Allah is in the House - Allah learns the hard way that it is, in fact, possible for propaganda to be too anti-Semitic.
"The real irritation in the film is that it revealed a lie that we, the Arabs, tell ourselves everyday. This lie is that we are hated in the world because the Jews control Hollywood, the film industry, and the entertainment industry in America. We say that this control has distorted the Arabs' image everywhere, causing us to be hated by everyone. However, 'The Passion of the Christ' has revealed the exact opposite: It revealed that we are hated in the world because we hate each other and we don't know how to conduct our business… The Jews have nothing to do with it at all. They are innocent of the accusation of harming our image in the world… If the Jews had ultimate control over Hollywood and what happens there, as our fathers, grandfathers, writers, and books say, a film against them would not be produced by the hub of the world's film industry…"
"I am not saying that they [the Jews] have no impact or influence. They do indeed, but not as we think or claim, and not as we imagined when we accused the Jews, Hollywood, and the Zionist lobby here and there for our failure to communicate with others. This is not a defense of the Jews or a promotion for the film, but an attempt to reveal that we must stop accusing others for our mistakes… We shouldn't make Hollywood and the Jews the excuse for our backwardness. It goes deeper than that…"
UPDATE: Elsewhere in the Kingdom, the Wahhabist chickens come home to roost and lay some giant eggs:
Saudi security forces yesterday defused another two truck bombs apparently kept ready for use in terror attacks in Riyadh, a security source said. The discovery of the two vehicles, which were found at Shuaib Juraidal in Rumhiyah village, 90 km east of Riyadh, brought to five the number of car bombs seized in the Kingdom in the past week. . . .
An Interior Ministry official announced Sunday the arrest of eight suspects linked to recent deadly clashes with security forces and car bombs. The Saudi Press Agency quoted the official as giving details of three seized vehicles packed with thousands of kilograms of explosives, including one they had been searching for since February. . . .
The ministry official said Sunday the 1991 GMC Suburban had been rigged with 1.3 tons of explosives. The two other cars were packed with a total of 2.8 tons of highly explosive material, the official said.
Allahu Akbar. |
