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To: defendingright
They tried that once back in the 70s with a film called Mohammed Messenger of God. Since retitled The Message. Anthony Quinn starred. Is is expressly forbidden to show the visual image of Mohammed in Islam. This film was made by muslims so Quinn played a relaitive of Mo and all dialog and appearance was offscreen. A small sect of muslims didn't know this and took a theater showing the movie hostage in Washington. There would be loads of fun if a movie actually did show mad Mo visually.
14 posted on 03/01/2004 10:03:23 AM PST by xp38
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To: xp38
This is a small blurb of the event I found on the web.

In 1977 a film was released titled MOHAMMED, MESSENGER OF GOD. This evoked the wrath of the Hanafi Muslim sect, who assumed that it was going to depict the prophet on screen, an act considered blasphemous. While it was being shown in a Washington DC theater, the local city hall and two other buildings were entered by small bands of Hanfi gunmen. Protesting the showing of the film, they held more than 100 people hostage and caused one death over a two-day period. The Prophet was never physically depicted on the screen at all. The camera was the 'eyes' of the Prophet as all of the characters on screen addressed him as such.

17 posted on 03/01/2004 10:15:37 AM PST by xp38
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