Pat Sajak skewers Hollywood's dhimmi silence over the murder of Theo van Gogh. From Human Events, with thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist:
Picture this:Somewhere in the world, a filmmaker creates a short documentary that chronicles what he perceives as the excesses of anti-abortion activists. An anti-abortion zealot reacts to the film by killing the filmmaker in broad daylight and stabbing anti-abortion tracts onto his body. How does the Hollywood community react to this atrocity? Would there be angry protests? Candlelight vigils? Outraged letters and columns and articles? Awards named in honor of their fallen comrade? Demands for justice? Calls for protection of artistic freedom? It’s a pretty safe bet that there would be all of the above and much more. And all of the anger would be absolutely justified.
So I’m trying to understand the nearly universal lack of outrage coming from Hollywood over the brutal murder of Dutch director, Theo van Gogh, who was shot on the morning of November 2, while bicycling through the streets of Amsterdam. The killer then stabbed his chest with one knife and slit his throat with another....
Perhaps they are afraid that their protests would put them in danger. That, at least, is a defensible position. If I were Michael Moore, I would much rather rail against George W. Bush, who is much less likely to have me killed, than van Gogh’s murderer and the threat to creative freedom he brings. Besides, a man of Moore’s size would provide a great deal of “bulletin board” space.
Maybe they think it would be intolerant of them to criticize the murder, because it would put them on the side of someone who criticized a segment of the Arab world. And, after all, we are often reminded that we need to be more tolerant of others, especially if they’re not Christians or Jews.
There’s another possibility; one that seems crazy on the surface, but does provide an explanation for the silence, and is also in keeping with the political climate in Hollywood. Is it just possible that there are those who are reluctant to criticize an act of terror because that might somehow align them with President Bush, who stubbornly clings to the notion that these are evil people who need to be defeated? Could the level of hatred for this President be so great that some people are against anything he is for, and for anything he is against?
I personally think it is unthinking knee-jerk multiculturalism, combined with a contempt for all things remotely "conservative."
Artists should be at the forefront of the condemnation of Theo van Gogh's murder and the worldwide assault on freedom of expression. Hollywood's silence is a betrayal of their brothers and sisters in the artistic community who are sticking their necks out defending and promoting human rights.
What a bunch of self-serving cowards. Damn them all.
The situation "Moore- Germany" reminds me of the Reagan era when many of my countrymen- and women were taking part at rallies against Pershing II.
But history showed that they were wrong and Reagan right.
So, when Mr. Bush comes to visit Europe, I would be glad to take part at a pro- Bush demonstration.
I wonder if Pat Sajak will be ostracized like Ron Silverman?
'Could the level of hatred for this President be so great that some people are against anything he is for, and for anything he is against? '
OF COURSE!
except for 'some people' replace with europe and the american left.
If Holywood makes a film about Theo, he will be shown as a racist bigot so better they keep quiet as the have done, since that image is already being fabricated by the Euro MSM.
helloo ,,,sorry but o/t ,,someone posted a link to a video news piece of a holland cab driver ,explaining wh ythey cant speak out against islam ,,i cant find it ,can you post it again
thanks ,,,mark
To mark7762
IS this the link posted by Andrew you were looking for? I tried it a few minutes ago and it still works.
http://fomi.ytring.dk/Video/vanGogh-DTV2.wmv
They are concerned with profit, and not offending The Prophet, much like many of the 1930's era Hollywood producers/studios/actors/advertisers -who did not wish to offend the lucrative trade with the movie-loving Nazis, by showing anything critical of their Aryan lunacy- (until it was too late).
The gutless wonders in Hollywood now fear offending a major chunk of their cash-cow audience in the Muslim world by demonstrating anything approachng the vertebrate level of sentient life.
Only a few entertainment world types in the Nazi era (the Warner Brothers) dared to take a stand against Hitler's blatant madness, while cretins in the parallel economy like Henry Ford shipped technology to the Wehrmacht (and Stalin, as well) that enabled them to slaughter millions with more mechanical efficiency and to defeat the first American assualts on North Africa (with surperior vehicles). Cowardly sympatheizers like Charles Lindbergh also advocated de facto surrender to the 'Ubermensch', since he thought America wasn't as determined or technically savvy as the swatika-wearing, smart-dressed servants of nihlisitic intellectual suicide.
Where Pay Sajak got the cojones, I'd like to know.
I'll have to start watching Wheel of Fortune- to see how long it is before the set is bombed in retaliation for his [oblique] insult to the Prophet.
(Wasnt there a movie about Mohammad by some major studio in the early 1970's*- I think with Anthony Quinn as the desert warlord- and, if I remember it correctly, they were not allowed to show his face on screen???)
[*Oliver Stone needs to do a remake, and be as wild with the facts as he was with "JFK". But, then, he says he is planning to move to France, so don't count on it...]
Oliver Stone was actually just in the Netherlands and did criticise the killing of van Gogh by the pious muslim who not only killed van Gogh but also did it on a stolen bicycle after having plotted the murder on Dutch welfare. They even asked Stone if he wanted to direct Submission part 2 since the there is presently a vacancy for the job. Unfortunately he declined. Anyhow, I'm not sure I get the anti-Hollywood thing here. I'm sure many people in Hollywood are shocked by what happened like most sensible people. I also don't think that Bush and Reagan are the best of examples about how to stand up to islam. Didn't they support the mujahedeen including Osama bin ladin in their war with the communist Afghani government and Russia. What about Irangate? How much aid money is pumped into ungrateful muslim countries. Reagan and Bush's stance on abortion and the role religion should have in society isn't that far off from many islamic countries. When are we going to get off oil and switch to environmentally friendly energy sources so we stop pumping money into countries like Saudi Arabia? Not with Bush unfortunately. How much of the money that the good Saudi's make on their oil exports goes into financing muslim terrorists, radical islamic clerics, and yet another mosque in Europe or America? The first thing I see when I take the train back to Hilversum, the Netherlands, where I grew up is a minaret! I think we need someone who takes a clear stance against islam like van Gogh or Pim Fortuyn and I think that many European politicians have taken that stance as opposed to Bush who panders the muslims and muslim states such as Saudi Arabia while invading Iraq.
http://fomi.ytring.dk/Video/vanGogh-DTV2.wmv
Posted by: obl r us at November 30, 2004 06:56 PM
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GOD BLESS THE COUNTRIES WHO HAS HEROS AMEN
pity the countries who need them???
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God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight and Courage to stay the course to Victory to Destroy ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Threat and give them Courage to Stand and Fight them Amen
I was extremely impressed with the interview of the dutch taxi driver...you could see the anger and frustration in his eyes,the tears ,the outrage in his voice ...the whole thing suggested a loud cry of desperation and furyj of the dutch people.
What a contrast with the arrogance and stupidity of the young muslim man,saying that if anyone insults the prophet,muslims have the right to kill that person.
I have stopped going to the movies ,at least for a while,at least until the post presidential election anger will go away...the anger against the Hollywood stars,such as Barbara Streissand,Sean Penn,Susan Sarandon,Tim Robbins,Madonna,Cameron Diaz,Leonardo di Caprio,etc..their arrogance,their imbecility is beyound anything i would and could have imagined.
There are very few that deserve our estime and appreciation,such as Chuck Norris,Bruce Willis,
Arnold.
I wanted to go see the latest movie with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon,"Shall we dance",but i just couldn`t do it,i remembered what a snake Sarandon is and it made me sick to my stomach.
Hollywood stars are wimps and ignorants,they do not deserve the huge amounts of money they make,they don`t deserve the fame,the good life and the adoration of the fans.
America has made them what they are,and they have nothing but contempt for everything that is american.
If i could i would start a movie boycott that would wake up the idiots in Hollywood.
Shame on hollywood for such abject dhimmitude!
can we have a petition online for realistic depiction of the origins of terrorism in the movies? If we collect over a million siignatures in the US itself, moviemakers might just get the idea that a HUGE market exists here for such realism!
To: obl r us
Thanks for the link - I've downloaded and saved it.
Adela, Go see Team America if it's still on or buy it when it's released on video. You'll laugh your head off. Everyone gets skewered (left and right) but the left a lot more.
"AMERICA, F*CK YEAH!"
Adela, I do have to warn you though, even though I thought "Team America" was hilarious, it's extremely profane (some might say obscene). The people I saw it with were a little shell-shocked, even though they knew in advance what to expect.
Nowadays you need to be American to "enjoy" American movies. I can't remember anything of "substance" coming out of Hollywood in the last 10 or even 20 years. I can't watch any of it without switching channels.
Neither can you watch the "News" which are nothing but 10 second sound bites, the weather, drumbeats (noisepollution) and Larry King, the most boring fart of all time! You'll probalbly see Queen Noor on his show, and America will be watching.
to obl r us
yes yes ,,thank you ,,i wanted to show this to everyone ,,
many thanks
mark
Arhopala-
The "Hollywood Thing" is their deafening silence.
(They are 'courageous' in kicking those who don't kick back.)
Oliver Stone is outside of their loop, and can be expected to be a contrarian, but I'm not suprised he doesn't want direct "Submission 2", since it would stir up Muslim ticket buyers' opposition to his latest opus "Alexander" as it flops in America. (Although, with its homoerotic sub-plot, there isn't likely to be a big audience in the puritanical Islamic multiplexes.) He like to talk big and brave and radical and pose as the one who will ask the tough questions and face the hard choices and stand up to the bullies and liars and tyrants. But, only if they are already dead. Or geriatric. (Like the cabal that killed JFK.)
I haven't been back to The Netherlands in a decade and, I think if I saw a minaret while rolling into Hilversum, I'd puke.
P.S. Arhopalo (arhat from pali?)
Have an "appelflap" for me. Een lekkere toetje!
And-
Sterkte, hoor.
Een broer uit Amerika