What if the content of the movie warrants protests and pushing back?
Cineworld cancels film about the daughter of the Prophet Muhammad
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What if the content of the movie warrants protests and pushing back?
Most reasonable adults in this day and age know they don’t have a right to demand others align with their views. If you don’t like something don’t do it, but don’t demand other people agree with you.
Then by all means protest. Just don’t throw your toys out of the pram if people don’t agree with you.
Calling anything blasphemous is ridiculous. Piss off.
I was more alluding to all the prior incidents which show that some people clearly havnt.
But isn't it what they did, protest?
The outrage opera is still in its first act. We are far away from moving past it on so many issues.
If you go around offending people then obviously people will protest?
I don't know why people are surprised when Muslims protest over stuff like this, clearly they take their religion more seriously than most modern religions. We've seen it before with the cartoons, you can say you don't agree with the protesters but you know it's going to happen so what's the point? It's like sticking your hand in fire and then crying that it shouldn't be so hot.
I don't know why people are surprised when Muslims protest over stuff like this, clearly they take their religion more seriously than most modern religions. We've seen it before with the cartoons, you can say you don't agree with the protesters but you know it's going to happen so what's the point? It's like sticking your hand in fire and then crying that it shouldn't be so hot.
They essentially bullied the cinema into pulling the film.
So it’s everyone else’s fault? Not the people who riot until you agree to concede out of fear?
They do that by choice, similarly others should have the choice to take the piss out of a bunch of people taking a fictional story that seriously, including the story itself.
Or they protested? You don't think that these protesters have free speech and freedom to protest?
Where in any of my posts did I say that?
When you suggested that protesting is bullying.
Protesting in and of itself? Of course not. Make yourself a placard and stand outside the cinema, it’s a free country. But this?
of course this shouldn’t be tolerated.
I can assume he is a protester. Otherwise I don't know more than that.
Do we have anything to support or even illustrate that statement? I tried to find videos and only see people outside of the cinema and not particularly agitated.
Does he represent anyone but himself and do you think that he invalidates any protest?
Just the fact that the cinema closed the film out of fear for their staff’s safety.
I don't think he invalidates any protest. I don't know if he represents anyone but himself.
Or they took a drastic measure after a protest? If people know that there is a protest at this theater they are unlikely to go and try to see other movies because it's a genuine disturbance.
The Passion of Saint Tibulus sounded a lot more fun than this one.
Then why did you bring him up?
As they should have.
Not because of the religious stuff. But because it's a shit film.
Hope they move on Marvel next.
Because its evidence that there is at least some threat going around apart from cancelling the film out of fear and safety of the staff.
We can all hope.
Some of the videos on this feed portray the protesters as pretty intimidating:
And there is of course also the broader context whereby such protests have in the past been accompanied by threats of violence, and actual violence.
There is a 95% chance I would never have heard of this movie. A 100% chance I would never have watched it.
Now I will. Even if it's definitely dogshit, just because even dogshit films should be defended from this bollocks.
Now I will. Even if it's definitely dogshit, just because even dogshit films should be defended from this bollocks.
A business would never choose to turn down money without good reason. In fact I’m sure they’d rather be playing the film and capitalising on all this publicity, which suggests the threat to their staff was very real.
Even if he was the only one espousing as such, it’s a legitimate threat & unacceptable.
And we all know he wasn’t the only one.
And we all know he wasn’t the only one.
We only get one life, you know.
They look like a really friendly and harmless bunch of people there.
That's the point, by cancelling the screening of that movie they don't disturb other movies screening.
Inshallah
I'll be honest with you, from a french standpoint that's not intimidating. But protests tend to be a bit different around here.
Why would they be disturbed? I thought all they were doing was holding placards and saying down with this sort of thing?