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State Dept offers $1.5 million to fight “violent extremism” with “TV drama series”

Mar 24, 2016 5:20 pm By Robert Spencer

This will solve the problem of jihad terrorism in a trice. Young Muslims who are swayed by the Qur’an’s exhortations to wage war against unbelievers, as well as by Muhammad’s example in doing so, will be able to switch on the television and voila! They will see Muslims being peaceful, charming, and countering “violent extremism in contemporary Afghan society”! Who needs the Qur’an and Sunnah when you can have that!

John Kerry

“Kerry team: Fight violent extremism with ‘television drama series,'” by Pete Kasperowicz, Washington Examiner, March 23, 2016 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

The State Department on Wednesday offered a grant worth up to $1.5 million to produce a “television drama series” aimed at “countering violent extremism among young people in contemporary Afghan society.”

The U.S. mission to Afghanistan put out the grant offer.

“This grant will fund the development and broadcast of a television drama series in which young people grapple with everyday frustrations and lack of opportunity, while growing and learning through new experiences,” the offer said.

“The drama will be grounded in reality, but will also contain compelling creative content (i.e. storytelling, resonant narratives, strong characters, sophisticated production, etc.),” it added. “In short, it will strive to be entertaining while challenging viewers to engage in critical thinking by placing characters in situations where they are faced with a choice: support universal values of tolerance and peace or be drawn into the dark world of extremism.”

The grant explains further that the characters in the drama series will be “aspirational and will provide positive role models for young people facing similar dilemmas.”

The federal government intends to promote the series through social media, and will award a grant for a 15-month period that could be extended for up to two years.

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  1. Myxlplik says

    Mar 24, 2016 at 5:24 pm

    The Feds really need to fire all of their current advisors & and slowly back away from my wallet with their dumb ideas.

    • Carolyne says

      Mar 25, 2016 at 11:28 am

      So far we have heard from the State department that:

      ISIS exists because the West is unkind to Muslims.
      ISIS exists because young men have no jobs.
      ISIS exists because of so-called “Climate Change.”
      Now showing them a sitcom will make them cease to exist.

      I hope that the State Department is one of the departments Trump intends to get rid of and start all over with people who’s IQs exceed that of room temperature. And allow no one named Clinton or Kerry to come within 50 miles of it but they would fall below the required IQ level.

      As far as this hare-brained scheme, the grant will undoubtedly go to the Muslim Brotherhood to make the sitcom so they can further brainwash the American people.

  2. linnte says

    Mar 24, 2016 at 5:35 pm

    You. Have. Got. To. Be. Kidding. ME! Ludicrous. And I wholly agree with Myx above!

    • mortimer says

      Mar 25, 2016 at 4:14 am

      ‘Ludicrous’ to think Muslim youth will buy into Islam-lite? Yes.

      I can see the commercials now: ‘Buy Islam-Lite…same religion, half the jihad!’ Sure.

      Because, yet more expensive efforts by UNINFORMED Western elites are being made to convince Muslim youth that what they have learned about jihad from the foundational texts of Islam IS NOT TRUE!

      It is simple to discredit these absurd Western elites, because Islam IS the foundational texts, and Islam IS the sacred example (Sunna) of Mohammed, rather than a watered-down pacifist Islam-à-la-carte or ‘cafeteria Islam’ that they are promoting!

      Muslim youth are already ‘radicalized’ and have read the source texts and have listened to the sermons of Anwar Awlaki and have read the works of Maududi, Faraj, Qutb, Brig. S.K. Malik, etc., etc. They have read the Sira and hadiths and know the vicious cruelty of Mohammed is nothing the will of Allah and expression of his eternal and perfect justice.

      Muslim youth yearn and long to be as vicious as Mohammed so their non-multicultural lives will be different and full of meaning and gleeful supremacism.

  3. Enragedsince1999 says

    Mar 24, 2016 at 5:37 pm

    The state dept. who still goes on with its whore – play in regards to the Global Jihad. STILL obsessed with RE – DIRECTING it away from the West and toward Russia and China. The US elites are STILL wistfully recalling the US aid to the Afghan “mujaheddin” and bin Laden’s al-Qaida as “the greatest success in CIA’s history”. To just say that the lesson of 9/11 has not been learned would be a vast understatement. Meanwhile, the jihadis strike Western targets in San Bernardino, Paris, Brussels … . Unless and until the West and my Old Country Russia, and China, and India all unite around Israel against ALL jihadis, Sunni and Shi’ite, the Global Jihad will be a mortal threat to all of them. The Italian heroine Mara put it best: “If we abandon Israel, we will be abandoning ourselves”. Unite, unite, unite around Israel ! only then the Global Jihad will be defeated !

    Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.

    • Ron Blower says

      Mar 25, 2016 at 1:48 am

      Spot on!!

      I’ve never considered that frame of mind at State, but it sure answers some of the silliness coming out of their mouths… as seen above!!

      LOL!!!

      Well said, Ruslan Tokhchukov.

      • underbed cat says

        Mar 25, 2016 at 2:07 pm

        I agree Myxlplik and Enragedsince1999, The Feds really need to remove all MB advisers and supporters who are not identifying the enemy which really is the doctrine of the Islam/ Sharia..and bring back the guys they dismissed, due to total denial and misdirection from the sources who they believed gave them facts. The Feds were working with the enemy who where really present to deceive. A simple solution read the Koran.. Also to the Russian who says he knows, we need to support Israel. Russia has a large muslim population that always surprised me…..I know now they acted out in Russia also, along with China, Maylasia, India, and now are plentiful in Europe and acting out, so migration has occurred in the U.S. secretly, dishonestly, and dangerously for the country.

  4. Angemon says

    Mar 24, 2016 at 5:51 pm

    Yes, because kuffar-sponsored entertainment on a haram platform (TV) will definitevely drive people away from orthodox islam, right?

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 25, 2016 at 2:07 am

      With John Kerry backing the Drama Series I feel so much better now about opening the doors wide open to unrestricting Muslim immigration assuming of course, that Obama and Merkel are willing to reassure me that the new arrivals will be properly vetted.

      • Carolyne says

        Mar 25, 2016 at 11:34 am

        God, I hope Kerry doesn’t pull out that old over-the-hill singer to sing “You’ve got a Friend” as he did after the Paris bombings. It was so embarrassing. It will probably be played during the opening credits

        Or he could have the IRS produce it. They did such a swell job with their video of “Startrek.”

    • mortimer says

      Mar 25, 2016 at 4:44 am

      Angemon wrote: “kuffar-sponsored entertainment on a haram platform (TV) will definitely drive people away from orthodox Islam”

      It will, in fact, cause ‘orthodox’ Islam to hunt down the people who made the blasphemous TV programs with bombs, knives, stones, cars, airplanes, hand grenades, poison and rifles.

      Happy Fatwas, all you TV crews!

      (…If only the government can find people who don’t mind dying soon…like terminal cancer patients…it’ll be a ‘hit’…pun intended.)

      • Demsci says

        Mar 25, 2016 at 6:11 am

        Well, since we don’t care much about the whole charade, happy hunting for the supremacists on the apologists, who in case of being hunted down, get very little appreciation for their apologists job. And they in a way will get what they deserve, for deceiving the mass of the population, lulling them to sleep

  5. Enragedsince1999 says

    Mar 24, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    Mara Carfagna: a heroic Italian woman who is a Zionist. You don’t need to be Jewish to be a Zionist. The history of modern Israel guided by its glorious Zionist ideology is at least in half made of miracles. The West does not have a political ideology. This is why all Western governments and other elites are so rotten. The Global Jihad has its ideology: Islamism. It must be countered with an ideology of our own. And Zionism is the greatest ideology in the entire world history. The jihadi enemy demonizes Zionism so obsessively, he made it all the more powerful. The West should embrace Zionist ideology as its own. We, the Resistance should network throughout the Western world and India and organize a global event this year: THE SUMMER OF THE BLUE STAR ! On a chosen day, we should take to the streets everywhere with Israeli flags and banners “WE ARE ALL ISRAELIS NOW !”. This can start a great thing.

  6. celticwarriorcanada says

    Mar 24, 2016 at 6:04 pm

    Paul Joseph Goebbels would have been very jealous of the Obama Administrations Department of Propaganda ,I’m sure he would have been very entertained by the CNN BIMBOS . He would also have been very jealous of the Canadian Liberal Department of Propaganda THE CBC; who will be rewarded with $ 675 million dollars of tax payers money this year, to Propagate Prime Minister Zoolanders twisted vision for Canada .While only $8 million will go towards Counter Terrorism ! P.S.I’ll be watching this T.V. series about as often as I watched Little Mosque on the Prairie( zero) !

  7. Ted Tyler says

    Mar 24, 2016 at 6:45 pm

    This definitely could work. But, to be successful, it would require Robert Spencer and/or Bill Warner to be technical advisors. Imagine – a dicey situation comes in and the Muslim family goes to the Koran for divine guidance. They see the violent passages – AND REJECT THEM. This goes on for several shows where the family rejects the Koran and actually does work what is left of Islam into a religion of peace. Then, orthodox Muslims get wind of this, and kill the whole family for insulting Islam – as a great finale for the end of the show.

  8. silvergreycat says

    Mar 24, 2016 at 8:38 pm

    Mr. Kerry, sir, the answer you seek can be found in Pakistan… http://www.burkaavenger.com/

  9. Hope says

    Mar 24, 2016 at 9:06 pm

    Someone, please hold my purse for me. I’m going to vomit.

  10. Westman says

    Mar 24, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    Why don’t they simply air YouTube videos from Afghanistan to get the most from their budget. Since normal Afghan Muslims are a peaceful example to be emulated by Muslims in the US, they could start with this video of normal Afghan Muslims mudering a woman who was acused of burning a Quran. Mr. Kerry should be required to watch it as a reinforcement of his notion of the quiescent, peaceful nature of Afghan Muslim men.

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 25, 2016 at 2:19 am

      More proof that Allah is a despicable meme of the MoHo from Mecca.

  11. Rob says

    Mar 24, 2016 at 9:15 pm

    Only thing that would add to Kerry’s insult is for him to add: ‘Oh and be sure to eat your greens’.
    Is there some infection in the White House?
    8 years of messianic posturing.

    • Carolyne says

      Mar 25, 2016 at 11:38 am

      No, I think it is Michelle Obama who demands we eat our greens. It would really improve one’s Tango. And hers really needs improving.

  12. H says

    Mar 24, 2016 at 11:22 pm

    Just in case anyone was wondering if propaganda was really a thing here. The left has been propagandizing media for decades, I doubt they need help from the state dept for this crap. Do devout muslims even watch our tv?

  13. Paleologos says

    Mar 24, 2016 at 11:46 pm

    Poor bastard! Kerry has never been the same after the biking accident. …

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAiNHuJ6Z4A …

    … and repeated concussions from hitting his head on his windsurfer board. …

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mJw5cazmb8 .

    R/

    Paleologos

    • Carolyne says

      Mar 25, 2016 at 11:39 am

      I don’t think he was born exactly “right” in the head.

  14. Janakiraman Rajalakshmi says

    Mar 25, 2016 at 12:36 am

    Indian dhimmi filmmaker called karan johar made a similar movie starring shah rukh khan called ‘My name is khan’ shot in America . Wherein shah rukh khan appears among some ‘radical’ muslims telling them “no no..islam stands for peace ….” & full of similar inanities . Predictably such movies become ‘blockbusters’ & Indian diaspora in America particularly devour such crap.

    No wonder John Kerry suggested Hollywood should plan joint ventures with bollywood of India.

  15. Ross Lloyd says

    Mar 25, 2016 at 2:30 am

    How about a series of films based on how to deal with the enemy instead” –

    1. “Soul Saviour” – https://www.bookdepository.com/Soul-Saviour/9781481119597
    2. “GET EMILY” – https://www.bookdepository.com/Get-Emily/9781490505152
    3. “For Anastasia” – https://www.bookdepository.com/For-Anastasia/9781508790655

  16. fred says

    Mar 25, 2016 at 4:03 am

    I believe using”Bomber Nelson” fire storm techniques on Raqqa, Syria, the capitol of the calaphate, would work much better.

  17. mortimer says

    Mar 25, 2016 at 4:26 am

    To try to convince Muslims that any doctrine of Islam (i.e. jihad) is ‘wrong’ or ‘harmful’ is a crime and a sin called ‘kufr’. Dirty disbelievers who try to stop a Muslim from believing in jihad must be executed as blasphemers.

    There are also a number of types of ‘blasphemy’ that Sharia punishes with death if found in Muslims:

    Kufrul-Kurh: Disbelief out of detesting any of Allaah’s subhanahu wa ta’ala commands.
    Kufrul-Istibdaal: Disbelief because of trying to substitute human ideas for Allaah’s Laws.

    Moreover, changing Islam to suit the modern times we live in is the crime/sin of ‘bida’ (innovation). That is also punished by death.

    For those reasons, and others, trying to reform Islam is impossible. Islam has to be discredited morally and disproved historically to make Muslim youth drop jihad.

    That means a total de-programming protocol is needed and must urgently be created to de-Islamize youth as German soldiers were de-Nazified in 1945.

  18. Demsci says

    Mar 25, 2016 at 6:24 am

    As I see it, the problem with this intended TV-series is I. Their implication from the start that there is only one true Islam, that basically IS benign, neutral. And that Islamic State’s Islam is false.
    I see this whole implication as false in itself, as I think that Islam is NOT CLEAR and Multi-interpretable. It must be, seeing how historically compromised it already is, as Jay Smith explains.

    II. Their explicit goal of DIMINISHING something, making something they consider dangerous, Islamic State’s and radical Islamist propaganda, influence on Muslims, esp. youth LESS. The opposite of this is: Promoting what you love and prefer in comparison with what you fear and disapprove of. This too they could try to do, while still targeting Muslims. Let what you prefer compete with what you reject.

    In Positive Psychology and innovating terms; they could try to promote the concept of “Democratic Muslims”. A concept already in existence. Admittedly, rejected and uncared and hated for by 99,9 % of Muslims.

    Regardless; These filmmakers and investors, they are not Muslims, they are from our society, and our society does represent a better alternative to Islam, and a competitor to Islam. And we can formulate and propagate that, even among Muslims. And our society can live with genuine Democratic Muslims.

    But our society is not ready for a long time to come for an all-out war between ALL Democratic minded citizens and ALL Muslims.

  19. Troybeam says

    Mar 25, 2016 at 3:47 pm

    Paying the Muslims is called a JIZYAH,Koran, page 403/404 o9.29

    “Fight those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day, nor forbid that which Allah and his Messenger have forbidden, nor allow the Religion of Truth, out of those who have been given the Book, until they pay the tax in acknowledgement of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.”

    May be paying but that has not Islam has not stopped the attacks, stop paying and actually fight back.

  20. Jerry says

    Mar 25, 2016 at 6:58 pm

    If you feel nostalgic about “the goog old days” in Afghanistant you coulld always ask somone to make tv series script based on Lady Florentia Sale “Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan 1841-2”

    Nothing has changed much in the last 160 years or so, especially concerning the reliability and trustworthiness of Islamic Warlord “allies”.

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