Oddly enough, no plans have been announced for a show lampooning Muhammad. My latest in FrontPage:
Not content with glorifying pedophilia in Cuties, Netflix in season three of the animated Paradise P.D. features an episode that, according to NewsBusters, is not only devoted to “attacking gun rights,” but was also “blasphemous against Christianity, featuring a video of a gun-wielding Jesus that turns into a porno.” Great, Netflix! Edgy! Courageous! Cutting edge! Stunning and brave! Now, when is your cartoon show featuring, say, a machete-wielding Muhammad who takes up with a nine-year-old Aisha? If we had any actual journalists, they would be asking Netflix officials that question, and there is no doubt about what the answer would be: Netflix has far too much respect for Muslims and Islam to produce a show like that.
Ah yes, respect. As Bob Dylan’s character Jack Fate puts it in Dylan’s underappreciated movie Masked and Anonymous, “I got a lot of respect for a gun.” As everyone knows, the real reason why Netflix doesn’t hesitate to make fun of Jesus and Christians but wouldn’t dream of subjecting Muhammad and Muslims to the same treatment is because they know that Christians won’t kill them for doing so, not even those crazed “right-wing extremists” that we keep hearing about who are supposedly the greatest terror threat we face today. But with Muslims, it’s a different story: Netflix, if it ever dared to produce an animated show about Muhammad, knows that it’s entirely within the realm of possibility that a jihadi could emerge who would be intent upon separating the heads of Netflix executives from their bodies. That’s how “respect” is born these days.
But Netflix didn’t care to demonstrate any respect for Christians the fiendishly obscene episode of Paradise P.D. entitled “Trigger Warning.” In it, according to NewsBusters, a foe of disarming the populace offers to take proponents of that disarming on a tour of the National Rifle Association. “The tour includes a gun pit with a dead kid buried in it and the corpse of Charlton Heston used as a statue, complete with a quote – ‘Pry this gun from my cold, dead hands and win a Republican Senate seat.’ The head of the NRA, Mr. Chip F**k-Yeah, shows them a video using Jesus as a prop to show how “guns make a better world.” The video is horrifically offensive, with Jesus coming down from the Cross to kill his persecutors with machine guns then have sex with two women.”
Believe it or not, it just gets worse from there. But aside from this article and a few others, no one will take any particular note. The establishment media certainly won’t: today’s “journalists” generally hate Christianity as much as Netflix does. But a particularly piquant comparison comes from France. Shortly after a Muslim beheaded schoolteacher Samuel Paty on October 16, 2020 for showing a cartoon of Muhammad in his class, it came to light that French police called in Paty and interrogated him over allegations of “Islamophobia.” Paty told them, and he was right, that “I did not commit any offense.”
In today’s world, however, he did. It is a massive de facto offense against contemporary woke sensibilities to offend Islam and violate Sharia blasphemy laws. That is true in the United States no less than it is in France. When Pamela Geller and I held our Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in 2015 in defense of the freedom of speech, and Islamic State jihadis attempted to kill us all, Geller was roundly condemned not just by leftists by even by prominent people who are often considered conservatives (including Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham and Greta van Susteren) for daring to commit what they considered to be a gratuitous offense to Muslims. The idea that it is important to defend the freedom of speech against violent intimidation, and not validate that intimidation by giving in to it, did not impress them at all.
The freedom of speech is the foundation of any free society, and so Netflix is entirely free to depict Jesus in a lewd and ridiculous manner, and to mock gun owners as paranoid lunatics. The double standard, however, grows ever more glaring. If Netflix had been operating in France and made fun of Muhammad, police would have called in its executives for questioning. In the United States, if it had made fun of Muhammad, they might not have had to talk to the cops, but they would have been inundated with charges of “racism” and “Islamophobia.”
What is all this going to look like five or ten or twenty years down the road, as Americans, and Westerners in general, grow ever more accustomed to the idea that one must adhere to Sharia blasphemy restrictions on mockery, or even criticism, of Islam, but the West’s own culture and traditions, rife as they are with “white supremacism” and “hate,” are fair game. It seems to be a recipe for cultural and societal surrender.
mortimer says
Jesus owned no weapon, however, Mohammed owned many weapons.
According to Islamic tradition, Mohammed personally owned 9 Swords, 7 Pieces of body armour, 6 Bows, 5 Spears, 2 Helmets, several Shields, and a few helmets. Many of them still exist! Muslims call them ‘HOLY WEAPONS’.
Whereas many Christians interpret remarks by Jesus as advocating pacifism (‘He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword’), no one can find pacifism in the remarks of Mohammed:
-Mohammed said, “I descended by Allah with the sword in my hand, and my wealth will come from the shadow of my sword.” – Ibn Hisham, The Life of Muhammad
-Mohammed said, “I was made victorious through TERROR.” – Bukhari 4.52.220
-Mohammed said, “My livelihood is under the shade of my spear, and he who disobeys my orders will be humiliated.” (Sahih Bukhari, p.408, vol.1)
Michael Copeland says
Apparently his favourite sword was called “Neck Cleaver”.
gravenimage says
+1
Viktor Unruh says
1Mo 27:40 Von deinem Schwert wirst du leben und deinem Bruder dienen. Es wird aber geschehen, wenn du dich befreien kannst, daß du sein Joch von deinem Halse reißen wirst.
Del says
There is no respect for Islam, it is fear of their violence. Always they react with violence.
mortimer says
If Netflix showed a similar, mocking cartoon of Mohammed conducting warfare or raids or slaughters and himself using weapons (which the Islamic source texts definitively claim he did), Netflix would immediately become the object of HUNDREDS of fatwas (death sentences) from hundreds of mullahs around the world. Mohammed took an active part in the slaughter in a large number of raids that he commanded. Muslims take pride in Mohammed’s role as a killer.
In Islam, it is considered to be ‘SLANDER’ if one tells something TRUTHFUL and FACTUAL that a Muslim doesn’t want to be known (e.g. a rumor claiming that ‘Abdullah snores every night’).
An animated cartoon depicting Mohammed as a mass murderer would be historically accurate according to all the Islamic source texts, but Mohammedans do not want the world to know that Mohammed was a mass murderer or for kafirs to draw the correct conclusion from Mohammed’s biography … namely, that Islam is inherently warlike according to its founder’s sacralized, violent example.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Mortimer.
gravenimage says
Netflix Declares War on Jesus (and Gun Owners)
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Prtending Jesus was violent is just absurd–but of course no Christian is going to become violent over this.
But say that the violent creed of Islam is violent and Muslims will kill you…
somehistory says
There are people who get their “kicks” from making other people feel bad. bullies in school, bullies in the work place, bullies in families, all get their fun from making other people miserable; and many, afraid.
This netflix garbage is no different. They are all about trying to make Christians feel bad about what is being claimed about Jesus Christ. They want to make them “fighting mad,” and therefore, going against what they have been taught about controlling their anger and not trying to “repay.” And yet, not expecting Christians to attempt repayment.
God has said, “Vengeance is mine. I will repay.”
If Christians acted out their anger as mo slums…and others of the same mental patterns…do, then they would not be so quick to insult and mock Jesus.
Jesus said that, “The world hates you because it hated Me.” It’s hatred of Jesus Christ that these fools of netflix are expressing. They mock Jesus and, by extension, mock Christians.
The Bible says, “God is not One to be mocked. Whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap.”
These liars are mocking God by lying about Jesus Christ, His Son. They will “reap” what they have “sown.” There is no escape for them.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; I think you’d enjoy – “Ben Model – silent film accompanist/historian” “silent comedy watch party”, on “YouTube”, every Sunday, of course with several back episodes on the channel.
Featuring silent film accompanist Ben Model, with his live piano accompaniment, presenting slapstick comedy shorts on Sundays at Noon, Pacific Time.
There are episodes featuring comedy film historian Steve Massa, as well as various relatives, and friends of the actress/actress/directors, presenting informative, and fun, inside, information.
CogitoErgoSum says
I subscribed to Netflix for a while several years ago. At that time the choice of movies seemed very poor to me and so I dropped my subscription. I have no desire ever to go back. Watching movies I missed seeing when they were new works just fine for me and there are plenty of old movies available on YouTube completely free of charge. You may have to put up with some advertisements but there is a way around that if you enable the right extension on your browser.
Infidel says
Either that, or one can buy one’s movies directly from YouTube, save it on a terabyte drive on one’s computer, and watch it as many times as one likes. For now, one can thereby get original movie classics, w/o the woke period advisories or warnings on everything
CogitoErgoSum says
Yes, the old movies may not have been as spectacular as far as the special effects but the stories were still good. The way Hollywood keeps remaking the old movies over and over is proof of that. However, it’s gotten to the point that the only thing new they can come up with now is to add more violence, vulgarity and profanity. I hope we are about to reach the end of that … but there seems to be no end to it. I just have to keep reminding myself that nothing lasts forever and this too will pass.
somehistory says
I’ve never watched netflix and I haven’t been to see a movie in years.
But, I do like to find and watch old movies that I may never have even heard of, or those I found likeable from the past.
The thing about all of the tech they put into movies kind of spoils it for me because I like something that seems real…something that could happen…and all that tech stuff is so unbelievable.
Women pounding their wrists together and spinning…or cars that fly, guys who can be beaten into mush and then get back up and go again…
I’ll stick with the old and be happy to find one without profanity, violence that exceeds normal stuff and other disgusting things.
Yohannes says
https://www.aljazeera.net/encyclopedia/icons/2016/10/23/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85-%D9%85%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%AF-%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%B6-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF
Al-Jazeera calls “Christianization” by Missionaries as “Calling for falsehood”
gravenimage says
That’s orthodox Islam.
TV Prabhakara says
Same phenomenon is adopted in india against Hindus. It’s time tested that Hindus donot react to any amount of degrading of hindu gods or even against the Hindu dharma. The elements of blashfamy will not apply. Eminent filam makers like Amir Khan enjoy bulling Hindus by dipicting hindu gods in a bad taste. He never dared to bring on screen any of the draconian and evil practices of their god Mohammad and thir religion Islam.
Infidel says
Just like they came out w/ Koo to combat Twitter and Facebook, they should do an ‘atmanirbhar Bharat’ version of Netflix and YouTube, and put all traditional values content in it. Leave Netflix, Amazon streaming and others to woke ‘artists’ who wanna mock Hindu deities, customs and believers
gravenimage says
Yes–Hindus are considered easy targets, as well.
James Lincoln says
test
Infidel says
James, the post doesn’t immediately appear, but solution is to move on to the next thread. When you come back to the page later, you’ll see your comment. That’s what happened to me 2 days ago, after I thought that what I had posted was lost
James Lincoln says
Thanks, Infidel.
OLD GUY says
I have a fatwas for christians cancel NETFLIX, if enough of us cancel, they will get the message. But it is unlikely to happen, most Americans are not paying attention and won’t until it’s too late.
Gourdhead says
This is but one of the many reasons I have nothing to do with Netflix.
GreekEmpress says
Same here.
Mark Conley says
I haven’t used Netflix in years and only rarely go to see a movie. When I lived in LA, that made me weird. If I did use Netflix I’d boycott now.
Valkyrie Ziege says
; I don’t “subscribe” to “shake-down”/”vanity projects” services.
My limit is “basic cable/internet”/dvds/public library.
Let the sponsors shoulder the financial burden, as they should, and not the viewers. People are suffering financially, all thanks to the “lock-down”, and the continuing “got-cha” control issues of the democrats, and over-charging isn’t in the best interests of the viewer, whom have the options of dvds/public library.
malcolm ford says
boycott netflix.it is anti christian.