Beyond Fitna

Work is already underway on a tu coque* response to Fitna,** a great short film documenting the Koranic inspiration for Muslim terrorism around the world. An Iranian organization is making "Beyond Fitna" in reply. Here is what they want to accomplish:

'Beyond Fitna' focuses on the orders given to worldwide Christians in the (distorted version of) Bible for stoking violence, committing genocide, attacking others, beheading and burning women and children who have been taken into captivity. The documentary recycles film clips from crimes committed by extremist Christians under the inspirations of the said Bible teachings, and aims to provide a response to the allegations made by Pope Benedict XVI, who called Islam a religion of violence after misunderstanding certain Organic verses.

I think the translation from Farsi suffers a bit. I think they are responding to putative insults to Islam, not Whole Foods (but I'm happy to supply both!) I'm looking forward to this film. I am genuinely interested in learning about these extremist Christians. I thought I was familiar with most expressions of Christianity around the world, but I guess I can always learn more.

My hope is that they get the release date out quickly so I can reserve that day. I need time to make some signs and come up with some catchy death threats for the insulters and blasphemers of Chistianity.

* Roughly translated: "Yeah? Well so's your mother!"

** Warning: it's not for the faint of heart, but I highly recommend it.