Box Office Bombs

Guess the number of movies that have featured Arabs or Mid-Easterners as terrorists since 9/11.

The number, zero, zip, nada, none.

Who are the preferred terrorists of videoland? Here are the movies and the nationalities of the terrorists:


MOVIE
Die Hard (1988)
Die Hard 2(1990)
Under Siege (1992)
Speed (1994)
Die Hard 3 (1995)
Under Siege 2 (1995)
The Rock (1996)
Air Force One (1997)
The Peacekeeper (1997)
Speed 2 (1997)
Collateral Damage (2002)
The Sum of All Fears (2002)
xXx (2002) TERRORISTS
European
American
American
American
European
American
American
Russian
Eastern European
American
Colombian
Eastern European
Eastern European

Why does CAIR raise such a fuss when a television show dares to show Muslims as terrorists? No other group seems to mind when its members play the bad guys. Maybe it's because they can shrug it off as pure fiction. But for CAIR, it seems to hit a little too close to home.

If CAIR wants to stop Muslims from being stereotyped as terrorists, it shouldn't be worrying about American movies and television shows. It should be worrying about Muslim terrorists.


Belmont Club comments on this issue also:

And it would be well to remember, for those who rejoice in watching George Bush pay the penalty for his errors, that the Wheel may round on us too. That one day we may awake to world grown weary of our childhood. Alone in the movies. And the lawmen gone away.

Sgt. Mom wrote:

I think that basically, they're too afraid to actually make movies dealing with it all... I wrote about this in a memo to Hollywood in mid 2003:
"...since even mentioning the Religion of Peace ™ in connection with things like terrorism, mass-murder, and international plots for a new caliphate is a guarantee to bring CAIR and other fellow travelers seething and whining in your outer office… ohh, best not. Drag out those old villainous standby Nazis, or South American drug lords, even the odd far-right survivalist for your theatrical punch-up, secure in the knowledge that even if you piss off what few remains of them, at least they won’t be unleashing a fatwa on your lazy ass, or sending a suicide bomber into Mortens’. Just ignore the three large smoking holes in the ground; cover your eyes and pretend it away. Never happened, religion of peace, all about oil, la-la-lah, fingers in my ears, I can’t hear you.