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Keith Allens documentary wasn't banned that I am aware of. It was suggested to the producers by their legal advisers that for it to get a screening in the UK that would not risk them getting sued, they would need to make 87 cuts. He and his producers elected not to do that.
His whole project, the movie, was finally shelved earlier this year because he was unable to get persuade insurers to indemnify the film against potential lawsuits.
http://www.guardian.c...tary-unlawful-killing
So - no banning. Just a non-story about a publicity seeker and a sorrowing father making a wildly speculative film, and being unable to convince insurers to indemnify the film against potential lawsuits that might arise from some of the more evidence-free assertions contained in the movie.
You said:
"How would Britain and the US feel if they were to make a film about Jesus, showing him in the same light? They wouldn't stand for it, so why should these Muslims? "
Actually, I do not agree. In all probability such a hypothetical film, made by serious film studios, and destined for a general release would be shown, although it is likely that the tone would be moderated to secure general release. Some of the more fervent religious believers would probably gather at some of the cinemas, and call for a ban, and call it blasphemy, but what would not happen is for crowds of thousands to gather outside international embassies, baying for blood, burning flags, threatening violence or murder, and trying to impose their will on everyone else through intimidation.The film you refer to though, the one that has been the cause of the latest trouble, was an obvious attempt to incite islamophobia, cooked up by a bunch of religious fruitcakes, and released to the internet. I am sure there are similar "films" about jesus out there, but you do not get mobs baying for blood, do you?
In fact, we have examples of films destined for general release considered blasphemous or having that potential - "The Life of Brian" faced a concerted action to ban it by religious groups, which largely failed. Paul Verhoeven is apparently making a film about Jesus right now which the critics have already called blasphemous. And we have the dramatisation of the Phillip Pullman "His Dark Materials" trilogy, the first film of which, "The Golden Compass", bombed in the US despite many cuts to appease the fundamentalists.
The response to such garbage is to rise above it - not to offer reprisals such as the murder of the ambassador, or the storming of camp bastion, or demonstrations by thousands of frothing at the mouth protestors attempting to get their way using violence, threats and intimidation.....