With “Taken,” Hollywood Inches Closer to Melting “Thou Must Whitewash Islam” Rule
by Debbie SchlusselWith “Taken” debuting at the box office today, we’re inching closer to the melting of the post-9/11 “Thou Must Whitewash Islam” commandment.
Since 9/11, Hollywood is taken with the politically correct idea that they’re not allowed to portray Muslims as terrorists, or when they do, it’s to glorify the terrorists and justify their behavior–that America deserves it and made them do it. Or–a la “24″–that Muslim terrorists are always working for the American White man. Instead, Hollywood, post-9/11, made terrorists and hijackers, everyone BUT Muslims. There were Black Men with AIDS from Africa (”The Interpreter“), Federal Air Marshals and airline stewardesses, er . . . “flight attendants” (”Flight Plan,” exec produced by my uber-leftist cousin, Charles J.D. Schlissel), White Christians (a number of movies and TV shows) and everyone else you can think of . . . except Muslims, who make up the majority of real-life terrorists plotting against America today.
Part of this is the ultra-PC mentality of Hollywood, which hates all religion but for Islam because so many Muslims share Hollywood’s hatred for America. The other part of it is that Hollywood execs are lazy, and they want to pacify the constant Islamic Whine Industry–the cretins at unindicted HAMAS-funding co-conspirators CAIR, MPAC, ADC, and the rest of the alphabet soup of halal baloney.
But this 9/Eleventh commandment of Hollywood is thawing in tiny, subtle ways. Last year, in “Vantage Point,” although the terrorists aren’t identified outright as Muslims, we’re subtly told that they are. One of the main terrorists opens his locker at work, and in it, we see a quick shot of a picture of his wife in a hijab, the Muslim headscarf for women.
In “Taken,” retired CIA agent Liam Neeson’s daughter is kidnapped by an Albanian Muslim sex slavery ring in Paris. And while the movie doesn’t outright tell us they are Muslims, the filmmakers show us several quick close-up shots of tattoos on the hands of the men who head the ring–crescents and stars, the religious symbols of Islam.
Then, there are the people who “acquire” his daughter. They are obviously Arabs, who speak Arabic, and they are Muslims–their boss is “the Sheikh” on the yacht (Sheikhs are exclusively Muslim). And for once, they are the criminal thugs, the sex slavers, the murderers–without apology or excuse.
Just the way it was on 9/11.
It’s partly for this reason that I liked “Taken” immensely. But also, it’s just a great, clever, action thriller. Read my full review of this and the other new releases at the box office, including the surprisingly good “The Uninvited,” and “New in Town,” which endlessly mocks and derides Middle America. You know?–Small town Americans with good values. Sadly, there’s no Hollywood Commandment against vilifying them. And so it continues.
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Ms. Schlussel ommitted “Clear and Present Danger” where an excellent novel was made into a second rate movie by changing the Palestinan terrorists who detonated a nuclear bomb in the U.S. into totally unbelievable Aryan Nazi White Supremist wackos or whatever they were supposed to be.
paseodelnorte:
You are correct. That was actually changed relatively last minute (as far as movies go) because of 9/11. Apparently Clancey was PISSED OFF about it and swore never to do another movie with Hollywood again unless they give him full editorial discretion.
I was able to get my hands on an advance copy of “Taken”. This is a terrific film. It grabs hold of your senses quickly and doesn’t let go. Liam Neeson does a fantastic job as a ex-CIA operative… and being a Dad myself, I could feel the unrelenting anger and desire to track and kill those who dare take my daughter. Not a PC movie in my opinion and why I think this will do extremely well at the box office.
Don’t forget the excellent “Sleeper Cell” (2005) which was done for Showtime.
Jeesh…come on Debbie, just go all the way and declare that all Muslims should be required to live in internment camps and wear yellow crescents. How about some laws prohibiting Muslims from owning property, attending schools, and holding jobs?
The fact that you let this bigoted woman post on this blog erodes whatever credibility you had.
>> To an extent, the villains in Iron Man were subtley muslim as well.
Yeah that was the one thing annoying about Ironman. Yeah, he was fighting the Taliban at first, but as the plot thickens, it turns out that it is the evil white male defense contractor corporation guy that is behind everything! Muahahahaaa! That was like 6 cliches rolled into one.
>> Jeesh…come on Debbie, just go all the way and declare that all Muslims should be required to live in internment camps and wear yellow crescents. How about some laws prohibiting Muslims from owning property, attending schools, and holding jobs?
LOL, did you even read what she wrote?
“so many Muslims share Hollywood’s hatred for America.” Saying that line is sheer ignorance, just doesn’t sum it up well enough.
Dan-O The Taliban were funded and supplied by the CIA while they were fighting the commies…
Wait until gay marriage takes hold in America. The White Christian will be the face of evil in Hollywood.
@ Daddy-O who wrote: “Hollywood picks on “Black Men with AIDS from Africa”, “flight attendants”, and “White Christians”, because these groups will not leave you dead with a knife buried in your chest”
Muslims are taught to kill anyone who doesn’t agree with them. Don’t believe it? Read their own fable-book!
The truth is a b*tch.
Kind of like arguing with a liberal. Anyone who doesn’t agree with a liberal is a skinhead/racist/igorant __________.
Not only did I read what Debbie wrote, I’ve also read OTHER columns that Debbie has written. It may surprise Herr Schlussel, but the VAST majority of Muslims aren’t murdering fanatics hellbent on imposing their religious views on everyone. Yet, she consistently intermixes Terrorists who are Muslim with all Muslims. This is the same bait and switch tactic that anti-Semites use, you know the people who say “I don’t hate Jews, I just hate Zionists”.
Take a look at PinkFreud’s comments, which clearly are influenced by what Debbie wrote.
Remember the so-called Sunni Awakening in Iraq? That’s when the Sunnis rebelled against AQ in Iraq because of the moronic wahabbi rules they tried to implement? And lo and behold, the Sunnis’ attacks on American soldiers began to dissipate.
HOWEVER, if you suddenly decide that all villains in the movies ought to be slobbering bloodthirsty Muslims, what do you think will be the result over the long haul? A moderate or non-radical Muslim might begin to think “I’ve never acted like that but no matter what I do the Americans will ALWAYS think that I’m plotting to kill them”. It’s easier for AQ to recruit when America so willfully cedes the “hearts and minds” high ground when the Debbie Schlussels of the world get listened to.
Debbie Schlussel, this is a nice article and all — you’ve dotted some i’s and crossed some t’s — but if you would have spent 2 seconds, literally, looking up who actually made this movie, you would see that Hollywood was as involved in its production as Rush Limbaugh was. i.e., this isn’t a Hollywood movie. Far from it. The FRENCH makers of the film “District 13″ made this film.
Swing and a miss. Nice straw man you’ve created here.
Production Companies: EuropaCorp, M6 Films, Grive Productions
Financiers: EuropaCorp, Studio Canal, TPS Star
Filming Locations: Paris, France
Produced in: France
PS, Feel free to skip “Taken” and see “District 13″ instead as it is a much better action flick.
Yeah that was the one thing annoying about Ironman. Yeah, he was fighting the Taliban at first, but as the plot thickens, it turns out that it is the evil white male defense contractor corporation guy that is behind everything! Muahahahaaa! That was like 6 cliches rolled into one.
Don’t forget to throw on “He was a weapons manufacturer but decided he wanted to quit making weapons and instead make eco-friendly wave technology” at the end.
Loved Iron Man, thought it was a great movie, but that did kind of irk me.
>> Dan-O The Taliban were funded and supplied by the CIA while they were fighting the commies…
That isn’t the “story behind the story” that conservatives are too stupid to understand. It is a historical fact that explains how the Taliban rose to power, but little else.
The Taliban didn’t espouse and enforce their intolerant, women-hating suicidal religious extremist ways because the CIA funded them 40 years ago. They have these beliefs because there exists a sub-culture of the Muslim world that believes this crap, and has for centuries.
Pretending it’s not there and trying to attribute it to the evil westerner is a form of moral idiocy. Plus it’s just boring in a movie.
I have a different take on it.
I think that more than anything else the taboo of portraying Muslims as terrorists is about the belief that Americans are too stupid to understand that it doesn’t mean that they all are terrorists. A whole lot of people are massively invested in the belief that the average American Joe is an irrational, bigoted racist.
And before Titov has another aneurism, the entirety of our efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq depend on the firm belief that Muslims are rational human beings just like you and me.
When it comes to entertainment I think that it’s always good to have a counter-point to whatever is happening. It avoids stereotype as well as preaching. If you have a bad cop, you also have an honest one. If you have a disillusioned priest, you also have someone who’s faith is strong. If you’re trying to make a liberal statement you include an honest counter statement, and vice versa. If you’re worried about portraying Islamic terrorists, include a Muslim with the “good guys”.
I agree that the end was slightly annoying, but I think that “The Kingdom” did this very well.
See, Benjamin, your post is exhibit A as to what’s wrong with this site, and the mentality that permeates it.
I think that Debbie Schlussel’s rhetoric about Islamic terrorism is so completely over the top, that a reasonable person might begin to wonder that she might really hate MUSLIMS and not necessarily Muslim terrorists.
Personally, I think she’s a bigot. Yet, this site’s brand of conservatism is so extreme that because I don’t walk lockstep with Debbie’s tripe that means, to you, that Al Queda are my “heroes”? One would think that the Republicans’ incessant smearing of people who politically disagree as “traitors” or “unpatriotic” has had such diminishing returns the last few elections, that you guys wouldn’t be playing that card so much.
Of course, what Debbie knows about the art of movies is so limited, she makes Ben Lyons look like a writer for Cahiers du Cinema in comparison.
Saw the movie this afternoon and really liked it.
Synova, you’re absolutely right, Iraq and Afghanistan has to be predicated on the premise that Muslims are by and large not to dissimilar from us. That’s exactly why Abu Ghirab, secret rendition, 15 year olds being sent to Gitmo, and selling weapons to both sides of the Iran/Iraq war in the 1980’s makes it so incredibly difficult to win “hearts and minds”.
I absolutely agree with you that presenting a balanced approach to sensitive issues such as radical Islam avoids both the pitfalls of stereotyping and preaching, and can often to lead to better art or entertainment. Unfortunately, I don’t think Debbie Schlussel would see it that way, and would pen yet another vitriolic tome decrying the whitewashing of her rather black and white worldview.
Quote the rhetoric that bothered you, Titov.
What I read was an assertion, which seems entirely supportable, that Hollywood has gone out of its way to avoid portraying terrorists as Islamic and Muslims as terrorists.
And then I read the opinion that it was nice to see indications that this was starting to end.
Are you arguing that it is not *factual* that in the real world, today, most terrorists are Islamic? Do you suggest, somehow, that it isn’t true that movies made that might have been cast with Arabs as terrorists before 9-11 (and they were) were not cast with anything *but* Arabs or Muslims after 9-11?
Taken came out here in Australia a long time ago. I saw it a lot, and yes it is that good. This is an old-time hard-boiled action movie done right and without compromise.
Don’t be put off by the French connection. I started out unconvinced on that score, but Taken is all the proof we need that French guys can “get” action movies. I thought some of the action was slightly over-edited, but in retrospect it was much better than Quantum of Solace. There are flaws in Taken, but they are less than what we usually have to put up with.
Anyone who’s thinking they might see Taken probably likes what they saw in the trailer, but you’re wondering: does Taken really deliver that? Yes it does! Go see it!
In the Islamic issue: it’s not about that. It’s about a father and his daughter, and the father’s desperate determination to get the job done before her window of hope closes. We are shown that the threat to her is very real and very ugly, and he knows it too. The father starts desperate and becomes more so as he leans about the system he’s tearing apart.
Because of that desperation, all sorts of things get trampled: people, laws, and all sorts of politically correct taboos, not just the Islamic one. Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) literally does not have time for political correctness: the clock is ticking on his daughter, who we’ve seen he loves, and if you stall him with any kind of baloney, including oh-so-culturally-superior French baloney, you’ll wish you hadn’t.
re: Hey Dan-O – January 30th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Bro, all I know is that she writes an article about how in almost all the recent movies about terrorism, the terrorists are not Islamic. Not very PC, but a pretty interesting insight at least you have to admit.
And here’s where you go with it: “OH REALLY! What next, concentration camps?!?!”
I have no idea what her “other” writing are, nor do I care enough to try to find them. But I think you are going a little over the edge. I’m just sayin.
Titov, I agree with you 100%.
Synova, I wish there were NOT “a whole lot of people …massively invested in the belief that the average American Joe is an irrational, bigoted racist.”
But I have found (thanks to responses I get for some of my own blogs on social networking sites) that quite a few are.
I am sick to death of the American Likud (such as Schussel) and their relentless use of AV and print media to demonize Muslims, in order to advance their own goals.
Tell me why Netanyahu “predicted” 9/11 six years before it happened (assigning the blame OF COURSE to Muslim extremists).
Is he radically psychic or did he tell us something about himself, the “five dancing Israelis”, and the whole bloody state of Israel.
how many years did it take the “muslim leadership” (i.e. religious leaders, school leaders, political leaders, community leaders, etc) to speak out against the muslim fanatics and their violent ways? How long did it take from them to reject the violence?? It took years before “their leadership” stood up and said “this is wrong”. And this is what is disgraceful about “the rest of the muslims”. They seem content to just let the fanatics run with it. They don’t actually go out and try to denie and defeat those in their religion that tarnishes the whole thing.
Since it seems the bulk of REAL LIFE terrorists turn out to be Muslim, it is curious Hollywood turns a blind eye. Hey, I am waiting for a good Anti-Mormon movie, now that they appear to be soley resonsible for Prop 8 having passed.
I think the Mormons are fair game, white, Christian and polite. Who do they think they are!
@ Richard
Look at the four attacks here on US soil, the towers twice (Muslims)
The Oklahoma bombing, and the Anthrax (good ol’ home grown white boys, probably Christian and conservatives to boot).
For quite a bit longer than six years before 9-11 Islamic terrorists were blowing stuff up.
I hardly think it takes prescience for someone to “predict” an attack such as the 9-11 attack.
*Before* 9-11 it wasn’t all that uncommon to have Islamic terrorists in a movie. Because, for years *before* 9-11 happened, Islamic terrorists were blowing stuff up.
The sad thing is that Muslims don’t need help demonizing themselves. Which is very unfair to the most of them I’m sure, but lets not pretend that the effort to win “hearts and minds” with car bombs and explosive vests has nothing to do with how Islam is viewed by the world.
Lurker, both the Oklahoma City bombing and the Anthrax thing were carried out by one or two people not associated, as far as I know, with a larger organization.
That’s not an excuse, it just means that it’s not the same category of thing.
I’m avoiding as many plot elements as I can because my wife and I plan to see this movie this weekend. But one thing that has struck me from checking the movie aggregator sites like RottenTomatoes is that the universal criticism applied by the left-wing critics who don’t like it is that it’s “grim” or “racist”. Which just goes to show you what a ridiculous fantasy land that type inhabits.
As a former, retired, counter-intel officer, who was forced to deal with many a crazy since 1972, I saw the movie Taken today. It is a fairly accurate portrayal of the human trafficking problem. Yes, most of the human traffickers are Moslems. A pox upon them and all that they touch. Americans as a Nation are very naive and foolish, living in a bubble about how dangerous and corrupt other nations of the world are and some particularly vile religions like the Thuggee, Kali, Church of Satan and Islam. Especially the American left, are totally clueless babies, in denial, about the real world and the evil just under the facade of civilization. Very much like the sheltered mother and the vapid teenage girls off to tour Europe in the movies.
For me, I will personally volunteer to push the button, to nuke Mecca and Medina; until both are but a vast trench in the ground and a new Red Sea inland bay. I would not shed a tear if the lot of them go off into the dust bin of history of perverted homicidal religions.
If any of my grandchildren were kidnapped for any purpose. I too would not trust the legal system or law enforcement to accomplish much. I would be less charitable than Liam Neeson’s character, Bryan.
I just got home from watching Taken, which is an excellent film.
Hmm. Debbie’s pretty harsh on anything that hits the big screen (I can’t think of any film she’s approved of late), so the fact that she gives this a thumbs up is newsworthy. I might just see Taken based on her review. If I go, it’ll be the first film I see this year. Number of films seen in theater *last* year: THREE. Call it a half-hearted boycott if you will. Fact is I’m sick of Hollywood and refuse to subsidize it.
Those of you with blind spots vis a vis islam, I recommend you go to jihadwatch.org and learn the ugly truth about that desert dogma. The Fifth Column Left, in their quest to destroy the West, have done wonders brainwashing the sheeple in the name of multiculturalism and diversity. Less than eight years later and already people have forgotten about 9/11. They’d rather crash on the couch and watch American Idol. So they turn a blind eye to harsh reality. Well, the reality is that islam has been waging war on the West for 1400 years. Jihad – not just inward “struggle” but violent war in the way of Allah – is mandated, not only by the holy koran, but by the violent example of Mohammend himself. Those who follow the tenets of their religion are good disciples. Hence, Usama bin Laden is the perfect muslim…precisely because he does exactly what the koran tells him to do. Mohammed would be proud of UBL.
Here’s a blurp from jihadwatch…
Let’s hope that Debbie’s right. It wouldn’t hurt the cause at all to enlist Hollywood in the War On Jihad. Tinseltown did its job rallying support for the fight against the Nazis and, to a lesser extent, against the Soviets. Unfortunately, the enemy today is even more determined to destroy us than ever before. The Nazis and Soviets weren’t willing to die for their causes; the jihadists ARE.
“Hey Dan-O – January 30th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Not only did I read what Debbie wrote, I’ve also read OTHER columns that Debbie has written. It may surprise Herr Schlussel, but the VAST majority of Muslims aren’t murdering fanatics hellbent on imposing their religious views on everyone. Yet, she consistently intermixes Terrorists who are Muslim with all Muslims. This is the same bait and switch tactic that anti-Semites use, you know the people who say “I don’t hate Jews, I just hate Zionists”.”
Yeah, and the “vast majority of Muslims”… (now there’s a oximoron) speak out against the crazys so vehemently!! Like when, uh yeah, er,….. geez, I guess I just can’t recall when they did that. I’m sure they did though. Right!!!!
Get back to us with all your chipper PC-ness when the long knives start coming out.
So tired of people trying to use that lame ”tha vast majority” of muslims are not terrorists. That’s NOT the point, you i*iots. The point IS that the majority of terrorists killing Americans ARE muslim.
W.a.k.e u.p!
Oh pleeeeze. Let’s repeat ad nauseum: all muslims aren’t terrorist all muslims aren’t terrorists. You’re all bigots if you think otherwise. Get enlightened and embrace the new multicultual world order.
*BARF*
Unfortunately, except for an infinitessimal minority, all terrorists are muslim, and all terror is done in the name of allah.
You want to consider minorities? Only a minority of Germans were actually True Believer Nazis. And the great majority of Nazis never personally harmed a Jew. The vast majority of KKK members, and
probably no living member of the Ku Klux Klan has ever lynched a black man. Very few Communists ever had anything to do with shipping people off to the Gulags. Only a small percentage of the total number of infected rats caused anyone to die of plague.
Nonetheless every Nazi, every KKK member, every communist, and every muslim is a vector of an ideology whose aim is nothing less than the destruction of Western Civilization, and the imposition of a totalitarian evil that seeks to force the rest of the human race under its heel. Even one plague infected rat is a danger.
Too, why don’t you make a list of everything you find admirable in islam, or moslem culture. What islamic beliefs would we in the west do well to embrace? What facet of moslem culture would we in the West do well to emulate? What islamic customs would we do well to adopt? The elevated status of women under sharia? The tolerance for others’ religious beliefs? Maybe the compassionate treament of homosexuals like in Iran or Saudi Arabia. Maybe the groovy religious festivals like Ashura. What contributions to western civilization flow from the lands and peoples under the heel of islam? What technologies, artworks, music, films, plays,or books from the moslem world fill our factories, laboratories, libraries, galleries, and theaters? Go on- add ‘em up for us. Oh- individuals from there who come here to work in the freedom created by The western world don’t count. Stuff created in the West belongs to the West.
Bottom line here: It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe in a global holy war for the future and soul of the human race. They do. And they are busy waging that war against you at this very moment. If you are not fighting them, you are helping them wage that war against us.
JWM
Titov,
You’re clueless – or, if I know CAIR, a plant. I spent two tours of duty in Kosovo in 2000 and later in 2001.
We were looking at folks tied with Al Qaeda daily. Many had muslim Arab connections.
They were the ones working on getting the guns and money to kill Serbs and eventually cause a ruckus with the KLA in neighboring Macedonia. Pity the Poor Muslim in Albania – they had to move heroin, sex slaves to Italy…
Wonder why there were so many gas stations in Kosovo in 2001 but not many cars Titov? Can you guess? Of course you know.
They we’re funded by the MUSLIM-led aid groups to help the KLA and you know it.
Work for CAIR much? Part of their disinformation campaign against Debbie, perhaps?
Enough of the damned Muslim-led terrorism. Grow the hell up and join the rest of the world and try to follow what limited peace the Koran speaks, for Islam added nothing new except forced conversions and mistreatment of others.
To all that read this: keep your eye on Titov-bet he comes and goes with other names to try to dissuade you all from staying right.
CAIR needs it’s useful idiots – they’ve found it in many in hollywood – and in Titov.
Christopher Nelson,
Said with all the unthinking unblinking certitude of a true Jihadist. Congratulations. You have become the thing that you hate.
This movie totally rocked!!! Go see it now!!!!
I recommend this film to conservative republicans only because there is no crap liberal bias in this movie. It’s action packed and pulls no punches which is what any action movie should do. Add in Liam Neeson and it’s a slam dunk.
Don’t forget all Muslims that got their towels in a bunch over True Lies before it opened, and that was pre-9/11
Hollywood Liberals are cowards who hate America. My friends and family boycott any movie with a liberal starring or directing. Liberals hate anything moral, honest, religious, or patriotic such as nuclear families. That is why there was such a deluge of hatred for Sarah Palin an intelligent, moral, strong political leader with a family. They want to portray the norm as gay, adultrous, murderers, and psychopaths as being “normal” so they will “feel good about themselves”. While not all Muslims are terrorists – all terrorists have been Muslim. My brother is a Lt.Colonel in the Air Force Intelligence. The people of Iraq are grateful to our troops, who not only have freed millions of Muslims,women now have rights instead of Hussein’s rape and torture rooms. Our military men and women organize soccer games, help build schools, rebuild buildings, etc. To the Iraqi people our military are heroes. They fear Iran will invade their country without our military presence. In Hollywood, our brave military are hated as they hate America, religion, our flag. Also, if you’ve read the Koran or understand their ideology (my brother is fluent in several middle eastern languages) their are three choices: Submit paying a continual tariff, convert to Islam, or die. Which do you choose? Frankly, I don’t think they need money so you can either convert or die. Hollywood Liberal cowards have already converted.
“Titov,
You’re clueless – or, if I know CAIR, a plant. I spent two tours of duty in Kosovo in 2000 and later in 2001.
We were looking at folks tied with Al Qaeda daily. Many had muslim Arab connections.
They were the ones working on getting the guns and money to kill Serbs and eventually cause a ruckus with the KLA in neighboring Macedonia. Pity the Poor Muslim in Albania – they had to move heroin, sex slaves to Italy…
Wonder why there were so many gas stations in Kosovo in 2001 but not many cars Titov? Can you guess? Of course you know.
They we’re funded by the MUSLIM-led aid groups to help the KLA and you know it.
Work for CAIR much? Part of their disinformation campaign against Debbie, perhaps?
Enough of the damned Muslim-led terrorism. Grow the hell up and join the rest of the world and try to follow what limited peace the Koran speaks, for Islam added nothing new except forced conversions and mistreatment of others.
To all that read this: keep your eye on Titov-bet he comes and goes with other names to try to dissuade you all from staying right.
CAIR needs it’s useful idiots – they’ve found it in many in hollywood – and in Titov.”
A great commentary! My brother is in Air Force Intelligence in Iraq. The people love our troops and are grateful they have been liberated from Saddam’s tyrannical rule. Women are gaining rights instead of the rape and torture rooms in Saddam’s palace. All Muslims may not be active terrorists but all terrorists are Muslim. Our airports should profile all Muslims to keep our airways safe. Too bad if their feelings get hurt. Hollywood doesn’t care about the thousands who dies on 9-11, they care that we don’t hurt Muslim’s feelings. CAIR has ties to Hamas and needs to be investigated. Also, boycott liberalism, starting with idiot actors, directors, who hate America.
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Rick Dees, Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt, Larry Elder – Libertarian, Dick Enberg, Shandi Finnessey, Mike Gallagher, John Gibson, Bob Grant, Mark Haines, Sean Hannity, Dave Harris, Elisabeth Hasselbeck,
Phil Hendrie, Democrat, but leans conservative. Supports George W. Bush and Iraq War.
Hugh Hewitt, E. D. Hill, Laura Ingraham, Tom Joyner, John Kasich, FOX-TV host; Megyn Kelly, Brian Kilmeade, Kim Komando, Lawrence Kudlow, Lars Larson, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Steve Malzberg, Dr. Phil McGraw, Michael Medved, Al Michaels, Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, Mancow Muller,Jim Nantz, Dennis Prager, Michael Reagan, Pat Sajak, Michael Savage, Randy Savage, Vin Scully, Shepard Smith, Michael Steele, Pat Summerall, Andrea Tantaros, Alex Trebek, Donald Trump, Andrew Wilkow, Armstrong Williams, Pete Williams,
Musicians:
Frankie Avalon, supported McCain for president in 2008, Beach Boys, Performed at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Kenny Chesney, Ted Nugent, Sammy Hagar, Sara Evans, Kellie Pickler, Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Lynyrd Skynyrd,Taylor Swift, Michale Graves, Prince, LeeAnn Rimes, Sammy Kershaw, Ran for Lt. Governor of Louisiana as a Republican, John Rich, of the country duo Big & Rich, performed at the 2008 Republican National Convention, STYX, Performed at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Cowboy Troy, Performed at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Gretchen Wilson, Performed at the 2008 Republican National Convention, Daddy Yankee, Endorsed John McCcain in 2008 [1] Charlie Daniels, Chad Sexton, Drummer for 311 Alice Cooper, Though a vocal opponent of stars in politics, also a strong supporter of Bush in 2004 John Rich, of Big and Rich. Wrote a song supporting John McCain. On this list twice! Carrie Underwood José Feliciano Lee Ann Womack Avenged Sevenfold Kid Rock Johnny Ramone
Filmmakers and Entertainment Executives:
Alan Jackson, Frank Capra, Lionel Chetwynd, Cecil B. DeMille,Walt Disney,Pat Dollard, Milos Forman, William Friedkin, Vincent Gallo, Mel Gibson, David Greenwalt, Merv Griffin, John Hughes, Rob Long, one of the producers of Cheers, Louis B. Mayer, Leo McCarey, John Milius, Tim Minear, Sam Raimi, Aaron Russo, Hollywood producer, Irving Thalberg, Jack Warner, Sam Wood,Richard Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, son of Darryl F. Zanuck; support of President Bush and Republicans 2004. David Zucker, Directed pro-Bush ad for conservative 527 group Club for Growth and An American Carol.
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PASEODELNORTE: You are correct, and I’ve noted that movie in past articles on this. But for this blogpost, I could not name every one of the vast body of movies that changed the terrorists and villains to other groups from Muslims. It just would have taken too long.
DS
Liam Neeson singlehandedly makes it okay to applaud real torture again, while libs worry about waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Voice of Reason – January 31st, 2009 at 10:12 am
“I remember Hollywood getting flack for always portraying hijackers as Muslim or Arabic. I remember “True Lies” getting heat from the Arabic community because it has Arabic terrorists with a nuclear bomb and that move was in the early 90’s. I think even “Delta Force: with Chuck Norris got heat for the same thing back in the 80’s.
To me “Muslim terrorists” is just a tired plot point by now. How about some North Korean terrorists or Asian Muslims? Or how about the good old stand by – the Russians? It worked really well for James Bond all those years? AND where is SPECTRE when you need them?”
Gee whizzz….. is it maybe because virtually all of the acts of terrorism in the world today are committed by, dare I say it, muslims?? Yes the plot point is tired but apparently not to them.
Hollywood should be taking on Islam and Muslim villains should be used to galvanize the public in opposition to the barbaric, anti-freedom, violent and anti- art ideology that is Islam – just as Hollywood once used films to oppose Nazism.
Haven’t screenwriters, producers and directors noticed that art is forbidden and violently suppressed in every Muslim culture? Haven’t they noticed that homosexuals are being executed in Tehran? Haven’t they noticed that women are beheaded for adultry in Saudia Arabia? Can’t they see the manifest evil of Palestinians who kidnap Israeli soldiers, torture and murder them and then return the bodies in pieces to their families after Israel releases live, healthy prisoners in exchange?
Hollywood’ avoidance of this issue amounts to not blindness, but the refusal to see. Whether because of fear or willful ignorance, they are missing one of the most crucial issues of our times. As a result, films of late are irrelevant to our civilization and generate little passion.
Lurker,
Check you facts with reliable sources. We funded the Northern Alliance of Achmed Shah Masood. I proudly sent checks to him too. That is where most of the funding went. Did some funds make their way to the Taliban? Probably. We also funded through Pakistan ISI, Suadi Arabia, Egypt, and Israel. Who cares, it was 25 years ago. Our biggest funding was to the USSR in WW2 and I don’t hear any Libs complaining about that
I think all ultra-left women should be required to live in a Muslim country for at least 30 days. No rights, you can’t drive or hold a job without permission. Put on the scarf, take care of the kids, walk behind me etc, etc.
If you get out of line, you have no rights! Perhaps it will be OK to stone you to death in public.
Oh, wait a minute. Except in Iraq, where the women went to the polls the other day and voted for well, women candidates>???????
How about that.
Won’t read that in the NY Times.
Some people don’t seem to understand ideology. I’ll try to explain it very simply – some ideologies are antithetical to freedom and some are the root of freedom. Ideologies that are consistent with freedom are good. The ones that are antithetical to freedom are bad for everyone who wants to use their own mind, to make their own choices in life and to prosper.
Islam is an evil ideology that is antithetical to freedom. It is not a religion, it is a totalitarian ideology just as Nazism and Communism are. Muslims that promote this primitive ideology are promoting evil. This not just a difference of opinion or a mutually valid lifestyle choice.
So, once more, for the trolls, Islam as a belief system is evil and should not be condoned or encouraged in any way. People may have the freedom in the U.S.A. to advocate evil (Neo-Nazis, Communists, etc.), but the potential victims of those ideologies have no obligation to forego condemnation and resistance.
And by the way, substituting the word Jew for the word Muslim reveals nothing except the poster’s inability to distinguish between a peaceful, pro-life ideology and an evil death cult.
EL GORDO:
When Bin Laden ceases to be the most popular figure in the Islamic world (ie., when jehenim–Arabic for Hell–freezes over) and when hundreds of thousands of Muslims don’t elect HAMAS and dance in the streets for its 22 anniversary, and when hundreds of thousands more around the world stop dancing in the streets and protesting on behalf of Islamic terrorist groups like Hezbollah and HAMAS, and when Muslims all over (ie., Ramallah and Patterson, NJ) stop dancing in the streets upon learning that 3,000 Americans were mass murdered, then I will share your policy of being strictly lumping all Muslims (or at least most of them) together with jihadis and criminal subcultures in certain countries.
DS
Rogan,
Very well put. However, these pro-islam folks are not listening. Of course, they are safely sitting in the USA at their computers, so talk IS cheap.
“I liked this movie because it portrays Muslims negatively”
lulz
Watch out A. O. Scott!
Watched the movie on Saturday and plan to go see it again.
No matter how knee jerk Titov (Tito) feels about the protrayal of terrorists and muslims, history rules out. This culture has produced a wing of itself that is dedicated to killing or ruling with an iron fist all who are not of their religion. Americans and some Euoropeans take exception to being told convert or die and will fight to their death to oppose them. If you don’t like it then go to a country where you feel you can co-exist with them, but be careful, some of those chains may be a little tight for your liking.
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