
I think I’ve found at least one thing that Muslims and Christians can agree on: they don’t like it when you mess with Jesus. In the case of the Muslims some residents of Sadr City weren’t too amused when they "found a picture of "Buddy Jesus" from the 1999 film "Dogma"
posted in the streets, accompanied by a badly photocopied pamphlet
bearing a crude approximation of a US military crest and outlining a US
"plan" to subjugate the neighborhood." (See picture to left). Of course they didn’t know that it was a spoof picture of Jesus from Kevin Smith’s 1999 film "Dogma":
"That picture abuses our Imam Mahdi and his holy character, and mocks
our sacred figures," said resident Abu Riyam Sunday, apparently
mistaking the satirical movie still of Jesus for one of Shiite Islam’s
historical imams, whose images adopt a Jesus-like iconography.
Well, they have plenty of company in not liking the iconography of Smith’s film. A lot of Christians weren’t too happy about it either.
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