Posted on 01/23/2014 10:11:28 AM PST by kronos77
Organized crime maybe, terrorism no.
More Hollyweird denial and cognitive dissonance.
I have no doubt terrorist cells are operating out of houses of worship in Dearborn....
Russians have been Hollywood’s new, politically correct safe villians for a long time.
Couldn’t make it about mooselimbs. They might end up laying in a pool of blood on Wilshire Blvd with a note stabbed in their silicon chests.
They go so out of their way to lie and change perception. It is just amazing. And they control the message.
Crap like this is why Clancy stopped working with Hollywood.
A Russian church? Is there even one in Dearbornistan? I know there’s a huge, city-block-wide mosque on Michigan Ave. in east Dearbornistan.
Just loser equivocation and lying like Hollywood did with “Sum of All Fears.”
They are cowards afraid of angering Muslims.
Russians could be bad in Hunt for Red October. Irish could be bad in Patriot Games. A G.H.W. Bush character could be bad in Clear and Present danger BUT Muslims could not be bad in Sum of All fears. guess which one I gave a pass on? Oh, let me just predict there will be no Rainbow Six movie. Environmentalists can be depicted as the Malthusian Declinist fanatics they are.
If this is set in the 1970/80s then it makes sense that the Russians (Soviets) are the bad guys. If current, it doesn’t.
Let’s see.....
Russians are in the news today...
Russian people are having a renaissance of their Orthodox Christian faith...[check]
Russian lawmakers pass laws against homosexuality...[check]
Pro-Homo Hollywood produces a film depicting Russian Orthodox Christians as terrorists...[check]
Yep...makes perfect sense
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The order of Albino Monk Assassins applauds the murderous machinations of fellow apostolic evil-doers everywhere.
Freegards
I don’t know whether there’s really a Russian church in Dearborn. I don’t even know whether there’s an Orthodox Church in Dearborn, though there is a bit mostly Arab Orthodox parish in Livonia — the Basilica of St. Mary.
My thoughts exactly. I still haven't bothered to watch Sum of All Fears just for this reason. It is my favorite Clancy novel and they totally ruined it with PC. I'll give this one a pass as well.
If they put a terrorist cell in a Dearborn mosque (a real probability) the producers and stars would be running and hiding for the rests of their lives.
It is so much safer to make real Muslim terrorists into pretend Christian ones.
Does one think these people are stupid and suicidal?
I believe middle eastern Christians far outnumber muslims in the greater Detroit area these days. The super muzzie brothers are concentrated in Dearborn with Copts, Maronite, Assyrians etc spread all around the area.
The Russion Orthodox Church in the United States was predominantly ROCOR (pro-tsarist and absolutely anti-Moscow Patriarchate). A few churches remained in the Moscow Patriarchate in the US. Six were in Michigan, none in Dearborn.
After a millenia of Orthodox Christianity in Russia, I’ve never heard of an instance where a Russian Orthodox Christian used tactics depicted in the movie.
So, no, it doesn’t make sense if set in the 70s or 80s.
Seriously, the Russian consulate should file a formal protest to the US government, objecting this this as anti-Russian Orthodox, anti-Christian bigotry.
Of course the USG would do nothing, but it would alert the US public that vilifying the Russian Orthodox church is just as offensive as is vilifying other people of faith.
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