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"Kingdom of Heaven" Movie Praised by Muslims, Criticized by Christians("UBL's version of Crusades!")
RELIGION JOURNAL.COM ^
| MAY 11, 2005
| HELENA ANDREWS
Posted on 05/12/2005 4:23:38 PM PDT by CHARLITE
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posted on
05/12/2005 4:23:40 PM PDT
by
CHARLITE
To: CHARLITE
I saw it today. Roger Ebert's review matches mine. It is a good movie. Offends both religions equally, therefore probably correct.
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posted on
05/12/2005 4:28:57 PM PDT
by
NetValue
(No enemy has done as much damage to America as liberalism.)
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To: Kristian
They hate the film ...they burn the cinemas ....And kill the director.
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posted on
05/12/2005 4:32:21 PM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Something wicked this way comes)
To: NetValue
So... did muslims, jews and christians all live in peace in jerusalem prior to the crusades?
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posted on
05/12/2005 4:33:30 PM PDT
by
pipecorp
(There's some lovely filth down 'ere.)
To: CHARLITE
I saw Team America last night on DVD for the second time. The greatest movie in all of moviedom.
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posted on
05/12/2005 4:33:56 PM PDT
by
Imaverygooddriver
(ALL YOU BASE ARE BELONG TO US)
To: NetValue
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posted on
05/12/2005 4:35:03 PM PDT
by
Ann Archy
(Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
To: CHARLITE
As I see it, if Ridley didn't get a Fatwa issued by some cleric (I love that word), then the move is obviously anti-Christian propaganda.
There is no way one can tell the truth about Muslims, anywhere in the West, without being threatened (except for here, of course). If you're threatened, you are then telling lies.
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posted on
05/12/2005 4:35:15 PM PDT
by
BobL
Im definately not seeing this film, nor renting it in the future.
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posted on
05/12/2005 4:35:32 PM PDT
by
Mortikhi
To: CHARLITE
But Ahmed said that it was satisfying to finally see her people portrayed as something other than a one-dimensional stereotype<
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To: CHARLITE
Saladin, a character who is kept out of most western tales of the Crusades, was the king of Syria and Egypt who captured Jerusalem for Islam in 1187... Huh? He's in every story of Richard the Lionhearted ever penned.
He was a Kurd, BTW...
To: CHARLITE
It was really nice to go into a movie and feel so dignified, not feeling that you have to be ashamed or anything and feel proud of your history and your heritage,"
Unless you're a Christian, but who cares about them?
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posted on
05/12/2005 4:41:59 PM PDT
by
andyk
(Go Matt Kenseth!)
To: Billthedrill
You beat me to it.
In fact, he has always been portrayed as a great leader & warrior!
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posted on
05/12/2005 4:45:40 PM PDT
by
Seeking the truth
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To: CHARLITE
Al-Qatami added that Muslim characters usually are played by American actors with dark skin He's probably thinking of Sidney Poitier as a Moorish emir in THE LONG SHIPS (Columbia, 1963). Actually, it's more often Brit actors in burnt cork who do the job, for instance Rex Harrison as Saladin in KING RICHARD AND THE CRUSADERS (WB, 1954) or Sir Laurence Olivier as the Mahdi in KHARTOUM (UA, 1966).
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posted on
05/12/2005 4:52:12 PM PDT
by
Argus
(Omnia taglinea in tres partes divisa est.)
To: CHARLITE
Saladin, a character who is kept out of most western tales of the Crusades, was the king of Syria and Egypt who captured Jerusalem for Islam in 1187.
And was a butcher almost without peer until the present day Nazi and Communist leaders appeared on the scene.
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posted on
05/12/2005 4:58:28 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: CHARLITE
I stopped watching the movies 10 years ago. I'm certainly not going to start now.
To: CHARLITE
"It was really nice to go into a movie and feel so dignified, not feeling that you have to be ashamed or anything and feel proud of your history and your heritage," said Rabiah Ahmed," Ok, so much for the escape-ism of the movies...
Now back to real life where your religion is murdering fellow Muslims in droves in Iraq, making cattle out of women, turning your children into weapons delivery vehicles, living in squalor of your own making, enforcing ignorance in your schools, and preaching hatred of the rest of humanity.
Pass the popcorn.
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:02:29 PM PDT
by
konaice
To: NetValue
I saw it today. Roger Ebert's review matches mine. It is a good movie. Offends both religions equally, therefore probably correct. Were the Muslims beheading the infidels?
To: Kristian
Mohammad lived 5 centuries before this event which was, in itself, the last battle of the Crusader state in the Levant.
Anyway, Salaldin was a Kurd.
He is one of the reasons the Arabs, Turks, Medes, Persians, Mandean Sabeans, Jews, Turkomen, Albanians, and so forth in the area do not want to allow the creation of an independent Kurdistan.
Salaldin was generally considered in his time to be an humane and civilized man, and a cut above just about all of his contemporaries.
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:17:29 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Imaverygooddriver
Team is, of course, the greatest film of the 21st Century. I doubt it will be equaled in our time.
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posted on
05/12/2005 5:18:15 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
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