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On the other hand
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New Delhi (ENI). Some Indian Christians are so incensed with the fictional blockbuster "The Da Vinci Code" they want the government to ban it and one Roman Catholic has offered a bounty of US$25 000 on the head of author Dan Brown, leaving other members of the faithful embarrassed by the reaction.
The Mumbai Catholic Council has threatened to stop the screening of the movie if the government fails to ban the recently released movie of the book. Another group called the Catholic Social Forum has said if the shows go ahead it will launch a death fast from 12 May.
Nicolas Almeida, a Catholic and former Mumbai municipal councillor, offered a reward of 1.1 million rupees ($25 000) for the head of author Brown, leading a Catholic journalist to compare Almeida to the Taliban.
Still, the autonomous Delhi Commission for Minorities joined Christian groups like the All India Christian Council calling for a ban on the movie.
The commission said the Da Vinci Code is "sheer blasphemy" and that it has "deeply upset Christian sentiments", in appealing on 10 May to the federal Censor Board to deny screening permission for the movie.
"In a country like ours where vicious propaganda is used against Christian minorities by Hindu bigots, the movie will be handy for them to tarnish our image," Arnold James, a Church of North India member and Christian representative in the Commission, told Ecumenical News International.
Archbishop Stanislaus Fernandes, secretary general of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, said the fictional work "belittles what is at the heart of Christian faith and cherished in Christian life", in a statement objecting to the release of the movie.
"Every individual has a right to his religious beliefs and to enjoy the respect to them from the followers of other religions," said the bishops' conference in an 11 May statement.
Some Catholics have, however, rebuffed the moves to ban the fictional work.
"Offering bounty for the head of the author is a Taliban-like response," Kay Benedict, a Catholic journalist, told ENI. With their protests, he said, Catholics have ensured "more than enough publicity" for the movie in India. "The Christian faith is 2000 years old and it is not so fragile as to be destroyed by a single movie."
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jaganath69
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Catholic Fatwa, hahahahahaha.  |
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bigverne
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 1:10 am Post subject: |
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| Nicolas Almeida, a Catholic and former Mumbai municipal councillor |
Although there are parallels between this and 'fatwas' issued by Muslim leaders, he is just a lone individual and not a member of the clergy, so it's not really in the same league as the ongoing fatwa against Rushdie, which was endorsed by the leading figure in Shia Islam. He should be arrested for incitment to murder and put away for a very long time. |
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hojucandy
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 1:25 am Post subject: |
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| ...the ongoing fatwa against Rushdie... |
my understanding is the fatwa against salman rushdie was officially withdrawn several years ago... rushdie no longer lives in hiding. |
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bigverne
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 1:29 am Post subject: |
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| my understanding is the fatwa against salman rushdie was officially withdrawn several years ago... rushdie no longer lives in hiding. |
Your understanding is wrong. The fatwa was renewed. He may not live in hiding, but I am sure he is well protected, especially after what happened to two translators of the Satanic Verses, and Theo Van Gogh. |
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hojucandy
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renewed eh!? i didn;t know that. it was withdrawn for a while at least.
the poor bas_tard! |
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On the other hand
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Your understanding is wrong. The fatwa was renewed. He may not live in hiding, but I am sure he is well protected, especially after what happened to two translators of the Satanic Verses, and Theo Van Gogh.
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Rushdie gives interviews, visits the White House, and does cameos in Hollywood films(Bridget Jones, etc). But yeah, I'd imagine he doesn't just go anywhere he feels like on a whim, without making a few inquiries first. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
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| leaving other members of the faithful embarrassed by the reaction. |
No kidding. I'd be asking him, "Prove to me that you've got $25,000, loser!"
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mindmetoo
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| my understanding is the fatwa against salman rushdie was officially withdrawn several years ago... rushdie no longer lives in hiding. |
Your understanding is wrong. The fatwa was renewed. He may not live in hiding, but I am sure he is well protected, especially after what happened to two translators of the Satanic Verses, and Theo Van Gogh. |
I thought I read that the only person that can withdraw a fatwa is the person who issued it. Since Khomeini is dead... it will last forever. It's never up for renewal. A cleric could issue a contradictory fatwa but since there is no fatwa clearing house, Muslims are pretty much free to choose whatever fatwa they fancy.
But really, I don't think he was really saying it was a Catholic fatwa. It's called sarcasm. |
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hojucandy
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| Posted: Wed May 24, 2006 5:19 am Post subject: yu call this living? |
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the wikipaedia on rushdie is an interesting read. it seems that the iranian government withdrew their support for the fatwa for a while that's all.
funny we should be talking about salman rushdie and dan brown here coz just today i found this little gem -
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"Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name ... Even Dan Brown must live. Preferably not write, but live." - Salman Rushdie in his address to Kansas University on Oct. 7, 2005 |
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Bulsajo
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| I tend to agree with him on his assessment of that novel's quality, but this must be a happy day indeed for Brown's publicist. |
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igotthisguitar
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| Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:08 am Post subject: Re: yu call this living? |
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Kill Brown in Jesus name?
Yah right, and of course we all know that's exactly what Christ would have wanted too 
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"Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name ...
Even Dan Brown must live. Preferably not write, but live."
- Salman Rushdie in his address to Kansas University on Oct. 7, 2005 |
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