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Even Geert Van Wilder’s nonsensical propaganda, Fitna, or Hirsi Ali’s provocation, Submission, can try to make the case that there is some kind of message behind their productions. Unlike the Danish Cartoons or Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, Bacile and his financiers intended only to provoke outrage and violence and not to make an artistic or political statement. Yes, Muhammad, the founder of Islam, the man whom 1.5 billion Muslims are taught to love more than their own selves and strive to emulate in their constant being. So, as history repeats itself, the only thing ludicrous is the incessant stubbornness of both the West’s commitment to “free speech” and the Muslim world’s rush to violence, the irony of which is lost upon them both.īut first on the film: Muhammad: Prophet of the Muslims produced by Isreali citizen and California resident Sam Bacile and promoted by the extremists Christians Terry Jones and Morris Sadek is a purely venomous and malicious mockery of the life of Muhammad. Couple that reality with two centuries of colonial and neo-imperial European domination of the greater Middle East and you have the perfect storm for an international communications disaster. No, they are bright red lines that promise public panic and guarantee violence.

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Anyone who has a inkling of familiarity with the Muslim world knows that sacrilege and blasphemy are not understood as acts of free speech, political expression, or artistic creativity. The late Ayatollah Khomeini’s notorious edict against Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses in 1989, The Danish Cartoon controversy in 2005, and Pastor Terry Jones’s Qur’an burning stunt in 2010. But after an amateur anti-Islamic video went viral in North Africa leaving four state department officials killed in Libya and the US Embassy in Cairo breached, there is hardly anything farcical about this latest round of anti-Muslim provocation and senseless retaliatory violence. “First as tragedy, then as farce” is the way history repeats itself as Karl Marx’s words continue to teach us. Board of Directors Leadership Resources.Debating Countering Violent Extremism Policy.Strengthening Muslim Institutions + Building Identity.Impact of Designating Muslim Brotherhood as FTO.Muslim American Experience Bibliography.Measuring Ideologically Motivated Violence.Mental Health of Muslim Healthcare Workers.