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When a law student asked if newspapers should publish the Danish cartoons depicting the Islamic Prophet Muhammed, Flynt said that every newspaper in the nation should “publish the cartoons tomorrow,” and a “group of towel heads [had gotten] away with intimidating the whole world.” The use of the racial slur drew hisses from some in the crowd...
...magazine, called Studi Cattolici, is not an official Opus publication, but is produced by Opus members. Coming after the outcry over a Danish newspaper's cartoons of Mohammed, there was an almost endearing cluelessness in the magazine's decision to portray the Muslim prophet in perdition. The cartoon borrowed an image from Dante's Inferno, in which Mohammed languishes in hell, sliced in two for the crime of "dividing" faith in God. Studi's editors then placed in the mouth of Dante's infernal tour guide, Virgil, the remark that a guy next to Mohammed "with his pants down" represented...
...does have charm—comes not from its aesthetic, but from its history. One can just imagine, as described in the liner notes, frenzied Rude Boys holding up deejays for copies of Wailers records. Marley holds a prominent place in that vision, a wunderkind if not a prophet, unbelievably talented and waiting to reach his musical and political peak. Fame and high art would come later. “One Love” is simply a testament to that promise, not its realization. —Reviewer Nicholas K. Tabor can be reached at ntabor@fas.harvard.edu
Other Harvard films included “Cut Short,” a drama about fate and haircuts directed by Akis P. Konstantakopoulos ’06, the animated “Pom” by Grace C. Laubacher ’09, “Ted the Prophet,” an animated story of prophecy by Shai Davis ’06, and “Well-Fed and Comfortable,” a family drama by alumnus Richard L. “Lou” Howe...
...charge that has been made. Indeed, the official form of Islam in Saudi Arabia, commonly referred to as Wahhabism, is undoubtedly “conservative” in that it rejects what it sees as changes introduced into Islam since the time when the religion was established by the Prophet Mohammad. In this regard, the label “reactionary” applies more or less as well to Wahhabi beliefs as it does to Protestant Christianity, which rejected the Catholic Church’s teachings on much the same basis. A great many U.S. leaders—not least...