Da Vinci Code provokes protests ahead of premiere

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Originally Posted by Skybird

Really, I do not understand what you are aiming at. Are you trying to make Islamic danger appear less harmful by distracting attention towards the cruelty of other factions or times? Okay, interesting historical or political comment, then, but in no way it decreases the threat Islam poses to the rest of the world.

My goal was actually to point out that christianity can incite the same fundamentalist authoritarian behaviour that Islam can attract. In Islam's more notorious recent case it was the cartoons and the outrage we sensible Westerns felt toward their protests and how quickly people were to condemn them for protesting. Here we have something fairly similar: a harmless movie which is purely fictional generates a totally out of proportion response (boycotts, hunger strikes, protests) that results in the movie being banned from at least two countries - so far - and yet there is no similar Western outrage to these christian protests that are limiting freedom of expression in the countries that have banned this film as a result.

In fairness I'm not even that outraged myself, but then again the Danish cartoon thing didn't get my blood boiling either. But then I personally view religion, with its basis firmly rooted in the irrational, as something similar to an international mental illness so their protests and such almost make sense when viewed this way.