Quran or pray instead of watching movies,
> but he doesn't mind "The
> Passion" being screened in his country.
Well, what does the author of Julie's article suggest
? Censoring it ? As we see, the film has drawn some
approval and some disapproval. What is "the troubling
trend" Julie is refering to, that the Arabs go to the
movies ?
O.K.
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