Silence! Or kill you I will!
Posted on 01/24/2016 12:40:14 PM PST by rightistight
Despite the fact that there are no Christians, Jews, Hindus, or Buddhists in the Star Wars universe, Haroon Moghul appeared on the PBS NewsHour and lobbied for the inclusion of a Muslim Jedi in Episode VIII or IX.
In a "NewsHour essay," Moghul explained, "With tensions between Muslims and our neighbors worse than I had ever known, I asked Abrams to add a positive Muslim character to one of these franchises."
Maybe "a Jedi named Mohammed," he suggested.
There are Jewish names in Star Wars, Moghul continued, as well as Christian ones. "We can accept a Ben Kenobi, though Ben's a Hebrew name," he argues. "We don't seem to have any trouble with Luke Skywalker, even though Luke was also one of the 12 apostles."
Moghul said, "I only wanted us to confront how we treat Muslims. Islamophobia is real, and it's ugly... Islamophobia is like racism, not because Islam is a race, but because, for anti-Muslim bigots, Islam functions in the exact same way that race does for racists."
Star Wars is a pop culture phenomenon and could change the feelings of people who hate Islam, if used in a certain way.
"Science fiction and fantasy, whether books or movies, are an astonishingly effective ways to reach huge numbers of people, to reflect us back to ourselves, and to provoke us to think differently," Moghul explained.
He concluded, "People often ask me, how can ordinary folks fight extremism and intolerance? I tell them, by imagining a world that's not just different, but better. You don't fight fear with fear. You fight fear with hope."
Sorry, don’t think magic carpets are approved for interstellar flight.
THAT would be a bad guy, of course.
the ones i listed would be heroes.
the other four boroughs call Staten Island the redneck borough. Damn straight
'Star Wars' or ISIS: Which is more Islamic?
It's not the same since Yoda, the gentle Sufi mystic, got shot up in the Sunni-Shia crossfire.
PS: I was going to say, don't beat up on the sad fan boy for wanting his movie heros to look like himself, but I found out that Haroon Moghul is an adult with way too much time on his hands, so ... whatever ...
If there is a rape scene or suicide bombing, there would be an appropriate spot for a Mohammed.
this thread has the most funniest posts on a thread that i have seen in a long time!!!
great thread!!
Well, then there would have to be a goat like creature in the Star Wars universe.
Han Solo?
Or perhaps, he’s only a simple “Good Ol’ Boy”.
Better yet, why not a spinoff with a Jedi named, Mo Ham Ed molesting Charlie Brown’s little “black girlfriend” who was missing from the last Peanuts movie. These liberal kooks are retarded. Hollyweird is screwed up enough as it is. Don’t encourage them.
you guys are killing it on this thread lol.
i’m still laughing at the muslim sith. crashing the death star into a planet, taking sides with the empire if they do lol!!!!
funny @#$@#$ing thread!!!!
Islamophobia is real, and it’s ugly.
Correction. Islam is real and its is real ugly.......
It’s about using the media for propaganda.
The Muslims can always make their own versions of the Star Wars movies. They might even name the first one “The Muz”
“Star Wars” is NOT based somewhere in the history of humanity on earth, as the implication was that it all took place long before and apart from earthly colonization and its evolved civilization. Therefore, there would be none of the religions as they developed on earth.
It is possible to believe that a sort of Zen-like belief in the power of the Force may have developed independently, as part of the code by which the Jedi lived. But the evolution of a theocentric civilization did not seem to arise in the universe of “Star Wars”.
The opening crawl even states this: “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....”
Nah more like a Mohammed that’s related to the dark side; someone like Emporer Palpatine or Jaba the Hut
Admiral Ackbar is the current favorite of jihadi’s everywhere. I don’t know why that isn’t enough for the Muslims.
Silence! Or kill you I will!
Star Wars takes place in the future...
There are no Muslims...
Haroon Moghul appeared on the PBS NewsHour... There are Jewish names in Star Wars, Moghul continued, as well as Christian ones. "We can accept a Ben Kenobi, though Ben's a Hebrew name," he argues. "We don't seem to have any trouble with Luke Skywalker, even though Luke was also one of the 12 apostles."
long time ago in a galaxy far far away
No Christians Jews, Muslims etc. and where
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no substitute for a good blaster at your side
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