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What We Learned from Fitna

April 3, 2008 - 12:07 am - by Mike McNally
Gerald
2008-04-03 14:44:36

Good observation that the film is there to serve the interests of a far-right politician.
The parallel between the sensitivities in Islam and Christianism is not very fortunate for the Western European region, as Christians are Christians just in name there. Making fun of christianism just would not cause any commotion, as religion is not part of most non-immigrant’s daily lives. Something comparable would rather be incest, or the history of anti-semitism in Europe, and the historical indifference of the Eurpean majority towards it. That would be comparable to the current muslim sensitivities. Iranian populist Ahmadinejad understood this very well with his holocaust cartoon contest. He failed to raise many reactions though. Westerners are a bit more sophisticated media-wise.