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Sean Stone, Oliver Stone’s son, embraces Islam in Iran (Supports Ahmadinejad)
Global Post ^ | February 15, 2012 | Kristin Deasy

Posted on 02/17/2012 12:39:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Sean Stone, the son of award-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone, converted to Islam on Tuesday during a ceremony in the Iranian city of Isfahan.

Taking the name “Ali,” Iranian news agencies report that the 27-year-old has converted to Shia Islam, which is practiced by the majority of Iranians.

The son of a half-Jewish father and Christian mother, Stone told AFP today that his conversion “is not abandoning Christianity or Judaism, which I was born with,” but shows “I have accepted Mohammad and other prophets.” He has not, however, explained his reason for converting.

Reuters reports that Stone is in Iran working on a documentary following his earlier co-launch of a film production company in the country. He also attended a panel on "Hollywoodism and Cinema" in Tehran last month, according to Britain's Daily Mail.

Last fall, Stone traveled to Iran to work on a film about the famed Persian poet Rumi, Foreign Policy reports, during which time he voiced support for the country’s controversial president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad has questioned the veracity of the Holocaust and legitimacy of the state of Israel. Stone has also said he support’s Iran’s right to a nuclear program.

Western countries accuse Tehran of trying to use its nuclear program to make a bomb. Iran says its nuclear program is purely for civilian purposes.

Stone’s announcement comes amid increasing tensions between Iran and Israel, with Israel accusing Tehran of being behind a series of explosions in Thailand on Tuesday. An Iranian national has been detained over the incident.


TOPICS: Current Events; Islam; Judaism; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: hollywood; iran; oliverstone; shiites
Next you'll tell me Michael Moore has a Whopper addiction and Rachel Maddow isn't straight as an arrow.
1 posted on 02/17/2012 12:39:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Like father, like son...


2 posted on 02/17/2012 12:42:45 PM PST by WayneS (Comments now include 25% more sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I can’t begin to tell you what an influence Sean Stone has on my life and the decisons I make on a daily basis. Is there a number smaller than zero?

Given the parential influence he has been exposed to, is it any wonder he is seeking someone/anyone to tell him what moral compass to use? It’s a pity he chose perhaps the only religion on the planet with a broken moral compass.


3 posted on 02/17/2012 12:43:49 PM PST by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oliver Stone is half-Jewish...

The OTHER half is pure, unadulterated, A$$hole.


4 posted on 02/17/2012 12:44:15 PM PST by WayneS (Comments now include 25% more sarcasm for no additional charge...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Rachel isn’t a tail raiser?/S


5 posted on 02/17/2012 12:48:37 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So his father is “half Jewish”

Maybe some zealot will only cut half his throat


6 posted on 02/17/2012 12:48:51 PM PST by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m sorry is this suppose to mean anything to me? I could really care what any of these fools do. Why is this even news?
Kirbdog


7 posted on 02/17/2012 1:02:33 PM PST by KirbDog
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Stone’s son must be thinking about getting 72 virgins somehow...


8 posted on 02/17/2012 1:12:39 PM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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9 posted on 02/17/2012 1:15:21 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think that this is hilarious “instant karma” for his father.

“Oliver Stone’s father was Jewish and his mother was French-born and Catholic. As a religious compromise, Stone was raised in the Episcopal Church, but has since converted to Buddhism.”

It reminds me of the story of a man who was born with only one leg. Haunted by this, he went from church to church praying for God to grow his leg back. No luck there, he then prayed in a synagogue, then a mosque, and then an assortment of Buddhist and Hindu temples. Getting on in years, he went to increasingly obscure and grotesque cults and pagan ruins to pray.

Finally on his death bed, he gave up on religion, cursed all the gods he had prayed to, and died. He was reincarnated as a millipede.


10 posted on 02/17/2012 1:20:26 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Now, that’s funny!


11 posted on 02/17/2012 1:23:45 PM PST by Sister_T
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Something about karma comes to mind here.


12 posted on 02/17/2012 1:40:38 PM PST by RinaseaofDs (Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Now don’t go losing your head, boy.


13 posted on 02/17/2012 1:46:34 PM PST by Joe the Pimpernel (Should a constitution protect government from the individual, or the individual from government?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Wait and see what happens to him if he later decides to convert to Christianity. Then it's bye-bye Sean.
14 posted on 02/17/2012 1:58:18 PM PST by mtg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Typical Hollyweirdo. Last week he must have been channeling Biden when he said Islam doesn't really mean it when they say they want to kill Americans.
15 posted on 02/17/2012 2:30:56 PM PST by bgill (Romney & Obama are both ineligible. A non-NBC GOP prez shuts down all ?s on Obama's admin)
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