Da Feeble Code

According to the folks in this BBC story, the Da Vinci Code will pack Dante's inferno with anybody who sets foot in a theatre daring to air this most recent doomsday-tempting blasphemy. I really hope we see some theatres burnt to the ground so I can post 'em -- in the interests of top-notch journalism, of course. Naturally, I find such behaviour morally reprehensible myself -- entertaining, but reprehensible nonetheless. Below are three samples from the linked article. It should be noted that these reactions are coming not from Catholics but Muslims. [How feeble must be the foundations of these monotheistic belief systems for their adherents to resort to threats, and then acts, of violence so frequently and so zealously?]

Roman Catholics in the Indian city of Mumbai have received Muslim support in protests against the release of the movie, The Da Vinci Code. Film censors have cleared the movie for release in India on 19 May.* An umbrella organisation of Islamic clerics in Mumbai have labelled the film as "blasphemous" because it spreads "lies" about Jesus Christ.

Syed Noori, president of Mumbai-based Raza Academy, a Muslim cultural organisation that organises protests on issues concerning Islam, said: "If the government doesn't do anything, we will try our own ways of stopping the film from being shown. We are prepared for violent protests in India if needed.

"The Holy Koran recognises Jesus as a prophet. What the book says is an insult to both Christians and Muslims," Maulana Mansoor Ali Khan, general secretary of the All-India Sunni Jamiyat-ul-Ulema, told the Reuters news agency. "Muslims in India will help their Christian brothers protest this attack on our common religious belief," he said.

Then the reinforcements.

In India, which is home to 18 million Catholics, the head of the Catholic Secular Forum has begun a "hunger strike until death." Joseph Dias said he wanted others to join him and pledged to continue until the film was banned. His organisation has described The Da Vinci Code as "offensive" because it breaches "certain basic foundations of the religion."

Like the one that for centuries punished with death anybody who challenged the Catholic Church? Now Islam, whose fundamentalist cadres still treat impertinent questions with the balm of death, has also been offended.
Boo-hoo.