And what happened to decency? People keep talking about how the world would be better if everyone was half decent then talk about their right to take a dump on everyone else’s beliefs in the same breath. Anime is a commercial art. Thick red line under commercial. There was no artistic expression in using the Quranic text. He’s just as ignorant as anyone else in the anime industry and used the first thing he found. As a Muslim, I don’t find that scene offensive. If the professor wanted to make a fuss there’s much more objectionable like Quran reciting in the background while people having sex in Overfiend or the words Allah and Mohammad used to summon demons in Kujaku O. The depiction of Muslims in ZZ Gundam shows how much research they did. Laziness and ignorance is something I can’t respect even if it’s disguised as “art”. Not that that was the only problem ZZ had. There are other examples and I blame it all on ignorance. Not that Japan has a monopoly on ignorance.

I also oppose alteration to anime. That includes dubs. I refused to buy the Lupin TV series because of the alterations. And yes, Angel Cop did have alterations.

The same thing happened with the Angel Cop release, where one of the enemies was originally a Jewish organization, and this was met with heavy critism, resulting in changing the organization to a communist group (I’m recalling all of this, so I might be wrong).

Whatever the content, I oppose any alteration to anime, since it’s an art form. Art can be offensive. I don’t see anyone throwing a shirt on the Venus de Milos.

On a personal note, I ordered the entire JoJo’s series just weeks before it was pulled. I’m extremely pleased that I did before it was sent to be mutilated.

While it’s become sport to bash Christians in the mainstream media and pop culture and Jews have generally had a good sense of humor about Jewish culture in general, Moslems just don’t seem to have a sense of humor about their religion and themselves at all.

To the professor in Cairo — I’m sorry, but most of the guys making waves in terrorism today ARE extremist Moslems and you’re one of the guys urging them on! The hypocrisy and double-standards of these guys is amazing.

Why is everyone so darn afraid of a segment of the population that is so backward? We’re giving in to these bullies instead of standing up to our rights to heckle and expose them for what they are — chauvinists, misogynists, and cowards who hide behind our civil laws and liberties while not respecting anybody else’s opinions and civilization.