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Tha Canadian jihadi Abdurahman Kadr cashes in on movie deal. From WND, with thanks to Maharishi Hashish Ben Yogourt.
A Hollywood film in the works will depict a Canadian formerly detained at Guantanamo as a reformed young man who now rejects terrorism and his family's ties to al-Qaida.But there's evidence 21-year-old Abdurahman Khadr's true story doesn't fit the feel-good script proposed by Paramount Pictures, according to Andrew Walden, writing in FrontPage magazine.
Khadr is the son of Ahmed Saeed Khadr, a Canadian citizen whom the U.S. has accused of having direct ties to Osama bin Laden. He also is the brother of Omar Khadr, who, as WorldNetDaily first reported exclusively, is accused of killing a U.S. Special Forces medic.
Another brother is Abdullah Khadr, who, according to a Taliban spokesman, was the suicide bomber who killed Canadian Forces Corporal Jamie Murphy in Kabul Jan. 27.
Omar Khadr was released from the prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, because the U.S. had no charges and believed he no longer was an intelligence asset.
Abdurahman Khadr returned to Canada in October after he was captured in Afghanistan and escaped the CIA, with whom he had made a deal to provide information undercover. That included a stint as a prisoner at Guantanamo and a mission to Bosnia, where he abandoned the CIA by entering the Canadian embassy in Bosnia.
After returning home, Abdurahman admitted he had been trained at an "al-Qaida-related camp" for three months in 1998, but played down his family's suspected ties to bin Laden...
Abdurahman could earn as much as $500,000 from the project, scheduled to debut next year. According to Variety, the film apparently will follow the storyline that makes Khadr "look best."
Vincent Newman, president of Vincent Newman Entertainment, which owns the rights, calls it a "classic black sheep story -- a story about the rebel of the family."
The producer is considering actor Johnny Depp as the lead, Variety says...
Posted by Rebecca at July 17, 2005 3:33 PM
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That is pathetic. That's just about as bad as the propaganda regarding the Crusades or Alexander portrayed as a homosexual. It seems so important nowadays to make sure you have a good grip on history and current events, because the stuff that comes out -of hollywonk and the media- revises EVERYTHING to suit their leftist agenda. It doesn't even remotely resemble the truth anymore.
Frightening, considering what we're facing. It's just meant to keep everyone's head in the sand until the swords come to chop at our necks. And we won't see them because our heads'll be in the sand.
Posted by: Cao![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/nav-commenters.gif)
at July 17, 2005 4:10 PM
No wonder Hollywood's proceeds are sinking into the commode.
Posted by: DCWatson at July 17, 2005 4:18 PM
Well, Cao, Alexander almost certainly was homosexual, as a lot of people of Greek culture were. The real objection to the Oliver Stone movie was to its wretched writing, sniggering double entendres, and general pre-teen intellectual level. However, to make a reformed hero out of a member of a practicing family of jihadis is rather dumb - you would be found out so fast.
One thing that struck me: Abderrahman Khadr wanted to leave the CIA, so he took refuge in the Canadian embassy? Is Canada now in the kind of relationship with the US where they take in refugees and enemies, like the Soviet Union once did?
Posted by: Paolo at July 17, 2005 5:07 PM
Can anyone tell me which thread has the link to the Hamid interview on Irish radio.
I wish to send the link to all I know.
Posted by: DP111 at July 17, 2005 5:50 PM
I'm waiting for them to make an anti-Islam movie.
Posted by: Voltaire at July 17, 2005 5:57 PM
"I'm waiting for them to make an anti-Islam movie."
You must have been living under a rock for the last 30 years.
Johnny Depp is a great actor, can't wait for this movie. Charlie and the Chocolate factory is out here, can't wait to see that too. It was my favourite book when I was young, Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka, can't wait to see that!!!
Posted by: ia786 at July 17, 2005 6:37 PM
No, no. Colin Farell as Aburahmen, Angeline Jolie as his sexy but burka'd older sister and Meryl Streep, similarly garbed, doing a bang-on Egyptian accent as his jihad-loving Mom. With cameos Ben Kingsley, as the Khadr family paterfamilias, killed in a shoot-out in Pakistan (shown in flashbacks, natch). And, to add hunk-appeal, Chad Michael Murray, hair dyed black, as the younger bro' on ice in Gitmo for the murder of an American soldier.
Posted by: scaramouoche at July 17, 2005 7:29 PM
http://www.shoebat.com/media/Hamid.mp3
Posted by: ThirdWorldHeaven at July 17, 2005 9:38 PM
Not everyone agrees that Alexander was "almost certainly" homosexual, since he did have three wives at least two mistresses and two sons. The people who objected to the portrayal of Alexander as "homosexual" included the Greek government who refused to have anything to do with the production of Oliver Stone's film.
Posted by: Roxane at July 17, 2005 11:31 PM
The only directors psycho-culturally capable of making a (relatively) anti-Islamic film I believe are Mel Gibson, Bruce Beresford, and possibly Terry Gilliam.
Posted by: metaxy at July 18, 2005 1:28 AM
The Khadr's have their own page on the CBC website, check it out .
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/khadr/
Posted by: ala-sux at July 18, 2005 2:13 AM
The Khadr's have their own page on the CBC website, check it out .
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/khadr/
Posted by: ala-sux at July 18, 2005 2:13 AM
ThirdWorld Heaven, the mp3 you posted was excellent. I emailed it to Robert (if you havn't already). I gave you full credit for the post ofcourse. If you come across any more excellent multimedia like this please post it.
Posted by: obl r us at July 18, 2005 3:10 AM
Roxane: the objections of the Greek government mean nothing. Modern Greece has a history of wanting to tweak history to suit it - as seen in its insistence, that almost no reputable scholars support, that ancient Macedonia was a Greek country. Alexander married and had children because it was his duty to his dynasty to do so. Nothing shows that he had any particular affection for any of his wives. In ancient Greek society (and while Macedonia was not Greece, its ruling class was thoroughly Hellenized), this duty was clearly understood. No Greek writer was more certainly homosexual than Sappho of Lesbos, and yet we know that she married and had children. So what? Read her poetry.
As for the Hollywood item, one hopes it will be a Catwoman-level fiasco. These things generally are - not that it ever convinces the twerps to stop producing ignorant PC.
Posted by: Paolo at July 18, 2005 4:00 AM
I second Paolo's desire to see this movie flop. This report convinces me that Hollywood is run by a band of twerps who hold most of us in utter contempt.
Posted by: Kepha at July 18, 2005 8:50 AM
Kepha:
Twerps isn't the word for it. The extent of Stalin's influence on Hollywood during the 30s and 40s is now being revealed, and, consequently the power that influence had on American public opinion vis a vis entry into WW II, among other things.
I wonder what people will be reading 50 years hence regarding the influence some other entity may have had on the media and movie industry vis a vis the War on Terror and Hollywood's function as a Fifth Column.
Paolo: Khadr's dad played Jean Cretien for a complete sucker when the Pakistani government was holding him under arrest in his hospital bed, so I think he knew full well what he, as a Canadian citizen, was doing when he went running to Canadian authorities.
Metaxy: I'd like to believe Terry Gilliam would give Islam and Mohammed the same treatment as "The Life of Brian", but I have my doubts.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at July 18, 2005 10:48 AM
Paolo,
Alexander historians Arrian and Plutarch say that Alexander fell in love with his first wife Roxane. Both historians specifically mention that, as marrying for love was unique among the ruling class. Alexander's other two marriages to Stateira and Parysatis were political like most of his father Phillip's eight marriages.It was said that Phillip saved his love for his mistresses. Alexander also kept a long time mistress Barsine who was about 10 years older then he and the widow of one of his enemies Memnom of Rhodes.Alexander met Barsine about three years prior to his first marriage and his oldest son Heracles is with Barsine. Alexander didn't have to keep a mistress for years if he had three wives and he married only to produce children.
Posted by: Roxane at July 18, 2005 1:20 PM
Roxane: OK, those are arguments. I'll have to go and re-read Plutarch and Arrian. (Alexander is decidedly not a part of my field of study, hence my memories of him are rather foggy.) The position of the Greek government is not. If you had deployed argument from evidence earlier, you would have shut me up sooner.
Posted by: Paolo at July 18, 2005 2:47 PM
Waterdragon: Jean Chretien hoodwinked? A crook beaten by a worse crook. Heh. It happens.
Posted by: Paolo at July 18, 2005 2:48 PM
Paolo:
I see you are well aquainted with the petit gar from Shawinigan's reputation for honesty and transparency.
Posted by: waterdragon52 at July 18, 2005 3:16 PM
Well ever since 9/11...I have refused to spend any money on anything that HOLLY-WIERD produces. Why would I want to see anything those Hollywierd traitors produce...... I would not loose one night of sleep seeing the Hollywierd Elite fall into the sea! They represent the weakest link in America.....
Posted by: rumoret at July 18, 2005 6:31 PM
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