Re: What furriners think of the USA


"Mark Test" <MARKT38@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Basically, these people who would consider the USA to be culturally
alien all dreamed of coming to the USA. Think about that.

since he is a fundamentalist Muslim, one might wonder what he wants to
do here....... It might have nothing to do with America's attraction
as a nation.

Frankly his views are not particularly fundamentalist. His reaction
was much the same as that of many Christians were to the
Mony Python film Life of Brian. It was banned in several US
States as well as in Norway and Ireland

Please cite which US states Life of Brian was banned from...
IIRC it did extremely well here in the states....


Terry Gilliam mentioned it was banned in a number states in the
bible belt which actually proved to be very good publicity.
People would cross the state line to see this 'banned' film

For the record, no one from Python was killed by Christian zealots,

Freedom of speech means hearing things you dont like.

So true.....most of us in the states get that....(well liberals don't).

A fundmentalist would have been much less polite.

A muslim fundamentalist that is...

Mark



Oh puleeze I have met several very impolite christian fundies
who lectured me long and loud about how I was going
to hell because I refused to believe his particular brand of
tribal superstition.

The bombing of abortion clinics and murder of doctors
didnt happen in the UAE but the USA. You can find
intolerance anywhere in the world

In the case of LOB Rabbi Abraham Hecht, president of the Rabbinical
Alliance of America declared, "Never have we come across such a
foul, disgusting, blasphemous film before."

Hecht went on to make public his view that Brian "was produced in hell".

Robert EA Lee of the Lutheran Council, described it as "crude and rude
mockery, colossal bad taste, profane parody. A disgraceful assault
on religious sensitivity" .

The Catholic film-monitoring office rated Brian "C" for "Condemned" and
told Catholics not to visit theatres where it was playing

Keith


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