It is something that I watched out of pure curiosity after watching the news this evening and from the reaction it has got, I decided that I should give an opinion. I watched it once-I do not intend to watch it again.
Some guy has made this film then that makes The Prophet Muhammad and his followers look like power hungry looters and murderers and much worse. In one bit someone says that Muhammad is gay and another bit where someone said that he is a pedophile. It takes the mickey out of everything to do with Islam.
The reaction it has got from the Islamic community has been all over the news and I think 24 people so far have died. 24 people have died because of a film that was made. Unfortunately, I think that there are going to be many more deaths.I really hope I am wrong.
Now I know that in The USA where the movie was made, there is always a massive thing about "The freedom of speech" and that is fair enough. But the problem is that freedom of speech can a lot of the time cause offence and in this case, causes innocent people to be harmed or killed.
I have said before that this is what religion does. It creates wars, hatred between people and death. Even though my family are Hindu, I really don't follow religion too much or at all.
Now people can believe what they want to believe-that is fair enough. Nobody actually fully KNOWS anything about what is going to happen after death. Or even if there is a God or not. Nobody actually knows-it is all just belief.
But I understand people being offended if their beliefs are being taken the mickey out of. It isn't nice to say the least. But I think that by reacting in violent ways the situation is going to make everything horribly worse. According to the news, there is already talk of "revenge against the west". Now by the look of the film, it was probably made by a very small group of people and now the whole of the west has to suffer? It isn't right.
I think that most of the people who do watch this film would have to agree on how pathetic it actually looks and being angry about it and causing violence is just going to escalate an already bad situation from such a stupid, ridiculous film.
Imagine if all the protestors just decided to protest in a non violent way. People would then believe EVEN MORE that this film is wrong whereas at the minute, the idiot creators of the film are going to be saying to themselves that their point is being proven and that Islam is a violent religion. People of Islam, you now have a chance to prove them wrong and stop the violence.
