A 14 minute, satiric bio of Mohamed

That’s what the movie all the flap is about looks like.

Actual running time 13:51.

I watched it last night on You Tube, in bed, with a new toy I bought about a month ago, a little 7 inch Samsung tablet.

Low-budget, too.

The Mohamed video, I mean.

Internet comments that the fellow playing Mohamed is actually a minor porn star are believable, supposing minor porn stars are pretty poor actors.

Personally, I thought The Life of Brian was far more witty, outrageous, and bitter a send up of Christianity and the life of Jesus as told in the NT than this thing is of the life of Mohamed as related in the Koran.

Their lives and messages, of course, were very different and neither of them, when you get down to it, very funny.

This is why, while in any bio Jesus has to be shown as the victim of a great deal of violence, Mohamed has to be shown as the instigator of near genocidal war and other violence, and a personal participant as well.

While Jesus has to be shown counseling chastity and living an apparently celibate life, Mohamed has to be shown as at least un homme moyen sensuel, eventually a powerful man with many wives, including at least one little girl of about nine years old.

A holy man ripe for mockery, I would say.

If not for fear, I have no doubt SNL would have taken on this fellow, long ago.

Indeed, they'd have made him a favored object of repeated, uproarious ridicule.

And they'd have done a much better job, with much sharper barbs, than this yawn of a video.

Isn’t there a very popular Broadway musical in New York, right now, ripping the heck out of Joseph Smith and the Mormons?

Ah.

How un-American.

We Americans insist that all religions be treated with respect, you know.

That's a core value.

When I first heard of the fatwa against Rushdie I was furious no Western government had put out an Interpol warrant for the arrest of the Ayatollah for soliciting murder, at least to remind the world what sanity looks like.

When I heard about the cartoon riots I just thought, by no means for the first time, that the Muslim world is a world of psychopaths in whose hands nuclear weapons would be terrifying.

Nothing has happened since to alter my opinion.

From Newsweek, just in time.

Aayan Hirsi Ali on Muslim Hate

Her optimism about democracy as a learning experience seems to me to be unfounded wishful thinking.

And now this timely reminder of the sort of people these are.

Iran increases bounty on Salman Rushdie's head