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Merryl Wyn Davies writes in the Scotsman reviewing the new movie Kingdom of Heaven.

TO SAY HOLLYWOOD PLAYS FAST AND loose with history is about as revelatory as a "dog bites man" headline: no news at all. The point is not that movies falsify history but how and to what end they work their cinemagic. So forget about the historic accuracy of Ridley Scott’s Crusades epic, Kingdom of Heaven. It is a film with no historic context because it is all about today. As usual, Scott attempts to import a confused liberal’s wish fulfilment into history. But along the way what Hollywood actually gets is what it always sells: a vindication of the American Dream, which, in this instance, provides a fig leaf for pre-emptive democracy building.

The plot line of the film is a very particular kind of fairy tale. Balian (Orlando Bloom) is a not so simple blacksmith in a scruffy village in France. At a moment of crisis in his life he discovers he has a father (more like a fairy godfather), a Crusader knight. Balian is offered the prospect of adventure: setting off for Jerusalem where he can erase his sins, and gain his inheritance.

It is this long lost father, Godfrey (Liam Neeson), appropriately the only totally invented character in the film, who presents the vision of what awaits Balian. He goes to make a new world, a better world than there has ever been, where a man is not what he is born but what he has it in himself to be. A society where Christian and Muslim live side by side. A kingdom of conscience; of peace instead of war, love instead of hate. Well, I did say it was a fairy story.

More importantly, to attain this vision Balian must be schooled in the use of arms, converted to the use of military force. The moral code of a knight Crusader is a theme running throughout the film. It comes down to the proposition that "holiness is right action and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves". With all this in place, Balian will not just go to the Holy Land but build a New Jerusalem.

These are not medieval historic ideals, but the key to American self-image, where the purpose of settling a new land is to transcend the failures of old Europe. The potent connection is that the Crusades were the first European colonial experiment, America the second. America, the city on a hill, the newer new Jerusalem, then becomes the only nation that can fulfil the real meaning of crusade.

Today, America is the indispensable nation whose ethos requires it to intervene militarily, to act rightly to protect those who cannot defend themselves. After all, this is the rationale of the Bush doctrine for regime change in Iraq. And it was Bush who initially sought to name his war on terror a crusade. Like innumerable Hollywood movies before it, Kingdom of Heaven reads the familiar litany of ideas of America back into history to address contemporary issues...

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The writer is a muslim, and I don`t buy that muslim crap. She can save it for her doubts or go sell it to that other doubter Stephen Schwartz.

`Liberal humanism` my arse. Is that how she explains away the millions who have been killed by muslims. And it still is happening.

Non-Malays living in the vicinity of mosques in Kuala Lumpur hear this call to arms against the non-Muslims through high-pitches megaphones often enough
AND
Dato' Seri Najib kicked the ball first to insist to insist none should openly debate if Muslims could slander the followers of other religions
http://mggpillai.com/article.php3?sid=2049...

This is what a `model` islamic state is.
In oil-rich South Sudan millions of christians, pagans have been killed by that filthy `liberal humanism`.
I earnestly look forward to this woman being beaten up by her husband. Better still her throat be slit She can then repose in her `liberal humanism`.

I don't think that Ms. Davis knows Hollywood as well as she thinks she does. I do not believe that Ridley Scott made this movie to justify or enhance any Bush doctrine. It is probably safe to say that Scott would probably choke on his cornflakes if he knew what he was accused of by Merryl Davis in her editorial.

** It is probably safe to say that Scott would probably choke on his cornflakes if he knew what he was accused of by Merryl Davis in her editorial.**

Mail the review to his agent I say.


There is a new human type that is growing in Britain, America, the West. That is the extreme left wing socialist who has converted, lock, stock and barrel, to Islam. Merryl Wynn Davis is one such person, a leftist who found in Islam a belief system so rock solid and secure, and most importantly, a belief system that sanctifies her blazing, white heated rage and hatred for America and Israel. What is more, it at last makes her what she has always wante dto be in her ideolgy of hatred: a victim. Because the Muslim is now the self anointed and self regarding eternal victim of oppression and control, she, a white Welsh woman, can now be part of the down trodden. She is another example of the nexus and interface between extreme Islamist ideology and the extreme left.

The liberal humanism that modernised Europe, and to which Ridley Scott is perhaps making diffuse reference, was learned and acquired from Muslim philosophy

That people can lie so massively, that people can be so unaware of the massive stupidity of their beliefs, and that they can invert history so absloutely, calls to mind a level of historical revisionism and deceit, and a black hearted nerve that almost makes you admire it, that can be compared to Stalin's re-writing of history. But this, after all, is a trait that this extremist socialist/converted Muslim fanatic will be at ease with.

The masses of idiots, liars and intellectual brigands are amongst us.

Zico (assuming you're the same Zico) - good work at Harry's Place. If not, there is somebody who writes very like you, called Zico.

It's an uphill struggle but I think we made mincemeat of LG, lefty moonbat extraordinaire.

They have it all wrong. "Crusade" means inner spiritual struggle. There has never been any violence perpetrated by crusaders in all of history. Muslims have nothing to fear from the modern crusaders like George Bush and Donald Rumsfield. They just want to sit down together with their Muslim jihadi brothers and sip some tea, who we have been told, also are engaged in a strictly spiritual inner struggle. Together we can revive the harmony that we once enjoyed in the pax al-Andalus.

Her account is an account of Stalinist style audacity in inverting and lieing about history. Just as all the world must bow to Islam, so everything good in the world, all that is liberal, tolerant and good, is ultimately Islamic.

Her anecdote of the Caliph Umar accepting the keys to Jerusalem makes it all sound so reasonable and humble and great. But what the hell was Caliph Umar prizing the keys to Jerusalem for? You see, he was doing all those Kaafirs a favour. It wasnt as part of a Holy War, to expand the domain of Islam, to conquer and wipe out the kaafirs. No, he was like a genial and gentle 'awww-shucks' guardian and protector. He was putting them under his divine Islamic protection, for which they were all so grateful.

It is Merryl Wynn Davis and other extreme Islamic fanatics like her that wipe out the conquest, the slaughter, the rage, the burning Islamic Jihadis rage, plunder, rape, looting and mass slaughter. It is she who in the name of Islam defecates on history, the history of the untermenschen Kaafir and their deaths and despoilment. You see, all imperialisms in the world are evil, except for Islamic imperialism, which isnt imperialism at all, it is a divine deliverance for infidels and their despicable arrogance for refusing to bow down to Mecca (Such impudence!)

This taqiyya, this rage, this evil is published in a mainstream Britisn newspaper under the rubric of hatred for America. Dhimmitude seeps into the pores and people are too frightened to point out the level of deceit and outright mendacity and hypocritical religious hatred in this womans screed. It leaves you so dumbfounded at the audacity of it, all you can say, like Marlowe recounting Kurtz's words, is 'the lies, the horror, the lies, the horror, the lies, the horror....'

And now, the history of civilisation, the true source of European civilisation, Islam, has been wiped out of history, by the same Crusading impulses and nefarious reflexes that today guide AmeriKKKa and the evil Zionist-Crusader nexus. And the Muslims in Bradford and Brick Lane should reclaim their birthright,and their rage is justified by the evil of the Christian and the post-Christian society who are children of this evil, arrogant people who refused to submit to the heel of Islam and accept its protection.

I am Merryl Wynn Davis and I come in peace. Allah-hu-Akbar!

LGF has a link to her picture. If ever there was a case for the burqa, she is it. Throw a tarp over the troll.
http://www.salaam.co.uk/themeofthemonth/september03_index.php?l=10#merryl


Cheers, Interested.


Such lies, such lies, so much dissimulation and lies, and to question it is taboo. Our country is stealthy imbibing the fear and the ideology of the dhimmi. Merryl Wynn Davis is not substantively different from an extremist Islamic position. They share the same delusions and dawah tactics, except under the garb of the left and 'anti-Imperialism', it gets lapped up.

As with the crusades and many other events involving Islamic aggression, Islam and its western supporters have for hundreds of years continually revised and conspired to assassinate the memories of the assassinations.
But the excesses of the Christians are well documented for all to see.
BY keeping alive the memories of the Holocaust, despite the efforts of the western and Islamic deniers to negate the truth, Jews are attempting to prevent its re-occurrence.
BY exposing the excesses of Christianity throughout history. it makes the likelihood of history repeating itself unlikely.
BY denying and falsifying the excesses of Islam, we allow these excesses to continue unimpaired into the 21st century.

One of the foremost examples of the conspiracy to suppress Islamic barbarity is in the the rewritng of Indian History.
This aspect of Islamic revisionism and faslification of history is well covered at Francois Gautier's web site
http://www.francoisgautier.com/reviews.htm

No one is denying the slaughter of thousands of Jews at the start of the first crusades or the horrors of the siege of Antioch for example or abominations perpetrated in South America to the native population.
These horrors were done in the name of Christianity but were against the teachings of Christ.
Christianity has admitted its guilt in these matters.
For example:
The slaughters of tens of millions of Indians in the Indian continent over a millenium of Islamic aggression were done in the Name of the Koran and supported by the teachings of Mohammed and so one should not be surprised by the lack of "mea culpas" from Islam.
So well educated were the sultans and other lords who commited the horrors, that they documented and boasted of their achievements against the infidel Hindus in reams of accounts.
"Mahmud of Ghazni, for instance, who patronized art and literature, would recite a verse of the Koran every night after having razed temples and killed his quota of unbelievers. Firuz Shah Tughlak, personally confirms that the destruction of Pagan temples was done out of piety and writes: "on the day of a Hindu festival, I went there myself, ordered the executions of all the leaders and practionners of his abomination; I destroyed their idols temples and built mosques in their places". Aurangzeb did not just build an isolated mosque on a razed temple, as Romila Thapar would like us to believe, he ordered all temples destroyed, among them the Kashi Vishvanath, one of the most sacred places of Hinduism and had mosques built on a number of cleared temples sites. All other Hindu sacred places within his reach equally suffered destruction, with mosques built on them. A few examples: Krishna's birth temple in Mathura, the rebuilt Somnath temple on the coast of Gujurat, the Vishnu temple replaced with the Alamgir mosque now overlooking Benares and the Treta-ka-Thakur temple in Ayodhya. The number of temples destroyed by Aurangzeb is counted in 4, if not 5 figures."

ZICO
that was certainly an impressive post!
Merryl Wynn Davis is supported by hundreds of like minded converted zombies thougout the UK.
IN the eagerness to submit to Islam, are the proud British any different from their Hindu cousins of old ?

Merryl Wynn Davis is supported by hundreds of like minded converted zombies thougout the UK.
IN the eagerness to submit to Islam, are the proud British any different from their Hindu cousins of old?

There is universality in this condition and phenomenon, from old India to modern Britain. Observe it at first hand in the modern world around us today and extrapolate back to imagine how Islam spread in the shadow of violence and its dark nihilistic vandalism.

Some laws of the 'revert':

Hate all around you.

Hate your past.

Hate all that is not Islamic.

If something cannot be hated, claim it is Islamic (like liberal enlightenment in Europe actually originating from Islam)

Lie, lie, lie, and ten thousand times lie about the horror, the fearsome and awful horror of the Jihad and slaughter and conquest. Then lie again, and again, and again. Deny the horror, scream loud opression and prejudice when confronted with the horror. Allah's rule is not to be denied.

Submit to the Arab imperium and all its lies; deceive, dissimulate, turn language and truth upside down, gut truth like a lamb on Eid, slice it and eviscerate it, lie and lie again.

This is Islam, this is the rabid fanaticism of its new converts.

Yes, Shaitan is personified on Earth, you are to rail against him, Shaitan America, Shaitan Israel, Shaitan Hinduism, Shaitan liberalism, Shaitan Kaffirs, Shaitan Capitalism, Shaitan Globalisation, Shaitan free women...

To be free to hate must be a liberating experience. To Merryl Wynn Davis and her fellow travellers it must come as a visceral thrill, to have that hatred legitimised in this belief system, this 'religion', all the acid inside them can be spat out into the world. The thrill must be a relief and a fulfillment of their lives, at last, this total explanation of the Universe.

Islam means Submission.

I have recently had a conversation with a friend who has inside informations from the Hollywood crowd....
The conversation started from this movie and then the question about the distortion of historic facts,just to appease the islamic sensitivities.
He told me that the Hollywood crowd,as much as they abuse alcohol and drugs,they have still heard of Theo Van Gogh ...they don`t want to end up like him,neither do they want the studios to be bombed.
In other words,they are SCARED.

The comments about Merryl Wynn Davis (by numerous posters) and Hollywood's hedonistic Left (by Adela) say much about what is happening to Western civilization. The exportation of the armed jihad to Western countries themselves have exposed the left as narcissistic and self-destructive. It saves its courage for those it knows will behave in a civilized manner, while it grovels before those who, more than anyone else, need confrontation.

Robert, again I salute you for running this site.







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