Posted on 05/07/2006 10:40:28 AM PDT by Pikamax
Muslim Americans upset over new 9/11-related film By Jonathan Jones, STAFF WRITER
FREMONT — At the United Muslim American symposium in Newark, Muslim-American leaders discussed the rhetoric regarding Iran, the war in Iraq, and the image of the United States in Islamic countries. But some also expressed concern that "United 93," a new film about the last moments of the last hijacked plane to crash on Sept. 11, 2001, could stir up anti-Islamic sentiments.
Safaa Ibrahim, executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, took her staff of four women wearing a hijab, the traditional Muslim head scarves, to a Thursday matinee.
As a civil rights advocate, Ibrahim said, she wanted to see the movie after reports that several young Muslim-American women in Arizona were verbally assaulted by two people who said they had seen the movie recently.
Ibrahim said she knew the movie would stir up emotions, but she did not expect that all of the members in her group would walk out of the theater in tears.
"We thought it was important to see the movie to find out how it comes across," Ibrahim said. "But it dredged up a lot of emotions. We were watching it — as Americans and as Muslims — and it hurts us to see our fellow Americans hurt, and see people hurt others, acting in the name of Islam."
At the April 29 symposium, Suhail Khan, associate director for congressional affairs at the Department of Transportation and a former White House aide under President George W. Bush, recalled his experience working at the White House on Sept. 11, 2001.
Today, Khan said he still remembers that day "moment by moment," adding that the movie touches a raw nerve. He said he had not made up his mind about whether it is too soon to produce such a film.
"Five short years after 9/11, we're seeing a movie produced that purports to relive the horrific moments of 9/11 and Flight 93," Khan said. "I haven't made up my mind about that issue honestly. I do feel, obviously, that it will stir up anti-Muslim sentiments. But, I mean, it's hard to make the situation worse."
Ibrahim said the opening scene of the movie, where hijackers are reading the Quran, "sent chills up my spine."
"It only reinforced my hatred and resentment toward Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida and reminded me of how much they've hurt Muslims and scarred our faith," Ibrahim said. "I have so much anger toward these guys. The movie only reinforced that. I understand why it makes others angry. It doesn't feel good to watch what happened and see innocent families die. It's senseless."
But Ibrahim added that the movie also reinforced how much has changed since the events of Sept. 11.
"On 9/11, I was working at a high-tech firm and I wasn't wearing a hijab," Ibrahim said. "Now I'm wearing a hijab and dedicating myself to preventing people from trying to ruin the name of my faith. That day helped us grow and made us more civic-conscious."
Khan agreed: "My sense is that the opportunity is still there to educate non-Muslims. Just as we had hate crimes after 9/11, we also had an outpouring of brotherhood and friendship with non-Muslims who stood by the Muslim community and stood by their neighbors and friends. ... I think you need to look at the positives and educate friends about the realities of Islam."
I remember hearing no such concerns about the faux-documentary, Fahrenheit 911.
Says it all,CAIR.
Point them all in the direction of Bum F--k Egypt.
"I really wanna care,
I wanna feel somethin'
Let me dig a little deeper...
Nope...Sorry...Nothin'
My give a damn's busted"
Jo Dee Messina
could stir up anti-Islamic sentiments
You can thank your crazy brethren for THAT!
one of the individuals responsible for savings lives:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=rickrescorla
IIRC, Rescorla was the last man out of the Towers when the terrorists made
their first attempt.
And was on duty 9-11 to cover for a colleague attending a marriage ceremony.
I still say the whole bunch of them ought to be rounded up, put into concentration camps, and then deported back to the Middle East. That's where they belong, not here.
Probably because this time, Hollywood didn;t make the terrorist a white American out of "sensitivity" concerns.
These Hyphenated whack jobs can Kiss off and go home to Mecca and never return for all I care. America is for Non Hyphenated Americans otherwise quit whyneing and SHAAADUPPPP!!!
Good, that least I know there are some Muslims who actually are not completely nuts and wacko's.
...my hatred and resentment toward Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida and reminded me of how much they've hurt Muslims and scarred our faith," Ibrahim said. "I have so much anger toward these guys.
If every American Muslim was as angry and as these people are, we would see it on the streets.
All I hear are the sound of "crickets"
United 93 expressed the well established facts of September 11 and kept almost exclusively to hard facts. I guess all the Islamo arch fascist lovers are concerned about people finding out about the facts of the situation.
I agree. And I hope those swine are reading this.
-"We thought it was important to see the movie to find out how it comes across," Ibrahim said. "But it dredged up a lot of emotions. We were watching it — as Americans and as Muslims — and it hurts us to see our fellow Americans hurt, and see people hurt others, acting in the name of Islam."-
Notice that "how it comes across" was the first part of the sentence, with a bit of "Americans" thrown in at the end. How predictable.
...With a road flare.
Agreed. Study the history of Islam and it's relation with non-mohammedans and we need to be in a fighting mode for the foreseeable future, or at least until alternative sources of oil or energy in general are found. Then they can eat their oil and crawl back into the caves they came from. Problem is, the West has let so many of them emigrate to our countries, that this will be a problem forever, maybe?
Khan:"I do feel obviously that it(movie)will stir up anti-muslim sentiments..it's hard to make the situation worse."It's hard to make the situation worse????When i hear muslims gripe like this it makes me wonder why they just don't go back to their respective third world hell holes?I mean if things are really that bad here why put up with it?
American Americans upset over mooslime involvment in 911!
Their poorfit gets poked by pigs in jail!
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