In a message dated 9/22/2003 9:52:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > The Fool quoted: > > > > I never called the movie anti-Semitic (...) > > > Which is stupid, because the Gospels _are_ anti-Semitic, and > a movie that pretends to be faithful to them [AFAIK, if Gibson > wants to do it in Aramaic, he has this intention] should be > anti-Semitic.It's like making a movie about Charlemagne's > Cavaliers: it must be anti-islamic. > > [OTOH, Gibson _has_ slaughtered History in his two > anti-British pieces, the Scottish and the USA independent > movies, > so maybe he can ignore the Gospels and make a movie > that shows the Jews in a much more favourable way than > the Gospels did] > > Gibson has apparently based his gospel on the work of an 18th century nun noted for > her antisemitic writings. The draft seen by some individuals is said (by a religion > professor who is a catholic nun) to be very anti-semitic. Gibson showed the movie to > several highly conservative religous/political leaders in washington dc a while ago > and refused to allow anyone remotely part of the mainstream (let alone liberal) > press see it. He has attacked those who have questioned his motives (like Frank > Rich). He began these attacks (against Jews liberals etc) on O'Reily last January > before anyone had commented on the movie. O'Reily by the way has a deal with > Gibsons's production company so you can imagine how aggressively he questioned > Gibson. Gibson's father has at various times been a holocaust denier (in some > writings he uses holocaust in quotes and he has said that the Germans simply wanted > to encourage jews to migrate to Jeruselum to stabalize the political situation in > the Middle East.
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