KILLING STEREOTYPES

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Hollywood's Responsibility

Hollywood is not making it any easier to kill stereotypes. I recently watched the dry movie The Siege. Surprisingly enough, the movie was not as blatant in making all Muslims appear as terrorists. The producers tried their "best" to be politically correct by interjecting the sound with news clips and random statements of how terrorist ideology is not representative of Islam. Even the story was kinder, it showed that US was ultimately responsible for these attacks by having used a young group of Palestinians to attempt to kill Saddam and leaving them in  Iraq to be slaughtered (so repercussion was inevitable) and also by showing a ruthless General who illegally kidnaps a Muslim terrorist leader. The name and story bears uncanny resemblance to the Osama Bin Laden fiasco I see nowadays.

However, despite their attempt at being politically correct, they have also undermined the values of the Muslim community. The fanatical terrorist who was to set the last bomb explosion was initially portrayed as utterly sacrilegious & hypocritical. It seems the movie makes are telling me the fanatic bombers were rolling in sin before they went on their killing rampage to make them seem more evil. I find it a bit inaccurate, not to say I know what the terrorists are like. But, other than nationalism, I think they must truly believe in something like the west being the enemy of Islam, to go on a killing spree. Therefore it would be extremely hypocritical for them to practice the lifestyle that they consider harmful to Islam. Are they crazy? Yes. Hypocritical? I think not.

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