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Time for 'Make Your Own Mohammed Movie Month

Is It Time for 'Make Your Own Mohammed Movie Month'?

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On September 20, 2012

When South Park's depiction of Mohammed was censored due to Muslim threats, professional cartoonists and ordinary people responded with "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day." The situation is much graver now than it was two years ago when there was general support for the idea of being able to depict Mohammed and few attacks on those responsible.

The man behind the Mohammed movie has been threatened with prison and has become the subject of a media witch-hunt whose sole purpose appears to be disclosing his personal information to his killers. The private and public arms of the Obama administration, its Department of Justice and its media spin corps, are acting to intimidate and punish anyone who dares offend the international Islamist theocracy.

The issue is not the merit of the Mohammed movie or the character of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula. Free speech is not about the merits of the speaker, but about maintaining freedom of speech for everyone. The Mohammed movie has become an opportunity for Islamists and domestic appeasers to implement a de facto blasphemy law dealing with Islam in the United States.

Nakoula is being transformed into a cautionary tale and that tale has no place in a free country. It is a fossil of the Muslim world where uppity Christians and Jews are punished for having the temerity to stand up to their Muslim masters. Once the informal punishment of Nakoula has been accepted, then it's only a matter of time until the informal arrangement becomes formalized into law.

The freedom of speech establishment has decided that the First Amendment does not apply here. The national ACLU is obsessed with Catholic schools, OWS and drone strikes. It is going after the Alabama penal system for not allowing HIV prisoners to work in prison kitchens. The Southern California ACLU is suing Disney on behalf of a Muslim woman who wants to wear her gendered Islamic garb of inferiority to work. If there is going to be resistance to this, it is going to have to come from ordinary people.

Intimidating everyone who draws a Mohammed cartoon stops working when tens of thousands of people are drawing them. Turning one man into an example of what happens when you make a Mohammed movie stops working when there are thousands of Mohammed movies being made.

Making a movie sounds daunting, but it's not. It's something that you can do on your own or with a few friends.

A movie does not have to be two hours. It does not have to be 90 minutes or even 30 minutes. Short films can be as little as 5-10 minutes. Even shorter projects can be only 30 seconds. What matters is not the running time, but the impact, and that comes with the subject matter. Imagine a version of this video that tackles Mohammed instead of Jesus and you can see the possibilities.

Making an online video does not require expensive equipment. You probably already have the basic requirements in your phone, camera and laptop. All you really need is something that can record video. Your PC or Mac computer already comes with basic video editing software and if it doesn't, YouTube has a built in video editor that you can use for simple operations.A Mohammed movie does not have to be a historical epic. It can be anything. Depicting Mohammed in any way, even if it's putting a turban on your cat, is already a form of defiance. Imagine Mohammed in the present day or in the age of the dinosaurs. Imagine him trying to order ice cream. It doesn't really matter. Creativity is part of what makes such a project interesting. The Mohammed cartoons were just as much about crossing boundaries as about being original, funny or theological. Many of them were really bad, but they succeeded just by existing.

The movie does not have to be live action. Sites like GoAnimate allow you to put together basic animated shorts. Those of you who are gamers may be able to make Machinma movies using the games you already have on your machine. Or just use hand puppets and cardboard cutouts. It does not even have to be original. You can dub in a new voiceover on existing footage, such as the already badly dubbed Mohammed movie.

The movie does not have to follow any shape or form beyond the one that you want to give it. All it has to do is exist.

Such an effort could be coordinated through Facebook groups with the more technically knowledgeable helping the less savvy. There are plenty of resources available online for aspiring filmmakers. Award-winning short films have been shot with iPhones and edited on them. Broadcasting your movie is as easy as uploading it to YouTube or LiveLeak.

It has never been easier to tackle a project like this, but in cultural and legal terms, these may also be the last few years when the window is open wide enough for it to be possible. Those of us who live in countries where such a movie is already unacceptable should get in touch with American colleagues who can upload and distribute the movie for them.

September would seem like a fitting month to be "Make Your Own Mohammed Movie" month, but it's almost over. October is nearly upon us and there's something about the Halloween month that seems to fit nearly as well into the picture. The ghost of Mohammed is the specter that haunts the modern world and as it rises from the grave, innocent men and women die. And who is to say that there isn't a movie in that?

Freedom is not passive. It does not abide waiting around for you to use it. Like all things in this world, it must struggle to survive. Our freedom to think as we wish, speak as we wish and believe as we wish is under siege. The best weapon that the besiegers have at their disposal is our compliance. They can intimidate individuals, but they cannot intimidate the rest of us unless we choose to be intimidated.

The Internet has given us all the tools that we need to fight back. All we have to do is use them.

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Islamic Organization Wants Worldwide Blasphemy Law

Everyone who commits 'blasphemy' against islamocrap gets fifty dollars.

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Islamic Organization Wants Worldwide Blasphemy Law

by burkasrugly

Fellow infidels,

We want to welcome a couple of new bloggers on board. The following blog is written by Jan Sobieski . Watch future blogs for our new bloggers- Burkasrugly

Today is the day to start fighting back the radical Islamists. Not tomorrow; not next week; and not next month. Waiting is not an option. Volunteer in your local ACT! for America chapter. If your town doesn't have one, volunteer to start one. This is the final two minutes of the game. GAME ON!!!

The Organization of Islamic Conference is back at it again pushing for a global Blasphemy law. Read about it here.

You can bet your bottom dollar that the little darlings at the OIC are rubbing their grubby little hands together and salivating at the thought that the Great Satan - that is what radical Muslims call America - will finally be brought to her knees and submit (yes, Virginia, Islam means 'submit') to their Muslim masters.

Don't think for a moment that they are not being helped by radical liberals like Hillary Clinton. A ChristianPost.com story noted that Clinton delivered the closing remarks for "the Istanbul Process," which was a series of meetings that took place last year regarding United Nations Resolution 16/18. This resolution, if adopted, could potentially criminalize free speech.

Ain't that a surprise? Coming from Partners In Crime - radical Muslims and radical liberals.

Additionally, according to the story, the Saudi Arabia-based Human Rights Commission of the OIC called for an "international code of conduct" for media and social media to make sure people can't publish offensive material that may incite violence, just in case an international law against insulting religions wouldn't be enough.

So, let me see if I have this right: We Americans are supposed to give up our rights to criticize an unstable, violent, pedophile who hated women and Jews? Hey, radical Muslims! Stick it where the sun don't shine!!!!

Do you think the blasphemy law would protect Christians? Probably not. But then again, our God, the TRUE God does not need to be 'protected' by mobs of bloodthirsty folks.

Signing off,

Jan Sobieski

burkasrugly | September 20, 2012 at 4:10 am | Tags: Hillary Clinton, Jan Sobieski, OIC, United Nations Resolution 16/18 | Categories: Radical Islam | URL: http://wp.me/p1t1Gt-Km

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Worse Than Bush

Worse Than Bush
By Daniel Larison
September 20, 2012

I strongly endorse everything in Dan McCarthy's recent post:

And sure enough, history repeated, with a GOP this year nominating a candidate who, if anything, is worse than Bush: more reckless in his foreign-policy pronouncements, more statist in his governing record, and more detached from the concerns of the heartland. There is simply no evidence to suggest that Romney will be more conservative or, more important, a better president than Bush was. All the evidence points in the opposite direction.

Romney has given us every reason to believe that his foreign policy would be like Bush's, but his statements over the years suggest that he would be even less diplomatic in his dealings with other nations. While Bush occasionally understood the value of cooperation with other major powers, Romney has set out from the beginning as an antagonist of both Russia and China. Far from demonstrating geopolitical savvy, Romney has displayed nothing but "omni-directional belligerence" and a typical hawkish ability to exaggerate and invent threats. Conservatives might be forgiven if they were taken in by George W. Bush's seemingly more realist foreign policy views expressed during the 2000 campaign, but they have no excuse for pretending that Romney's foreign policy would not be just as misguided, imprudent, and harmful to U.S. interests as Bush's was.

If there is one set of policy views that has remained consistent throughout his national political career, it has been his devotion to a hard-line, nationalist, and heavily militarized foreign policy. As obnoxious as Obama's foreign policy has been in many instances, there has never been any question in my mind that Romney's is clearly far worse as far as antiwar conservatives and libertarians are concerned. Not only are his foreign policy views substantively worse and obviously ill-informed, but Romney's success in the election would vindicate the decision to embrace Bush-era foreign policy. Winning the election would reward Romney for campaigning on an aggressive foreign policy platform built on falsehoods. Not only would that put Romney and his advisers in charge of conducting U.S. foreign policy for the next four years, but it would make it that much more difficult to promote a sane conservative foreign policy dedicated to securing American interests.

As if this were not enough, Romney is worse than Bush in another important way that goes beyond any specific policies. Because he can never be entirely sure of his support from movement conservatives, he frequently indulges them in their fantasies. Much of the bad news for Romney over the last week was the product of Romney's willingness to endorse nonsense that many movement conservatives had accepted as truth. Whether he "really" believes any of it is irrelevant. He has no inclination to challenge movement conservatives when they are wrong, nor does he have the political courage that would be needed to lead them away from fantasies even if he were so inclined. Because so many movement conservatives either remain wedded to Bushism or refuse to face up to its failures, a Romney administration would represent the return to most of what went wrong with the right during the Bush years.

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/worse-than-bush/

CAIR rep: “we need to Islamicize America”

We need to put a bounty on muzzies.

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CAIR rep: "we need to Islamicize America"

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via CAIR Rep: Violence Shows It's America That Needs to Change :: The Investigative Project on Terrorism. In a program entitled "The Muslim American Identity," [Cyrus] McGoldrick said America can be more peaceful and decent if it is more Islamic. "We should not reinforce this distinction or between Islam and the West, as if they're [...]

140 Million Families Will Be Forced to Submit Obamacare Individual Mandate Compliance Forms to IRS

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140 Million Families Will Be Forced to Submit Obamacare Individual Mandate Compliance Forms to IRS

by Scotty Starnes

Team Obama has to make sure taxpayers are paying the ObamaCare TAXES so moochers can receive free health care.

From ATR.org:

The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday announced that six million American families will be forced to pay the Obamacare individual mandate non-compliance penalty tax.

The six million families who will be forced to pay the tax understates the true compliance burden of the looming Obamacare individual mandate scheduled to take effect in 2014:

Every American required to file an income tax return must report to the IRS whether or not they have "qualifying" health insurance under Obamacare.

Thus, this tax will not just impact the six million American families having to pay the tax, but the 140 million U.S. households which file an annual income tax return. Each of the 140 million households will be forced to complete and submit compliance forms to the IRS.

The compliance burden described above does not even take into account the other 19 new or higher taxes in the Obamacare law, which the IRS has determined for the Ways and Means Committee will increase tax preparation time by a collective 80 million hours per year.

The non-compliance penalty tax will hit middle-income Americans, a violation President Obama's "firm pledge" not to raise "any form" of tax on families making less than $250,000 per year. There are at least seven Obamacare taxes that directly hit families making less than $250,000.

Scotty Starnes | September 20, 2012 at 1:48 PM | Tags: CBO, compliance burden, individual mandate compliance form, IRS, Obamacare, ObamaCare tax | Categories: Political Issues | URL: http://wp.me/pvnFC-8dJ

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