Tunisian Radicals Riot over "Persepolis"

Islamists angry over Satrapi's caroon character talking to God

BBC: Tunisian police have arrested dozens of Islamists for an attempted attack on a TV station which had showed the award-winning film Persepolis. Officials said the activists had tried to set Nessma TV station alight after it broadcast the animation, which they deem to be blasphemous. Persepolis, which was broadcast on Friday by the channel, is a French-Iranian animation feature based on an autobiographical graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi. The protesters are angered by fantasy scenes in which God is shown talking to a young girl >>>

09-Oct-2011
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Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

Choghok

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on

 

Yes there are many Arabs who don't want radical Islam. Specially those Christian Arabs in Egypt :-) But the majority seem to want it. Also democracy just means majority rule. It does not mean not having radical Islam.

If majority want radical Islam you get that in a democracy. It is not the same as freedom which means guarantee of basic rights. No matter what we say the Arab Spring it turning out to be a radical Islam. This is not my doing just watching.


choghok

VPK wrong to put everybody in the same box

by choghok on

Arabs want to have radical Islam is wrong to say. I know myself many arabs that do not want that, I think Iranians during and after revoution did not want it, but the big mass did not have and does not have democratic education and beleif and that is what lead to this system that we have today and unfortunatly that is what will lead us even to darker places if continued. People have to understand and beleive in democracy instead of religious fairy tales.


Veiled Prophet of Khorasan

amirparviz Jan

by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on

 

... to radicalism and fundamentalism quickly, so disgusting.

You are 100% right but this is not unexpected. Arabs are 32 years behind Iran. They are going down the same hole we did. But the good news is that we are waking up. I really hope USA realizes a new Iran is its best bet in the region.

Becuase while Arabs want radical Islam Iranians have had it. People want real freedom and are the most pro-American in the region. That means if Iran were to be free they would choose to work with America. The question is if USA does the right thing.

I am worried Obama is not the right man to do it. Obama has a thing for Islam. Republicans also have a lot of nut jobs. The one potential sane one is Romney. I don't know enough about him. This is why we need an effective lobby.

 


Darius Kadivar

Coincidence ? Just after Obama's support for Tunisia's PM ...

by Darius Kadivar on

Obama pledges political, economic support for Tunisia (France24)

 


US President Barack Obama pledged economic and political support for Tunisia during a symbolic visit to the White House by its Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi. On October 23 Tunisia will become the first Arab Spring country to hold free elections.

 

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choghok

Obviously there are no big problems in Tunisia

by choghok on

They must really having no other problems in their society, having so much time for a small girls dream. You can not even have dreams seems like, maybe they should put it in Sharia that dreaming anything but dreams approved by mullas is forbidden.


G. Rahmanian

Anger Management Courses, For Sure!

by G. Rahmanian on

Frontal lobotomy can also do miracles in emergency circumstances like this. I'm totally against waterboarding!


Arj

ساعت خواب!

Arj


شاه ول کرده، شاهقلی ولن نمیکنه! این ملت خواب بودن مثل اینکه!


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Excellent: the movie went on theatres in Tunisia.

by comments on

The arrested Islamists have to be treated for their lack of tolerance.  I wonder where Iranians stand as a matter of tolerance in this world.  The results shouldn't sound promising since our own government is IRI.

Shouldn't we be ashamed of ourselves that we built such a government?  Have we learned something from our own mistakes?  Have we become a tolerance nation now, or there are still many leading Iranian opportunists?

 


Faramarz

French-Speaking God!

by Faramarz on

That's definitely a good reason for the riots! 

 


Jahanshah Javid

al-khol...

by Jahanshah Javid on

... wal divooneh :)


amirparvizforsecularmonarchy

Arab spring is turning

by amirparvizforsecularmonarchy on

to radicalism and fundamentalism quickly, so disgusting.