Monday, March 06, 2006
LOCAL MOVIE DILEMMA EXPLAINED
Pakistan’s Mohammad Shehzad reports on the Bush visit:
At least he came. He did not act like the hero of Pakistani movies who comes from a city, visits a village, falls in love with a village girl, promises to marry her, goes back to the city and loses his memory in an accident and never returns to his beloved!!
Er ... can we have a little context, please, Mohammad?
(This is the dilemma of Pakistani romance movies.)
Oh. Oh, I see. Thank you.
UPDATE. In other obscure foreign cultural news, please relive the Oscars with Jim Treacher.
UPDATE II. Another subcontinental journalist, Karamatullah K. Ghori, notes spontaneous Muslim anger:
The Danish affront to Muslims’ universal sensitivity about the sanctity of the Prophet Mohammad’s (PBUH) persona and the reverence it commands in the heart of every believer was deliberate and provocative in the extreme. It was a far more calculated mischief than Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses. No doubt, the backlash from Muslims of all hues is so much more spontaneous and sweeping than was the case when Rushdie set about to measure the depth of Muslim sentiment regarding their Prophet.
Spontaneous? It took the protesters five months. Angry reaction to this post should be observed around July 2008.