Posted on 03/03/2017 12:27:32 PM PST by drewh
Star Wars actor Riz Ahmed gave some advice on how to fight the terror group ISIS.
During a Thursday speech to Channel 4's annual diversity lecture in Parliament, Ahmed urged television producers to embrace diversity and have more Muslim representation, or young people will feel alienated and will be more vulnerable to joining extremist groups.
"If we fail to represent, we are in danger of losing people to extremism," Ahmed said.
"In the mind of the Isis recruit, he’s the next James Bond right? Have you seen some of those Isis propaganda videos, they are cut like action movies," he continued. "Where is the counter narrative? Where are we telling these kids they can be heroes in our stories, that they valued?"
Ahmed recently starred in Rouge One: A Star Wars Story as the defected imperial pilot Bodhi Rook. He has appeared on HBO's "The Night Of" and "Girls."
The actor took the opportunity to focus his criticism at the British television industry. He told the audience if he wanted to work, he would have to go across the ocean to the United States.
"It takes American remakes of British shows to cast someone like me," Ahmed said. "We end up going to America to find work. I meet with producers and directors here and they say ‘we don’t have anything for you, all our stories are set in Cornwall in the 1600s.'"
Ahmed suggested that the government should take action to help solve the problem of diversity in British television. He suggest that the government withhold funds until there is minority representation.
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First is was “give them jobs or they will blow you up”. What more do they want?
To blow you up anyway?
Do Muslims ever ask for anything?
I call BS.
That was Ahmed Best. This guy was in whatever that latest Star Wars was.
Friendly, kind and gregarious types. Maybe it's because they're not Arabs? Maybe.
I’m a Muslim and my wife’s one too.
Took long enough! To be fair, though, this is tangentially about Star Wars. Which happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away.
They’re already on TV almost every day - at 7:00 and 11:00pm (eastern time).
I see very few Sikh, Eastern European, Central African, Central Asian, Australian Aboriginal, or Pacific Islander characters on our television shows, yet none of the people from those groups seem rushing to join terror groups because they feel “alienated”.
What is it about Muslims that makes them think violence is justified when their widdle feelings are hurt? Could it be because they are following a cult that embraces violence as a solution to their problems?
No, you are missing the point. It is not about who is talking to them, it is about trying to depict muslims in the most positive light to the mainstream so that it eventually nullifies and discredits anti-islamists in the eyes of the majority of uninformed viewers. These viewers then become conditioned to viewing muslims as the wacky family in the funny sit-com, or the handsome doctor in the soap opera, or the beautiful TV anchor, and so on. Once conditioned, it becomes much easier to discredit any negative views (accurate or not) because the context in which the viewers view muslims are the positive models I noted above. It consequently makes them very resistant to support any measures that could be viewed as anti-muslim and therefore 'racist'. In the meantime, the radical elements of the culture work their way into the mainstream in positions of power and influence. This is just one element in the overall strategy to make Islam supreme.
Does actor Ahmed truly believe that these desert savages are actually sitting in their bombed out condos watching Xfinity cable or Direct TV?......LOL!
I prefer they join ISIS, we can kill them instead of watching them on TV.
It’s always a threat with muslims isn’t it?
“Put us in movies or we keel you!”
at least his character is never ever coming back. The whole move is based on a throwaway line in original movie.
Isn’t that against their religion? That’s why Cat Stevens quit the music business after he converted.
Let ‘em join ISIS...the ban on lead ammo has been reversed.
Yeah, lets follow the leftist advice! We need more Muslim cops, judges, teachers and politicians too! And we need another Muslim president and more Muslims in congress.
In a country gone stark raving mad.
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