Tuesday, September 25, 2012

SC bars public showing of “Innocence of Muslims"


From: abs-cbnnews.com and manilastandardtoday.com

The Supreme Court yesterday stopped the public screening of the controversial anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims” following petitions from various Muslim groups
           
The film mocks the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, womanizer and child abuser.

Members of the Bangsamoro Nation invoked their constitutional right to the free exercise of religion in filing their petition.

“Muslims cannot allow this kind of insult to their prophet Mohammad and to the Islamic religion in general,” petitioners Agakhan ‘Benladin’ Sharief, Datu Drieza Lininding, Datu Haj Ansaru Alonto, and Datu Nasser Dimapinto said.

“Unless the state prohibits the showing of the subject film inimical to the national security, actual or imminent danger of violence shall be expected.”

The group also took offense at the film’s branding Mohammad as “a donkey, the first
Muslim animal.”

Bangsamoro Nation had also for the pullout or removal and a prohibition of the  showing of the film or its trailers in Internet websites like YouTube,  and Google.###”


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