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February 15, 2006
On Fanning Flames
A new movie just hit Turkish theaters and it's quite a hit. According to today's Sacramento Bee Turkish movie theaters are packed with Turks anxious to see the film. So what's all he hub bub? The film is a depiction of American soldiers commiting horrible acts against Muslims. Realize, this is a work of fiction, all done with actors, not a documentary.
So, you might say, the Turks make no pretense about hating us, what's the big deal? The big deal is that the two main villians in the movie are American actors. Billy Zane plays an American solider who at one point in the movie is backed into a corner by the vallian Muslim army and threatens to blow up himself and a crowd of nearby children up rather than surrender and account for his evil deeds. Gary Busey plays an American doctor who cuts the organs out of still living Muslim POW's and sells them to Isreal for America. He, at one point, becomes quite upset because the American prison guards are killing so many POW's that he has no organs left to steal.
I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what would induce two Americans to agree to roles such as these. Granted, they're not first-class actors and so maybe hard times call for desperate measures. But perhaps a shampoo commerical could have been available. Muslims don't seem to need any more excuse to pitch a fit and riot, Pakistani Muslims are still rioting violently over the cartoon depiction of Muhammed. Every time something of this line comes up, a riot insues, the riot turns violent, and the violence is directed towards Americans. I think if a single act of violence is directed towards a single American over this movie Zane and Busey need to be held responsible. After all, they had to have known what their part in that movie could cause.
Posted by at February 15, 2006 04:02 PM