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dignified warriors
Dane 2022-03-23 09:02:03
If I were Muslim, I would send bullets to the director and the actors. No matter how absurd the jihadists' behavior, making fun of them with this wanton attitude is too much in my opinion as an alien - condemnation is more respectful than ridicule. To die, but to die in an inappropriate manner, may be what the director wants to attack, as well as the incompetence of the bureaucracy and the absurdity of politics, perhaps also what the director wants to attack. This instead creates the nihilistic tone of the film - since all attitudes, beliefs, and actions are wrong, what is right? ANYWAY, this movie cracks me up and makes people think about it. No matter how empty it is, it is still a good movie.
Extended Reading
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Barry: Bollocks, I'm a liability! I am the Invisible Jihadi! They seek him here, they seek him there, but here's not there, he's blowing up your slag sister!
Omar: Invisible? Right. Like the time you got on the local news for baking a Twin Towers cake and leaving it at the synagogue on 9/11?
Barry: That is part of the plan! Hide in plain sight, you mug!
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Hassan: [Raps] I'm the Mujahideen and I'm making a scene / Now you's gonna feel what the boom-boom means / It's like Tupac said, "When I die, I'm not dead"/ We are the martyrs, you're just smashed tomatoes / Allahu Akbar!
[Audience screams as Hassan detonate his suicide belt releasing party streams]
Barry: [Silent from audience] Mashallah, brother
[Murmurs from the audience]
Hassan: [Looking at the audiences] Oh, what, man? Come on. What? Just cos I'm Muslim, you thought it was real?