Comments on: Agora Compares Early Christians to the Taliban

By: bart

bart — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:19:15 +0000

Weisz didn’t mention being turned on ’sexually’ by the desire of knowledge. Let not put words into somebody else’s mouth, worse yet, spread misinformation.

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By: Alain Jean-Mairet

Alain Jean-Mairet — Thu, 27 May 2010 07:15:24 +0000

And then we could tell the story of the Eastern Jihad, with an estimate 80 million dead among Hindus alone.

By: Alain Jean-Mairet

Alain Jean-Mairet — Thu, 27 May 2010 07:06:30 +0000

Well Europeans have suffered indeed, but endlessly less than Africans. Because our ancestors found the courage and cohesion to successfully reject Muslims, whereas Africans never could gather a force strong enough. So from the 7th century on, they were systematically enslaved by Muslims, first Arabs than African Muslims, from the East to the West. Many more of them (some 18 millions) were actually deported to Arab countries rather than to the American continents (some 12 millions). And if the formers have no offspring to speak of, whereas the latter have now some 70 millions descendants, it is because Arabs wanted their slaves castrated (up to 75pc death rate in the process). So that’s a movie the world really needs, if you ask me. It would be the most horrifying thing Hollywood ever dreamt of, the longest and cruelest series of genocides of history. Fisabilillah.

By: kishke

kishke — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:43:56 +0000

Well, sure, there were certainly some educated, well-read actors. But most of today’s crew, judging by what’s reported about them, don’t have a lot upstairs.

The other side of that coin, though, is that it doesn’t bother me all that much when actors say something dumb. I don’t expect anything better. All I expect from them is to do their job well, and in that department, Rachel Weisz is fine.

By: Govindini Murty

Govindini Murty — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:31:01 +0000

Thank you Alain – that’s an interesting point. Few people realize that from the Middle Ages on that the Islamic Ottoman Empire and the pirate areas controlled by the Islamic Barbary pirates held over a million white Christian slaves and engaged in extensive human trafficking. If you travel along the coasts of Italy, you will see numerous “Saracen” watch towers that were specifically built by the Italians to watch out for Saracen/Arab ships that would come to raid their villages and carry away their residents to be slaves. Another story that would make for a great movie today. I believe in the classic Hollywood era the Barbary pirates’ kidnapping of Europeans to be slaves was depicted in the silent version of “The Sea Hawk” (a wonderful lavish early Warner Brothers film) and in the Yvonne DeCarlo film “Slave Girl.”

By: Govindini Murty

Govindini Murty — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:23:07 +0000

Thank you Kishke! I appreciate your comments! Though to defend my fellow actors and actresses, I will say they used to be a lot better read in the classic Hollywood era than they are today – actors like Errol Flynn wrote books, actress Hedy Lamarr was an inventor who helped develop wireless technologies that are used in everything from cell phones to missile guidance systems, Orson Welles was a brilliant adapter of Shakespeare – and of course Ronald Reagan was a genius with an amazing grasp of history and politics who could debate anyone into the ground. Look at his debates in the ’60s when he completely bests people like Bobby Kennedy.

By: kishke

kishke — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:06:49 +0000

They are mostly not intellectual giants. Or intellectual anythings.

Present company excluded, of course. My apologies.

By: kishke

kishke — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:05:29 +0000

Weisz also makes the peculiar statement that the only way she could understand Hypatia was to think of her as being sexually turned on by her studies. Weisz states: “She is in love with science, with learning. It turned her on; that was the only way I could think of it.” Really? Was there no other way to think of the character of Hypatia? Is the thrill of intellectual achievement – the life of the mind as separate from the life of the body – so completely foreign to the cultural left

Not necessarily. Remember, she’s an actor! They are mostly not intellectual giants. Or intellectual anythings.

By: Alain Jean-Mairet

Alain Jean-Mairet — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:23:18 +0000

“Actually, a lot more people – well over 100 million – have been killed by atheistic totalitarian ideologies like those of Communism and Nazism in the 20th century than any organized religion in the history of humanity.”

Many more people sure were killed in the name of Islam and according to its core principles. It just took more time, because they had only knives… And, just like Communism, Islam still is not openly recognized as the catastroph it has been.