Arab media outraged by prophet film

There has been criticism in pan-Arab and regional media of the US-produced film which has provoked violent protests in Egypt and Libya. It features an actor portraying the Prophet Muhammad, which is forbidden in Islam. The film is reportedly being promoted by two US-based Egyptian Christians (Copts), and said to be directed by an Israeli American.

The media in Egypt on 12 September highlighted the previous day's protests outside the US embassy in Cairo.

The daily Al-Yawm al-Sabi said Egypt's Coptic community had distanced itself from the film. The Coalition of Egypt's Copts has rejected "any attempts to insult or show contempt for religions and trigger sedition between people of religion at the international level", the paper said.

Pro-government daily Rose al-Yusuf led with the following headline: "The authority of expatriate Copts insults Egypt's Copts: You are cowards."

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dntmkmecomoverther

This is hardly news; I sneezed last week and they got pissed off about that as well. These are just angry people; scripture said they would be a horses' rear end to all those around them; damned if that hasn't played out as true.
Chris

Isn't religion fun. Why don't your Christians just pray to your god and fix the problem. LOL
- mesaman
  
  May your nausea and diarrhea cause you chronic problems as you work to understand why you were born without logic or cognitive awareness.
- Evermyrtle
  
  What are you upset about, Why can't we speak the truth, you expert of lies. If you say there is no LORD GOD AND HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST, you lie and the truth is not in you. you are an antichrist.
- Wordman
  
  He will fix all problems. He knows the future better than we know the past and has it all figured out. It's only troubling to us, and only if we don't embrace His soveriengty and His absolute goodness. True Christians have the promise that " we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." We pray that you also will someday soon embrace that hope.
- Wordman
  
  BTW, Chris. Scoffing is a lazy man's sport, but let's consider history: The totalitarian governments of Red China, and the former USSR were completely athieistic and how'd things turn out for them? I think the death toll was well upwards of 100 million of their own people and we're not even counting the carnage they brought to places like Cambodia. The problem is not religion, but the evil that is present in human nature.
  "The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?
  (Jer 17:()
  It's something the godless have no answer for, but God does.
- BrianMccleaf
  
  Joking about your own future. What you believe does not matter. What matters is the one billion Muslims that would kill you in New York minute once they get established here. Oh it can't happen? Well how did America become "Christianized"? Infiltration. Coerced conversions. missionaries. Sort of what is going on already in case you have not been paying attention. Chris get over yourself. btw we are praying to our LORD and we trust Him, not you.
- Linda F.
  
  Why don't you find out what, "Silence is golden," means. And while you're at it, put it into practice for once in your hate-filled, miserable life.
Ithamar

Yes, let's just blame anything and everything in the world except for the descendents of Ishmael the "wild man" (fierce and cruel, or, as a wild ass) whose "hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him." Gen 16: 12. The only problem is that "every" other man's hand has not been turned against them, that is, not as yet. But most are getting fed up with them and their vile, immoral and murderous "religion."
Evermyrtle

Why are they so upset, they have one of their people portraying our JESUS, one who was not crucifies and did not raise from the dear but he is the right Jesus, an imposter.
Wordman

Daily they tear down churches, kill and brutally persecute Christians in the open with no shame, and they're ticked-off over one obscure, little film?! I know that they are deceived, and it's sad, but sometimes I think the only lasting remedy is that we one day face-off in an east vs west all-out confrontation. Make no mistake: This is not a "War on Terror" we are tinkering with. It's an attempt of true Islam to supplant and destroy the Christian west, a revival of the conflict of the middle ages that was never really settled. Perhaps we can wear them down and outlast them. I don't know. It's been almost a thousand years and they're still at it. I hope it doesn't come to an all-out global war because it would be bloodier than we can imagine, with many innocents caught in the cross fire. Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, could die. But if that's the only way to keep Islam from world conquest, then so be it.
Jeanette Victoria

Islam perpetually offended by the truth
http://www.facebook.com/redwolf196 Robert Fischer Belanger

Im outragewd by the muslims crusifying christians in egypt
http://www.facebook.com/denise51781 Yvonne Denise Roche

If this was deliberately insulting then it should be protested. There are very real threats to real people all over the world in provoking sectarian violence. I say this as a Christian. There is no overriding reason that could possibly justify provoking people to violence, no matter how prone to it they already are. That excuse does the people who must live with the resulting violence no good whatsoever. They care nothing for our high and mighty "do unto others as has been done unto us" preaching. As Christians, we should not be insulting other religions, period. Our job is to lift Jesus up, not attack others. Read your Bibles, people.
- danstewart
  
  Just try lifting JESUS up in a muslim country, they will cut your head off. The crusades were stopped way too early.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/VBBCYNZUJPMNVGYK45HXRD7ZJ4 A Real American

To HELL with Islam. I'll respect their socio-political-legal system cult when they start respecting Christianity, Israel, Judahism, God, and America. An eye for an eye…
Crashaxe

Islam is the enemy of the entire free world, Alla is most likely Satan himself and Mohammad is his dog.
agbjr

According to an on-line description of the film, "It depicts Muhammad as a fraud, a womanizer and a madman in an overtly
ridiculing way, showing him having sex and calling for massacres."

OK. From that I would deduce it seems to be an accurate depiction … so what's the problem?
Mex Seiko

This is prophesy in progress, folks. Arabs are realigning for Armageddon. Ahmadinejad wants to usher Mahdi in, who is he Antichrist. Russia and Iran's friendship foreshadow Ezekiel 38. Somewhere in the mix there's the Rapture.
LouiseCA

You need to get up to speed on this. There is good reason to suspect that it could have been made by muslims to stir up anti-semetic and anti-Christian sentiments. The whole thing appears to be a crock.
LoboVNV

To HELL with Islam. I'll respect their socio-religious-political-legal
system when they start respecting Christianity, Judaism, God, and America.
They can ridicule Christ and God with impunity, but let someone ridicule
Mohammed the pedophile and they riot.
Wesley

this film is fourteen minutes of torture. in the words of comic book guy from the Simpsons "worst movie ever". this film is so badly produced that the people who are protesting are protesting being forced to watch it and would do anything to end the torture. this film has everything not to do in film-making in it.
- Judy Ladd
  
  The only reason I watched the entire film was to see what caused 4 American deaths. I never would have watched 30 seconds. I did not even notice who was who.. totally senseless… Religion should not promote violence in any way.
  Is there any other religion that tells you to murder nonbelievers or those with a different belief than you?
  How dangerous alah must be…either you kill for him or he kills you. What a terrible way to live. I am glad to be born into a culture that allows me freedom of religion and that Jesus..God's son..died to cover and intercede for my failures on earth … We all make a choice what to believe. Call it what you like, it is my choice to be a believer. Answered prayers do not begin to tell you the reasons I believe.
bigbadude

you mean alah the big phoney? ya what an out rage the politicians will cowar before them.
I say expose the phoney muslims for the vicious greedy people they are!
If a God want to destroy as much as you say we would all be dust!
Ruth

I watched this poorly produced film…How sad that the Obama administration. Has chosen to use this as an excuss for the attacks on our country….When in FACT the Middle Eastern countries have been planning these attacks for months according to the Haartz and many other European and Asia media foretold by Dr. Jack Van Impe and the Rev. Lindsey programs…And they have been crucifying Christians and beheading them for over a year now in Egypt and other countries in the Middle East…WHY isn't our country OUTRAGED over that ? It's because Obama has said that the United States is NO Longer a Christian nation ! He should know…Being as he is such a Muslim sympathizer ! Also, Why hasn't this liberal media or Obama's press brought out the FACT thSecat Steven's was sodomized BEFORE he was strangled BECAUSE HE WAS GAY ! Why would Muslim Obama send a Gay man into the "Pack of Wolves", where homosexuality IS TRULY A SIN and knew that this would eventually be Steven's fate ?This is the kind of heartless, deceitful, lying…thing we have leading our nation….Then Romney has been endorsed by the Bilderberg's back in May at there convention, and they endorsed Obama over Hillary in the last election…Meaning, That Romney WILL be the Next president and Obama the President of the New World Order, according to the former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger who has put this plan in place att the time of Obama being elected in 2008….What the Bilderberg's want they get….Lord Come Quickly !
toongail

The Truth just hit a nerve with them –
toongail

Years ago instead of doing what Bush did – we should have lined up our missles and aim them at key cities and Mecca – and if they did not behave like rational human beings – we would destroy their cities and Mecca – no more Islam – but our leaders seem to be in bed with them – follow the money
Guest

After watching the movie "trailer" there is noting wrong with it in the sense that it portrays the truth about Islam and Mohammed. I guess muslims can't handle the truth.
usafsgt

All of a sudden the Muslim world is ENRAGED. Here's a thought: The 'film' has been on YouTube for SIX MONTHS. Did it take Muslims this long to finally figure out what the so-called film was all about? what does that say about the intellectual development of those Muslim leaders? Can you say "thick as a brick" boys and girls?
dennis@aol.com

I have never seen an arab that wasnt raving mad about something.You guys need to seriously get off the caffine.
EstebanCafe

On one hand Msr Obama can bleat about "Killing Osama" and there is no connection to Islam's wrath. But some flunky produces a laughable film and Islmaists enraged? I think your American press has twisted the facts, especially since Islamists are shouting "We're all Osamas, Obama !"
So, if there's a request by Muslims that Americans just shut up about Islam (an abrogation of your American First Amendment right of Free Speech), it is due more to Msr Obama's dance of delight in personally killing OBL, a Muslim of stature within their community, yes ?
- Judy Ladd
  
  I like your point.