tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700035.post114828922501999104..comments2023-12-04T06:00:54.568+11:00Comments on Nihari Nation: The Da Vinci Code – Evidence of Muslim Selectiveness in Condemning Blasphemy?Irfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12032825228704836828noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700035.post-1148552174935806182006-05-25T20:16:00.000+10:002006-05-25T20:16:00.000+10:00This is a tricky issue if you ask me. One problem ...This is a tricky issue if you ask me. One problem is that the part of the movie (and book) that undermines Christianity focusses very much on the aspect of the divinity of Jesus, which is clearly not so in our (Islamic) tradition, by claiming specific things happened in his life which were later supressed by the church in order to propagate the idea of his divinity.<BR/><BR/>This is kind of problematic for us because we reject this tenent of Christianity, although do also uphold his status as a Prophet and all round amazing guy worthy of respect.<BR/><BR/>To me, I think it kind of comes round to the whole 'free speech' thing, which sounds bad I know. This assaults the sensibilities of a specific segment of the community, which may or may not be shared by others, to various degrees. But isn't this just the same as the cartoon thing, which everyone lambasted the Muslim community for bringing up and reacting too in the first place? Muhammad is not sacred to anyone but us, and many other groups hold less than savoury opinions of him anyway. Yet the majority of people here did not seem to give a flying cuff about our plight (well, for those who had it).<BR/><BR/>The issue is about being able to empathise with another group of people who feel maligned by the media, even if we do not necessarily share the same situation ourselves. I empathise with them, and feel the publicity that this movie (and the book) have got is in a large part due to the fact that it sticks the finger up at Christianity. I think this is a case of if you play with fire, then you can get burned. You can't have it both ways, as you said in another article.<BR/><BR/>On the opposite side though, I am interested in seeing the various opinions (scholarly or non) which exist about the life of Jesus and trying to find out more about him and the history surrounding his life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5700035.post-1148346928419782242006-05-23T11:15:00.000+10:002006-05-23T11:15:00.000+10:00So you are qualified to be on Hack? I think any ex...So you are qualified to be on Hack? <BR/><BR/>I think any experience yougn people get on radio the better...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com