The Freedom Fighter's Journal: ISLAMIC TERRORISTS NOW THE BUTT OF MOVIE HUMOR

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

ISLAMIC TERRORISTS NOW THE BUTT OF MOVIE HUMOR

By Govindini Murty. There’s a welcome new development giving me some hope that the cultural battle over the War on Terror may finally be tipping over on the side of democracy. A number of British Muslim and non-Muslim filmmakers are making films satirizing Islamic radicalism. The most successful of these right now is the new film Four Lions, a comedy about four bumbling Muslim terrorists in England that – astonishingly – showed at Sundance this past January and was picked up for distribution in the U.K. Directed by Chris Morris and featuring Riz Ahmed, Kayvan Novak, Arsher Ali, Nigel Lindsay, and Adeel Akhtar, Four Lions opened a little over a week ago in the U.K. and has been doing terrific business. As the UK Guardian reports, Four Lions had the highest per screen average of any new release in the U.K. when it opened over the May 7th weekend, beating out even Iron Man 2 in per-screen average.

The bumbling terror cell from "Four Lions."

The hilarious trailer for Four Lions is posted above, and you can find out more about the film here and here. I’m very heartened by this new development. The extraordinary thing is, Four Lions isn’t the only such film satirizing radical Islam. Jason and I have discovered an amazing number of recent new films by English and European filmmakers, many of them Muslim, who are openly questioning the tenets of radical Islam. Stay tuned as we post more about these films in days to come. As numerous media commentators have noted, Islam has never gone through a Reformation as Christianity has, but if films like Four Lions and numerous others show, that process of questioning within the Muslim community may now be underway.

In the struggle for freedom, one can never write off an entire people or an entire religion. There are many moderate Muslims who want to embrace democracy and fight terrorism, and these films are a powerful sign of that. We should support the brave filmmakers and actors who make films like Four Lions. There’s no U.S. release announced yet, but with the film’s success in the U.K., let’s see if a U.S. distributor picks this up.

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Muslims Eat Their Own Children

"Speaking through an American interpreter, Lieutenant David Wallach who is a native Arabic speaker, the Iraqi official related how al Qaeda united these gangs who then became absorbed into “al Qaeda.” They recruited boys born during the years 1991, 92 and 93 who were each given weapons, including pistols, a bicycle and a phone (with phone cards paid) and a salary of $100 per month, all courtesy of al Qaeda. These boys were used for kidnapping, torturing and murdering people.
At first, he said, they would only target Shia, but over time the new al Qaeda directed attacks against Sunni, and then anyone who thought differently. The official reported that on a couple of occasions in Baqubah, al Qaeda invited to lunch families they wanted to convert to their way of thinking. In each instance, the family had a boy, he said, who was about 11 years old. As LT David Wallach interpreted the man’s words, I saw Wallach go blank and silent. He stopped interpreting for a moment. I asked Wallach, “What did he say?” Wallach said that at these luncheons, the families were sat down to eat. And then their boy was brought in with his mouth stuffed. The boy had been baked. Al Qaeda served the boy to his family." -- Michael Yon

IDEA POWER

"Ideas power men. Men power cultures. Cultures power civilizations. Civilizations power history. Ideas are the fuel of man's mind.

It is not a question of whether man chooses to be guided by [philosophy]: he is not equipped to live without it." (Ayn Rand)

"History is philosophy teaching by example "(Lord Bolingbroke)

"The trouble with nations is that there is an unequal distribution of capitalism. "(Rush Limbaugh)

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. "(Thomas Jefferson)

T.R. On Islam

The following passages were written in 1916 in Teddy Roosevelt’s book, “Fear God and Take Your Own Part”, reproduced in “What Every American Needs to Know About the Qur’an” by William Federer.

Christianity is not the creed of Asia and Africa at this moment solely because the seventh century Christians of Asia and Africa had trained themselves not to fight, whereas the Moslems were trained to fight.Christianity was saved in Europe solely because the peoples of Europe fought. If the peoples of Europe in the seventh and eighth centuries, an on up to and including the seventeenth century, had not possessed a military equality with, and gradually a growing superiority over the Mohammedans who invaded Europe, Europe would at this moment be Mohammedan and the Christian religion would be exterminated. Wherever the Mohammedans have had complete sway, wherever the Christians have been unable to resist them by the sword, Christianity has ultimately disappeared. From the hammer of Charles Martel to the sword of Sobieski, Christianity owed its safety in Europe to the fact that it was able to show that it could and would fight as well as the Mohammedan aggressor. …..The civilization of Europe, American and Australia exists today at all only because of the victories of civilized man over the enemies of civilization because of victories through the centuries from Charles Martel in the eighth century and those of John Sobieski in the seventeenth century. During the thousand years that included the careers of the Frankish soldier and the Polish king, the Christians of Asia and Africa proved unable to wage successful war with the Moslem conquerors; and in consequence Christianity practically vanished from the two continents; and today, nobody can find in them any “social values” whatever, in the sense in which we use the words, so far as the sphere of Mohammedan influences are concerned.There are such “social values” today in Europe, America and Australia only because during those thousand years, the Christians of Europe possessed the warlike power to do what the Christians of Asia and Africa had failed to do — that is, to beat back the Moslem invader.

.....victorious with terror

"I have been made victorious with terror"

Narrated Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "I have been sent with the shortest expressions bearing the widest meanings, and I have been made victorious with terror (cast in the hearts of the enemy), and while I was sleeping, the keys of the treasures of the world were brought to me and put in my hand." Abu Huraira added: Allah's Apostle has left the world and now you, people, are bringing out those treasures (i.e. the Prophet did not benefit by them). Fighting for the Cause of Allah (Jihaad) Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 52: Volume 4, Book 52, Number 220

THE S.E.A.L. MOTTO

We train for war and fight to win. I stand ready to bring the full spectrum of combat power to bear in order to achieve my mission and the goals established by my country. The execution of my duties will be swift and violent when required, yet guided by the very principles I serve to defend.

Brave men have fought and died building the proud tradition and feared reputation that I am bound to uphold. In the worst of conditions, the legacy of my teammates steadies my resolve and silently guides my every deed. I will not fail.

Danger To The West

The biggest danger to the West is this climate of defeatism, appeasement, and cultural collapse now on display for the Islamists to see. This is the single biggest impetus to Islamist terrorism. We all have to grasp that terrorism is not the biggest threat we face. The biggest threat is the ideology that drives it. It’s not enough to fight terror, vital though that is. The principal battleground is the world of ideas, the battle for hearts and minds. The Islamists see this very clearly. They understand that psychological warfare — the fomenting of paranoia, resentment, hysteria, and demoralization — is their most effective weapon. If they can hijack the human mind to the cause of hatred and lies, they have an army; and if they can bamboozle and demoralize their victims, they will win.