“Ahmed urged television producers to embrace diversity and have more Muslim representation, or young people will feel alienated and will be more vulnerable to joining extremist groups. ‘If we fail to represent, we are in danger of losing people to extremism.'”
Ahmed’s victimhood narrative is self-contradictory. He was born in Wembley; he grew up in England. So presumably while he was growing up, young Muslims didn’t have any significant presence on British television — yet he himself wasn’t lost to “extremism.” If he wasn’t, why does he think any other Muslim will be? Clearly representation on television is not what determines whether or not a Muslim will join the jihad. Ahmed is simply engaging in more of the familiar victimhood posturing to which Muslim spokesmen so frequently resort. It must be extremely effective in obtaining for them special favors and accommodation.
“Star Wars Actor: Put Muslims On TV Or They Will Join ISIS,” by Andrew Kugle, Washington Free Beacon, March 3, 2017:
Star Wars actor Riz Ahmed gave some advice on how to fight the terror group ISIS.
During a Thursday speech to Channel 4’s annual diversity lecture in Parliament, Ahmed urged television producers to embrace diversity and have more Muslim representation, or young people will feel alienated and will be more vulnerable to joining extremist groups.
“If we fail to represent, we are in danger of losing people to extremism,” Ahmed said.
“In the mind of the Isis recruit, he’s the next James Bond right? Have you seen some of those Isis propaganda videos, they are cut like action movies,” he continued. “Where is the counter narrative? Where are we telling these kids they can be heroes in our stories, that they valued?”
Ahmed recently starred in Rouge One: A Star Wars Story as the defected imperial pilot Bodhi Rook. He has appeared on HBO’s “The Night Of” and “Girls.”…
Ahmed suggested that the government should take action to help solve the problem of diversity in British television. He suggest that the government withhold funds until there is minority representation.
Voytek Gagalka says
So, in essence, “If we fail to represent” them (Mohammedans), by granting them the highest office of the country (presidency) and allow sharia to be implemented in America at once, “we are in danger of losing people to extremism.’” Who will allow himself to be duped by that naked intimidation trap? Maybe McMaster will…
Jaladhi says
So how does he explain terrorism in Muslim countries where Muslims kill each other? I guess there aren’t enough TV shows or movies being made by them! Do Muslims have any brains or Quran rots and eats away all gray matter!
Agnishtoma says
In India the top actors and actresses are Muslims. Top cricketers are Muslim. The vice president is Muslim. The intelligence services director a Muslim. They follow Muslim personal law and not a common civil code. Politicians mock and condemn Hindu celebrations as polluting like deepavali and Holi. Or superstitious like Ganesha chaturti. But still we do see Muslims joining the ISIS in India. Can moron explain why?
Agnishtoma says
Politicians fall head over heels to wear prayer caps and host iftar celebrations
gravenimage says
It’s *never* enough.
Agnishtoma says
Yeah based on this guys logic Hindus should have become “RSS terrorists” but don’t see that happening, But that moron called Rahul Gandhi AKA Pappu calls Hindu terror as the most worrisome issue in India. Tells the same nonsense to every visiting leader during state dinners or lunches. Feel nauseated to my “bones”
Musalmaanmasala says
Agnishtoma these cutloos will not change nor accept anything that their moth eaten koran qill tell them not to. They have a false prophet as their leader who seemingly got “revelations” from a pagan god and they will kill to teach the rest of the world that their way of thinking is the only right way and the rest of the world can go screw itself.
I do not think the small number given by the Indian Government about how many of these cutloos have joined ISIS IS RIGHT.
As long as the Indian Government panders to these turncoats and toes their line for their votes you can be sure that the status quo will remain
BC says
Truly Muslims are always blaming Muslim jihadism and killing on the West, but the fact is the number of Muslims and innocent non Muslims killed by Muslims vastly outnumbers those killed
by Western actions. Of course Muslims killing other kinds of Muslims seems not to count ecept when added to the total of Muslims killed.
I heard on the BBC an interviewer talking about Libya and the Western intervention there and completely ignoring the fact there was a revolution already going on against the tyrant Gadhaffi
and the Libyans were begging for the Nato to come to their aid
John A. Marre says
I thought it was because they didn’t have jobs!
AleX says
I thought it was because they were poor and marginalized.
Jaladhi says
Life alienates Muslims! Morons, can’t live like human beings!
Kaos says
Tell them to make their own Hollywood and they can start by giving live suicide bomber videos. IT’S NOT OUR PROBLEM TO MAKE THEM INCLUSIVE! Assimilate or go back/ stay where they came from, PLEASE.
utis says
What I want to know is what’s keeping them from writing, directing and producing their own damn films. They can surely mooch enough money from muslims and leftards for backing. Let them create their own studio in Hollywood or British Hollywood. Then let’s see how well halal movies compete with Western ones.
Carolyne says
What is stopping them is lack of intelligence resulting from generations of first cousin marriage.
berserker says
Submit; everything will be fine.
Robert says
“If we fail to represent, we are in danger of losing people to extremism” — when I was a student in Cultural Studies and then Film Studies, 25 years ago, I heard the same nonsensical counsel. The left-wing professors taught the cultural theory that everyone on planet earth must be fairly and properly or social and cultural chaos will ensue.
And, so, the newest generation of cultural manufacturers (the novelists, the screenwriters, the painters, the film directors, the playwrights, the song writers, etc) faithfully followed the wisdom of their teachers and made art that was multi-ethnic, multicultural, pro-LGBTQ, anti-Western, anti-Christian, etc.
Simultaneously, the liberal arts programs in universities and colleges across the West have dropped teaching the Western Canon of literature and pushed Third World, LGBTQ, and other alternate artists instead.
Consequently, the meta-narrative (over-arching story) of Western society is confused and confusing, with no clear thread to tie everything together, to teach the next generation the knowledge, understanding, and wisdom of previous generations. The next generation is stuck in the ‘now,’ with no reference to the past.
As a culture, we are ripe for the picking. We are prone to any charlatan, peddling any narrative he wants to push our way.
No wonder Islam has come knocking at our door. No wonder very, very few Westerners have any idea that the biggest, baddest wolf is at our door, in our home, and ready to strike.
We don’t know the past. We don’t know what made Western Civilization not only unique, but exceptional and superior over all other contenders. We have failed to respond intelligently to the intellectual, moral, societal, and religious invasion that is now occurring in our own backyard.
Should anyone be surprised?
The situation we now face took years of hard labour by the Left to achieve. They had to infiltrate and take over our public schools, colleges, universities, state and national legislatures, the law schools, the schools of journalism, the publishing industry, Hollywood, Washington, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, etc. For the last 40+ years they’ve been pushing their extremist political agenda more and more, to ever greater degrees, with increasing volume. They are totalitarian in their vision and effort.
All their effort was directed towards a singular goal: total liberation from the shackles of the past, especially Western Civilization and particularly the Judaeo-Christian ethos of that civilization. They wanted perfect, blissful freedom from all the hang-ups of the past. All the oppressiveness of the European, Christian world. Let’s just return to the garden, man.
Ironically, all the Left really did was clear a path for Islam to use as they march towards us.
If Islam succeeds to gain more and more control over the West, then the future won’t be filled with unlimited personal freedoms. It will be a totalitarian regime ruled by a dictator whose commands will be iron-clad and enforced by the threat of violence or actual violence. It won’t be a garden; it will be a wasteland.
common sense says
Yes Robert so true, it is vital and crucial for Americans (more now than ever) to learn our history and that of the entire world to understand the complexity of ailments we currently face. Most don’t understand the danger America is in. Pop cult holds sway over the weak minded.
https://youtu.be/lyLUIXWnrC0
Robert says
I’m familiar with Paul’s comments on YouTube. Great video.
I highly recommend some excellent resources to counter pop culture:
1. The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom.
2. The Western Canon, Harold Bloom.
A great analysis on the death of our Western moral universe is:
The Strange Death of Moral Britain, Christie Davies.
We need to read and study our Western Canon, and apply its lessons in our daily lives.
The funny thing is, Cultural Marxism didn’t usurp Western Civilization because it is inherently better; the hippy generation of the 1960s failed to carry out their solemn duty to be proper custodians of their Western heritage — they failed to pass on the civilization they had inherited to the next generation. Instead, they invented a shallow, inconsequential, throw-away culture that they forced the ext generation to swallow, hook, line, and sinker.
gravenimage says
Fine posts, Robert.
gravenimage says
RCH, you have asserted this before–that all Americans ‘worship’ Hollywood stars. A few do, but this is *hardly* the norm here.
Lauri Heikkilä says
He’s right about one thing, though: well executed counter-narratives could indeed be useful in preventing radicalisation. Engage the ideology, produce counter-propaganda.
Robert says
Right. The Left did the same thing beginning in the 1930s, accelerated the process in the 1940s, and hit their stride in the 1950s and 60s, so that by the time the 1970s and 80s came around, the Left dominated the centers of cultural manufacturing in the West.
Hollywood and the Film Departments in colleges and universities across North America are a perfect example. The emigres from Europe who came to Hollywood and the Academy during the 1930s and 40s, were working at the peak of their intellectual and artistic powers during the 1950s. The second generation of cultural Marxists (home grown students) picked up the mantel in the 1960s and 70s — and the look, feel, and sound of Hollywood movies and Film Studies underwent revolutionary changes.
We literally watched the revolution unfold on the big and little screen — while smart, well-spoken cultural gurus explained why the changes were good and right for all of us.
somehistory says
In the past few days, scientists reported they have found the *real* Star Wars planets. Send this moslim idiot and his isis wannabes there where they can all be *featured* and not just on television.
This is getting so sickening. Everywhere they infiltrate just a little, the ones getting inside insist that others must be allowed in or else…or else they will join isis, or they will commit terrorism or….and yet, they are all just so peaceful and just want peace and to be *accepted* and allowed to….
Roaches and rats never are satisfied and when one gets in, the rest clamor to be allowed in…or else.
They never *build* anything, or grow anything or create anything useful. But they have no problem taking, and taking and demanding and demanding and insisting in their arrogance and their oh so unpeaceful terrorism. They already use *force* to get what they want, as opposed to working for something good and useful.
common sense says
Another Islamobot. To refuse, resist, shout down, shame, mock and boycott. They’ll get zero from me.
Hindu American says
Didn’t this guy present an award at the Oscar’s? His name sounds familiar.
marina says
He did present with Felicity Jones.
jayell says
“He was born in Wembley and grew up in England. So presumably while he was growing up, young Muslims didn’t have any significant presence on British television….”
That’s correct, they didn’t. Neither as a rule did ‘Christians’ as such, or Jews (as such), Hindus or Sikhs, unless you could spot the occasional turban. A ‘local vicar’ might occasionally appear in a comedy show purely as part of the established social landscape, and there have been two comedy sitcoms about the church where a lady vicar and a catholic priest have both been figures of fun – again, as part of the long-established social landscape. And so continues today except where we have to see the occasional headscarf etc. to keep the ruling PC brigade happy. Religion, as a rule, stays in its box.
But this clearly seems not to satisfy Ahmed, who appears to believe that we have to have muslim heroes (like him?) constantly prancing around all over our TV screens. He doesn’t say how we are supposed to know that they are musilms apart perhaps from the headscarves, unless he imagines the scripts will feature imams and devout followers of ‘the faith’ all over the place constantly pushin the Qu’ran and islamic doctrine and being oh-so-righteous? It’s unfortunate, however, that in UK real life they’re only to be seen prancing around ostentatiously in their well-defined ghettos, and demographically and historically they hardly count for much at all except where they make a bl**dy nuisances of themselves. And the Great British Public wants to see MORE iof them?????
somehistory says
There have been a few television shows that had moslim characters…usually accused of terrorism, but then clearly shown to be *peaceful* and someone non-moslim proving to be the guilty party. IDK if the persons playing the characters were really moslim or not.
He most likely wants what you wrote…to have their identity clearly shown by the parts played…playing themselves and lying as they do in life.
jayell says
So Ahmed, for his own purposes and those of the rest of his ilk, wants television to do as all great art DOESN’T; i.e., to portray life as it most certainly ISN’T. That’s propaganda, isn’t it?
Stuart Smith says
This idiot Riz Ahmed must not watch TV, as every advert on TV is forcing us into a multicultural state, every advert concerning a family is mixed race, white woman black / muslim man, half caste children, almost every TV film the hero is black or Arabic, showing these as the normal is brain washing to think the country is mixed race, only 2% mixed marriages.
Just another unemployable muslim.
Santa Voorhees says
So, Muhammad and his followers began to slaughter the pagans in Mecca because they weren’t represented on TV. Now we know.
gravenimage says
Grimly hilarious.
ElderlyZionist says
heeheeheehee. This guy and his pals are gonna join ISIS to get even with the cruel, cruel wipipo. You better make sure your gender orientation is all straight, before you set foot in the Caliphate, boyfriend.
David says
Never!
marina says
People of other ethnicity/race are not always represented on T.V. a lot. They never turn to terrorism. Muslims are always “gimmee this”and gimee that. And their contribution to the society = zero.
Shoo away Riz. You are one whiny mozlem
mgoldberg says
Yes… I can’t tell you how many times I’ve felt that if there wasn’t more diversity in my world, with me getting hired for prominent positions, I’d simply go join a homicidist sociopathic cult army that wanted to rule the world and killed with joy.
Yeah…. and for the idiots of the world, especially our western world, who buy into this pathology forget that it’s not merely that we almost never have people who act out of such demented thinking, but why they don’t… It’s because we have amongst the 10 commandments especially the 10th, thou shalt not covet, and that means don’t be jealous of what others have, their success, their luck. Be grateful for whatever you’ve gotten.
Now, since it’s never justified to covet what others have that you do not, ever ever have the right to homicide your way to owning what isn’t yours. This is what makes I-slam, and Al-haha, worthy of criticism, and make the surrender to such thinking as the nincompoop actor with his excuse for the homicidism of his culture, and his religion….
Angemon says
I’d like to see his yearbook. Did it read “I’m either getting into acting and play represent muslims in mass media or join an islamic terror group”? No? It didn’t? Imagine my surprise!
In short: “give me what I want or there’ll be terrorism”. Must be one of those “moderate” muslims…
Michael Ray says
Dateline London: Foxes tell hens, “let more foxes into the henhouse or we’ll have to start eating more hens.” Hens could not be reached for comment.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Michael.
Gary says
Yeah that’s it….
Give me what I want, or I’ll threaten to join an extremist group. What Crap!
If the Jewish or Christian community made a demand like this “actor” the Left have a fit.
But hey, lets’ roll out the Red Carpet for this clown!!!
don vito says
The left will take this threat seriously, so the the movie/TV industry will be dominated by moslems, or else Hollywood is islamophobic. That is a serious charge.
Crusades Were Right! says
“The Farce be with you!”
(Sorry, couldn’t resist – again!)
; ¬)
Troybeam says
What a load of BS, Television does not make a person join or not join ISIS, this is blackmail or else, goes back to the statement:NEVER HIRE A MUSLIM.
dumbledoresarmy says
This is nothing but extortion.
Give us whatever we want… or else!
PGuud says
And this brings us back to…NEVER TRUST A MUSLIM–not this Muslim, not that Muslim, not ANY Muslim.
Whether or not it stinks, shit is shit.
Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.
Michael Ray says
And to watch this clowns “acting” choices during rogue1. A simpering, feckless coward who seemed ashamed of his one act of rebellion. He pees in his flight suit for 90% of the film, then we’re supposed to buy into his courage and innovation in the 11th hour. What claptrap! He doesn’t rate being in the same film series with Harrison Ford.
And now this islamogangster bs! What a piece of work…
gravenimage says
Muslim Star Wars actor: Put Muslims on TV or they will join ISIS
……………….
Gee–why aren’t Seventh Day Adventists, Orthodox Jews, Bahá’ís, Rastafarians, Zen Buddhists, Jains, and Mennonites–all small religious minorities in the United States–also threatening to wage religious violence if they are not seen in greater numbers on TV?
This is, of course, a rhetorical question…
Agustinus Daniel says
Stupid.
Muslims are on TV in muslim country and they are still joining ISIS.
Matthieu Baudin says
Another claim for special treatment for minorities. In this interview Ahmed seems to suggest that Muslim minorities are ‘violence prone’ and therefore should be given preferential treatment to leapfrog the merit based selection of those jostling for positions in entertainment and the media. Smells like Jihad inspired social blackmail to me.
Singh the Sikh says
That nauseating Muslim sense of entitlement and ownership of something they did not build or create on display again. It’s in their blood to demand and covert others’ properties and creations, including claiming rights and taking credit for inventions that is not theirs. They are thieves and looters by nature. Their whole history is built on it. They can’t built or create, so they steal, rob and loot and/or destroy. Nothing is safe or sacred. Not even women and children.
FYI says
They can always play terrorists or murderers.That way they would be following their koran and it would be a case of “Art imitating life”.
“Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the koran”
koran 8:12
Comedy might be out for muslim actors though,since as Ayatollah Khomenini famously said..
“There are no jokes in islam.There is no humor in islam.There is no fun in islam”
A muslim actor could play the starring role in “Silence of the infidel lambs”{Documentary},”The life of Brian Muhammed”{comic-opera},”The little islamic shop of horrors”{Comedy},”Five hundred and four enslaved infidel brides for 7 devout muslim isis brothers”{musical}and the highly controversial,”Aisha:the story of a 9 year old ‘woman’ ” portraying the life of mahomet’s child bride.
mahomet was the most perfect man who ever lived(the al-insan al-kamil)apparently…haha yeah,go figure…
..apart from mass-murdering Jews(see Ibn Ishaq),polygamy and completely missing God’s Sixth commandment about the need to avoid murdering people…but still,being the perfect man,a pacifist who renounced violence,deeply respected women,and loved Jews and Christians{sarc/}…he is surely worthy of becoming an airbrushed hero in a blockbusting Hollywood movie.
Except of course you would have to edit out the bit about the fact that the Perfect Man kept slaves…and had a 9 year old bride….and beheaded lots of Jewish people…and that every day people of all creeds and none are murdered by followers of his “religion of peace”..
Singh The Sikh says
I am a Sikh. If you don’t give us TV roles, we will join……oops, we have no terrorist Sikh organization to join!
Now, if I were a a religion of peace adherent, there would be no shortage of terrorist groups, specializing in beheadings and bombings, to join. Worldwide.
I wonder why?
Ade says
Sikhs rock .. I am learning about the 5 thieves right now
gravenimage says
🙂
not a movie buff says
And if people choose not to view “diverse” show biz products ?
gravenimage says
Good question.
Dan King says
The old and repeated daily saying of ” SUBMIT to islam OR we will kill you ” to show that they are a religion of peace.
Ade says
top comment buddy
mark says
So… just another moooslime showing what lying, devious and evil filth they are and how worshipping satan allah makes them subhuman.
Ade says
so they get to take over one way or the other right ahmed ?
NOT ON MY WATCH THEY DON’T
Katnis says
Ahmed’s argument holds no water. Side note: The more muslims on TV, the faster I change the channel.
citycat says
Muslims oh Muslims just listen to me
We Muslims must have brainwashing TV
It is glamour for you glamour for me
To brainwash infidels tee hee hee hee
gravenimage says
Thanks, RCH.