May 26 2006
Islamists Threaten Omar Sharif with Death
By way of Mangan’s Miscellany.
“Islamists Threaten Omar Sharif with DeathFrom The Guardian. Why?
A message on a website linked to al-Qaida has threatened death to the veteran Egyptian actor Omar Sharif after he played St Peter in an Italian TV film.In remarks widely reported in Italy earlier this month, the 73-year old actor, a convert to Islam, said he had ’seemed to hear voices’ during the filming of St Peter, a two-part mini-series shown last week. Sharif was quoted as saying: ‘Playing Peter was so important for me that even now I can only speak about it with difficulty. It will be difficult for me to play other roles from now on.”
Once again, The Religion With The World’s Biggest Chip On Its Shoulder cannot bear that anyone else be anything but a Muslim. The article gives some examples of other things which offend Muslims, which would be hilarious if they weren’t true, and weren’t backed by people willing to kill:
In 1968, with memories of the six-day war with Israel fresh in Arab minds, he caused a furore by kissing a Jewish woman, Barbra Streisand, in the movie Funny Girl. His films were banned in Egypt as a result.
Ah yes, the religion of peace…
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