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Byker
Apr 26, 2018, 1:50:42 PM4/26/18
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"a425couple" wrote in message news:pbsjf...@news4.newsguy.com...
>
> We love to laugh at 'The Book of Mormon.' What if it was 'The Book of
> Koran?': Guest opinion
> Updated Apr 19; Posted Apr 18
>
> http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/04/we_love_to_laugh_at_the_book_o.html
As least Mormons can take a joke...
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"The Book of Mormon" comes to Salt Lake City. But where are the suicide
bombers?
The Book of Mormon, an award-winning musical by the creators of “South
Park,” has opened in Salt Lake City. As ABC news put it, “The biting
satirical musical that mocks Mormons received a rousing reception Tuesday in
its first-ever showing in the heart of Mormonlandia, kicking off a sold-out,
two-week run at a Salt Lake City theater.”
So as in New York and Los Angeles, The Book of Mormon is a smash hit,
contrary to what some expected.
“Despite the jokes and jabs that create a caricature of Mormon beliefs,” ABC
news explains, “there were no protests outside and no mass walkouts during
opening night. The playbill did include three advertisements from the Mormon
church, including a picture of a smiling man with the words, “You’ve seen
the play, now read the book.”
In similar style, during the Los Angeles run, the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, released a statement: “The production may attempt to
entertain audiences for an evening, but the Book of Mormon as a volume of
scripture will change people’s lives forever by bringing them closer to
Christ.” http://tinyurl.com/pqbd3yq
Clearly, the Mormons, whose six million American members include 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, can take a joke at their own
expense. This marks a stark contrast to Muslims and Islam, by some accounts
the fastest growing religion in America. When it comes to satire of their
religion, Muslims respond in a rather different way. Consider, for example,
what happened in January at the offices of the French satirical magazine
Charlie Hebdo, which published caricatures of the prophet Mohammed.
As the BBC noted, two masked gunmen dressed in black and armed with
Kalashnikov assault rifles got out and approached the offices. They shot
dead caretaker Frederic Boisseau, bodyguard Franck Brinsolaro, editor
Stephane Charbonnier and four other cartoonists, plus three members of the
editorial staff and a guest at the meeting. Witnesses said they had heard
the gunmen shouting “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad” and “God is
Great” in Arabic while calling out the names of the journalists.” The two
Muslims also killed a French policeman. “One of the attackers then walked up
to the injured officer on the pavement and shot him dead at close range.”
http://tinyurl.com/kr45thw
This carnage was all over a few cartoons, but films on Islam draw a similar
response. In 2004, as the New York Times reported, “Theo van Gogh, a Dutch
filmmaker and writer who had recently made a television film critical of
Islam, was shot and stabbed to death on an Amsterdam street on Tuesday.”
http://tinyurl.com/c2m4cu5
The attacker, a Muslim, left a note with passages from the Quran.
In his 1983 novel The Marrakesh One-Two, Richard Grenier noted the
difficulties of making a movie about Mohammed, too holy to be shown or even
to speak. Grenier’s model was The Message (1977) by Moustapha Akkad,
starring Anthony Quinn and subtitled The Story of Islam. Akkad, a Syrian who
had worked with Sam Peckinpah, suggested the presence of Mohammed with a
shadow. Orthodox Muslims denounced the film and the Nation of Islam took
hostages. In 2005 in Jordan, a terrorist bomb claimed the life of Moustapha
Akkad: http://tinyurl.com/ox2xobc
Producers were not eager to buy the film rights to Salman Rushdie’s novel
The Satanic Verses, which drew a fatwa from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini.
Rushdie managed to escape the death sentence but as Vanity Fair recalled,
“bombs exploded in bookshops in the U.S. and the U.K.; the book’s Japanese
translator was shot and killed, its Italian translator was stabbed, its
Turkish translator was attacked, its Norwegian publisher was shot, and two
clerics in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia who spoke out against the fatwa were
shot and killed.” In total, “more than 60 people died in the controversy.”
http://tinyurl.com/nhfeybo
Meanwhile, there is no Islamic equivalent to the rock opera Jesus Christ
Superstar, by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, which also became a movie.
There is no Muslim equivalent to Mel Brooks’ History of the World in which
Moses manages to drop five of the original 15 commandments. Charlton Heston,
who played Moses in The Ten Commandments, said he had heard every Moses
joke. As David Steinberg had it, God urges Moses to take off his shoes and
approach. Moses burns his feet and God gleefully shouts “Aha! Third one
today!”
Comics, novelists, filmmakers and dramatists can satirize Judaism and
Christianity, in all their variations, in complete safety and with great
financial reward. As the record shows, those who try that with Islam may
wind up dead. So while The Book of Mormon sells out in Salt Lake City, a
musical comedy on Islam won’t be opening any time soon. Scholars of
comparative religion, along with the rest of the nation, might note the
contrast: http://tinyurl.com/op6mgkg
>
> We love to laugh at 'The Book of Mormon.' What if it was 'The Book of
> Koran?': Guest opinion
> Updated Apr 19; Posted Apr 18
>
> http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/04/we_love_to_laugh_at_the_book_o.html
As least Mormons can take a joke...
-----------------------------------------------------------------
"The Book of Mormon" comes to Salt Lake City. But where are the suicide
bombers?
The Book of Mormon, an award-winning musical by the creators of “South
Park,” has opened in Salt Lake City. As ABC news put it, “The biting
satirical musical that mocks Mormons received a rousing reception Tuesday in
its first-ever showing in the heart of Mormonlandia, kicking off a sold-out,
two-week run at a Salt Lake City theater.”
So as in New York and Los Angeles, The Book of Mormon is a smash hit,
contrary to what some expected.
“Despite the jokes and jabs that create a caricature of Mormon beliefs,” ABC
news explains, “there were no protests outside and no mass walkouts during
opening night. The playbill did include three advertisements from the Mormon
church, including a picture of a smiling man with the words, “You’ve seen
the play, now read the book.”
In similar style, during the Los Angeles run, the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, released a statement: “The production may attempt to
entertain audiences for an evening, but the Book of Mormon as a volume of
scripture will change people’s lives forever by bringing them closer to
Christ.” http://tinyurl.com/pqbd3yq
Clearly, the Mormons, whose six million American members include 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, can take a joke at their own
expense. This marks a stark contrast to Muslims and Islam, by some accounts
the fastest growing religion in America. When it comes to satire of their
religion, Muslims respond in a rather different way. Consider, for example,
what happened in January at the offices of the French satirical magazine
Charlie Hebdo, which published caricatures of the prophet Mohammed.
As the BBC noted, two masked gunmen dressed in black and armed with
Kalashnikov assault rifles got out and approached the offices. They shot
dead caretaker Frederic Boisseau, bodyguard Franck Brinsolaro, editor
Stephane Charbonnier and four other cartoonists, plus three members of the
editorial staff and a guest at the meeting. Witnesses said they had heard
the gunmen shouting “We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad” and “God is
Great” in Arabic while calling out the names of the journalists.” The two
Muslims also killed a French policeman. “One of the attackers then walked up
to the injured officer on the pavement and shot him dead at close range.”
http://tinyurl.com/kr45thw
This carnage was all over a few cartoons, but films on Islam draw a similar
response. In 2004, as the New York Times reported, “Theo van Gogh, a Dutch
filmmaker and writer who had recently made a television film critical of
Islam, was shot and stabbed to death on an Amsterdam street on Tuesday.”
http://tinyurl.com/c2m4cu5
The attacker, a Muslim, left a note with passages from the Quran.
In his 1983 novel The Marrakesh One-Two, Richard Grenier noted the
difficulties of making a movie about Mohammed, too holy to be shown or even
to speak. Grenier’s model was The Message (1977) by Moustapha Akkad,
starring Anthony Quinn and subtitled The Story of Islam. Akkad, a Syrian who
had worked with Sam Peckinpah, suggested the presence of Mohammed with a
shadow. Orthodox Muslims denounced the film and the Nation of Islam took
hostages. In 2005 in Jordan, a terrorist bomb claimed the life of Moustapha
Akkad: http://tinyurl.com/ox2xobc
Producers were not eager to buy the film rights to Salman Rushdie’s novel
The Satanic Verses, which drew a fatwa from Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini.
Rushdie managed to escape the death sentence but as Vanity Fair recalled,
“bombs exploded in bookshops in the U.S. and the U.K.; the book’s Japanese
translator was shot and killed, its Italian translator was stabbed, its
Turkish translator was attacked, its Norwegian publisher was shot, and two
clerics in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia who spoke out against the fatwa were
shot and killed.” In total, “more than 60 people died in the controversy.”
http://tinyurl.com/nhfeybo
Meanwhile, there is no Islamic equivalent to the rock opera Jesus Christ
Superstar, by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, which also became a movie.
There is no Muslim equivalent to Mel Brooks’ History of the World in which
Moses manages to drop five of the original 15 commandments. Charlton Heston,
who played Moses in The Ten Commandments, said he had heard every Moses
joke. As David Steinberg had it, God urges Moses to take off his shoes and
approach. Moses burns his feet and God gleefully shouts “Aha! Third one
today!”
Comics, novelists, filmmakers and dramatists can satirize Judaism and
Christianity, in all their variations, in complete safety and with great
financial reward. As the record shows, those who try that with Islam may
wind up dead. So while The Book of Mormon sells out in Salt Lake City, a
musical comedy on Islam won’t be opening any time soon. Scholars of
comparative religion, along with the rest of the nation, might note the
contrast: http://tinyurl.com/op6mgkg
Bud Frawley
Apr 26, 2018, 3:29:33 PM4/26/18
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In article <soydnR2DlvjxjH_H...@supernews.com>,
byker@do~rag.net says...
> Park,? has opened in Salt Lake City. As ABC news put it, ?The biting
> news explains, ?there were no protests outside and no mass walkouts during
> the play, now read the book.?
> Christ.? http://tinyurl.com/pqbd3yq
> Great? in Arabic while calling out the names of the journalists.? The two
> Muslims also killed a French policeman. ?One of the attackers then walked up
> to the injured officer on the pavement and shot him dead at close range.?
> The Satanic Verses, which drew a fatwa from Iran?s Ayatollah Khomeini.
> today!?
there religion so serious it is'nt even funny! the other religion's are
more fake so nobody give's a care especially when they say you should
kill gay's and black's! moslem's do'nt say that only the moron
republiCON"S which want to keep them out of are country want you to
think that when there the one's which are discriminating!
byker@do~rag.net says...
>
> "a425couple" wrote in message news:pbsjf...@news4.newsguy.com...
> >
> > We love to laugh at 'The Book of Mormon.' What if it was 'The Book of
> > Koran?': Guest opinion
> > Updated Apr 19; Posted Apr 18
> >
> > http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/04/we_love_to_laugh_at_the_book_o.html
>
> As least Mormons can take a joke...
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> "The Book of Mormon" comes to Salt Lake City. But where are the suicide
> bombers?
>
> The Book of Mormon, an award-winning musical by the creators of ?South
> "a425couple" wrote in message news:pbsjf...@news4.newsguy.com...
> >
> > We love to laugh at 'The Book of Mormon.' What if it was 'The Book of
> > Koran?': Guest opinion
> > Updated Apr 19; Posted Apr 18
> >
> > http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2018/04/we_love_to_laugh_at_the_book_o.html
>
> As least Mormons can take a joke...
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> "The Book of Mormon" comes to Salt Lake City. But where are the suicide
> bombers?
>
> Park,? has opened in Salt Lake City. As ABC news put it, ?The biting
> satirical musical that mocks Mormons received a rousing reception Tuesday in
> its first-ever showing in the heart of Mormonlandia, kicking off a sold-out,
> two-week run at a Salt Lake City theater.?
> its first-ever showing in the heart of Mormonlandia, kicking off a sold-out,
>
> So as in New York and Los Angeles, The Book of Mormon is a smash hit,
> contrary to what some expected.
>
> ?Despite the jokes and jabs that create a caricature of Mormon beliefs,? ABC
> So as in New York and Los Angeles, The Book of Mormon is a smash hit,
> contrary to what some expected.
>
> news explains, ?there were no protests outside and no mass walkouts during
> opening night. The playbill did include three advertisements from the Mormon
> church, including a picture of a smiling man with the words, ?You?ve seen
> the play, now read the book.?
>
> In similar style, during the Los Angeles run, the Church of Jesus Christ of
> Latter Day Saints, released a statement: ?The production may attempt to
> In similar style, during the Los Angeles run, the Church of Jesus Christ of
> entertain audiences for an evening, but the Book of Mormon as a volume of
> scripture will change people?s lives forever by bringing them closer to
> Christ.? http://tinyurl.com/pqbd3yq
>
> Clearly, the Mormons, whose six million American members include 2012
> Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, can take a joke at their own
> expense. This marks a stark contrast to Muslims and Islam, by some accounts
> the fastest growing religion in America. When it comes to satire of their
> religion, Muslims respond in a rather different way. Consider, for example,
> what happened in January at the offices of the French satirical magazine
> Charlie Hebdo, which published caricatures of the prophet Mohammed.
>
> As the BBC noted, two masked gunmen dressed in black and armed with
> Kalashnikov assault rifles got out and approached the offices. They shot
> dead caretaker Frederic Boisseau, bodyguard Franck Brinsolaro, editor
> Stephane Charbonnier and four other cartoonists, plus three members of the
> editorial staff and a guest at the meeting. Witnesses said they had heard
> the gunmen shouting ?We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad? and ?God is
> Clearly, the Mormons, whose six million American members include 2012
> Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, can take a joke at their own
> expense. This marks a stark contrast to Muslims and Islam, by some accounts
> the fastest growing religion in America. When it comes to satire of their
> religion, Muslims respond in a rather different way. Consider, for example,
> what happened in January at the offices of the French satirical magazine
> Charlie Hebdo, which published caricatures of the prophet Mohammed.
>
> As the BBC noted, two masked gunmen dressed in black and armed with
> Kalashnikov assault rifles got out and approached the offices. They shot
> dead caretaker Frederic Boisseau, bodyguard Franck Brinsolaro, editor
> Stephane Charbonnier and four other cartoonists, plus three members of the
> editorial staff and a guest at the meeting. Witnesses said they had heard
> Great? in Arabic while calling out the names of the journalists.? The two
> Muslims also killed a French policeman. ?One of the attackers then walked up
> to the injured officer on the pavement and shot him dead at close range.?
> http://tinyurl.com/kr45thw
>
> This carnage was all over a few cartoons, but films on Islam draw a similar
> response. In 2004, as the New York Times reported, ?Theo van Gogh, a Dutch
>
> This carnage was all over a few cartoons, but films on Islam draw a similar
> filmmaker and writer who had recently made a television film critical of
> Islam, was shot and stabbed to death on an Amsterdam street on Tuesday.?
> http://tinyurl.com/c2m4cu5
>
> The attacker, a Muslim, left a note with passages from the Quran.
>
> In his 1983 novel The Marrakesh One-Two, Richard Grenier noted the
> difficulties of making a movie about Mohammed, too holy to be shown or even
> to speak. Grenier?s model was The Message (1977) by Moustapha Akkad,
>
> The attacker, a Muslim, left a note with passages from the Quran.
>
> In his 1983 novel The Marrakesh One-Two, Richard Grenier noted the
> difficulties of making a movie about Mohammed, too holy to be shown or even
> starring Anthony Quinn and subtitled The Story of Islam. Akkad, a Syrian who
> had worked with Sam Peckinpah, suggested the presence of Mohammed with a
> shadow. Orthodox Muslims denounced the film and the Nation of Islam took
> hostages. In 2005 in Jordan, a terrorist bomb claimed the life of Moustapha
> Akkad: http://tinyurl.com/ox2xobc
>
> Producers were not eager to buy the film rights to Salman Rushdie?s novel
> had worked with Sam Peckinpah, suggested the presence of Mohammed with a
> shadow. Orthodox Muslims denounced the film and the Nation of Islam took
> hostages. In 2005 in Jordan, a terrorist bomb claimed the life of Moustapha
> Akkad: http://tinyurl.com/ox2xobc
>
> The Satanic Verses, which drew a fatwa from Iran?s Ayatollah Khomeini.
> Rushdie managed to escape the death sentence but as Vanity Fair recalled,
> ?bombs exploded in bookshops in the U.S. and the U.K.; the book?s Japanese
> translator was shot and killed, its Italian translator was stabbed, its
> Turkish translator was attacked, its Norwegian publisher was shot, and two
> clerics in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia who spoke out against the fatwa were
> shot and killed.? In total, ?more than 60 people died in the controversy.?
> Turkish translator was attacked, its Norwegian publisher was shot, and two
> clerics in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia who spoke out against the fatwa were
> http://tinyurl.com/nhfeybo
>
> Meanwhile, there is no Islamic equivalent to the rock opera Jesus Christ
> Superstar, by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, which also became a movie.
> There is no Muslim equivalent to Mel Brooks? History of the World in which
>
> Meanwhile, there is no Islamic equivalent to the rock opera Jesus Christ
> Superstar, by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, which also became a movie.
> Moses manages to drop five of the original 15 commandments. Charlton Heston,
> who played Moses in The Ten Commandments, said he had heard every Moses
> joke. As David Steinberg had it, God urges Moses to take off his shoes and
> approach. Moses burns his feet and God gleefully shouts ?Aha! Third one
> who played Moses in The Ten Commandments, said he had heard every Moses
> joke. As David Steinberg had it, God urges Moses to take off his shoes and
> today!?
>
> Comics, novelists, filmmakers and dramatists can satirize Judaism and
> Christianity, in all their variations, in complete safety and with great
> financial reward. As the record shows, those who try that with Islam may
> wind up dead. So while The Book of Mormon sells out in Salt Lake City, a
> musical comedy on Islam won?t be opening any time soon. Scholars of
> Comics, novelists, filmmakers and dramatists can satirize Judaism and
> Christianity, in all their variations, in complete safety and with great
> financial reward. As the record shows, those who try that with Islam may
> wind up dead. So while The Book of Mormon sells out in Salt Lake City, a
> comparative religion, along with the rest of the nation, might note the
> contrast: http://tinyurl.com/op6mgkg
thank's for proveing you think you should mock all moslem's which take
> contrast: http://tinyurl.com/op6mgkg
there religion so serious it is'nt even funny! the other religion's are
more fake so nobody give's a care especially when they say you should
kill gay's and black's! moslem's do'nt say that only the moron
republiCON"S which want to keep them out of are country want you to
think that when there the one's which are discriminating!
Byker
Apr 29, 2018, 6:54:00 PM4/29/18
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On 4/26/2018 7:03 AM, Siri Cruise wrote:
> In article <pbsjf...@news4.newsguy.com>, a425couple
> <a425c...@hotmail.com>
Until when they come to your door and you suggest that Joseph Smith was to
the 19th Century what L. Ron. Hubbard was to the 20th...
> In article <pbsjf...@news4.newsguy.com>, a425couple
> <a425c...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> We love to laugh at 'The Book of Mormon.' What if it was 'The Book of
>> Koran?': Guest opinion
>
> Mormons are mostly harmless outside of Utah.
>
>> We love to laugh at 'The Book of Mormon.' What if it was 'The Book of
>> Koran?': Guest opinion
>
Until when they come to your door and you suggest that Joseph Smith was to
the 19th Century what L. Ron. Hubbard was to the 20th...
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