February 17, 2008
The Iranian government has called on the Dutch government to stop the screening of a film in the Netherlands blaspheming holy Quran.The film, by the Dutch member of parliament Geert Wilders, is regarded by the Muslims as blasphemous.
The Iranian justice minister, Gholam Hussein Elham, wrote to his Dutch counterpart, Ernst Hirsch Ballin, calling for a ban.
Gholamhossein Elham said freedom of speech should not be used as a cover for attacking moral and religious values.
Well, then, Minister Gholam Hussein Elham, I can only presume that you will ban this film and punish those who made or funded it.
A new movie in Iran depicts the life of Jesus from an Islamic perspective. "The Messiah," which some consider as Iran's answer to Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ," won an award at Rome's Religion Today Film Festival, for generating interfaith dialogue. The movie will be adapted into a television series, shown on Iranian TV later this year.
Of course, the film itself is an act of blasphemy from the Christian perspective -- it denies Jesus was the Son of God, denies the Crucifixion, and denies the Resurrection, and relegates the Messiah to the mere status of "the last Jewish prophet" rather than rightly honoring him as the Savior of all humanity. And given that this satanic, blasphemous work was funded by the Iranian government and is to be shown on Iranian state television, I'd have to argue that what we have got here is a massive display of hypocritical chutzpah by the Iranians.
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