Peace and propaganda in our time

[hummingwolf]

The Snopes Urban Legends Reference pages have confirmed that certain pictures floating around the internet are authentic photographs of Muslim protesters in London during this year's unrest over the Mohammed cartoons. Behold the face of the Religion of Peace! This is the harsh reality, people. We're so much better than they are: They have

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[darth_spacey]

One key difference is that I had never even heard of Left Behind, but you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who wasn't familiar with the Islamic "fundamentalist" movement. There's a difference in the size of the movement, the size of the footprint of the movement in the public consciousness, and ultimately the insanity of the movement. Even in the worst case scenario (that the video game is exactly how it is described), video games are quite removed from reality. I, for one, haven't killed an Orc with a broadsword (or a fireball for that matter) in several years.

[hummingwolf]

Are you saying you'd never heard of the Left Behind videogame (scheduled for release in October, so this is just advance publicity) or the mega-major-best-selling books of the series? In the US, at least, there are rather a frightening lot of people who believe that the L.B. books are only a slightly-fictionalized version of Biblically-prophesied reality.

[darth_spacey]

I think I was vaguely aware of a TV show called Left Behind, but that's really about it.

I guess that's frighteningly many, if you listen to enough people telling you it's frightening. ;-)

[hummingwolf]

Huh, I thought you were more tuned in to pop culture than I was, but maybe I was wrong, at least as far as US book culture goes