The work is blaphemous
Another one of those “rights” that isn’t a right.
‘We have a right not to be insulted,’ demonstrator claims as Cineworld fears for workers’ safety
Well, no, you don’t, not exactly, and especially not if you define “insulted” so broadly that it includes living in the same city as a movie house that’s showing a film about Mohammed’s daughter.
A cinema chain has been forced to pull a film about the prophet Muhammad’s daughter over fears for the safety of its staff.
And you don’t have a right to threaten and terrorize people, either.
Demonstrators outside branches in Bolton and elsewhere claimed the work was blasphemous and that freedom of speech should not apply to the subject of Islam. In response, filmmakers decried the suggestion that people offended by a film should be able to dictate what Britons can watch at the cinema.
Britons or anyone.
Check out this jackass:
“You will have repercussions.”
Nous sommes Charlie. Piss off.
I agree, the Home Office should deal with this… they should tell them to grow the fuck up.
At other times, Muslims are greatly offended by the type of xenophobia which casts all Muslims as violent terrorists. This hyperbolic reaction really doesn’t help quell that.
I’m on an extended timeout from Twitter (it started as a 12-hour but I appealed because the tweets are not what they claim, so they’ll take their time before letting me back on.) I would love to be able to see the thread of this tweet to observe how many tweeters with green shinigami eyes (recognized as pro-trans) are complaining about the gall of Muslims for threatening repercussions to the theater for showing this.
Of course, this leaves one large thing unsaid. It isn’t just their life they’re laying on the line, it’s the lives of anyone they deem insufficiently “tolerant” of their intolerant views.
This sort of thing leaves me wondering about the naturalization process in the UK. Does nobody tell young man looking to immigrate to the UK “Look, this is our culture, this is our society, these are our values, if you don’t really want to be part of it, maybe you should live somewhere else?” Don’t immigrants have to swear some sort of oath to uphold the laws of the country they are joining? Or at least take a test where they must answer correctly about what is permitted in the UK?
The Dutch have such a test. For example:
https://nt2taalmenu.nl/learn-dutch-a1-civic-integration-questions-6/