Shouting first, then throwing stones, a contingent of Kupwara's residents, schoolteachers, and pupils misrecognized the movie as the devious and amateurish YouTube trailer that led to protests in Egypt. Nearby in Pakistan, protests over the controversial Innocence of Muslims had recently turned fatal, and demonstrators at the University of Kashmir carried placards that read " Obama, we are all Osama." Yet at a middle school in the Kupwara district - where one-third of the population is illiterate and more than two-thirds are Muslim - the Indian army went ahead with its screening anyway. India's northernmost province, Jammu and Kashmir, was not the right place - and Septemwas especially not the right time - to be screening a film about the Prophet Muhammad. Ī screenshot of the 1977 film The Message. Released in 1977, it was intended to honor Muhammad as much as this year's The Innocence of Muslims was intended to degrade him but it provoked a violent backlash.
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