The apparent use of the Koran in popular and long running anime/manga “JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure” has aroused umbrage amongst some in the Arabic speaking world, it would appear.
A villain in the series apparently reads the book whilst plotting to kill the protagonist – it would appear he did not possess any religious motivation for killing JoJo, so this is clearly a calumny against Islam, or so some shrill voices in the Arabic speaking world have said.
Publisher Shueisha has already bowed to pressure and suspended distribution of the offending products, though they brush off the criticism as being the result of an accident: “A book (in Arabic) to evoke the atmosphere of the setting, Egypt, was needed, and the Koran was unknowingly used. We apologise for any offence caused to devotees of Islam”.
A storm in a teacup? No word on what the page in question actually says. Via Itai News.
It’s Islam. Everyone walks on eggshells when that religion is discussed since its most well known and publicized followers kill others who defame or disagree with it(them in reality)
Mohammed himself was a “villain” look how he spread his empire. How many infidels had to die by his hands and continue to die to this day?
While post-greek egypt did change egypt and roman egypt as well, egypt still had its own language and culture.
Coptic culture and language is directly descended from ancient egypt. Whereas arabic is descended from the sand dune barbarians of southern arabia. Look at all of the intellectual advancements post-islam in egypt. You see nothing, but a STAGNANT society. That is islam essentially, it is christianity on steroids. Christianity is not innocent either, but it is more authoritarian and it allows somewhat freedom for society and technology to advance whereas islam is completely totalitarian. All praise to the great black rock in the center of mecca, the greatest idol of all time.
The Christianity you are speaking of is long gone. The people using the word of God as their own are not true Christians even if they repeatedly call themselves that, as if to legitimize their organized mob rule by invoking the Bible.
For a non-religion, atheism has its own share of proselytizers as rabid as any fanatic.
hey..
it is all about the money, fame, to rule and conquer.
not about “God”
in every culture.
What you are referring to actually would be Western Christianity, westerners adopted christanity from the middle east through byzantine and the eastern roman empire and reformatted it for their own uses to make it more compatible with the west(such as western political/imperial interests, in the same sense that russia/china used/use “communism” as a mask for imperialism). Original christianity in terms of levantine/egyptian/near eastern is much different. Even Orthodox christianity incorporates elements of near eastern christianity and is considered alien to many westerners. I can tell you that those particular “atheists” you speak of actually happen to be neo-marxists, leninists, etc. Communism itself can be considered a religion (descended from the abrahamic teachings of peasant “liberation” or “salvation” that theoretically come from adopting a belief).
Im Muslim and its not the depiction of the Quran Im offended about,thats not the offensive part(although wahabis might find it offensive, they’re just like that), its the fact that its the VILLAIN thats reading the quran.
Why is the villian reading the Quran? Why cant they have the good guys read the Quran? What? Is this some kind of message they were trying to give to the masses?
Jojo sucks anyway, what with the THE WORLD-timefreeze thing, thats too unfair.
And to the guy above that said Islam destroyed Egypt’s culture, well the culture of Egypt with the Hieroglyphs and the Pharaohs and mummies and what not was pretty destroyed before Islam anyway, what with their civil wars Alexander and and the Romans and Christianity. Quit trying to find lame excuses to justify your irrational hatred.
Historically Atheism was the belief of educated European people who rejected the irrational beliefs of the Christian church, justifying their stance on the grounds of knowledge and reason, now its seems its simply its a convenient ideology for lazy and morally bankrupt people to cling to.
>morally bankrupt
Oh the irony, to hear that from a Muslim.
things are more complicated than what it seems to bee
an advice to people here, learn more about the world before you shout ur opinions
the more u learn the less u say ^^
No wonder it was the Koran. once it was introduced all egyptian culture and arabic literature and knowledge was destroyed. Producing an arabian dark age similar to the christian darkage between the time all non christian books were banned and the church forbade reading the bible lest the people discover that jesus didn’t approve of crusades and such. the western dark ages affected both religions.
God, the middle ages fucked us all up.
But that is why we had the best thing to happen, the Black Plague, lets not kid our selves, after that baby got thru Europe and spared none, it was time for a new beginning, its hard to believe in the old ways when priest were falling down just like everyone else.
damn straight