In a recent Japanese cartoon the villain vows to kill the main character while he reads pages of the Koran.
The company received "feedback" from a few angry Muslims after the DVD was released.
The Japanese company Shueisha decided it was best to suspend shipments of the offensive cartoon after the company thought things over.
Anime News Network and LGF Quick Links reported:
The Japanese publisher Shueisha and the anime production company A.P.P.P. have halted shipments of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure anime and manga after online Islamic protesters objected to imagery in the anime that they deemed offensive. In particular, a scene in the sixth anime episode ("The Mist of Vengeance") depicts the main villain, Dio, vowing to kill the main character Jōtarō Kujō while looking at pages of the Qur'an, the main religious text of Islam.
The Kyodo News agency cited Sheikh Abdul Hamid Al-Atrash, chairman of the Fatwa Committee at Cairo's Al-Azhar University, as saying, "The scene depicts Muslims as terrorists."
Shueisha posted a Japanese statement about the issue and a English letter to the "Muslim audience of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure" on Thursday. In both documents, Shueisha and A.P.P.P. explained that the anime staffers added Arabic text to the book to indicate the scene's apparent location in the Arabic world. However, the same staffers were illiterate in Arabic and did not realize that they chose pages from the Qur'an. (Yeah, right!)
Political correctness doing it's job...
ReplyDeleteI'm somewhat of a JoJo fan too.
Muslim terrorists inspired by the Koran?
ReplyDeleteWho ever heard of such a thing?
So... because Every Single Muslim Terrorist on the face of the Earth, quotes the Koran as their source of inspiration, the Japanese believe it might give the impression that ALL muslims may be terrorist?
ReplyDeleteYou'd think there was something like 'Cause and Effect' operating here.
I tried to think of a terrorist who wasn't muslim, and came up with: William Ayers, his wife bernadette dorn, both of whom are friends, colleagues, financial and political supporters, and neighbors of the obamster. Also the eta in Spain, and farc in South America.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure there are others around the world, but none of these folks have read the koran except the obamster. If the so-called "moderate" muslims don't wish to be included as terrorists or terrorist sympathizers, there are a number of ACTIONS they can take. They can RENOUNCE the terrorists, RENOUNCE sharia law, RENOUNCE the madrassas and other hate-schools, RENOUNCE violence as a political tool, STOP using their mosques as weapons dumps, RENOUNCE the concept of infidels, STOP persecuting women and gays, STOP threatening Israel,.....the list goes on and on.
Who da thunk it,muslim terrorists.Me thinks the muslims protest overly.When moozzlims use murder and the threat of murder to advance thier ideology I would consider these cartoons "definition of religion of submission" but certainly not defamation.
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ReplyDeleteOsama bin Laden et al..
"I DID NOT HAVE JIHAD CONSULTATIONS WITH THAT QUR'AN!!"
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