Head of Egypt’s censorship board says movie has ‘historical inaccuracies.’
HAARETZ
The new Hollywood blockbuster “Exodus: Gods and Kings” has been slammed for allegedly racist casting, and has received lukewarm reviews. Now, to top it all off, it has reportedly been banned in Egypt for “historical inaccuracies.”
According to a BBC report, the head of Egypt’s censorship board said that these inaccuracies include the depiction of the Jews having built the pyramids. It also includes showing the Red Sea being parted by Moses, played by Christian Bale. According to the censor, this was really caused by an earthquake.
In the biblical book of Exodus, the Jews build the pyramids as slaves in Ancient Egypt, and are led to freedom by Moses after God brings a number of plagues on Egypt.
There are also reports that the film, directed by Ridley Scott, has been banned in Morocco, the BBC said. Officials decided to ban the film one day before its premiere, according to Moroccan business site Medias24.com.
According to AFP, Morocco may have decided not to screen the film because Muslims believe Moses is a prophet, and should therefore not be portrayed on screen.
“Exodus: Gods and Kings” made $24.5 million on its debut weekend, and cost a reported $140 million to make, the BBC said.
7 thoughts on “Report: Egypt bans ‘Exodus’ for claiming Jews built the pyramids”
It was the ancient Greeks who started the myth. They speculated that slaves had built the Egyptian pyramids some decades before (when in fact the pyramids had been built centuries before).
Later, Jews said, “Yup, and we were the slaves! We were the victims!”
Today the only people who believe that slaves built the Egyptian pyramids are Jews, lovers of Jews, and other assorted idiots (e.g. evangelical Christians). Even the Jews that control Wikipedia no longer make this idiotic claim.
I suspect that pyramid-building was a religious exercise for Egyptians of all social levels. We know that they were obsessed with the afterlife, and that pyramids served as both mausoleums and as temples for the priests.
Actually there are pyramids on every continent. The world’s largest pyramid is in Mexico. Some of the Native American tribes in North America built huge mounds. European invaders thought (wrongly) that there must have been an Egypt-like culture in the Americas. In 1819, they named the city of Memphis Tennessee for the ancient city in Egypt. A city in Illinois was named Thebes. Mormons base their doctrine on the fantasy that ancient North America was like ancient Egypt.
Anyway, today’s Egyptians rely on revenue from tourists who come to see the pyramids. Also, Egypt has many museums, and eminent archaeologists who study this stuff all their lives. Imagine the insult of claiming that JEWS (not Egyptians) did all this. So, Abdul Sattar Fathi, the head of the Egyptian state censorship board, decided to ban the film.
I think this was a mistake. Whatever you ban, you empower. You make it attractive. Also, by banning the film, Mr. Fathi gave ammunition to the Jews, who say, “See? They don’t want the truth about the pyramids to come out.”
What Mr. Fathi should have done instead is to have mandated that before every showing of this movie, audiences in theatres must see a 60-second video about who really built the pyramids, and the insult that JEWS built them. This would have a stronger impact. https://quatloosx.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/jews_pyramid.jpg
i’m surprised you Egyptians did this, considering how long you’ve been kissing jew’s assess
What, no Children of Pyramid Builder Survivors to sue?
What else is new? Is it not a fact that “they survive and prosper by lies and deception”?
The Jews built the Pyramids?. The Jews claim they did it for several reasons, in order to portrait themselves as the “all time victims” and to pretend they did something worthwhile. The Jews had never worked for thousands of years, they only live on the profit from the ones who work. Their history (Old testament) is based on pure lies, deceptions and exaggerations that have no correlation with real history. The passages are a copy from older civilizations the Phoenicians, Chaldea, the Greeks, the Babylonians even from the Indian culture etc. Read “Deceptions and Myths of the Bible” by Doctor Graham.
Regarding the completely and thoroughly, archaeologically-debunked, for Quite Some Time Now, notion that “Jewish slaves” built the Great Pyramid complex at Giza in the Old Kingdom period (2686-2125 BCE) of ancient Egypt (a time when no “Jews” existed), or even the much later royal city of Rameses II (1279-1213 BCE) – when no West Semitic names were even found in the brick factory workers’ logs for that city – it should be noted that the entire biblical Exodus narrative is a late 7th century BCE Judahite priestly mythological remix of an actual series of not so mythological historical events culminating in the late 16th century BCE Egyptian military expulsion – by force of arms – of the Hyksos Canaanite colonizers of northern Egypt who were financially taxing Egyptians for the usage of their own river (the Nile) as a commercial link to the markets of the Eastern Mediterranean. Driving the exploitative Canaanites out of the Delta region of Northern Egypt became an Egyptian nationalist struggle beginning in the mid 16th century BCE and ended with Pharaoh Ahmose’s grant of amnesty (after his military siege of the Canaanite capital of Avaris) to the last Hyksos king, on the condition of his and his peoples’ departure (en masse) from Egypt back into Canaan (c. 1528 BCE). That is the actual history and the biblical narrative is a mythic remix of that actual history, a history which in fact belonged to another people – the Canaanites. There was no Judaic exodus from slavery in Egypt; no Moses; no special revelation from Mount Sinai to the Israelites from any deity named Yahweh. All myth. All a product of the human religious imagination.
And from the modern world of biblical archaeological consensus, I would like to enter into the record of this discussion a quote by the reasonable and well-respected biblical archaeologist Professor William G. Dever:
“The miraculous, larger-than-life story of the Exodus as it now stands in the Bible cannot be corroborated as factual history. . . . given archaeology’s recent documentation of the rise of early Israel within Canaan . . . there is no longer a place or a need for the Exodus as a historical explanation for the origins of Israel. The story, however dramatic, however central to the self-identification of later biblical Israel—or even our own identity in the West—is best regarded as a myth. In this case, it is just the sort of origin myth that has characterized many other peoples past and present.”
William G. Dever, Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2003), 232.
It was the ancient Greeks who started the myth. They speculated that slaves had built the Egyptian pyramids some decades before (when in fact the pyramids had been built centuries before).
Later, Jews said, “Yup, and we were the slaves! We were the victims!”
Today the only people who believe that slaves built the Egyptian pyramids are Jews, lovers of Jews, and other assorted idiots (e.g. evangelical Christians). Even the Jews that control Wikipedia no longer make this idiotic claim.
I suspect that pyramid-building was a religious exercise for Egyptians of all social levels. We know that they were obsessed with the afterlife, and that pyramids served as both mausoleums and as temples for the priests.
Actually there are pyramids on every continent. The world’s largest pyramid is in Mexico. Some of the Native American tribes in North America built huge mounds. European invaders thought (wrongly) that there must have been an Egypt-like culture in the Americas. In 1819, they named the city of Memphis Tennessee for the ancient city in Egypt. A city in Illinois was named Thebes. Mormons base their doctrine on the fantasy that ancient North America was like ancient Egypt.
Anyway, today’s Egyptians rely on revenue from tourists who come to see the pyramids. Also, Egypt has many museums, and eminent archaeologists who study this stuff all their lives. Imagine the insult of claiming that JEWS (not Egyptians) did all this. So, Abdul Sattar Fathi, the head of the Egyptian state censorship board, decided to ban the film.
I think this was a mistake. Whatever you ban, you empower. You make it attractive. Also, by banning the film, Mr. Fathi gave ammunition to the Jews, who say, “See? They don’t want the truth about the pyramids to come out.”
What Mr. Fathi should have done instead is to have mandated that before every showing of this movie, audiences in theatres must see a 60-second video about who really built the pyramids, and the insult that JEWS built them. This would have a stronger impact.
https://quatloosx.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/jews_pyramid.jpg
i’m surprised you Egyptians did this, considering how long you’ve been kissing jew’s assess
What, no Children of Pyramid Builder Survivors to sue?
What else is new? Is it not a fact that “they survive and prosper by lies and deception”?
The Jews built the Pyramids?. The Jews claim they did it for several reasons, in order to portrait themselves as the “all time victims” and to pretend they did something worthwhile. The Jews had never worked for thousands of years, they only live on the profit from the ones who work. Their history (Old testament) is based on pure lies, deceptions and exaggerations that have no correlation with real history. The passages are a copy from older civilizations the Phoenicians, Chaldea, the Greeks, the Babylonians even from the Indian culture etc. Read “Deceptions and Myths of the Bible” by Doctor Graham.
Regarding the completely and thoroughly, archaeologically-debunked, for Quite Some Time Now, notion that “Jewish slaves” built the Great Pyramid complex at Giza in the Old Kingdom period (2686-2125 BCE) of ancient Egypt (a time when no “Jews” existed), or even the much later royal city of Rameses II (1279-1213 BCE) – when no West Semitic names were even found in the brick factory workers’ logs for that city – it should be noted that the entire biblical Exodus narrative is a late 7th century BCE Judahite priestly mythological remix of an actual series of not so mythological historical events culminating in the late 16th century BCE Egyptian military expulsion – by force of arms – of the Hyksos Canaanite colonizers of northern Egypt who were financially taxing Egyptians for the usage of their own river (the Nile) as a commercial link to the markets of the Eastern Mediterranean. Driving the exploitative Canaanites out of the Delta region of Northern Egypt became an Egyptian nationalist struggle beginning in the mid 16th century BCE and ended with Pharaoh Ahmose’s grant of amnesty (after his military siege of the Canaanite capital of Avaris) to the last Hyksos king, on the condition of his and his peoples’ departure (en masse) from Egypt back into Canaan (c. 1528 BCE). That is the actual history and the biblical narrative is a mythic remix of that actual history, a history which in fact belonged to another people – the Canaanites. There was no Judaic exodus from slavery in Egypt; no Moses; no special revelation from Mount Sinai to the Israelites from any deity named Yahweh. All myth. All a product of the human religious imagination.
And from the modern world of biblical archaeological consensus, I would like to enter into the record of this discussion a quote by the reasonable and well-respected biblical archaeologist Professor William G. Dever:
“The miraculous, larger-than-life story of the Exodus as it now stands in the Bible cannot be corroborated as factual history. . . . given archaeology’s recent documentation of the rise of early Israel within Canaan . . . there is no longer a place or a need for the Exodus as a historical explanation for the origins of Israel. The story, however dramatic, however central to the self-identification of later biblical Israel—or even our own identity in the West—is best regarded as a myth. In this case, it is just the sort of origin myth that has characterized many other peoples past and present.”
William G. Dever, Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They Come From? (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2003), 232.
Thank you Mr. Burrowugh