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2005-11-02 Arabia

Anti-terror Ramadan TV drama stirs the Arab world

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Posted by phil_b 2005-11-02 01:27|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Anti-terror Ramadan TV drama stirs the Arab world

question: what doesn't stir up the Arab world?

Posted by Red Dog 2005-11-02 03:32|| 2005-11-02 03:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Very interesting. They love their dramas - to the extreme. As with all story-telling, if you can hook their attention, give them characters they can identify with, you have a blank canvas upon which to write your message.

If this doesn't create the wiggle room for the Victims 101 bullshit, then good on Anzour.

The "based on a true story" statement makes me curious - it's got to be one of the two Riyadh attacks, May 12, 2003 - or Nov 9, 2003. The point I'm after is that the majority of the dead in both attacks were ex-pats - not Saudis. Same for the al Khobar massacre in May, 04. How many were Muzzies in each attack is problematic - and if the second (??) Riyadh bombing rumors were true, that bombing was because someone thought them impious - there was supposed to be a brothel inside frequented by connected Saudi, IIRC.

Posted by .com 2005-11-02 04:02|| 2005-11-02 04:02|| Front Page Top

#3 "We want to tell them that Islam is a religion of tolerance, peace and dialogue. It's not a religion of violence."

*cough*Bullshit*cough*

So long as these TV series run alongside dramatizations of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, etc., I don't think it means a hill of beans. The Saudis bankrolled it -- at the same time they're still pumping jihadi literature into mosques around the world.

This is a pure propaganda play. It wasn't aimed at the Muslim world, but at us.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-11-02 07:48|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-11-02 07:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Interesting that it takes Muslim on Muslim violence to get any reaction because you know killing Infidels is expected, and a duty from time to time.

Posted by rjschwarz (no T!) 2005-11-02 09:54|| 2005-11-02 09:54|| Front Page Top

#5 "One is a normal Muslim, who has a normal life. And one is an abnormal Muslim who wants to fight the Americans, to make jihad. But in practice, he is not fighting Americans, he is fighting his own people.

dedicated to "all innocent victims of terror".

Posted by Shipman 2005-11-02 10:28|| 2005-11-02 10:28|| Front Page Top

#6 I grew up with a passel of "normal" Muslims(Iranians) in Hayden Lake,Idaho of all places... they're fine people, this article, I believe, is hitting the mark right in the bullseye.

Posted by bk 2005-11-02 10:52|| 2005-11-02 10:52|| Front Page Top

#7 I caught the very end of last night's Law & Order Criminal Intent (the one with the execrable Vincent D'Onofrio). They had terrorists on trial.

White supremacist terrorists. In New York City. With Hitler salutes, and denunciations of the 'infidels' on the witness stand.

Sigh.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-11-02 11:56|| 2005-11-02 11:56|| Front Page Top

#8 You don't understand, Seafarious. Outside of the enlightened enclaves such as Manhattan, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Austin, our nation is overrun by seething masses of white supremacists being organized by frothing televangelists. Just ask Sly Rocky Rambo.

Posted by Secret Master 2005-11-02 13:50|| 2005-11-02 13:50|| Front Page Top

#9 "This is a pure propaganda play. It wasn't aimed at the Muslim world, but at us."

If theyre showing their people stuff like this, to assuage us, thats fine by me. Isnt that the point of pressure? To get someone to do what you want?

I agree that we ALSO need less of the vile stuff. As for both coming out of KSA, well,as weve all learned, thats a pretty schizoid place.

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-11-02 13:56|| 2005-11-02 13:56|| Front Page Top

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