They wouldn't have been made!
Let's take this at face value. And so what? The world would be missing 5 movies. The world misses out on all sorts of movies because their creators can't afford to make them, or didn't know the right people, or because some studio exec didn't have enough coke that morning.
This would be unfortunate, but if the sum total of the consequences is "some movies wouldn't exist" then I'd really question how far I'd be willing to go in terms of making legislation to combat that. I certainly wouldn't be making rules about who can marry who for it.
Wake up! Films are only one source of media - what does it mean if we never offend the founder of the world's 2nd biggest religion? How does our culture and different religions evolve?
Are the people you're talking to not woke already?
But it doesn't mean that you can never offend Islam - as you've very capably demonstrated in your posts people do it all the time. It means that you have to choose what you say and when you say it.
If I work with a dude that is known to have anger issues and be very violent, then I'm going to be careful how I critique him. It sucks that I have to moderate my behaviour like that and I can try and help him get to a position where other people don't have to tiptoe around him, but the reality is that unless I've got something important and relevant to say then I probably avoid it.
That's just the reality of living in a society with other people. You choose how you engage with other people and groups based on what you predict their reactions to you will be. We all do this all the time. You have the paradox of tolerance in your signature, but apparently you still don't really understand it.
Christianity famously also used to be like this. In most places in the world, but not all, you can now fairly safely make comments about Christianity for no reason other than that they're funny. In some places you'll absolutely get the snot kicked out of you, but mostly the worst that will happen is you get glared at or told to **** off. With Islam you mostly can't say offensive things just for ***** and giggles because they're not there yet.
You rhetorically ask how religions evolve, and I'm curious as to what you think the answer actually is. By them being legislated into certain behaviours?
Compare: The trajectory of mocking Jesus from Life of Brian to 2024 to the trajectory of mocking Muhammad from day dot to 2024.
Similarities/differences?
You want to take the rules for Muhammad over the entire history of the religion (about 1500 years), and compare them to the rules for Jesus over just the last 45 years?
No cherry picking there. Why don't we also compare the amount of tantrums 10 year old Timmy has thrown in his entire life to the amount of tantrums 12 year old Sally has thrown in the last six months? That seems like a fair and reasonable comparison.
Frankly, Christianity only got somewhat reasonable about this stuff in the last hundred years or so, probably less. Considering that Islam is ~600 years younger, then maybe they've got some catching up to do? It sucks that the rest of us have to wait while they get past the "sticks and stones may break my bones" phase, but humans have been a terrible design from the very beginning. God put all the talent points Strength and Horny, and nothing into Intelligence or Empathy. We just have to deal with it.
Would you consider any of my posts "Islamophobic"?
Do you consider these views centrist, centre-right or right wing?
The posts or you? It's hard to tell with the posts because you refuse to properly justify your fears. If they're irrational, they're Islamophobic. If they're not, they're not.
Islam isn't on the political spectrum, but in general fear of the other is very strongly associated with right wing politics. Not because they're actually scared of Islam, but because the modern playbook for right wing politics is to drive action and engagement through fear. You know this, it's exactly what you're trying to do.
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