Posted on 01/19/2007 5:32:00 AM PST by IrishMike
I just read in "Human Events" that over 50% of 13-year-old girls in Afghanistan are married. Moslems don't give a hoot in heck about child-rape. Dakota Fanning is a lot older than Mohammed's wife Aisha.
I certainly don't want to be put in the position of defending muslims, but there's a big difference between child brides (which weren't that uncommon here in the US until relatively recently - in fact I believe that several states still allow 14 year olds to marry)and films about chaining young girls to radiators and using teenagers as human ash trays. These type of films and the like coming out of Hollywood only feed into the muslim's claims that our society is corrupt and Godless.
None of this means the muslims are any better, but we are supposed to be the better society.
The principles of right and wrong are written on the human heart, including the first principle of ethics, which is that the good is to be done and evil avoided.
The natural law (which roughly corresponds to the Ten Commandments), is also written on the human heart, and is evidenced by its universal recognition by various societies throughout history. The determination of right and wrong in particular circumstances can become a complex process, but the underlying principles in moral calculations are simple.
Evil.
Especially now, criticizing Christians is cowardly.
Does some film at Sundance criticize Islam or Muslims?
I did, except with the idea that anyone has an absolute right to do evil, even if such acts are permitted by law. Regardless, no one enjoys even a constitutional right to produce porn.
Not in the Islamic world, unfortunately.
I dont seem to recall ever saying that.
I agree that the films are degrading. However, my point was that the treatment of young girls in Islam is also degrading. At least Dakota Fanning is merely acting. A girl her age in Pakistan or Afghanistan is likely to be married to a man two or three times her age, a first cousin or uncle (so she gets to have babies with birth defects, yippee!) and has no hope of escape.
Therefore, on this point at least, Moslems have no room to judge our sociey, in my opinion.
That's what porn (some of these films) is.
The natural law (which roughly corresponds to the Ten Commandments), is also written on the human heart...
Uh no, other cultures have entirely different standards of behavior, most of which relate directly to environment.
Half-nekkid Ricci ? Looks like she's wearing clothes to me !
don't hold your breath
A horror story made even more frightening because it's true.
Ellen Page, the young Canadian actress whose character castrated a child molester in the jaw-dropping "Hard Candy" (Sundance '05), gets turned into a human ashtray by Catherine Keener in "An American Crime," another envelope pusher at this year's festival.
Tommy O'Haver's film is based on a 1965 Indiana murder case that shocked the nation. Keener's single mother of six took in two teenage boarders - and tied up one of them, played by Page, in the basement.
All manner of abuses are visited upon the teenager by this frightening woman, her children and their friends - as the victim's sister, who has polio, watches in horror. The injuries include multiple cigarette burns, scalding baths and violation with a soda bottle.
"As a mother, I said to myself, 'I can't do this,'" Keener recently told an interviewer. "Later, I thought, 'I'm a mother. I think I kind of should.'"
Jeanine Pirro was on Hannity and Colmes last night and said she saw the entire film and nothing in it remotely approaches child pornagraphy.
Well, then the film doesn't live up to the hype (surprise), because the way they are describing it sure sounds like brutal kiddie porn to me...
1) The version Pirro saw had been edited.
2)If a kiddie porn producer were to shoot the exact same scene, using a minor whose parent/s had consented to the filming, would the kiddie porn producer be arrested?
If the answer of yes, then so should the people responsible for Fanning's film.
Ha, excellent.
Oh wait you were reffering to Sundance films. My bad. There's usually good dollop of shock value there mostly trying to get Hollywood's attention.
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