Posted on 09/13/2015 2:25:45 AM PDT by Rummyfan
On this 14th anniversary, I'm struck by how 9/11 seems something woozy and remote to almost anyone under 25 - in the way that, say, Pearl Harbor or D-Day, the Blitz or the Battle of Britain most certainly were not to those who were children in the late Forties, Fifties and Sixties. One obvious reason is the event's all but total absence from popular culture - which is curious for a day that played out on TV screens, at least in part, like a movie. But, as it turned out, there would be more films addressing the great cultural clash of the new century from the other end, rather than from the streets of Manhattan. Kandahar - The Movie (talk about a hit title!) was an obscure arthouse flick rushed into general release after September 11th, and wound up in your local fleapit around the time Mullah Omar and the gang hitched up their skirts and skedaddled out of Kabul. It offered a rare glimpse of actual daily life in the land whence Osama bin Laden launched his act of war. President Bush was said to have seen it, and he hadn't seen a film since Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Whether he enjoyed it as much, I cannot say. But it seems an appropriate choice for our Saturday movie date on this anniversary weekend:
Directed by the Iranian Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Kandahar offers an inside-the-burqa look at women's life under the Taliban. It's not a documentary, so much as a drama in which real people play fictionalized versions of themselves. The star is Niloufar Pazira, a then 25-year-old Afghan refugee who now lives in Canada.
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All because PC blocks liberals from talking about the cause of 9-11 they’ve tried to flush it down the memory hole. They dare not say that it was caused by the mental illness known as Islam.
Liberals need to be protected from their OWN mental illness before it gets us all killed.
While a judge orders removal of the Ten Commandments from the grounds of the Oklahoma state capital, a Saudi will soon fund a $10 million sharia law school at Yale.
And we’re told to just keep voting.
While the jihadis sharpen their janbiyas we should stockpile our ammo and prepare for the coming final clash.
I noticed that the Network coverage limited itself to the surviving victims and avoided any mention of the perpetrators ........... obviously, keeping the narrative free of any mention or connection of Obama and the Democrat accommodation to Iran’s terrorism.
Just like the film “Osama”, it shows the utter hopelessness and depravity of any regime under total Islamic control.
FINALLY!
Everyone on FR seems to be referring to Liberalism & Islam as "mental illness". You have restored the proper frame of reference!
People who demand the destruction of babies in the womb, the total fluidity of gender or the destruction of any & all who do not follow their "prophet" are not "mentally ill".
They have made conscious, informed choices to follow and promote depravity and evil!
My local public access TV channel is flooded with 9/11 conspiracy shows saying that our own government was behind it. For many young people, that sort of crap forms their opinion of 9/11. Meanwhile, the mainstream media - TV shows and films - have almost totally avoided any plot-lines involving Islamic terrorism in general or 9/11 in particular.
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