11.03.09 MUHAMMED BIOPIC WILL PROB GET SOMEONE KILLED
A Qatari (that’s a country — a lawless land that flouts the U after Q rule) media company has announced plans for a $150 million English-language film about the Muslim prophet Muhammad. There’s just one small problem: it’s forbidden by the religion to show depictions of him.
Alnoor Holdings has hired the cleric Sheikh Yousef al-Qaradawi as their lead theological consultant for the film.
He is admired by many moderate Muslims and was recently described by the government’s senior counter-terrorism official as “one of the most articulate critics of al-Qaeda in the Islamic world”.
He is also a highly controversial figure who was refused entry to Britain last year because of his views. He has reportedly condoned the Holocaust [that's novel. usually they deny it. "Oh no, I don't doubt that it happened, I just had no problem with it. Seems like good governing."] , supported the stoning of homosexuals and praised suicide bombers in Iraq, not to mention telling an interviewer that he considered Shia Islam a heretical branch of the faith.
According to the Gulf Times newspaper he told journalists in Doha that the film was a response to “the crusader-styled distortion of Islam [that] continues to influence [the] world population today.” [TimesOnline]
So how will they do a biopic on a guy they can’t show? Believe it or not, it’s been done before. How’d that go, you ask? Um… not well.
(On The Message aka Mohammad: Messenger of God a 1976 film about Mohammed starring Anthony Quinn)
In the film, though, the Prophet was represented by gentle organ music and, in scenes where he was present, by subjective camerawork that depicted the action from his point of view. The mistaken belief that Quinn was portraying Muhammad himself sparked riots in the US in which two people died.[BBC]When the film was scheduled to premiere in the U.S., another Muslim extremist group staged a siege against the Washington D.C. chapter of the B’nai B’rith under the mistaken belief that Anthony Quinn played Mohammed in the film, threatening to blow up the building and its inhabitants unless the film’s opening was canceled. [NYTimes]
Charming people. I’m not saying don’t kill anyone, just… hire a fact checker first. I think a good title for this movie would be Mohammad: Don’t Kill the Messenger.
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MUHAMMED BIOPIC WILL PROB GET SOMEONE KILLED
This movie sounds like a crock of shiite.
Fuck these brainwashed desert cult fucks. If their fucking god is supposed to be so fucking great, let him stop the fucking movie! Every religious (ANY RELIGION) fanatic in the fucking world needs to go fuck themselves and die.
They should get a sacred cow to play the role and call him “Moohammed”.
OH HELP! THE WRATH OF *INSERT GOD HERE* IS PUNISHING ME! I REPENT! I HAVE SEEN THE LIGHT! FORGIVE ME, *INSERT GOD HERE*!
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Psyche! BONG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They’re f’n killing dudes trying to make movies that present their barbaric beliefs and superstitions in a positive light?
Suniva Bitch!
Mohammed rolls through Wendy’s for a bacon cheeseburger or GTFO.
In Wes Anderson’s version, the Prophet Muhammed is represented buy the latest from Sufjan Stevens.
As a devout Christian, I think it’s wrong that these people are pushing their religion on us. Now who’d like to carpool to church with me?
I probably should’ve turned comments off on this post so none of you get me killed.
Brett Ratner’s Muhammed will be depicted by Alexis Arquette.
Yeah, chains and Master Locks aren’t looking so controversial now, are they?
*pulls up in ice cream truck*
Did someone say they needed a carpool to church?
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Why, yes, this is a running chainsaw on my lap!
I love skycake.
Hey, I ain’t hard to find. If the jihadists want to come looking for someone, I am the big fat white guy in Iowa City!
*snicker*
Nice camo fek!
For this one, Mohammad will always be off-screen and his talking will come out sounding like a muffled trumped.
Modammad: Wah wah waah wahh, wah wahh wah wah waaah wah
Charlie Brown: Thy will be done.
Heh.. Mohammad, that is.
FUCK YOU BURNSY!!
RATNER’S MUHAMMED IS A BOWL OF CHILI CHEESE NACHOS WITH RANCH DRESSING OR GTFO!!
His mama called him Clay, I’ma call him Clay.
They only keep people from using his likeness to discourage Middle Eastern trailer trash from seeing his face in their falafels.
Tyler Perry’s Muhammed is represented by an obnoxious a-hole in drag.
Aaron Seltzer’s and Jason Friedberg’s Muhammad will be represented by Paris Hilton making fart noises.
Dane Cook Mohammad is Brohammad.
They should get that Danish cartoonist to storyboard it, if they can find him.
Not to be outdone, the Catholic Church will soon bankroll a movie about Jesus in which he doesn’t exist.
For once, an epic movie without explosions…well, not on film anyway.
I think they should make this Life of Brian style. Don’t make it about Mohammad, make it about some guy who lived a similar life to Mohammad that you’re allowed to show on screen.
Ironically, Michael Bay’s Muhammed is represented by off-screen explosions.
They could film this like the invisible man with various and wacky disguises; with Seth Rogans voice as comic relief; you could call it ‘I got knocked up outside the sanctity of marriage and now I’m being stoned’
Fact: Gary Busey’s been accused of playing Muhammed in every roll he’s ever done.
Roman Polanski would love to help cast this movie.
I hope they cast that chick from Wizards of Waverly Place as his underage bride.
I saw this movie when I was a kid. It was like Secret Girlfriend on Comedy Central only you’re Muhammad.
I asked my dad what was going on and he said they could not show the big M. I thought he was messing with me like he usually did.
Mojame Dali
A movie about Mohammad without showing Mohammad should be called Nohammad.
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