One of the interesting effects of the protests against The Innocence of the Muslims film is the way they have led to the removal of data from the web. To take just one example – searches for the adult actress and model Amina Noir who appears in Innocence of the Muslims currently turn up a number of very recently dead links.
If you try to see individual images of Noir on the Model Mayhem site you get a message saying: “This user is not here atm. bye.” And if you try to access her profile at Model Mayhem you get a message saying: “Unable to show profile #1201168 This member is either awaiting approval or has removed their profile from the site.” There clearly was an Amina Noir profile at Model Mayhem because pictures from it currently still come up in image searches; and to me it seems strange that it would have been removed by Noir as she has yet to take down her public figure profile from Facebook. The latter is less interesting than her Model Mayhem profile appears to have been since there is only one photo on her Facebook promo page and little else: when I checked earlier today it only had 42 likes despite having been up for nearly 3 years! I think we can safely conclude Noir was struggling to make it in the adult entertainment industry.
Those who attempt to view a series of photos of Noir’s bondage activities in a Californian art gallery on Violet Blue’s Flickr stream are repeatedly told: “This photo is currently unavailable.” That said The Sweet Spot LA haven’t (yet) removed their photo of Noir with Mommy Fiercest and Afrodisiac Lehana Love that was taken on 22 January 2011; when I looked today this had clocked up 173 views. Likewise one of the images that appears to have been removed from Violet Blue’s Flickr stream is still up alongside an article she wrote about an Art Of Restraint ‘art’/bondage show at Femina Potens Gallery for the San Francisco Chronicle of 21 May 2009.
And again, the page for Noir’s 2010 profile on ‘modelling agency’ Chameleon Kittenz on the Blogspot site now gives the following message: “Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist.”
I don’t know whether the removed images and pages were taken down at the request of Amina Noir or because those in control of the ‘disappeared’ material had received (or possibly only feared) threats from those protesting against Innocence of the Muslims. Material is lost from the web all the time and the disappearance of a sizeable proportion of the available data about (and images of) Amina Noir is a timely reminder of this; whether you believe this to be a good or bad thing (or are largely indifferent to it) probably depends on a complex series of factors.
The producer and backers of The Innocence of the Muslims are clearly a bunch of racist far-Right nutjobs. That said, I’m still not at all taken with the slogan “Behead Those Who Insult The Prophet” (popular among some of those protesting against Innocence Of The Muslims – but let’s not forget that the idiots using this slogan are actually only a tiny minority of those who adhere to an Islamic worldview). Stupid formulations such as the one I’ve just cited should, of course, be transmogrified into messages that are much more positive and reasonable, such as: “Praise Those Who Insult The Capitalist God Of Profit!”
And while you’re at it don’t forget to check – www.stewarthomesociety.org – you know it makes (no) sense!
Comments
Comment by Lucy Johnson on 2012-09-20 18:45:28 +0000
Praise indeed! A tricky area and one that I must say I am somewhat afraid to wade in on…
Comment by david moss on 2012-09-20 20:50:41 +0000
I keep saying the same thing to the people talking about the riots and protests “meanwhile in other news, hundreds of millions of Muslims not rioting in non protest at dubious film”
Comment by mistertrippy on 2012-09-20 22:23:15 +0000
It is kinda amazing that it needs explaining… I mean here in London there were less than 200 at the anti-Innocence of the Muslims demo…. which is a tiny tiny tiny fraction of the number of Muslims who live in London. You just have to look at the footage to see it ain’t that many people. It was the same with the riots in London last year, I mean it was really small and you could see that from the footage but the media blows it out of all proportion…..
Comment by Wolfgang Airvent Brabinger on 2012-09-20 23:20:17 +0000
yeah real strange I wonder who is Propheting from all this. I will be in town of Florence tomorrow hurling insults at the Capitalilst God of profit, and sticking a sticker or two on a certain Iffy bank.. I trust I will be well praised .:.
Comment by Hugh Mulhall on 2012-09-21 00:13:42 +0000
Amina Noir has teeth places other people have bank accounts!
Comment by Zen Master K on 2012-09-21 16:38:17 +0000
Amina Noir is the new Sammy Marshall!
Comment by Hugh Mulhall on 2012-09-21 17:04:40 +0000
and Amina Noir’s firelighter had got damp along with a fungal infection – was it you?
Comment by Fraser Malone on 2012-09-21 18:15:25 +0000
Amina Noir stole my magic mushrooms and the sound of her voice gives me a headache!
Comment by Lucy Johnson on 2012-09-21 19:17:21 +0000
So the media have blown it out of all proportion?
Comment by Lucy Johnson on 2012-09-21 19:18:32 +0000
Ah yes that is what you are saying…journo scum ’nuff said…
Comment by mistertrippy on 2012-09-22 01:16:28 +0000
In the Anglo-American press not just journo scum but mostly also racist journo scum… but you took the words right out of my mouth!
Comment by The Man in the Iron Mask on 2012-09-23 12:05:54 +0000
Amina Noir – please make yourself known! I’d like you in my cast of the film re-make of THE ARABIAN NIGHTS. This is a contradiction in terms of course because the tales are told in order to be perpetually re-told – the idea of the re-make is already built into the ‘original’. Perhaps I should call what I wish to attempt a Brechtian ‘make-over’? Regardless, there will be plenty of sex and violence and a look at how much the eastern bazaar influenced mercantile capitalism – the Captiptalist God had one foot in 16c Basel and the other in Babylon. Or did He? it will be open to discussion in the re-work itself… Salman Rushdie – make yourself known! I want you to be in my ARABIAN NIGHTS too in a tale within a tale which will also function as a parody of a snuff movie. For real: you will be executed on camera in Cell Unit 4 +2 for crimes against English prose and collaborating with U2. You will be strangled with a pair of your own short-arse baggy trousers, the ones you time-share with Alan Yentob your body-double in real life – and in the movies if you so wish and if he also makes himself known…
Comment by Lucy Johnson on 2012-09-23 12:13:33 +0000
Do it ‘M i t I M’-it will be ‘bare hilare’.
Comment by Mark E. de Sad on 2012-09-23 12:13:45 +0000
Humanity will not be happy until the last literary bore is strangled with the guts of the last fetish model…. and don’t forget kids this formulation (slightly altered) is the product of European rationalist enlightenment not fundamentalism. And while you’re at it don’t forget to ‘praise those who insult the capitalist god of profit’!
Comment by Lucy Johnson on 2012-09-23 12:15:03 +0000
Does The Man in the Iron Mask have a book out? I want to read it!!
Comment by Lucy Johnson on 2012-09-23 12:15:24 +0000
Sod J K Rowling!
Comment by Lucy Johnson on 2012-09-23 12:16:45 +0000
I will be ‘praising those who insult the capitalist god of profit’ fo’sure…
Comment by mistertrippy on 2012-09-23 12:43:50 +0000
Me too! BTW the identity of The Man In The Iron Mask is a closely guarded secret known only to himself…. but a close reading of his comments leads me to suspect he is more involved in the world of film than publishing… so you may have to settle for watching one of his movies rather than reading one of his books…..
Comment by Crazy Red on 2012-09-23 15:30:22 +0000
“Amina Noir”, “Violet Blue” – when do all these north American porno chicks adopt such stupid names?
Comment by Sid The Spammer on 2012-09-23 16:22:59 +0000
I left 10 comments on this blog and they’ve all disappeared too!