March 14, 2013
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Hey Iran! Sue Me Too, You Whining Wimps!
Iran has declared its intention to sue Hollywood over what they claim are unfair depictions of their country. Among the movies that have aroused the country's ire are Argo*, 300 Spartans, The Wrestler(??), and "Not Without My Daughter".
The lawyer representing Iran will be French attorney Isabelle Coutant Peyre, who has in the past represented Carlos the Jackal (Ilich Ramirez Sanchez), the imprisoned terrorist whom she has since married. Other clients include a serial murderer jailed for life in Thailand, Zacharias Moussaui, the so-called 20th 9/11 bomber (life in prison), and Roger Garaudy, a Muslim convert who denies the Holocaust as well as Israel's right to exist (240,000 fr fine and a suspended sentence).
I guess Iran isn't in this to win.
Stories like this make me want to do atrocious things to images of their prophet, just to see the apoplectic faces in the inevitable crowd reaction shots. I don't want to do this out of pure meanness; or just to rattle cages, although both are factors. I don't want to immerse a Mohammed figurine in a tall glass of HE'BREW beer, Photoshop a pic of him carrying his young bride's books to elementary school, or with six-pointed stars tattooed on his arms and bared chest, I don't want to do these things because I hate Islam, I don't. Islam has been the fount of many ideas and acts that have benefited the world. Most Muslims just live their lives in the same manner as Americans, they work, marry, provide for their families, and hope for economic stability.
The image we have of Islam is that of the most media-hungry factions, the America-haters, the Jew-haters, the haters of their own fellow muslims who worship the same God in a slightly different fashion My modest goal is to make the head of those hard-core radical muslims explode, their blood vessels bursting in righteous, ideologically pure fury. So sue me.
Iran, I'm sorry, you only speak through your attorney? Very well; Mme. Peyre, would ask your client why, if they don't like our movies, do they watch them? Why don't make their own? Why did you marry a terrorist? Have you ever won a case? Have you no shame? Would you be interested in defending Tom Delay in his appeals process?
* Up for an award as the Clumsiest Phrase of the Month
Comments (3)
An entirely fair and defensible piece. finely aimed at the rotten fruit without collateral insult to those who've chosen or been destined to live as muslims and to somehow manage an ethical life from the difficult platform.Those of us who need daily to waste precious time, money, and effort combatting the pox head of the many-facetted Hydra do try as humanly possible to remember the many contributions of islam. Um, algebra, alchemy, and alcohol, to name just a few.
I had no clue Carlos was still alive. Here I was buying into the Hollywood myth that he died in an explosion or was killed by American agents. I guess if Iran can get duped by movies then so can I. What was their beef with The Wrestler? If it had to do with the Iron Shiek they need to sue him because of all the stuff he says on his Twitter.
I met the daughter from Not without My Daughter a few times.
@godfatherofgreenbay - There was a wrestler in the movie called 'The Ayatollah'. I understand completely; if there was a Sumo wrestler in Japan named 'Uncle Sam', I'd be liable to drop another Fat Boy on their insulting ass.
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