Posted on 10/16/2006 12:59:55 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick
FRANKFURT: Bollywood may wear its multi-religious pluralism as a badge of honour, but for the angry young British Muslims of Pakistani denomination, it’s all a sham and therefore a matter of extreme discomfort.
As India's oversized filmdom stampedes across the world winning accolades, a group of British Muslim youth is trashing the Bollywood genre, warning that the "cheesy second-rate imitation of Hollywood...is overrunning Pakistan and brainwashing musalmaans".
In a rap-video posted on youtube.com that is being widely circulated in Pakistani circles, the group reserves much of its venom for Bollywood’s reigning stars, many of who happen to be Muslims.
"What do you want to give your kids?/Is it Salman Khan or Islam?/Is it Shah Rukh Khan or Allah’s book?/ Is it Bobby Deol or save their souls?/ Is it Amir Khan or imaan?" intones a singer, preferring a hip-hop style to convey the message.
Hip-hop is an African-American influenced musical and cultural movement that has itself attracted criticism for its language. YouTube is a social networking website that allows users to upload, view and share videoclips and it too has attracted criticism for encouraging violence and copyright infringement.
But for the extremist Brit-Pak brigade, Bollywood bashing comes first. "Everywhere you look/It’s that kufr Bollywood/Video stores selling whores/Semi-gay actors with Muslim sounding names/With Hindu propaganda designed to create chains," goes one rant.
The unnamed group, which has produced the video from a collage of Hindi film clips and posters, says Bollywood movies are officially banned in Pakistan but it is freely available on video and DVD by piracy, which it says is "a conspiracy to allow Hindu culture thorough the backdoor."
Reports from Pakistan speak of the movie Fanaa being a big hit in the country’s underground circuit. Songs from Fanaa and other new Bollywood blockbusters are played openly in taxis and private transport.
The Pakistani elite and the ruling class lead the ranks of Bollywood aficionados, a fact that seems to rankle the British Pakistani youth who are in the limelight for their extremist views and fondness for madrassas.
"They kill Kashmiris but you still watch Mission Kashmir,’’ they admonish Pakistanis in one passage.
Another rap passage wonders: "Bollywood Bollywood what’s the future hold/ As film by film you get ever so bold/ Stories of lesbianism enter the fold/ Now you have to heat it up as it starts going cold/ Topless movies or is it incest next/ All the time it is sex sex sex."
1. That rapper's rhymes indicate why Britons of Pakistani descent are not taking the music world by storm. When the phone doesn't ring, that's Sony-BMG not calling, Mohammed.
2. They also hint that Sacha Baron-Cohen plays his "Ali G" character as far too cerebral.
3. Britons of Pakistani heritage have accomplished zero... they hate Britain, which unwisely took them in; they sneer at the authentic Pakistanis who stayed in Pakistan, who are most unlikely to want them back; they abominate India, a land with more Moslems living in more freedom than Pakistan, a land about which they know nothing; they seethe.
Seething Muslims... how original is that?
4. These unemployed, unemployable, good-for-nothing, marriageable-only-to-kidnapped-preteens-from-the-old-country, savages don't like Bollywood entertainments... well, how special. For every seething Briton who's duded himself up in madrassa chic there are thousands of Moslems worldwide who enjoy India's entertainments.
If it's religious purity these guys are seeking, they ought to just kill themselves. Thousands of jihadi martyrs are waiting for them in Hell.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
"Britons of Pakistani heritage have accomplished zero... "
Islam worldwide has accomplished little but hatred and misery and murder.
I am going to buy some Bollywood DVDs, now that it turns out that they are against Allah.
Do Muslims make *any* films or works of artistic merit? Literature? Music (aside from "singing" the Koran in the style of strangling cats)? Certainly not paintings or sculpture, that's idolatry.
What exactly is the contribution that these Brit Muslim misfits have made or intend to make toward British culture and society, aside from the imposition of their sick and demented death cult?
I like Monsoon Wedding, Bollywood/Hollywood, Bride and Predjudice and The Guru. I also love Bend It Like Beckham which has several big Bollywood actors in it.
Hardly surprising. Brits n' Pakees hate any and everything thats "Indian" or "Hindu".
Lol. Someone posted this awhile back. It beats the heck out of Muslim Rap.
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