Spike Lee Made Me Do it, Taliban Johnny Says

NewsMax ^ | 9/27/02 | Limbacher

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Taliban warrior John Walker Lindh became a member of the terrorist al Qaeda sect because he was inspired by Spike Lee's film "Malcolm X" which he saw when he was 12-years old, his lawyer Tony West told People magazine.

It was the final scene that did it, West told People. The scene that enkindled his client's eventual decision to join Osama bin Laden's holy war against America showed thousands of Muslims making their pilgrimage to Mecca to pray at the Great Mosque.

"When he talks about that last scene, his face still lights up," West told People

"He says that seeing all those people in humbleness and equality all praying together really inspired him."

Today's New York Post reports that Lindh's parents, Frank and Marilyn Lindh, confirmed that Lee's 1992 film, which starred Denzel Washington as the Harlem street hustler turned follower of Elijah Muhammad, was instrumental in guiding their son's sensibilities.

"We always accepted his interest in and conversion to Islam," Frank said.

[FourtySeven]

Fortunately, Spike Lee has gone the way of many of the fads from the 90's.

[KC_Conspirator]

Oh yeah, I can see how a rich privaleged kid in expensive baggy pants from suburban San Francisco can empathize with Macolm X's "Plymouth Rock landed on us" speech. Him joining terrorists had nothing to do with his liberal upbringing.

/sarcasm

[ventana]

Anyway,it was a very good movie. V's wife.

[Tired of Taxes]

Yes, and I can see how someone might be influenced by that last scene, with Malcolm praying alongside a "blue-eyed Muslim". But, apparently, Johnny missed the message of peace in that same scene.

[KC_Conspirator]

Sure, but I don't see you with a burka on chanting "Death to America" in some hovel in an afghan village. :^)

[YaYa123]

Just imagine how empty headed and shallow you must be to base your entire life on what you see in a movie. He said he was 12 years old. Hadn't his parents, school, church, filled up part of that headspace with something of value? Something of substance? Some kind of judgement system that would have led him to question whether or not that movie might contain agenda driven distortions, taken romantic license, propagandadized the subject?

[JeeperFreeper]

This reminds me of the lyrics of a country-western song of a few years ago....."if you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything" .

[b4its2late]

I thought the Hollywood types and their movies didn't negatively influence our youth? /sarcasm

[rockrr]

Unfortunately (or not) I didn't see the final scene of that flick 'cause I had turned it off in favor of a rerun of Babewatch - priorities ya know......

[TrappedInLiberalHell]

Just imagine how empty headed and shallow you must be to base your entire life on what you see in a movie.

Like Clinton and the movie "Deep Throat"?

[ventana]

No Way! :)

V's wife.

[N. Theknow]

Malcolm X?

Good thing he missed Malcolm I, Malcolm II, Malcolm III,etc.

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

He must have missed that part after Malcolm's visit to Mecca, where his "loving fellow Muslim" ministers had him expelled from the company of the faithful, and then assassinated because his popularity among the believers was threatening their posistions and incomes. Definitely a "religion of peace" . . . the peace of the grave for anyone who gets in the way of those who are promoting it for their own profit.

[FreeTally]

Maybe Spike needs to be dragged into court like Ozzy and Judas Priest in the mid 1980's.

[breakem]

.......still waiting for Marilyn Monroe to answer my post card.

[YaYa123]

Marilyn Monroe.. Deep Throat..
You guys give good giggle. thanks

Do either of you remember which movie had the line in it about "The Godfather" answering all the big questions of life?

(Hey, TILH, your tomato website is very nice.)

[breakem]

can't recall

[Uncle Meat]

It was the ultimate"I wanna be black"act that these idiot white teenagers do that seem to have this severe race identity crises these days.Every thing the blacks do is cool.He wanted to be black so bad,that he mimicked what his idols do once they end up in prison,covert to Islam.

[TexanAmerican]

Maybe Spike needs to be dragged into court like Ozzy and Judas Priest in the mid 1980's.
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I was thinking he needed to be dragged, just not in court.