Muslims like our movies a lot and it makes them mad. Some Muslims just don’t make much sense to me. “I don’t like Americans, because they oppress the Arabs and Muslims. Unfortunately, all Western culture has been transported to our daily life,” says a school administrator from Cairo. Jesus tap-dancing Christ is that guy an idiot! Like Americans could ever oppress Arabs and Muslims more than other Arabs and Muslims; we just don’t have the experience at it that they do. And, maybe people wouldn’t be so quick to adopt Western culture if the Middle East actually developed a culture worth something; one that didn’t just involve being ignorant, oppressing women, and wearing sheets. Now, I’m not going to defend Hollywood culture, but knowing it makes Islamic fundamentalists mad does raise my opinion of it. Also, the fact that people in the Middle East like watching evil aliens ships get blown to smithereens with the help of a Mac computer as much as Americans do show that, deep down, we’re all the same. That’s something to be celebrated, but it seems that some Muslims are more focused on how movies aren’t portraying Islam in a nice manner and make Middle Easterners look like terrorists. The problem is, Islam hasn’t been been portraying itself in a nice manner and Middle Easterners have been making Middle Easterners look like terrorists by being terrorists. I swear, if I hear of one more Muslim working more at stopping the portrayal of Muslims as terrorists instead of actually trying to stop Muslims from being terrorists, I’ll lobby to make sure that the Middle East only get our independent films imported to them. That’ll learn ’em.
Just a little bit of generalisation going on here. Ironic that you’re accusing Muslims of hating Americans when you’re doing exactly the same thing to them, taking the most extreme examples and applying them to a group of people who in reality have very diverse views & opinions. Funnily enough it’s not just Muslims that “hate” America, particularly now that the Bush government has stepped up its war mongering aggression, but many people around the world who are growing tired of this bellicose stance. In fact, it may shock you to learn that there are American citizens who do not agree with the actions of this government and are horrified by what is being proposed in their name. Unamerican traitors, I hear you cry, isn’t it about time we returned to the good ol’ days of Mcarthyism when people who disagreed with the government were hunted down and blacklisted. Don’t worry, you may not have long to wait. If Islam hasn’t been portraying itself in a nice manner, what the hell has the American government been doing I ask you?
And Rumsfeld reached behind the podium, produced a Tommy Gun and emptied the entire clip into the filthy smelly hippy who wrote the previous post.