Imagine if they made the "Rushdie Code"

[caravel]

I haven't read the DVC, I suppose because it just seems to me like yet another conspiracy theorist paperback, with a flashy cover and not alot else. This holy grail/mary magdelane/templar thing has all been done before, as documentary. The only thing Dan Brown has done differently, as far as I'm aware, is turn the whole thing into a typical sensationalist novel, with the objective of keeping the reader enthralled by an unfolding mystery (conspiracy theory)?

The major difference between Rushdie and Brown would be that Brown's book is now a movie, wheras Rushdie is hiding from the modern day hashishin.

So, the message seems to be, write blasphemous works about Christianity, then make a movie of those works, and you'll be rich and famous. Criticise Islam or draw a picture of an important Islamic prophet, and you stand a good chance of being killed.

The question is, is it right to caricature any religion, write blasphemous novels and even make movies about it? Or do some people need to accept that we live in a modern world where these ideals and beliefs are no longer sacred?

[Major Robert Dump]

Chick publications are the greatest. The greatest one ever was the book where the christian man and his son are visiting a mosque in Iran, and the dad tells the islam worshipper-guy about Jesus and how mohammmed is a false idol and the Islam guy converts to christian right then and there instead of, you know, capturing the dad and son and beheading them.

[Ser Clegane]

Chick publications are the greatest.

I second that - Chick Tracts are brilliant ... hours of fun are guaranteed

[Byzantine Mercenary]

wow their definantely hard line!

[Sigurd]

Chick publications are the greatest. The greatest one ever was the book where the christian man and his son are visiting a mosque in Iran, and the dad tells the islam worshipper-guy about Jesus and how mohammmed is a false idol and the Islam guy converts to christian right then and there instead of, you know, capturing the dad and son and beheading them.

I read that too, but the one I am thinking of is called "The Prophet"… another Catholic skeleton in the closet of religion.