{"id":42576,"date":"2015-01-08T00:28:21","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T00:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42576"},"modified":"2015-01-08T00:28:21","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T00:28:21","slug":"paris-reminders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42576","title":{"rendered":"Paris: reminders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; personally, i&#8217;d rather grieve than hate ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t dull one mass of senseless pain with another, they don&#8217;t cancel out, <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=7785\">nor are they additive<\/a> &#8212; but FWIW:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>This is not the worst terrorist attack in Europe, in the last 10 years. This is. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Breivik?src=hash\">#Breivik<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/JO0ZG8Ugi0\">pic.twitter.com\/JO0ZG8Ugi0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; maria lia calvo (@MariaLiaCalvo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MariaLiaCalvo\/status\/552876790084300801\">January 7, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>The last serious European Christian violence in response to perceived blasphemy that I recall was the rioting surrounding the release of Scorsese&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Last-Temptation-Christ-Criterion-Collection\/dp\/1559409037\">The Last Temptation of Christ<\/a> in 1988. I would have been 45 or thereabouts, and was friends with <strong>Scorsese<\/strong>&#8216;s friend, the late film-maker <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/film\/news\/michael-henry-wilson-documentarian-and-author-dies-at-67-1201258009\/\">Michael Henry Wilson<\/a><\/strong>, who was involved with the publicity for the film, and I remember the tension in the air as I obtained my tickets for an LA pre-screening.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier post, <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=14411\">Of films, riots and hatred III: Scorsese and Verhoeven<\/a>, I quoted <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=m3oLA1ThOBYC&#038;pg=PA287#v=onepage&#038;q&#038;f=false\">The Encyclopedia of Religion and Film<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Overseas, at the September 28 opening in Paris, demonstrators who had gathered for a prayer vigil threw tear gas canisters at the theater\u2019s entrance. Catholic clergy led rock-throwing and fire-bombing assaults on theaters in many French municipalities. A thousand rioters in Athens trashed the Opera cinema, ripping apart the screen and destroying the projection equipment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ_(film)\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On October 22, 1988, a French Christian fundamentalist group launched Molotov cocktails inside the Parisian Saint Michel movie theater while it was showing the film. This attack injured thirteen people, four of whom were severely burned. The Saint Michel theater was heavily damaged, and reopened 3 years later after restoration. Following the attack, a representative of the film\u2019s distributor, United International Pictures, said, \u201cThe opponents of the film have largely won. They have massacred the film\u2019s success, and they have scared the public.\u201d Jack Lang, France\u2019s Minister of Culture, went to the St.-Michel theater after the fire, and said, \u201cFreedom of speech is threatened, and we must not be intimidated by such acts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the case of <strong>Last Temptation<\/strong> there was a potential for fatal violence, but no death. Today&#8217;s massacre at <strong>Charlie Hebdo<\/strong> was less spontaneous, more concentrated, carefully planned and executed, and deadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; personally, i&#8217;d rather grieve than hate ] . You can&#8217;t dull one mass of senseless pain with another, they don&#8217;t cancel out, nor are they additive &#8212; but FWIW: This is not the worst terrorist attack in Europe, in the last 10 years. This is. #Breivik pic.twitter.com\/JO0ZG8Ugi0 &mdash; maria lia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[664,526,334,52,67,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breivik","category-charles-cameron","category-europe","category-france","category-movies","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42576"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42582,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42576\/revisions\/42582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}