Do you want to see Jerusalem destroyed in a movie?

November 12, 2009 at 12:50 am · Filed under Blogosphere

Do you?


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  1. Chris

    November 12, 2009 @ 5:10 am

    No problem here. Actually I think it’s important for people of all cultures and creeds in this increasingly globalized world to become accustomed to seeing and hearing things that make them uncomfortable. It’s 2009 and people still lash out violently to things like this, that needs to stop.

  2. Mesh

    November 12, 2009 @ 7:42 am

    its already destroyed, Al-Aqsa mosque amused architectures how it still stand there, its one of the Judgement’s day sign that its going to collapse (not by natural disaster, does not mean that they won’t make it look like that ..)

  3. Mesh

    November 12, 2009 @ 8:14 am

    i already believe WWIII is soon, and i dream about that tsunami in the movie banner

  4. Razan Khatib

    November 12, 2009 @ 9:47 am

    I don’t like this to happen per se, like all disaster movies you see lots of monuments gets destroyed. part of showing the horror imagined. So why the emphasis here?

  5. kinzi

    November 12, 2009 @ 11:28 am

    I would like Jerusalem to become a global park, owned by no one but all can visit.

  6. Mesh

    November 12, 2009 @ 12:20 pm

    that what it was before 1948 kinzi

  7. Mohammad

    November 12, 2009 @ 12:34 pm

    no, don’t want to see it destroyed at all…not even in a movie

  8. Mohammad

    November 12, 2009 @ 12:34 pm

    no, don’t want to see it destroyed at all…not even in a movie

  9. Serene

    November 12, 2009 @ 12:40 pm

    never..not even in a movie

  10. Haneen

    November 12, 2009 @ 12:42 pm

    I couldnt help but reading ur comments, I think u r right Mohannad… since we r Palestinians living in Jordan we r already looking and watching, I Personally know palestinian who cares nothing about What’s going on there. when sheikh Ahmed Yassin were assassinated many palestinian Jordanians didnt know who he was, also about dr. Ranteesy, at the … Read Morelast gaza war they didnt bother to boycott Starbucks. though it’s even a crappy coffee who am certainly could live without… and those were tiny little things just to show we still care… so I dont really think that Any would care of what’s happening or going out there…

  11. Roba

    November 12, 2009 @ 12:47 pm

    Chris, I agree with you. It’s just a movie afterall, and natural disaster does not save anything.

    Mesh, conspiracy theories at their best ;)

    Razan, yup, you’re right. I blogged this cause a friend asked me to, you can check his link in the post.

    Kinzi, that would be very nice :)

    Haneen, we’re talking about a movie by the way.

  12. Mesh

    November 12, 2009 @ 4:36 pm

    although its a movie, but everything might have a sign roba, specially if its made in Hollywood

    you can even analyse tom & jerry politically

    Jerry = Israel

    Tom = Arabs

    Spike the bulldog = US the protector of Israel who always beat Tom

    just try to think of what i said above next time you watch a tom & jerry series..

    okay, you don’t have to think this way if you want to.. but eventually financial crisis caused wars in the past, economics and politics cannot be separated, politics and media cannot be separated, tell me yes or no momken 3am babalegh, but having an Islamic monument like Alqsa Mosque destroyed in a movie will make it ‘not an impossible thing to happen’ to those who watch the movies, including us, Muslims.. which can in turn reduce the rage of the public when it actually happens..

  13. Ohoud

    November 12, 2009 @ 9:44 pm

    I find the question quite irrelevant:) and actually very badly phrased, I mean is Jerusalem a monument?:D

    what about a buddist temple? a synagoge?

    At the end a disaster is not portrayed by bldgs but by the loss that the people are facing, if the movie will try to portray a balanced view and show all bldgs collapsing that have a lot of value to people from all backgrounds, it will be a documentary of bldgs falling down,lol!

    At least the white house is relevant bcz its a symbol of the highest power in the world now, where all chess pieces are being moved from. Its collapse signifies how ephemeral our world is including it

  14. Serene

    November 13, 2009 @ 12:22 pm

    ok,, what you’re staying is true and it’s just too sad to believe that this is what is happening to a country where our grandfathers and ancestors lived a peaceful life.. i totally agree you about the ignorance of so many “palestinians” and arabs especially the new younger generation who have never really felt what it’s like for your homeland to be snatched away.
    but to answer roba’s question “Do you WANT to see Jerusalem destroyed in a movie?” my answer would be i never want to see it destroyed, not in a movie and not in reality and i hope we never get to witness its fall and have us palestinians uprooted so easily and unjustly from our own land.

  15. Serene

    November 13, 2009 @ 12:22 pm

    ok,, what you’re staying is true and it’s just too sad to believe that this is what is happening to a country where our grandfathers and ancestors lived a peaceful life.. i totally agree you about the ignorance of so many “palestinians” and arabs especially the new younger generation who have never really felt what it’s like for your homeland to be snatched away.
    but to answer roba’s question “Do you WANT to see Jerusalem destroyed in a movie?” my answer would be i never want to see it destroyed, not in a movie and not in reality and i hope we never get to witness its fall and have us palestinians uprooted so easily and unjustly from our own land.

  16. Serene

    November 13, 2009 @ 12:22 pm

    ok,, what you’re staying is true and it’s just too sad to believe that this is what is happening to a country where our grandfathers and ancestors lived a peaceful life.. i totally agree you about the ignorance of so many “palestinians” and arabs especially the new younger generation who have never really felt what it’s like for your homeland to be snatched away.
    but to answer roba’s question “Do you WANT to see Jerusalem destroyed in a movie?” my answer would be i never want to see it destroyed, not in a movie and not in reality and i hope we never get to witness its fall and have us palestinians uprooted so easily and unjustly from our own land.

  17. Mesh

    November 13, 2009 @ 5:27 pm

    I was just pointing to the goal of why they would picture Jerusalem to be destroyed in a movie ?

    They just to make the picture closer to our minds, that it is not impossible and it might be going to happen, and it is going to happen IMHO within the next 10 years, alot of things will change in this planet, from all aspects.. if not 10 make it 15.

    They already tried to make a fire inside Al-Aqsa mosque a couple of weeks ago, after the 40th anniversary in 1969. (if any read the news..)

    And it’s not only the Islamic Monuments are in danger, christian’s one too as Archbishop Atallah Hanna stated.

    The westerns mocked our Prophet already who is to me holier than a holy building or a holy city, to me, seeing jerusalem destroyed in a movie won’t make a difference to me, i see Palestinian people in jerusalem evacuated from their homes every day.. if their homes are not demolished ..

  18. Mesh

    November 13, 2009 @ 10:30 pm

    My Cuz watched the movie yesterday, he told they showed Muslims and Christians praying, but not Islamic monuments destroyed (or pictured to be destroyed) during the movie, as they are afraid of a ‘fatwa’ to kill the ‘infidels’ who did that lol

  19. Yaz

    November 17, 2009 @ 7:41 pm

    The One Place on Earth Not Destroyed in ‘2012′… The director was too worried that a fatwa will be issued over his head :):)
    Please read: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-roland-emmerich-fatwa.html

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