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Holy Shiite! Movie shelved for using word ‘Muslim’
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/ ^ | John Stossel

Posted on 11/08/2005 8:44:18 PM PST by manny613

Sony Pictures got upset about a "bad" word. They demanded it be taken out of the title of a movie. The word is "Muslim."

Give me a break. Do we have to be that sensitive? Or fearful?

(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hollywood; stossel

1 posted on 11/08/2005 8:44:19 PM PST by manny613
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To: manny613
Well, this is a surprise.

Insert a couple of lesbian scenes and this may be approved by the ratings board.

2 posted on 11/08/2005 8:46:57 PM PST by zarf (It looks just like a Telefunken U-47!)
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To: manny613

I'm sure if it had "f^ck" in the title it would be ok.


3 posted on 11/08/2005 8:47:07 PM PST by Andy from Beaverton (I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
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To: manny613

what is a movie


4 posted on 11/08/2005 8:47:34 PM PST by Flavius (Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum")
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To: manny613
Even CAIR doesn't object to the movie, although I bet they'll object to this column.

John Stossel is looking to get his head cut off! ... Now that's comedy!

5 posted on 11/08/2005 8:48:21 PM PST by SittinYonder (Flea, feather, bird, egg, nest, twig, branch, limb, tree, and the bog down in the valley - o.)
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To: manny613
The movie is "Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World."

LOL! Didya see the way that head bounced? ROFLMAO!

6 posted on 11/08/2005 8:49:32 PM PST by null and void (People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.)
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To: SittinYonder

GMTA...

*sigh*


7 posted on 11/08/2005 8:50:12 PM PST by null and void (People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.)
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To: manny613

>>he was concerned that, in the wake of 9/11, Americans hated even the word "Muslim." "A part of me always thought," Brooks said, "what are there, a billion-and-a-half Muslim people on this planet, and I never thought that all of them wanted us dead."

btw Brooks' real name (no joke) is Albert Einstein. His brother, Bob Einstein, is better known as Super Dave Osborne.

>>I never thought that all of them wanted us dead."

No, but the radical, Islamofascists hate Jews as much
as the Nazis did. They hate just about everyone who
isn't a Muslim, come to think of it.


8 posted on 11/08/2005 8:50:23 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: manny613
So it's okay to have titles like "white men can't jump", "The Pope must die" and "white chicks"?  Oh, that's right, it's okay, they are white and christian.
9 posted on 11/08/2005 8:51:28 PM PST by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
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To: manny613
Brooks said, "what are there, a billion-and-a-half Muslim people on this planet, and I never thought that all of them wanted us dead."

Oh, Albert. You poor, misguided fool. Too late will you learn the folly of your Liberal thinking.

10 posted on 11/08/2005 8:53:27 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Power is nothing without control.)
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To: softwarecreator
So it's okay to have titles like "white men can't jump", "The Pope must die" and "white chicks"? Oh, that's right, it's okay, they are white and christian.

Are you really that offended?

11 posted on 11/08/2005 8:53:50 PM PST by SittinYonder (Flea, feather, bird, egg, nest, twig, branch, limb, tree, and the bog down in the valley - o.)
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To: SittinYonder

No, but I'm not offended by the word "muslim" in a title either.


12 posted on 11/08/2005 8:56:00 PM PST by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires.)
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To: Andy from Beaverton

I'm sure if it had "fudge" in the title it would be ok.


13 posted on 11/08/2005 9:14:08 PM PST by Panerai
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To: SittinYonder

If Albert Brooks thinks that his jokes can transform an Islamofacist into Mr. Rogers he must be smoking crack.The terrorist would be laughing his ass off while he cut Albert's head off with a dull knife.


14 posted on 11/08/2005 9:34:29 PM PST by rdcorso (There Is No Such Thing As A Neutral Person During A War With Radical Islam.)
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To: manny613
A funny thing happened on the way to the attack...

I just flew in from Makkah and boy are my bombs tired...

I got a diamond ring for my wife, and Mohammed said "Pretty good trade"...

(the other 3 pages of Islamic humor available on request)

15 posted on 11/08/2005 9:49:46 PM PST by Sender (Team Infidel USA)
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To: Sender

Sony goes on the list.


16 posted on 11/08/2005 10:28:08 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: manny613

my husband and i rented our 66 ford anglia to the production company for this movie. we were anxious to see it in the theater. we were kind of upset when they returned it with a bunch of sand in it. it's ironic because it was still an untitled film and we only knew that brooks was starring in it. when we finally found out the title of the film, we had a chuckle and understood why it had all the sand in it....


17 posted on 11/08/2005 10:30:48 PM PST by LibertyGrrrl (http://www.conservativepunk.com)
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To: manny613

Notice how they always try to cover each other's back...as it turned out, Newsweek really didn't create the setting up of these riots. See? So their fake reporting really had nothing to do with this. Trust us! Pffft!

"The call came shortly after a Newsweek story claimed that soldiers at Guantanamo Bay had flushed a Koran down the toilet, and rioting broke out in the Middle East. It turned out that the Newsweek story was wrong. They retracted it. And it turned out that the rioting may have been a previously planned anti-American demonstration that had nothing to do with Newsweek's story."


18 posted on 11/08/2005 10:36:27 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: manny613

A dirty little secret in Hollywood is that a lot of movie funding comes from Middle East oil money.


19 posted on 11/08/2005 10:55:00 PM PST by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (My Homeland Security: Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper)
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To: manny613

I hate the word itself, and don't want to hear it. I'm glad they're yanking the word.


20 posted on 11/08/2005 10:57:54 PM PST by Lauretij2
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