2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI just watched a clip from the movie...
Jesus H. Christ, what a piece of dreck! I don't know what was more offensive, the religious message or the fucking junior-high-school production values. It appears to be clip from several sources stitched together, with at least some of it being actors standing in front of a green screen with desert scenes added in. The dialog was clearly added after the fact -- the actors lips don't come within shouting distance of matching the audio.
I can't believe the four Americans died as the result of a hack job that makes James O'Keefe look like James Fucking Cameron.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)That is was created just to "cause trouble" and I'm inclined to agree.
Igel
(35,390 posts)Four Americans died because a group of dorks calling themselves Muslims took offense at something that went public months ago and decided to kill them.
Don't dehumanize them by stripping them of responsibility for their acts.
Four Americans died because a group of dorks calling themselves Muslims decided to translate the dreck into Arabic and when they spread the word about it in order to inflame tensions embellished what it was in order to inflame tensions even further. Then somebody got the crowd going and incited the crowd to riot and mayhem. Let's not dehumanize *them* by stripping *them* of responsibility for their acts.
The movie was dreck. But not worth the killing of innocents in the name of communal, collective, xenophobic hatred and self-righteousness.
"My God is a god of peace and all-powerful. And to show that he's a god of peace I'll burn and kill, and because he's all-powerful I need to defend him against a Youtube video."
"I slam Islam" should be their nifty slogan.
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)and let him off the leash to maul you to death, who's at fault? Me or the dog?
The makers of this "film" knew damned well that there are extremists all over the Muslim world who would freak out over this. They knew damned well that they were going to instigate violence somewhere in the world. Whether directed at our troops in Afghanistan, or at embassies in God-Only-Knows-Where, or against innocent civilians. They knew damned well that somebody was going to die.
This was a calculated attempt to stir up trouble and make the rest of the Muslim world look bad. I don't blame the "mad dog" element nearly as much as I blame whatever cold, calculating son of a bitch who cooked up this idea and unleashed it on the rest of the world.
mshasta
(2,108 posts)...what a trash video , offensive , stupid, racist, ...I can go on.. stupid fake ass backgrounds...F class actors, what it gets me angry is that someone so evil doing this type of videos just for the hatred of the Muslim world...now innocent victims are paying for it... Karma will get you back asshole...