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.
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Will the release of Selma contribute to the rise in anti-Semite threats?
At least there is a real movie to blame now, rather than the fake YouTube video they used for Benghazi. Same old trick.
Anti-white threats.
Dang autocorrect.
Good one! Here is another video they won’t like:
http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4525012/former-representative-newt-gingrich-iowa-freedom-summit
No it isn’t. Headchopping, rapes, slavery, murders, blowing up buildings are what’s behind it.
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll go see the movie.
I don't really care.
Facebook and twitter. Heh. Whatever.
First, those people who hate on muslims “due to” the awesome movie are perverting the movie. They aren’t real movie-goers.
Second, it’s so totally a huge lie that a movie is the cause of anything. The movie is true, it is historical in nature, and merely reflects the world as it is.
FOAD muzzie pigs.
Gosh I hope they don’t put Clint in jail with that other islamophobic filmmaker.
Okay, but what's the downside?
Of course.
Yeah, most people thought the Hebdo affair was just an ethnic picnic. No one noticed anything untoward about it. This Islamophobia was all ginned up by that Christian Extremist movie about a mad gunman killing innocent sand rats.
Hold on, muslim group.
You can’t have it both ways.
If there are threats of violence, then we are supposed to conclude that this is not islam, correct?
We are being told that the violence being inflicted on the world in the name of islam, really has nothing to do with islam.
Therefore, we can only conclude that the threats are not from the real muslims, but from “extremists acting in the name of islam”, and we needn’t worry about them.
Help me out here - I am finding this “religion” very confusing.
Similar (plus to minus, sometimes VERY PLUS) to Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday... thru, well the last thousand years.
2015.01.23 Nigeria Kambari 15 0 Fifteen villagers are slaughtered by Boko Haram.
2015.01.23 Iraq Mosul 4 0 Four university professors are executed by the Islamic State.
2015.01.23 Philippines Zamboanga 2 54 An Abu Sayyaf car bombing outside a bar leaves two dead and four dozen injured.
Speaking of CAIR: ESAD.
5.56mm
It couldn’t possibly be the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris that caused this supposed reaction
BS, it is all the Muslims killing others in France that has Muslims getting the problems, not the release of a film.
The civilized world doesn’t react to a film and neither do Mulim terrotists IMO to YouTube videos before killing embassy workers with military weapons.
Ah. Poor little islamists.
Let these leftwing liars prove it.I’ll bet they can’t.
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