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April 30, 2005

Hollywood bows to theocrats

A radical "religious" group gives approval of a new Hollywood movie, but only after the director and one of the lead actors assured them that during the production all scenes even the tiny bit critical or less than flattering to the religion's membership were excised or rewritten, even if that meant falsifying the historical facts being portrayed.

The sheer power of such theocratic interference should raise eyebrows and engender column inches in the Mainstream Media over such an obvious scandal of art controlled by an outside religious group.

But don't hold your breath, because we are not talking about the Religious Right, or even Christians.

In yet another case of Hollywood's kneejerk dhimmitude, Ridley Scott has delivered a historical whitewash of moslems in Kingdom of Heaven. Jeff of Beautiful Atrocities presents a succinct roundup of the terrorist-linked, moslem-theocratic group, CAIR, which has given its stamp of approval to Scott's moslem love-letter. (via LGF)

What animates Scott and others like him ... those that so completely kowtow to moslem "sensitivities" that there has been not one, NOT ONE, major movie since 9/11 that actually reflects the reality that most of the worlds' terrorism is moslem perpetuated? Even Tom Clancy's Sum of All Fears had its antagonists changed from moslems to neo-Nazis in order to get it from book to film.

And where are the films about 9/11 that deal directly with the 19 moslem hijackers, rather then something like Great New Wonderful, ostensibly about 9/11, that never mentions the date, the event or anything about what actually happened, but has produced inane ramblings from one of its actresses that 9/11 was really the fault of America in the first place.

Is it fear? Does Scott (et al) think by refusing to address historical and contempory moslem atrocities they will avoid the fate of Rushdie or Theo Van Gogh?

Or is it such a deep self-hate that anyone that opposes Judeo-Christian culture gets their automatic enthusiasm?

This isn't laughable PC-ism anymore. Scott and his Riefenstahlish Kingdom will not be receiving any money from this family.

Posted by Darleen at April 30, 2005 09:01 PM

Comments

We, a few of my friends in "the business", were just talking about this. Remember all the WWII movies when the Germans were the bad guys or during the Cold War and the Soviets were the bad guys, is it becuase we are so afraid of being called racist (since Germans and Russian's are "white") that there have been very few Muslim bad guys? When the show "24" on Fox had their bad guys be Muslims they did PSAs with Keifer Southerland doing these "not all Muslims are bad." crap.

It's not like they had to come out and qualify that all Russians were not bad people. But then, some Americans were MORONS, mostly from Texas, who after 9/11 and went out and shot or mauled innocent Muslim-Americans. Remember, even in CA that Sikh (SP?) was killed by a jack-ass who didn't know the difference.

It is curious though.

Posted by: Mieke at May 1, 2005 08:00 AM