Raza Academy is a Sufi Muslim organization in India. The Sufis are enraged because “the Holy Prophet of Islam can never be picturised and those who have done it have committed blasphemy which is untolerable at any cost.”
But they don’t stop at registering their objection to the film. They also issue an unmistakable threat: “A Muslim will die in honour than to see or hear even the slightest insult on his Holy Prophet. We earnestly request you to kindly stop the distribution of the film and its subsequent release before it creates unrest and law and order problems in the city.”
Many Western counterterror analysts complacently invoke the Sufis as a supposed large Muslim sect that condemns violence. In reality, Sufism is not a sect and does not condemn violence.
More on this story. “Raza Academy demands ban on Islamic movie ‘Muhammad: The Messenger of God’, warns of ‘law and order problems,’” OpIndia, July 12, 2020:
The Raza Academy has issued a statement demanding a ban on the 2015 movie ‘Muhammad: The Messenger of God’ by Majid Majidi. The movie is based on the life of the Muslim prophet. The movie was released in Iran in 2015 and was selected as the Iranian entry for the Best Foreign Lasnguage Film category at the 88th Academy Awards.
The Raza Academy said in the letter addressed to Don Cinema, a distributor, that it has to its knowledge that the movie is set for a release digitally on the 21st of July. “Ever since the news of its release has been published there has been an uproar in the community and we have been receiving hundreds of calls to get the film banned as it is completely blasphemous,” said the radical Islamic organisation.
The Raza Academy stated further, “We fail to understand why time and again the Muslim community is targeted by different ways to instigate it and create problems within the country. The films portrays the Holy Prophet as a child and even The Mother and Father of the Holy Prophet have been shown in person. The Holy Prophet of Islam can never be picturised and those who have done it have committed blasphemy which is untolerable at any cost.”
“A Muslim will die in honour than to see or hear even the slightest insult on his Holy Prophet,” the Raza Academy said threateningly. It is pertinent to note that the movie was made by Majid to change the negative perception of Islam around the world and show people that Islam is a religion of peace, kindness and love. “We earnestly request you to kindly stop the distribution of the film and its subsequent release before it creates unrest and law and order problems in the city,” it added.
The Raza Academy had issued a fatwa against AR Rahman, the music composer of the movie, and Iranian director Majid Majidi in 2015 as well. The organisation had urged Muslims to avoid watching the movie then as well, calling it a mockery of Islam. Then as well, the organisation had demanded a ban on the movie. The movie depicts the life of the government from birth till the age of 13.
Violent Past of the Raza Academy
The Raza Academy has a violent past. In August 2011, its leaders had organised a so-called protest in Azad Maidan that had devolved into violent riots. The rioters from Raza Academy had vandalised the much-hallowed Amar Jawan memorial situated outside the CST. The riots had caused approximately Rs 2.72 crores worth of damages to various public properties….
CogitoErgoSum says
If you don’t like seeing Muhammad in a movie, don’t watch the movie. This is your brain on Islam. It no longer works.
Ray Jarman says
+++++++++1 Well stated.
Eur says
that’s how it should be with everything … but terrorism works and now, even people who once claimed to be progressive are in favor of punishing religious offenses (as long as these offenses are against Islam, if they are against Christianity then it is freedom of expression) .I think that there should be freedom to criticize, to make humor or simply to reflect what everyone wants and then people decide to consume that product or not. Currently in the Islamic world there are still no movies showing prophets that Muslims consider Islamic (noah, abraham, Moses,Jesus, Muhammad …) It is incredible where they lead us.
gravenimage says
Agreed.
And this film is not even critical of Islam–it is just rumored to depict the “Prophet” Muhammed.
Michael Copeland says
“The Holy Prophet of Islam can never be picturised…..”
Wrong.
Mohammed has been “picturised” time and again by muslim artists. Some of the images were shown at the Mohammed art exhibit in Garland, Texas, that was attacked by two jihadis from Arizona.
gravenimage says
It is only places with strong Infidel traditions of art that have had recent converts to Islam after Islamic conquest depict Muhammed–mostly in Mughal India and Persia, and to some extent in Anatolia. Usually this was stamped out by more orthodox Muslims after a generation or so.
Ray Jarman says
I am still awaiting a movie based on the great novel, “Satanic Verses.”
gravenimage says
It will probably be a long, long wait…
Donovan Nuera says
The movie “Hotel Mumbai” was very well done in that it really captured the terror of being hunted down by souless malicious idiots while being totally defenseless. I hope someone (e.g. Mel Gibson or Dean Cain) makes a major movie about the terror of a Chaldean family being hunted by an ISIS goonsquad in Mosul…. and not spare anything on the graphic killings and slave rapes so that dhimmiturds can understand why maybe islam is “different”….or perhaps “bad”….
But then again, nobody will dare.
I am all for a comedy mocking the crap out of mohammad…. or mocking a person named mohammad then the running gag is always explaining that it is a DIFFERENT mohammad.
gravenimage says
+1
Templer says
There is no free dome in communist Islam do not like it threaten valance this is the will off satin and santic islam
Keith O says
I find it interesting that Islam is the only world religion/belief system that prohibits the depiction of its founder in any way.
Perhaps the early Mudslimes were afraid a fat dwarf with his eyes too close together would be a turn off for prospective converts?
Donovan Nuera says
He hid his severe micrognathic underbite with his scraggly lice-festooned beard. He also had halitosis so bad that he could make a camel pass out by breathing on it.
mgoldberg says
I think it’s enormously important that this inability of Islam to allow any but fawning adoration be seen as the tyranny it truly is, has been will always be. You could say the most vulgar things about Moses, Aaron, and the other prophets of Israel, and any jew, no matter how observant, religious et all, who took umbrage and attacked another person would be seen as a criminal, sicko, etc etc. Only in Islam do we have honor bestowed upon sociopathic behavior. That’s because Mohamed proscribed sociopathic behavior as honorable and necessary. Oh, and the mystical Sufi’s with their dancing and heritage of poems by such as Jalal al din Ruminator- no different. In my youth, I thought it was impossible for such love poems to allow for what I found in Islam. Impossible. Then I found Rumi had expressed the usual adoring mention of Mohammed and his delightful psychopathy. So much for the love poems of Rumi the Sufi.
gravenimage says
Yes–Rumi was a bad Muslim in many ways–wine, women, and song–but he still fawned all over the vicious “Prophet”.
FYI says
“so much for the Love poems of Rumi the Sufi”
Do they really like poetry in islam?
{Because allah HATES poetry….}
“Catch the satan or detain the satan,for filling the belly of a man with pus is better than stuffing his brain with poetry”
Sahih muslim 28:5611
What about Chess?
{allah HATES chess…}
“He who played chess is like one who dyed his hand with the flesh and blood of swine”
Sahih muslim 28:5612
{Whoa allah it’s just a GAME….}
What about listening to a woman singing?
{allah HATES anyone who listens to a woman singing…}
“On the day of resurrection allah will pour molten lead into the ears of whoever sits listening
to a songstress”
Reliance of the Traveller Umdat Al Salik section r40.1
{So if you are a muslim and like to sit listening to a Jewish[*ugh*} woman singing whilst playing chess or reciting poetry while you pat your little dog..you are so screwed!
allah’s going to kill you.First he will stamp on you with his one leg,then grab you up in his TWO RIGHT HANDS*,sneer at you with his moon face and shout abuse at you…but it won’t matter,you won’t understand it .as it will be spoken in classical Arabic and only islamic ‘scholars’ understand that}
Poetry is like pus,playing chess is unclean,allah will torture you if you sit listening to a songstress:so here we see the psychopathology of the mind of allah the sad Arab god of islam
{=the MSP,muhammed’s Sock Puppet}
And some people even fall for that nonsense about the sufis being nice:But they follow a clinically insane god,a weird freak of a ‘prophet’ and a holey ‘holy’ book that in terms of a visual metaphor,looks increasingly like a sieve {with more and more holes appearing all over the place} which is not surprising as YasirQadhi kindly tells us..there are HOLES in the narrative.
So many HOLES..
*Sunan an Nasa’i 5379 hadith 1/Sahih Muslim 1827{in the Arabic,not neccesarily translated into the English.Of Course..}
gravenimage says
“Allah” hates art and love and any kind of fun
gravenimage says
India: Sufi Muslims threaten ‘law and order problems’ if film depicting Muhammad favorably isn’t banned
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In other words, they’ll be violent criminals like all pious Muslims.
So much for Sufis being “moderate”…
Ray Jarman says
+++++++1 Remember what Erdogan said about moderate Islam. There ain’t no such thing and that Islam is Islam.
gravenimage says
So true, Ray.
Donovan Nuera says
There needs to be an equivalent to the ‘Life of Brian’ in their world. John Cleese would be the only Python to want to be in that one as the rest of the cast are all dhimmis.
gravenimage says
Alas, even John Cleese said you can’t make fun of Muslims. At least he admitted it, though.
FYI says
So an islamic version of ‘Weekend at Bernies’ won’t be on the cards…{‘Weekend at uncle mo’s’}
How about ‘the Life of Brian Muhammed’,a musical based on the escapades of Brian,a science nerd,who foolishly converts to islam when dawah folk told him islam is the ‘religion of peace’ has no death penalty for Apostasy,loves Jews and Christians and tolerates gay people…and ended up in isis on the mistaken belief isis meant the Islamic Society of Invention and Science?
But then comedy and islam don’t mix{..or Art,or Music,or Science,or Logic..}
“There are no Jokes in islam.There is no humor in islam.There is no fun in islam’
*Ayatollah Khomeini
{And there is no Golden rule,no Logic,no Rhyme nor reason in islam either…}
*Which I like to abridge..
“…actually there is ONE joke in islam,apart from islam itself..may allah rightly guide my memory..it goes like this:A sunni and a Shia go into an Israeli Zionist bar full of crusader christians , polytheist Hindus and murtads ….and…ehm..ehm..[long pause}..oh no..the punchline is in classical koranic Arabic:I don’t speak classical Arabic.dammit”
OLD GUY says
This is just a reminder of the loss of free speech under muslim rule.