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American Sniper film 'behind rise in anti-Muslim threats'
BBC News ^ | January 25, 2015

Posted on 01/25/2015 5:16:18 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The release of the film American Sniper has led to an increase in threats against Muslims in the US, according to an Arab-American civil rights group.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has written to director Clint Eastwood and star Bradley Cooper.

Their film is based on US soldier Chris Kyle's service in Iraq from 2003-09.

The ADC said a "majority of the violent threats we have seen over the past few days are result of how Arab and Muslims are depicted in American Sniper".

The organisation, which describes itself as the largest Arab civil rights organisation in the US, said it had collected "hundreds of violent messages targeting Arab and Muslim Americans from movie-goers", mainly from Facebook and Twitter.

The letter asked Eastwood and Cooper to speak out against such messages "in an effort to reduce the hateful rhetoric".

"Your visibility, influence, and connection to the film would be a tremendous force in drawing attention to and lessening the serious dangers facing the respective communities," ADC president Samer Khalaf wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: islam; islamists; muslim; sniper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Lighten up, Achmed; don’t lose your head over this false issue.


41 posted on 01/25/2015 5:57:23 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

no, the release of all the unjustly imprisoned black youth will remove the threats to American society.

If Guantanamo is a threat from imprisoned islamic wackos, then American prisons provide a similar threat from Big Al Sharpton and his millions of black anti American followers


42 posted on 01/25/2015 5:57:32 AM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A movie is causing Anti-Muslim Sentiment? Really. lets see there have been beheadings of journalists, murdering children, kidnapping young girls to become sex slaves and incubators for muslim terrorist babies (like Germany’s Aryan race), killing entire villagers and just plain meanness stating thet Muslims are being misunderstood. Killing of others in the name of religoius frenzy - constitutes a misunderstanding. Gee, what do they think people do not understand history. Next they will want people to invite Muslims over to have a dinner, and when the Muslims get done they stab the invitation givers in the back with the very knife used to slice the turkey or roast beef. (actually I would serve them pork, but let them think it is beef)


43 posted on 01/25/2015 5:58:07 AM PST by hondact200 (Candor dat viribos alas (sincerity gives wings to strength) and Nil desperandum (never despair))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The letter asked Eastwood and Cooper to speak out against such messages "in an effort to reduce the hateful rhetoric".

YES! Speak out against the hate and evil in the Muslim holy books.

The Koran:

Sura (2:191-193) - "And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution of Muslims is worse than slaughter of non-believers...and fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah."

Sura (4:74) - "Let those fight in the way of Allah who sell the life of this world for the other. Whoso fighteth in the way of Allah, be he slain or be he victorious, on him We shall bestow a vast reward."

Sura (4:76) - "Those who believe fight in the cause of Allah…"

Sura (5:33) - "The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His messenger and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified or their hands and their feet should be cut off on opposite sides or they should be imprisoned; this shall be as a disgrace for them in this world, and in the hereafter they shall have a grievous chastisement"

Sura (8:12) - "I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them"

Sura (8:39) - "And fight with them until there is no more persecution and religion should be only for Allah"

Sura (8:57) - "If thou comest on them in the war, deal with them so as to strike fear in those who are behind them, that haply they may remember."

Sura (9:14) - "Fight them, Allah will punish them by your hands and bring them to disgrace..."

Sura (9:29) - "Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, even if they are of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued."

Sura (9:30) - "And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!"

Sura (9:123) - "O you who believe! fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness."

Sura (47:4) - "So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make them prisoners,"

Sura (61:4) - "Surely Allah loves those who fight in His way"

Sura (66:9) - "O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and be stern with them. Hell will be their home, a hapless journey's end

From the Hadith:

Muslim (1:33) - the Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah

Bukhari (8:387) - Allah's Apostle said, “I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah’”

Tabari 7:97 The morning after the murder of Ashraf, the Prophet declared, "Kill any Jew who falls under your power."

Ibn Ishaq: 327 - “Allah said, ‘A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.’”

Ibn Ishaq: 992 - "Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve in Allah."

44 posted on 01/25/2015 6:00:47 AM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is evil and must be eradicated)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
are result of how Arab and Muslims are depicted in American Sniper

I haven't seen the movie and I already know Arabs and Muslims are brutal, cowardly, lazy (when it comes to work), treacherous, pedophiles with all of the qualities of a dog except loyalty who think I'm dirty for eating pork but wipe their @$$ with a bare hand.

I don't need a movie, I've been there twice.

45 posted on 01/25/2015 6:00:50 AM PST by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
American Sniper film 'behind rise in anti-Muslim threats'

You mean like in Yemen?

46 posted on 01/25/2015 6:01:00 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: certrtwngnut

Hi,
He served a one year sentence because he broke parole rules from his former Federal conviction on check-kiting (electronic bank fraud), which forbade him from using an alias and using the internet.
He may have been an Egyptian Coptic Christian, and been a fall guy for Obola.
However, he was in trouble with the law numerous times.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakoula_Basseley_Nakoula


47 posted on 01/25/2015 6:03:36 AM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is a ridiculous charge.
The ADC can hang it in their ***


48 posted on 01/25/2015 6:04:26 AM PST by mylife
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To: MarchonDC09122009

I just made it a seperate thread on freerepublic:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3250437/posts


49 posted on 01/25/2015 6:04:56 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather (Ignorance can be deadly. Especially in emergencies...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“One billion, three hundred thousand Muslims are ready to kill you…”
January 25, 2015 sheikyer mami

You’re not supposed to know, and you can’t be permitted to notice that Muhammad was “a merciless war chief, plunderer, slaughterer of Jews and a polygamist.”

The Redeker case

by Hugh Fitzgerald

What may be recognized, in a whisper, by some “within the family,” can never ever be said by those without. That is the motto of many, not only of Cosa Nostra. But most members of this fanatical faith — fanatical in posse, and in esse, far more than others now called “religions” — are unlikely to conclude, from the same facts that M. Redeker knew of, that Muhammad was “a merciless war chief, plunderer, slaughterer of Jews and a polygamist.” That he led 77 expeditions and was ruthless in his dealings with those who refused to yield to him, that he took booty and even established rules for the distribution of such booty, that he massacred Jewish tribes who refused to submit to him, or even Jews who had no dealings with him whatsoever, as the inoffensive farmers of the Khaybar Oasis, that he had 9 or 11 wives, depending on whom you count — all this is true, but to have a non-Muslim write or say that Muhammad was “a merciless war chief, plunderer, slaughterer of Jews and a polygamist” is simply — not allowed. It can be known, and it can be reveled in, by a billion Muslims. But not a single non-Muslim is permitted to notice this.

For the world is divided, in Islam, between Muslim and non-Muslim, Believer and Infidel. Infidels are not permitted to express any view of Islam that is critical. It would not be right, it would not be just. Come to think of it, Muslims are not permitted to express criticism of Muhammad either, but for Muslims, speaking to a Muslim audience, some will describe Muhammad with pride as “a merciless war chief, plunderer, slaughterer of Jews and a polygamist” in those or very similar terms, and others will express the same thing in a different, slightly more muted way. But in either case the description cannot be taken as criticism. For whatever Muhammad did was right. He is the Perfect Man, uswa hasana, al-insan al-kamil. Were he not the Perfect Man, Islam itself might crumble.

In Redeker’s case — he being an Infidel — his articulating the very aspects of Muhammad’s life that Muslims are taught not as deplorable but as part of his entirely admirable existence, have earned him the murderous threats he has received.

There is no contradiction here. This is your brain. This is your brain on Islam.

http://sheikyermami.com/one-billion-three-hundred-thousand-muslims-are-ready-to-kill-you/


50 posted on 01/25/2015 6:05:13 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Eat bacon.


51 posted on 01/25/2015 6:05:27 AM PST by fivecatsandadog (OBAMA - IMPEACH HIM NOW. Worry about it later.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They are depicted as violent so they respond by being more violent. Of course! Makes sense to me. /s


52 posted on 01/25/2015 6:06:41 AM PST by Shimmer1 (Conservative. Because we can't all be on welfare.)
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To: Principled

You forgot the third. The increase in anti-Muslim acts is being reported by a pro-Islamic activist group. Since when has any pro-something activist group reported a decrease in their anti-whatever?


53 posted on 01/25/2015 6:07:45 AM PST by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: Principled

Heh — I like what you did in that first point.


54 posted on 01/25/2015 6:08:02 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

funny thing, all those anti-police protests endorsed by obama, holder, deblasio led to the assassination of the two cops in NYC but hey- that’s okay to the left...


55 posted on 01/25/2015 6:10:24 AM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pardon us if we can’t squeeze out a tear for Islam, the only group on planet earth that approves of beheading innocent people. You should shut up and be happy that you aren’t thrown out of every civilized country and made to live in the Muslim hell holes run by your crazy imams.


56 posted on 01/25/2015 6:11:07 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Travis McGee
You know what they call an Islamist who owns a sheep and a goat?

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Bi-sexual, of course.

57 posted on 01/25/2015 6:12:10 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

save


58 posted on 01/25/2015 6:12:31 AM PST by submarinerswife (Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, while expecting different results~Einstein)
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To: Principled
Second, it’s so totally a huge lie that a movie is the cause of anything.

I disagree.

HELLry and obamatollah told us that an internet movie caused the Benghazi attacks that killed 4 Americans.

59 posted on 01/25/2015 6:13:56 AM PST by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: Vigilanteman

Polygamy?


60 posted on 01/25/2015 6:14:56 AM PST by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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