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Note that Adam Osman does not allow for the possibility that it is certain aspects of Islam that should make him think poorly of Islam, not the fact that this movie exposes them.
1 posted on 02/27/2007 5:26:27 AM PST by gridlock
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To: gridlock

So we show college kids the Islamists own words and they get angry? It must be because the kids have been taught so much make-believe garbage that when confronted with reality they can't handle it.


2 posted on 02/27/2007 5:28:22 AM PST by Peach
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To: gridlock
“The movie was so well crafted and emotion manipulating that I felt myself thinking poorly of some aspects of Islam,” said Adam Osman, president of Stony Brook’s Muslim Students’ Association, who asked that it not be shown.

Not to mention factual? If he bothered to check out websites such as MEMRI he'd see what passes for TV programming in the ME.

3 posted on 02/27/2007 5:28:27 AM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: gridlock
"There is no more stinging rebuke than the truth..."
4 posted on 02/27/2007 5:29:38 AM PST by xcamel (Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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To: gridlock

Wonder if the movie talked about this:

Saudi Arabia - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death. Bibles are illegal. Churches are illegal. It is punishable by death for a non-mulsim to enter the "holy" muslim cities of Medina and Mecca.

Yemen - Bans proselytizing by non-Muslims and forbids conversions. The Government does not allow the building of new non-Muslim places of worship.

Kuwait - Registration and licensing of religious groups. Members of religions not sanctioned in the Koran may not build places of worship. Prohibits organized religious education for religions other than Islam.

Egypt - Islam is the official state religion and primary source of legislation. Accordingly, religious practices that conflict with Islamic law are prohibited. Muslims may face legal problems if they convert to another faith. Requires non-Muslims to obtain what is now a presidential decree to build a place of worship.

Algeria - The law prohibits public assembly for purposes of practicing a faith other than Islam. Non-Islamic proselytizing is illegal, and the Government restricts the importation of non-Islamic literature for distribution. The country has passed the "Regulation of Religious Practice" law, which stipulates a punishment of two to five years' imprisonment and heavy fines for anyone convicted of urging a Muslim to change his religion.

Syria - The constitution requires the president to be a Muslim and specifies that Islamic jurisprudence is a principal source of legislation. Sharing your Christian faith is discouraged as "posing a threat to the relations among religious groups" and carries a penalty of up to life in prison. A Christian is not allowed to proselytize – ever. Churches who want to hold an extra service must get a government permit. Sermons are routinely monitored, as is church fundraising.

Jordan - Has the death penalty for any Muslim selling land to a Jew.

Sudan - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death.

Pakistan - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is punishable by death. Bans proselytizing by non-Muslims. Christians regularly put in prison for charges of blasphemy. Islam is the state religion, and in a court of law the testimony of a Christian carries less weight than that of a Muslim. Section 295(c) of the Penal Code calls for a death sentence for anyone who defiles the name of the Prophet Muhammad and requires the testimony of four Muslims for a conviction. This fosters an environment in which Muslims can feel free to use intimidation and violence against religious minorities for personal gain.

Qatar - Islamic instruction is compulsory in public schools. The government regulates the publication, importation, and distribution of non-Islamic religious literature. The government continues to prohibit proselytizing of Muslims by non-Muslims.

Malaysia - Under Malaysian law, any convert to Christianity must apply to a shariah (Muslim law) court to legally renounce Islam. Many Christians prefer to remain silent converts rather than take their battle to the shariah courts, where apostasy or conversion out of Islam is punishable by whipping, fines, imprisonment and--in the most extreme application--death.

The Maldives - In the island paradise visited by tens of thousands of tourists each year, Christianity is simply not tolerated. While local Christians – said to number around 300 out of a total population of 300,000 – do get together to worship, they do so at the risk of imprisonment or worse if discovered by the Muslim authorities. Bibles are banned, and tourists can be arrested for trying to bring them into the country.


http://www.state.gov/g/drl/hr/


5 posted on 02/27/2007 5:32:17 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: gridlock

let me guess....... "Outraged muslims"...who knew?......................again. (Forrest Gump accent)


6 posted on 02/27/2007 5:32:55 AM PST by Dick Vomer (liberals suck......... but it depends on what your definition of the word "suck" is.,)
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“The question about radical Islam and how do we fight it is unproductive,” said Yehuda Sarna, the New York University rabbi on the panel. “The question is how to break down the stereotypes facing the two religions.”

Some people choose their blindness.
Some stereotypes are well deserved.


7 posted on 02/27/2007 5:33:19 AM PST by Frosted Flake
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For later.

L

10 posted on 02/27/2007 5:39:58 AM PST by Lurker (Europeans killed 6 million Jews. As a reward they got 40 million Moslems. Karma's a bitch.)
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a documentary that shows Muslims urging attacks on the United States

What was that documentary from the early nineties that was basically the same thing?
13 posted on 02/27/2007 5:42:20 AM PST by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: gridlock

The can't refute what the film says and shows, they can only try to shut it down. That's a typical leftie response. Interesting the parallels between the radical left and radical islam....


16 posted on 02/27/2007 5:47:42 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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The movie was so well crafted and emotion manipulating that I felt myself thinking poorly of some aspects of Islam

I'm a Christian. That doesn't mean I don't think the Spanish inquisition and the witch hunts where atrocious acts of human barbarism. Mr Osman needs to learn to distinguish between faith and murder.

19 posted on 02/27/2007 5:54:23 AM PST by SwedishConservative
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“The movie was so well crafted and emotion manipulating that I felt myself thinking poorly of some aspects of Islam,” said Adam Osman, president of Stony Brook’s Muslim Students’ Association, who asked that it not be shown.

God, NO!! Not THAT!! He thought "poorly" of some aspects of islam!!?? Horrors.

Reality bites, doesn't it, Adam?

20 posted on 02/27/2007 5:56:11 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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Maybe it's time that muslims start to look at themselves instead of whining and blaming others.


22 posted on 02/27/2007 5:59:54 AM PST by tkathy (Sectarian violence? Or genocidal racists? Which is a better description of islamists?)
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Its the truth: Islam Is A Death Cult. Adam Osnan and the Left shun it the way cockroaches scurry out of the light.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

26 posted on 02/27/2007 6:04:19 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Well at least they didn't purport show Mohammad's tomb.
29 posted on 02/27/2007 6:05:39 AM PST by Tarpon
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I show this film, at least the 15 minute version---and sometimes the long version---to all my university classes.


41 posted on 02/27/2007 6:45:34 AM PST by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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We should follow the self protective scheme of the Saudi Arabians....

Perhaps America should be declared the holiest of Christian Sanctuaries -- barring all those whose stated purpose is the extermination or enslavement of Christians.

Islam has those STATED objectives..

Why not simpy ban Muslims from America....
Freedom of religion does not require we commit suicide or aid those wishing our extermination...

Semper Fi


42 posted on 02/27/2007 7:24:35 AM PST by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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