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| Bombing suspects followed Harry Potter-hating Australian sheikh |
| 2013-04-19 |
| [FOXNEWS] Four months ago, the Boston bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed yesterday in a shootout with police, uploaded to his YouTube Channel an eight-minute lecture by the radical Australian Mohammedan preacher Sheikh Feiz Mohammed denouncing the Harry Potter movies for glorifying and promoting paganism. "How can you allow your children to watch this?" the sheikh demands in the table-thumping lecture. "This film glorifies, magnifies, promotes paganism...What does Harry Potter do and his devilish schoolmates, what do they do? They cast spells, learn magic, brew potions, learn how to tell the future...And this is called harmless." He condemns the Harry Potter movies for being built on shirk -- the sin of worshipping someone or something other than Allah. Tsarnaev also uploaded Russian-language videos of the preacher Abdel al-Hamid al-Juhani, who has been influential on Jihadists in Chechnya and the Russian Caucusus. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Admittedly, the J.K.Rowling books are not high art, they are great fun, and ever so much better than the preachy romance novels that is most of what children and young adults see nowadays. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-04-19 21:24 |
| #5 For those who like Harry Potter but found the lack of internal logic implausible and/or frustrating, let me recommend the fanfiction Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. I thoroughly enjoyed the originals, most of which we have in hard cover, but found Methods of Rationality much more satisfying, once I got into it. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2013-04-19 21:22 |
| #4 The funny thing about religious nutballs condemning Harry Potter is the implication that "magic" is real, which is why it must be shunned. |
| Posted by: DJ Curtis C 2013-04-19 20:48 |
| #3 Sounds like you've never read them. I recommend them highly. It takes a pretty good writer to keep juvenile readers interested in seven books up to 800 pages long. |
| Posted by: Fred 2013-04-19 16:33 |
| #2 Hey CH, those are good books! They're far more sophisticated and nuanced than the drek pepetrated and touted by our so called artistic elite. AND the good guys win! 8^D |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-04-19 16:32 |
| #1 what an idiot reading childrens books |
| Posted by: Cretinous Humongous 2013-04-19 16:22 |