Petition seeks to revoke "Paradise Now" Oscar nomination

[Kadie]

Posted on Fri, Mar. 03, 2006
Petition seeks to revoke "Paradise Now" Oscar nomination
ROBERT JABLONAssociated PressLOS ANGELES -

A petition claiming that the movie "Paradise Now" glorifies Palestinian suicide bombers and asking for its removal from Oscar consideration was delivered Friday to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences - two days before the Academy Awards.

A petition containing more than 36,000 signatures garnered online was presented at the academy's Beverly Hills headquarters by Arab-American peace activist Nonie Darwish.

Darwish said "Paradise Now" "did not show the evils of terrorism enough."

"Any one of us could be a victim of terror at any time," she said. "Islamic terror has become an epidemic. We don't need to understand it. We don't need to excuse it.... No more. We need to end it."

Academy spokesman John Pavlik declined to comment on the petition and said he was unsure if officials would examine it.

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[cdsilv]

1. actually I think we DO need to understand it....

...why would someone kill themself in order to kill others is a mystery to me.

The only way to finally put and end to this is to understand why they do it - is it brainwashing done at an early age in madrassas? Is it the crushing poverty and hopelessness of the refugee camps? Is it something in the water?

I really think it is the result of globalization, the imposition of israel on the arab world and of course, Islamic fundamentalism, and in general religious fundamentalism worldwide. IMHO. YMMV

[patdem]

2. I see those suiciders the same as women who starve themselves to death

because of body image...uneducated and ignorant about the reasons...the ONLY way to stop it is to understand it. How very xenophobic to not to want to address the reasons!

[noamnety]

3. I fully support this

as long as they also revoke all previously awarded oscars given to movies that glorify war, divorce, drugs, murder, and adultery.