Daily Gut: Backlash Against the Backlash

And that’s the drill: concern over crimes that have never happened, as opposed to the terror that has.

So, denying the role militant Islam played in the Fort Hood atrocity is like staring at a shark bite and thinking, “bicycle.”

When a fundamentalist kills thirteen innocent people while shouting “allahu akbar,” Islam isn’t just a small player – it’s got a starring role. And now that U.S. intelligence admits Hasan tried to contact al Qaeda, it should make it increasingly hard for anyone to say otherwise.

I say it “should,” but it won’t.

Look at the news.

Over at Time, thoughtful types speculate over a “secondary trauma” that could have driven Hasan to kill. Never mind terror – one news network tells us we should focus more on “a backlash against Muslim soldiers.” On a major website, they want us to ponder the “next McVeigh.” And our very own Homeland Security secretary says she’s hard at work preventing “a possible wave of anti-Muslim sentiment.” (more…)

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Tags: al qaeda, Fort Hood, Ft. Hood, Hasan, Islam
Posted Nov 9th 2009 at 3:48 pm in Daily Gut | 260442256 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/11/09/daily-gut-backlash-against-the-backlash/Daily+Gut%3A+Backlash+Against+the+Backlash2009-11-09+23%3A48%3A47Greg+Gutfeld

Sheda Vasseghi: Profiles in Courage From the Streets of Iran for Hollywood’s Gutless Wonders

Sheda Vasseghi in today’s World Tribune:

“The mainstream Hollywood crowd, an apologist group that enjoys traveling to Taliban-run countries such as Iran spreading their holier-than-thou “cultural understanding” of rogue regimes, has been effectively censored by Moslem clerics. Filmmaker Roland Emmerich chose not to blow up the Kaaba at Mecca in his film 2012 for fear of a fatwa (death sentence issued by Moslem clerics) being placed on his head.

“Yet, in 2005, actor Sean Penn went to cover a so-called Islamic Republic “election” wanting Americans to visit Iran and become familiar with its culture. In March 2009, director Phil Alden Robinson found that Iranians were not very different; and actress Annette Bening (surely with a headscarf given Iran’s brutal enforcement of hijab) hoped her trip to Iran would jump start a bridge between the U.S. and the mullahs in Tehran. (more…)

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Tags: Annette Bening, hollywood, iran, Islam, Muslim
Posted Nov 6th 2009 at 8:30 am in Celebrity News, Politics | 25917058 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2009/11/06/sheda-vasseghi-profiles-in-courage-from-the-streets-of-iran-for-hollywoods-gutless-wonders/Sheda+Vasseghi%3A+Profiles+in+Courage+From+the+Streets+of+Iran+for+Hollywood%27s+Gutless+Wonders+2009-11-06+16%3A30%3A25Big+Hollywood

Pissing on Jesus: Hollywood Hates Us Exhibit 11,567

“Larry David would never do this to Muslims. He doesn’t have the guts.”

That’s missing the point.

Hypocrisy or a fear of how some wacko extremist might react has nothing to do with this. Hollywood constantly singles out Christians for cruel ridicule and the worst kind of stereotyping for one simple reason…

They hate us.

They hate our guts.

There’s nothing more complicated to this question than that.

I promise you that if every Muslim on the planet was as gentle as a kitten, it would still be Christians singled out by the entertainment industry at every opportunity. (more…)

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Tags: Christ, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Islam, Jesus, Jesus Christ
Posted Oct 29th 2009 at 5:54 pm in Celebrity News, Culture, Religion, Television | 255366313 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2009/10/29/pissing-on-jesus-hollywood-hates-us-exhibit-11567/Pissing+on+Jesus%3A+Hollywood+Hates+Us+Exhibit+11%2C567+2009-10-30+00%3A54%3A43John+Nolte

WeaPens Against Jihad

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Tags: Ideological War, Islam, jihad, Muslim, terrorists
Posted Oct 18th 2009 at 10:53 am in Art, Politics, Religion | 24263059 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bfawstin/2009/10/18/weapens-against-jihad/WeaPens+Against+Jihad2009-10-18+17%3A53%3A37Bosch+Fawstin

Principles? Leftists Don’t Need No Stinking Principles

I often find myself thinking that if liberals didn’t have double standards, they wouldn’t have any standards at all. 

For instance, consider the uproar from the left when Don Imus opened his silly yap about the black women on the Rutgers basketball team.  Now compare that to their response when David Letterman made his smarmy cracks about Sarah Palin and the governor’s 14-year-old daughter.  The liberals immediately sprang to his defense, pointing out that Letterman is nothing more than a TV personality and is therefore free to make offensive jokes without fear of censure.  So what do they think Don Imus is?  The secretary of state? 

Or consider how choleric those on the left become any time that Dick Cheney defends the former administration.  Well, if Obama and his cronies didn’t constantly attack Bush and Cheney and their policies, the chances are the ex-vice president wouldn’t feel compelled to set the record straight. Furthermore, Jimmy Carter never stopped bashing George Bush during the eight years he was the president, and yet nobody on the left ever suggested he shut up.  On the contrary, he was hailed at the 2004 Democratic convention, and even had the honor of being seated next to the patron saint of left-wingers, Michael Moore.  Speaking of Carter, how is it that he, who is always volunteering to monitor elections anywhere on earth, including the Westminster Dog Show, wasn’t in Iran, making sure that Ahmadinejad got 110% of the vote?  (more…)

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Tags: "China", Ahmadinejad, David Letterman, Don Imus, george bush
Posted Jun 27th 2009 at 3:03 pm in Featured Story, Politics | 16615423 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/06/27/liberals-don%e2%80%99t-need-no-stinking-principles/Principles%3F+Leftists+Don%27t+Need+No+Stinking+Principles2009-06-27+22%3A03%3A42Burt+Prelutsky

Terrorists and Tyrants Go Straight to Hell

At the risk of earning my place in The Masters of the Obvious Hall of Fame… I gotta say it.  They’re not ‘freedom fighters’, they’re not ‘brave Jihad warriors’, they’re not ‘overseas contingency operators’…they’re terrorists.  And they’re evil.  True, they are going to ‘meet their destiny’ but it’s not going to be what they think.  There are going to be some very disappointed souls who come to find that everything they believed in, indeed, so strongly that they sacrificed their short, pathetic, deluded lives for…was a total lie.  They have an appointment with eternity waiting for them, but there won’t be 72 virgins for them to defile forever.  Or even for an hour and a half.  Nah, none of that.  Ain’t gonna happen.  (And as Dennis Miller once said, “Hey, 72 virgins?  I can see it for a while, but after seven or eight of them…I’m gonna want to call in a pro.”) 

Nope.  Not saying I’ve consulted the Creator, but…I have it on good authority that that virgin-in-paradise thingie is just a cheap, bucket-o-baloney BS recruiting tool. 

Psych!

So all you would-be jihadist bombers with a hard-on to plant the IED’s that are designed to kill our brave servicemen… hey, find something else to do with your hard-on, Sparky, instead of waiting to use it on those 72 clueless virtual babettes.  If you’re that lonely and pathetic and worthless, hop on the ubiquitous 25-hour Internet porn sites, take tool in hand, and work out three minutes of your destiny right there in the privacy of your mud hovel.  Keep the explosives at home!  Your imagined glory doesn’t give a sh*t about you and you blowing up an American G.I. won’t keep you from an eternity of teeth gnashing and anal herpes, so get your head out of your poo-hole, and go get a real job – like maybe something that helps people instead of kills them.  Just a thought. (more…)

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Tags: 72 Virgins, ACLU, Christianity, extremism, IED
Posted Jun 19th 2009 at 5:03 am in Featured Story, Politics, Religion | 164606No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/06/19/terrorists-and-tyrants-go-straight-to-hell/Terrorists+and+Tyrants+Go+Straight+to+Hell2009-06-19+12%3A03%3A10Gary+Graham

A Revolution Named Zahra

There’s a “new” old name suddenly in circulation that is both filled with ancient history and ripe with a revolutionary spirit for today’s game-changing events.

Zahra.

Well known to Muslims, Fatima az-Zahra was one of four daughters of the prophet Muhammad. Today, Zahra is also the name of two important, outspoken women of Iran.

One is Zahra Rahnavard, the courageous and charismatic wife of the allegedly defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi. The other is Zahra Khanum, the equally courageous and charismatic woman portrayed in a new movie, “The Stoning of Soraya M.,” about the death of an Iranian woman on trumped-up charges of adultery.

Begging forgiveness for this confederacy of cliches, but we seem to have a perfect storm of tipping points. (more…)

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Tags: cyrus nowrasteh, Fatima az-Zahra, iran, Iran election, Kathleen Parker
Posted Jun 17th 2009 at 7:20 am in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 1634702 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/kparker/2009/06/17/a-revolution-named-zahra/A+Revolution+Named+Zahra++2009-06-17+14%3A20%3A12Kathleen+Parker

Burnt Offerings: President Obama Addresses the Islamic World

From time to time I feel like presenting a piece that should be read. This is one of them — sent to me by a very close friend in Congress. 

Obama’s Cairo Message: Limited Audience, Limited Impact 

1. President Barack Obama’s address at the Cairo University on June 4, 2009, which was billed in advance by his staff as a historic message of goodwill and reconciliation to the Islamic world, had a limited audience. Though projected as an address to the Islamic world, it was largely an address to the Arab world and focused largely on issues of interest to the Arabs.  

2. The Arabs constitute a minority in the Islamic world. Non-Arab Muslims living in countries such as India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Indonesia constitute the majority. The issues, which agitate them, are different from the issues which agitate the Arab world. Osama bin Laden understands this better than Obama and his advisers. That was why in his audio message released through Al Jazeera a day before Obama’s Cairo address, bin Laden focused on issues of immediate concern to the non-Arab Muslims in the Af-Pak region such as the large-scale displacement of Pashtuns from the tribal areas of Pakistan. By focusing on their plight and by holding the Americans responsible for it, he sought to make it certain that the anti-American anger in the Af-Pak region will increase rather than decrease.   (more…)

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Tags: bin Laden, Cairo, Islam, Muslim, Obama
Posted Jun 5th 2009 at 1:21 pm in Featured Story, Politics, Religion | 1527426 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/rdavi/2009/06/05/burnt-offering-president-obama-addresses-the-islamic-world/Burnt+Offerings%3A+President+Obama+Addresses+the+Islamic+World2009-06-05+20%3A21%3A24Robert+Davi

Angels, Demons and the Magical Missing Middle Easterner

A frequent cavil by participants in the Angels & Demons debate is, “It’s just a movie!” (Or, “It’s fiction!”)

The implication is that the filmmakers made this movie just so they could tell a ripping good yarn. Stipulating for the moment that it is a good yarn, there’s no way to show that the filmmakers were indeed fully cognizant of their movie’s cultural impact. There’s no way we can get inside their minds, right?

Hassassin Assassin

Well, I’ve figured out a way to do just that. No, I don’t have ESP or a special mind-reading device. But I do have common sense (pace my wife).

Now, whenever someone adapts a book into a movie, it’s instructive to examine where the movie differs from the book. If the movie version alters a key detail in the book, you can’t blame the original author for that decision. It’s clearly a deliberate choice on the part of the filmmakers. (more…)

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Tags: Angels and Demons, Art, Film, Middle Easterner, Muslim
Posted May 22nd 2009 at 3:33 pm in Entertainment, Religion | 140846One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/aleigh/2009/05/22/the-last-angels-and-demons-article-youll-ever-read/Angels%2C+Demons+and+the+Magical+Missing+Middle+Easterner2009-05-22+22%3A33%3A44Andrew+Leigh

The Newsrape Emails – #1

My Dear Scudworm -

Congratulations on the fine work you did with the recent Hollywood hoopla thing.  What are those golden statues called again…Arthurs?  Oscars?  Ollivers?  No matter.  The fine art of idolatry is becoming your forte, my dear nephew.  With the powers of a willing media and the brilliance of commercialism prevalent, it’s no wonder the masses turn to your town for direction and meaning.  I chuckle with delight to see how real meaning and substance is more and more becoming passé, and overlooked for the sizzle and bling of the ephemeral.  You make your uncle proud to see that you are once again the year’s big producer for thirty years running…and gaining even more new customers every month.

Your work on the special interest groups is particularly impressive.  You are keenly aware that, pound for pound of effort, this is where we gain the most purchase in our clawing scramble over the human psyche.  Continue to stress their inherent oppression and victimization, so that our aims may be met.  Nothing makes a poor soul feel more empowered than believing itself to be a part of a large, aggrieved and neglected group.  Build on their individual sense of outrage and anger, along with their helpless sense of futility.  Remind them that they are being victimized, and must demand their rights!  I know you are laughing right now, as am I.  But drive the seriousness of their indignant and violated pride, and demand restitution for the wrongs perpetrated upon them.  (As for the specific nature of these ‘wrongs’, either real or imagined, simply fill in the blank; a group is a group, and we can use any and all of them for our purposes.) And good that you can work the golden idols into so many hands that help legitimize our work. That Penn character is an excellent poster boy.  In fact, increase the irreverence, step up the hatred of our Enemy and brighten the public celebration of him, as his flippant outrageousness masquerades as gravitas.    We can trade on his magnetic popularity, and draw the proverbial moth to the flame.  Continue your brilliant work in framing his disrespect and hatred of Judeo-Christian ethics and traditional values as hip and ‘progressive’.    (more…)

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Tags: Christina, insidious influence, Islam, Kaballah, movies
Posted Mar 24th 2009 at 1:59 pm in Media Criticism, Politics | 88270One Commenthttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/03/24/the-newsrape-emails-1/The+Newsrape+Emails+-+%2312009-03-24+20%3A59%3A51Gary+Graham