Note: this topic is from 12/28/2014. Thanks Eleutheria5.
Posted on 12/28/2014 11:03:11 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Egypt’s Culture Ministry on Sunday explained for the first time why it banned Ridley Scott's biblical epic "Exodus: Gods & Kings", claiming the movie presents a "racist" image of Jews, reports The Associated Press (AP).
The ban was announced several days ago, but Sunday’s statement from the Culture Ministry marks the first time that the reason for the ban was officially explained.
According to AP, the statement said the film put forth a reading of Egypt's history that is at odds with the story of Moses told by the world's monotheistic religions.
Censors objected to the "intentional gross historical fallacies that offend Egypt and its pharaonic ancient history in yet another attempt to Judaize Egyptian civilization, which confirms the international Zionist fingerprints all over the film," the statement said.
The ministry said the movie inaccurately depicts ancient Egyptians as "savages" who kill and hang Jews, arguing that hanging did not exist in ancient Egypt.
It further said the film also presents a "racist" depiction of Jews as a people who mounted an armed rebellion. The ministry said religious scriptures present Jews as weak and oppressed.
The ministry said it had convened two committees -- one of censors and one of archaeologists -- to review the film. The committee of archaeologists agreed with the decision to ban the film because it showed "a false and wrong mental image of Egypt's history," the ministry said, according to AP.
According to the book of Exodus, Jewish slaves were led to freedom by Moses after G-d inflicted a series of plagues on Egypt.
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Over the weekend, Egyptian Culture Minister Jabir Asfour slammed the film as "Zionist", saying, "It shows history from a Zionist viewpoint and forges historical events, therefore it is was banned in Egypt.”
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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Bigots outraged over bigotry.. What a concept..
Muslims are bigoted on so many levels its hard to count them all..
Maybe they're on to something. It's real hard to hang someone after you chop off their head. That's what arabs do, it seems they're always advertising that's what they do, beheading their hostages. So they're not savages because they don't hang 'em. Whatever.
Censors objected to the "intentional gross historical fallacies that offend Egypt and its pharaonic ancient history in yet another attempt to Judaize Egyptian civilization, which confirms the international Zionist fingerprints all over the film," the statement said.Sounds like something worth seeing now, eh? ;')
The truth is (something Arabs & Islam cannot deal with), is that they lost face during the Exodus, as the G-d of Abraham blasted the Egyptian Army and again in 1967.
The truth means nothing in the Islamic Arab world (or Persian for that matter), so we in the West must stop apologizing and always trying to find a way to appease these Donkey-sodomizing animals...s’cuse the French...
Bigotry is one of the milder crimes of the islamese..
Damn. I was going to do a cotton pickin’ minit on that theme, but you beat me to it. So here’s a link instead.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNQPLqbGBvs
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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I’d be too afraid Moses’ perfect coif will be mussed. I couldn’t take that.
The Poifect Coif?! So that was how he performed all those miracles! I’m heading for a hair stylist right now.
worst “Bible” movieI ever saw, nothing was correct and to have an arrogant bratty kid as “God” ...well I do not think God has a sense of humor on this one. If Ridley Scott had a single neuron I’d think God might forgive but then again after that movie, I think he better steer clear of lightening storms.
Even worse than the Moses miniseries? Wow.
Thanks Eleutheria5, older topic, will ping later.
The Exodus: Fact or Fiction?
Evidence of Israel’s Exodus from Egypt
Biblical Archaeology Society Staff
04/10/2016
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/exodus/exodus-fact-or-fiction/
Exodus Evidence: An Egyptologist Looks at Biblical History
http://members.bib-arch.org/publication.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=42&Issue=3&ArticleID=2
Exodus in the Bible and the Egyptian Plagues
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/exodus/exodus-in-the-bible-and-the-egyptian-plagues/
Who Was Moses? Was He More than an Exodus Hero?
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/exodus/who-was-moses-was-he-more-than-an-exodus-hero/
Note: this topic is from 12/28/2014. Thanks Eleutheria5.
The ministry said it had convened two committees — one of censors and one of archaeologists — to review the film. The committee of archaeologists agreed with the decision to ban the film because...
They wanted to live?
Then there were those three stooges shorts, making fun of Egyptian King Rootin’ Tootin’. GRRRRRRR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODkuH93AkNw
Searching for Biblical Mt. Sinai
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/exodus/searching-for-biblical-mt-sinai/
Who Was Moses? Was He More than an Exodus Hero?
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/exodus/who-was-moses-was-he-more-than-an-exodus-hero/
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