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According to Reuters, "Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat has watched Mel Gibson's controversial Passion of the Christ at a private screening and said it was not anti-Semitic" (link from Volokh).

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Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who had not seen or heard the movie before his own death, thought Mel Gibson's depiction of the Jews in The Passion of the Christ was restrained, given Hollywood's penchant for using attack helicopters for special effects.

In a related story, "Fox News reported that all that was left of the blind, wheelchair-bound Muslim killer was his head."

When asked by his wife if he found the movie excessively violent, Pastor Jose Geraldo Soares had no comment.