The innocence of muslims, a student film made earlier this year, has sparked outrage in the muslim world. Widespread protests have occured and several people have been murdered. With damage to property, assaults, murders and outrage; there are pockets of Islam that are acting anything, except innocent! (hahaha)
The film itself has been around since June but was only picked up by the press in September, around about the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. It is for this reason that many people think that this is not a co-incidence and is probably part of some covert media war. The fact that the film looks like an absolute piece of shit filmed on a shakey cam with cardboard sets and arabs being played by people with boot polish on their face.
Towel? Check. Cardboard Desert Backdrop? Check... Lights... Camera... ACTION!
It is important that we don't single out Islam as being the only touchy group when it comes to their way of life or their beliefs being criticised. When 'The Last Temptation of Christ' was released, it recieved widespread criticism and attracted outrage from the Vatican for suggesting that Jesus was taken down from the cross by Satan and lived a normal life, having a wife and children.
...and portraying him as a ginger.
So it isn't just muslims who who get upset about their religion getting messed around with. This doesn't excuse Islam, it doesn't get a free pass to carry on smashing up US embassies. It's simply not cricket.
So it's all religions fault not Islam or Christianity? Well, not really: we could find examples of extremism well away from religion.
Let's have a look at some of the comments that Selena Gomez got while she was with Justin Bieber...
"Stay away from Justin pedophile. I'm gonna kill ya in the night underneath your smelly bed" If you liked that one you'll love... "Dear Selena Gomez. I hate you more than life. Go jump off a cliff. K?" This isn't all that far from "Behead those who insult Islam."
Alright, chill out.
Bieber is a case in point about how fans can issue fatwas just as quickly as Muslim Clerics, but just as fundamentaslist are the Twilight fans...
www.ranker.com has three examples of Twilight fans assaulting non fans for making disparaiging comments about the book and film franchise, one where a flaregun was fired at a group of people and another where a schoolgirl tried to slit the throat of a classmate. So it is starting to look like fanatacism isn't just for the religious, in fact there is a whole new breed of fanaticism being bred right under our noses, some might say that we are nurturing. Why is this not in the newspapers? Why are we not doing anything about it? Why is there no shady prison camp in Cuba or some other remote part of the world to deal with these fuckers? Well this is where I can start to construct a whole conspiracy theory about the children we (or more specifically, the media) are raising.
At the same time as covertly declaring a war on Islam, the media is also covertly raising an army of militants to fight them. Westernised people, no longer bring up their children, they leave it to shows like Barney and Adventure Time and Spongebob Squarepants. When they realize at the age of twelve that the world isn't full of bubbles and rainbows and bright colours and talking animals, they seek shelter. Either in a fantasy world, like Harry Potter or the Twilight series, where they can get lost, indoctrined and radicalized.
In the mean time the media continues to construct Islam as the enemy. The next logical step is Fox news announcing that Muslims have kidnapped Justin Bieber and Robert Pattinson. Naturally, the Twihards and Beliebers will unite and mobilize. This will set in motion the final battle.
My point is simple, are we going to allow the media to portray Islam as a threat, when there is an even greater threat lurking in every street across the UK. It could be our children, our nieces or our nephews. We can only walk around with our eyes shut for so long before we realize, we are allowing 20thCenturyFox to use our children as the soldiers of tomorrow against Muslims.
It's obvious isn't it?
So what can we do to stop our kids being dragged into the final conflict and stopping them from becoming foot soldiers in Rupert Murdoch's hitleresque scheme to rid the world of Islam? Don't let them buy the Sun, obviously.
Equally, we can't blame everything on the Sun or Newscorp. We are to blame for allowing Murdoch to get to a point where he could dictate how we should be thinking, what summer blockbusters we are all going to see this year, who our enemies should be. In all honesty, What has Islam ever done to us? (apart from blow up a few planes, trains and busses of course.)
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