Last summer, a con man and former PCP chef calling himself “Sam Bacile” convinced some struggling actors to join his ultra low-budget production of “Desert Warrior,” which he filmed on soundstages and later redubbed with anti-Muslim content, re-titling it Innocence of Muslims and putting out a 14-minute trailer to a complete movie that may not even exist. The trailer spawned violent, deadly protests across the middle east, and now an entire country is boycotting the Academy Awards. If there were a Nobel Prize for trolling, Sam Bacile (aka Nakoula B. Nakoula) would surely win it. Of course, the victory would be bittersweet, as he would be informed via letter bomb.
Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hosseini (pictured, with Ice Cream Vaughn) has said that Iran will boycott the 2013 Oscars in protest over the Academy Awards’ silence on the production of an anti-Islam video in the United States.
CONDEMN HARDER, ACADEMY!
“I officially announce that we will avoid next year’s Oscars as a serious response to the intolerable insult to the Prophet of Islam (S),” Hosseini said during the opening ceremony of a film festival in Kerman on Monday evening.
“Since the insulting film has been made by an American in the United States and no comment has been made about the film by the officials of the Academy Awards, we have decided to boycott the event,” he stated.
Well, actually, Nakoula Nakoula was born in Egypt, but no need to split hairs when we’re talking about sky cake.
Hosseini also called on other Islamic countries to boycott the Oscars in response to the production of the film. The board had previously selected Reza Mirkarimi’s family drama “A Cube of Sugar” as Iran’s submission to the Oscars. [TehranTimes]
Egypt and Libya have not yet submitted their selections, though the deadline isn’t until October 1st. And so it goes that the chief of culture in Iran is punishing Americans for a so-called American’s negative portrayal of Muslims by denying us the right to view or champion positive portrayals of Muslims. Funny how stupidity tends to snowball in the wake of a crisis, isn’t it?
Meanwhile, I do wonder why The Academy didn’t just come out and condemn Innocence of Muslims. It’s not hard to see that it was a sucky movie. I think what may have happened is that they initially put Brett Ratner in charge, but he didn’t want to practice his statement because rehearsal is for fags, so then they fired him and hired Billy Crystal to do it, and Billy Crystal was still in the middle of a 40-minute musical tribute to Douglas Fairbanks when the Iranians pulled the trigger on their boycott. Cultural differences, man. What’re ya gonna do?
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Iran so far away.
And no fucks were given.
not a single one.
I’ve been in Afghanistan for 6 months, and Muslim people make no fucking sense. Remember that Team America World Police movie and they were all like, durka durak muhamed jiahd…it’s exactly like that.
I did’nt realize they attended an event that I’m sure they assumed was run by Jews.
Does anyone else get the sense that this just an excuse to drum up more anger toward America? Seeing as the Iranian film industry is controlled by the government, most of the angry Iranians probably assumed that the US government controls ours, too. So the Iranian government can be all, “See, they won’t denounce this movie so they’re all dicks who hate you!”
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t see why the Academy can’t just condemn the movie, either. But it makes you wonder if the Iranians wouldn’t be boycotting anyway.
“The Academy didn’t say the movie was nominated for anything, but they didn’t say it wasn’t not nominated, either, and that’s tantamount to a full endorsement”
If the Academy is going to start denouncing films for being hurtful or whatever, shouldn’t they start with Oogieloves?
Blaming all of America for this movie is just as ignorant as calling all Muslims terrorists.
which many people do quite regularly
Be careful with your jokes y’all JustinJump will get mad
Tedious troll.
The Academy got off pretty light as far as Iranian backlash is concerned. You should see what they’re getting ready to do to Israel because Netanyahu still hasn’t returned Ahmadinejad’s Firefly DVDs.
If I came to your house later today and called you’re dead mother a filthy Nazi whore, who lived her life subsisting only by the caloric content of my jizz, would that justify murder?
No?
Then let’s stop pretending these retards are justified in their reaction to a stupid movie that will never be distributed.
Also:
There is one true Allah and Muhammad is his prophet (and Muhammad loves how salty my testicles taste.)
No one said they were justified, dummy.
You posting this story (and all the other stories claiming that this ridiculous trailer is somehow a reason for the violent response) suggests that NBN was in the wrong for his exercising his right to free speech.
Which is ridiculous, dummy.
Ace beat me to it, but nowhere did I say the violent response was justified. It was a trigger, I never said it was justified. I don’t think NBN was “in the wrong” for exercising his right to free speech, I think he was wrong for making a shitty movie. There’s nothing wrong with saying a shitty movie is a shitty movie, that’s free speech too. Jesus Christ, man, pull your head out of your ass, not every issue involves having to choose one of two teams. The people protesting are assholes and Sam Bacile is an asshole too. They aren’t mutually exclusive.
A shitty movie should never justify violence.
The story should have been “Idiot makes shitty movie, other idiots react violently”
Continuing the discussion by condemning the first idiot only justifies the second idiots.
Sorry that believing no speech justify’s violence means I have my head up my ass.
The story should have been “Idiot makes shitty movie, other idiots react violently and then another idiot reacts idiotically to a blogpost about idiots boycotting the Oscars because they didn’t condemn the film made by the original idiot to which the other idiots reacted violently”*
*Fix’d
“Continuing the discussion by condemning the first idiot only justifies the second idiots.”
I’m not continuing anything, the story goes on with our without me, and I completely disagree with your premise that calling something idiotic justifies another idiot doing violence to them.
” Sorry that believing no speech justify’s violence means I have my head up my ass.”
You’re arguing with your own straw man yet again which was why I said you had your head up your ass in the first place. Arguments aren’t all or nothing. The two sides get closer together when you concede the parts of their arguments that are true – in this case, that the movie was shitty. If you want to just deny everything one side says because they’re assholes, all you get is a permanent state of disagreement.
Which is known as “congress.”
I bet Salman Rushdie is all “your turn, bitch.”
in like a fancy voice, with a glass of wine in his hand.
@ Vince
“Meanwhile, I do wonder why The Academy didn’t just come out and condemn Innocence of Muslims.”
So that isn’t a stament condemning NBN’s right to free speech, and justifying the reaction?
No, it’s a setup to a joke.
Last I heard, calling a terrible movie terrible was neither an encroachment on free speech nor a justification of violence.
You can condemn an idiot’s use of his free speech while not condemning his right to it. Moreover, the entire night is about judging the quality of films. In that spirit, they can judge the film as being the Honey Boo Boo of Operation Dumbo Drops.
No, it’s an exercise of free speech to call a shitty movie shitty, and it risks nothing.
The joke was that condemning the movie would be the reasonable thing to do, but since the Oscars are terrible; Brett Ratner, Billy Crystal, Bonerfat.
Am I incorrect (other than my use of the semicolon)?
Everyone knows boners have no fat, noob.
Sorry, I meant Bonerfart.
/Disappears from this site forever.
That escalated quickly.
so did we solve it? DO boners indeed have no fat?
If they do, I’m pissed. I can pack on the fat anywhere else on my body, but apparently not on the one place it would do some good……
Still trying to get all parties back to the table. So far they can’t agree on anything except ‘Jon Cryer? Really?’
“I officially announce that we will avoid next year’s Oscars”
So…we’re absolutely sure this is the ONE place they won’t be bombing on that particular day, then? Because honestly? Every other inch of dirt on this planet is a toss-up otherwise.
“How DARE you not condemn this film immediately! It’s religiously intolerant and mocks our faith! What are you, a bunch of dirty fucking jews?”
You know somewhere this is an Iranian Billy Eichner freaking the fuck out right now. “WHAT ABOUT MERYL STREEP? I NEED TO SEE MERYL!”
You laugh, but Hosseini throws the best Oscar parties. They get pretty intense though. You should have seen him when Brokeback Mountain lost to Crash.