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British Audience Laughs at America’s 9/11 Attack
The American Thinker ^ | March 30th, 2004 | Michael Morris

Posted on 03/30/2004 6:17:49 AM PST by livesbygrace

Imagine going for a night out to the theatre in Germany during the 1930s. It would have been quite normal – with not one eyebrow raised in the audience – to be watching a production which showed film footage of Jews being beaten up. This would not be shown to elicit any sympathy, but purely to work up the crowd’s bilious hatred even more.

Then a short while later in the same production the clever actors would prompt the audience to start singing songs that encouraged even more visceral hatred for the Jews. Lyrics such as “Those Jews are all dirty, fat and rich – give them a good kicking” would be heard in full chant by enthusiastic theatre-goers. They certainly knew how to have a good time back then.

You probably think that it’s good that the world has moved on and those awful days are just a memory in our history books. Because it just could not happen today, could it?

Well, you’re wrong. It’s happening right now, in Birmingham, England, at a theatre not yet near you. Get your tickets fast because they are selling like hot-cakes.

The only difference is that the victims of the audience’s hatred are not Jews, but Americans.

Now I have to admit that I haven’t myself been to see this theatre attraction because I am unwilling to spend the $30 (or whatever it may cost) to line the pockets of its writer, a Mr. Alistair Beaton.

I personally believe that you don’t need to check out internet pedophilia sites to know they are evil, and I’m taking the same view on something as grotesque as “Follow The Leader,” the title of this sick play.

As reported by The Telegraph’s Charles Spencer, on Tuesday, “Follow The Leader” has just opened, and he went to see it, though clearly he wishes he hadn’t by the end of scene one. His review is appropriately titled “The laughter died in my throat” .

Mr Spencer writes: “The satire is so crude, the anti-American bias so profound, the image of Blair as Bush’s poodle so predictable, that I felt my gorge rising with distaste”

He continues with: “And when the whole audience is invited to sing along, in panto fashion, a delightful little ditty that goes: Let’s all be anti-American/What’s so wrong with that/They’re much too loud/ and they’re far too rich/ and one in three is incredibly fat – we seem to have descended to the level of the school playground.”

I think we can take that as thumbs down from The Telegraph’s columnist.

But don’t be too surprised that most people don’t even notice anti-Americanism these days in the chattering British classes. They love their prejudices with the same haughtiness as Germans did during the anti-Semitism of the 1930s.

“What’s really creepy about this piece is that though it shows the unforgettable footage of the attacks on the World Trade Centre, it can see no justice in America’s cause, no courage in Blair’s decision to support Bush in a war that relieved the world of a vile dictator”

Can anyone believe that a British audience would sit and watch such filth and be laughing all the way through? The murder of 3000 innocent civilians, many of them British, seems to be so very funny to some.

So I hope that American Thinker readers understand why I was not willing to go and see this sicko play first-hand.

I thank Mr. Charles Spencer and the Daily Telegraph for bringing this to our attention, and for having to sit through the darkest depths of prejudice against the new Jews – Americans.

Michael Morris is our London correspondent


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 911; americans; bucktoothbrits; comedy; getasenseofhumor; jews; loonylimeys; subhumans
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1 posted on 03/30/2004 6:17:50 AM PST by livesbygrace
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To: livesbygrace
What percentage of the typical audience is foreign-born, I wonder?
2 posted on 03/30/2004 6:23:49 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: livesbygrace
This is not half so insane as liberals in the USofA wanting to turn over our sovereignty, and national security to the United Nations, whose members are not our friends or allies.

We should pull out of the Balkins and let the Muslims have Europe. They can sink or swim on their own.
3 posted on 03/30/2004 6:25:27 AM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: livesbygrace
In Mexico during a soccer match with our American team, the Mexicans were chanting "Osama! Osama!". This whole world is gone. America is just barely holding out, but we've got a large portion of the hate America crowd right here in this country that want to be pacifists! The only other country with any good is Israel and that's because they've got to live with people out for their destruction. This world has gone mad.
4 posted on 03/30/2004 6:26:21 AM PST by bushfamfan
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To: Teacher317
I stopped all correspondence with my half-sister in Liverpool for just such an attitude-even though she is my sole surviving sibling.The attitudes are so commonplace there,I'm surprised the reviewer even bothered.
5 posted on 03/30/2004 6:29:27 AM PST by genefromjersey (So little time - so many FLAMES to light !!)
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To: Teacher317
I stopped all correspondence with my half-sister in Liverpool for just such an attitude-even though she is my sole surviving sibling.The attitudes are so commonplace there,I'm surprised the reviewer even bothered.
6 posted on 03/30/2004 6:29:31 AM PST by genefromjersey (So little time - so many FLAMES to light !!)
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To: livesbygrace
When some obnoxious group of foreigners do something insluting towards us think it through -- consider Tim Robbins latest play -- and remember it isn't the entire country.

The audience of this play would love us again if Clinton, Gore or Kerry was our leader. Of course, if that were the case we'd be letting down a whole lot of brave and decent Brits, who would not even consider attending this play.

7 posted on 03/30/2004 6:30:29 AM PST by Tribune7 (Arlen Specter supports the International Crime Court having jurisdiction over US soldiers)
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To: genefromjersey
The biggest problem is that the world is not how the libs portray it. There is a major disconnect between reality and the libs' view of reality.

There is not "love around the world" and regardless of what we do, our enemies will still hate us. The U.N. is corrupt, lacks power, and does not have the peace-making authority that the libs want it to be.

8 posted on 03/30/2004 6:36:36 AM PST by Loyal Buckeye ((Kerry is a flake))
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To: Tribune7
Something I have a hard time remembering is that the people who think this way are a small percentage of the whole, but for some reason, the media are always trumpeting their views. Could it be that the media have the same views???? (/sarcasm)
9 posted on 03/30/2004 6:37:25 AM PST by livesbygrace
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To: MissAmericanPie
We should pull out of the Balkins and let the Muslims have Europe.

That's it!

10 posted on 03/30/2004 6:39:46 AM PST by freeperfromnj
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To: livesbygrace
just a thought ....if tables were reversed would americans laff at a 9-11 tragedy....anywhere...i think not! we are better people..comments?
11 posted on 03/30/2004 6:40:06 AM PST by rrrod
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To: rrrod
I agree with you - there is nothing
even remotely funny about Sept. 11, 2001.


12 posted on 03/30/2004 6:44:29 AM PST by Quilla
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To: Quilla
God bless America.


13 posted on 03/30/2004 6:47:17 AM PST by Quilla
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To: rrrod
just a thought ....if tables were reversed would americans laff at a 9-11 tragedy....anywhere...i think not! we are better people..comments?

Well, Saturday Night Live just had a skit mocking the crucifixion.

There are a lot of Americans who are a-holes and if we didn't have outlets like Rush & FR -- which most other countries don't have -- the a-holes would be unbeatable.

Thank God for FR.

14 posted on 03/30/2004 6:48:01 AM PST by Tribune7 (Arlen Specter supports the International Crime Court having jurisdiction over US soldiers)
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To: livesbygrace; SJackson; dennisw; MeekOneGOP
Walp - these SoBs won't be laughing long . .

An al Qaeda plot to blast London was dramatically foiled by police today (30 Mar, 2004)

15 posted on 03/30/2004 6:51:39 AM PST by Happy2BMe (U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
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To: Tribune7
just a thought ....if tables were reversed would americans laff at a 9-11 tragedy....anywhere...i think not! we are better people..comments?

I would say Michael Moore has laughed at it.

16 posted on 03/30/2004 6:53:01 AM PST by normy (I would like to be thought of as relentless.)
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To: rrrod
just a thought ....if tables were reversed would americans laff at a 9-11 tragedy....anywhere...i think not! we are better people..comments?

Tell the Brits we find the Dunblane Massacre easily funny and see what their reaction is.

17 posted on 03/30/2004 6:54:14 AM PST by atomicpossum (Hobbits offer only Tolkien resistance.)
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To: Quilla

ISLAM MAY BECOME THE
GREATEST MURDERING FORCE
IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND

Islam has replaced the Soviet Union as the Evil Empire
and its "best days" may lie ahead as the forces of Islam gather steam!!!

First the Saturday People... (click link)

The Muslims have a saying: "First [destroy] the Saturday People (Jews)... then the Sunday People (Christians)."  And when the Muslims tire of killing or converting non-Muslims, they go after other Muslims!  The ten-year Iran-Iraq War resulting in  the deaths of over one million deserving Muslims was said to have been fought over a land dispute.  This is not entirely true for the underlying hatred between two conflicting views of Islam was the major spark that ignited this conflict.  

Arabs and Islam:  Plotting Against the West!Most of the so-called "moderate" Arab nations are scared to death of radical Islamic movements for they represent a most real physical threat to their continued absolute rule.  For that reason alone, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait and all the other fictitious kingdoms throughout the Middle East gladly pay cash AND lip service to the most vicious of the Arab, Palestinian and Islamic Fundamentalist terrorists. The United States government, the State Department and other apologists may call them "friends" and "allies" but, in reality, they have nothing whatsoever in common with America.  They are theocratic, backward and share NONE of the democratic traditions so valued in the West. "Friends" and "allies?" Hardly!

ATTAINING "CRITICAL MASS"
Among every four humans in the world, one of them is Muslim.
Islam is now the second largest religious group in France, Great Britain and USA!

There is no point in beating around the bush. The fact is that Islam is a militant, intolerant, incendiary religion whose adherents, whenever they establish "critical mass" of about 10 percent of a given population, begin to foment violence, revolt and Jihad --- in essence, a declaration of war on Western Civilization. A World War Three!

Battleground Europe...
by 2020 Muslims will account for 10% of the overall population of Europe

Don't think that Islamic activity is confined only to the Third World. Today, Muslims invade civilized countries under the benign guise of immigration. Their influence in Europe is growing steadily and will continue to do so unopposed until the Europeans finally wake up, although it's hard to tell if they can do it in time to save themselves. In fact, immigration accounted for 89 percent of Europe’s population growth during the 1990s!  When Christian society was mighty, Muslim society was timid. Western Christian countries have lost their fervor. Many have acquired Muslim fifth columns, which they tolerate regardless of insults to the host countries. But now the Europeans are starting to panic. Their women cannot possibly reproduce as quickly as can fertile Muslim women!  In thirty years the Muslim population of Great Britain rose from 82,000 to two million.... a 25-fold increase... nearly one-half million Muslims in London alone!  This Islamic invasion is obviated by the sight of over one thousand mosques littering the British landscape.  Even London itself has become a main launching pad for much of the pro-Islamic, pro-Arab and pro-Palestinian Internet propaganda!  Over the past 20 years, say experts, Britain has become a headquarters for extremist Muslim clerics and a fertile recruitment ground for new followers. 

In 30 years the Muslim population of Great Britain rose from 82,000 to two million.


Finsbury Park Mosque in North London, a Base for Islamic Extremism

Muslims in Britain have made it clear that they have no intention of assimilating. Dr. Zaki Badwari, former Director of the Islamic Cultural Centre of London wrote, "A proselytizing religion [like Islam] cannot stand still. Islam endeavors to expand in Britain. It aims at bringing its message to all corners of the earth. It hopes that one day the whole of humanity will be one Muslim community, the Umma."  Britain operates as a strategic base for some of the most radical Islamic groups which preach hatred, incite to violence and recruit volunteers for terrorist activities. Britain now has one of the highest concentrations of closed-circuit TV cameras in Europe... nearly 1.5 million in operation! In late May 2001 the Brits were treated to their very own Muslim-Pakistani rioting!  There is something deservedly humorous that this should happen to the pro-Muslim Brits who waste no time dumping on Israel!  God Save the Queen!  For more on Radical Islam In the U.K. click HERE. To see a partial list of Islamic Groups infesting England click HERE. Click  HERE for more on how Muslims are transforming British society!

Two of Europe's most legally tolerant regions...namely, the Dutch-language areas around Europe's most important west coast harbors, Antwerp [Belgium] and Rotterdam [Netherlands]... as the main breeding ground for Muslim-fundamentalist terrorist groups. Osama bin Laden 's organization even runs shipping companies as fronts from Amsterdam.

Something rotten in Denmark? How about the 200,000 Muslim immigrants trying to dictate their anti-Israel, anti-America and anti-Western values upon 5 million Danes? Even though they represent only 4% of the population, the Muslims consume upwards of 40 percent of welfare spending. They also account for 65-75% of the country's convicted rapists... with almost all victims non-Muslim Danes! Demographers have predicted that in just 40 years, one out of every three Danes will be Muslim. At this point, we're sure the Danes wish it were their Jewish population which was growing faster than rabbits on a hot tin roof. Jews are almost always model citizens! But the Danish Jews only number 6,000.

Dateline Sweden: Cold temperatures have not discouraged Muslim immigration. One out of every 22 Swede are now Muslims and Islam is the nation's second largest religion. Of the nearly 9 million people in Sweden, 400,000 are Muslim, leading to a drastic increase in anti-Semitic acts against Sweden's 18,000 Jews. Say farewell to the stereotypical blue-eyed, blonde haired Swede. 

In Holland [aka The Netherlands], because of its total lack of anti-terrorism laws and its very high level of religious, cultural and judicial tolerance, Muslim-fundamentalist terrorist groups are allowed to thrive. The Muslims now number about 6% of the population. In 20 years' time the majority of Holland's under 18 year old children will be Muslim. In fact, 50 per cent of the newborns during the next twenty years will be Muslim! A finger in the dike won't work this time, folks! 

Two million Muslims have soaked into Germany; one million into Italy; 200,000 in Spain; 500,000 in Belgium...1/10th its entire population and 1/4 of Brussels, its capitol city. Half of all babies born in Belgium are now Muslims!  In total, 11,000,000 Muslims have saturated Western Europe! It now becomes clear just who is organizing and marching in Europe's anti-Israel and anti-American demonstrations! 

In Italy, 95% of all rapists are Muslims. Eighty-five percent of all murderers are Muslims. Ah, such a wonderful religion of peace! What does the Pope and the rest of the Vatican Church have to say about this? Nothing! And what will the ordinary Italian say when, in ten years, Muslims will be the majority in Italy!!!

France is faring no better. In 1945, there were 100,000 Muslims in France. A fifty fold increase since then now has them numbering  6 million out of a total population of 60 million!  In twenty years, one out of every five Frenchmen will be a Muslim! Another telling statistic is that although the Muslims are 10% of France's population, 60% of the country's prison population are Muslims! All the urban suburbs are steered by Moslem black African or Arabic gangs. One-fifth of all births in France are Muslims!  Mohammed is one of the most common names next to Pierre!  And Paris has the largest Arab community outside of the Middle East! This is a result of a lenient immigration policy, high Muslim birthrate and conversions. A very high proportion of French Muslims are in the underclass, that segment of the population that relies not so much on education and work as on welfare and predatory activities. In fact, over one thousand Muslim neighborhoods are under monitoring throughout France. Seven hundred of those Muslim neighborhoods are listed as "violent" and nearly 400 hundred are listed as "very violent." Violence ranges from rape (95% of rapists are Muslim), murder (85% of murderers are Muslim), theft and looting of cars (58% committed by Muslims) and street fighting to assault on teachers and civil servants. Periodic outbursts of large-scale unrest or rioting sometimes occur. And, most distressing, are the high numbers of assaults or rebellions against the police. As does England, one thousand mosques are said to operate in France. Oh, mon dieu, what is a Frenchman to do! Click HERE for an audio of what Frenchmen (and all other cowardly, appeasing Europeans) should do because "Buddies, you're next!" Also, check out "The Death of France."

There are 14 to 17 million Muslims now live within the European Union. If only a minuscule fraction of the growing Muslim fundamentalist population of Europe were to join bin Laden's holy warriors (or some of the many Arab/Muslim/Islamic terrorist groups), internal-security officers would confront nightmare scenarios! 

For more on "Islam's Immigrant Invasion of Europe" and sources of the above information, click HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE

ISLAM: "Religion of Peace?"

18 posted on 03/30/2004 6:55:44 AM PST by Happy2BMe (U.S.A. - - United We Stand - - Divided We Fall - - Support Our Troops - - Vote BUSH)
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To: livesbygrace
They'd be singing a different tune if that fertilizer bomb had gone off in one of those theaters.
19 posted on 03/30/2004 6:56:38 AM PST by mtbopfuyn
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To: livesbygrace
I remember reading that on the morning of 9/11, on Wall Street, there was a visiting delegation of senior Chinese officials/investors, and when the live TV footage of the crumbling towers was shown, they, as a group got up and cheered.
20 posted on 03/30/2004 7:01:01 AM PST by americanSoul (Better to die on your feet, than live on your knees. Live Free or Die. I should be in New Hampshire.)
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