The most racist movie of all time towards Arabs
The film was written by former secretary of the Navy, James Webb.
The action takes place in Yemen, a real country in the middle east.
There are violent demonstrations that the American imbecile and the marines lead by Samuel L Jackson, they're called in to evacuate the American employees. And as they try to do so, the marines open fire on the crowd and kills scores of the enemy, including women and children.
And in the investigation that follows Tommy Lee Jones, the lawyer that represents the Samuel L Jackson character goes to Yemen to investigate.
The movie leads us to believe what seems honest. That the Marines committed the massacre.
During his investigation Tommy Lee Jones character sees a little girl, with only one leg. He follows her, comes upon a hospital ward full of civilian victims.
He finds an audio tape, by the bed of one of the victims. And when the tape get translated in court, we immediately beginning changing our mind of who is responsibly for this massacre.
We discover that the Yemen's civilians aren't so innocent after all. It turns out they fire on the Marines first.
And in a moment that will live in Hollywood goofeny, we suddenly learn that the little girl and sympathizing with, the very girl who's humanity and innocence may have broken down our stereo types, well, she's no better than those other Yemeni terrorists.
As a result, Samuel L Jackson delivers the key-line: "Waste the mother *beep* , are now on his side.
Why does this matter? Because in the enemy, the massacre of even women and children has been justified, and applauded. It's a slaughter yes, but it's a righteous slaughter.
The humanity is not there. And if we cannot see the Arab humanity, what's left?
If we feel nothing, if we feel that Arabs are not like us, or not like anyone else, then let's kill them all? Then they deserve to die, right?
What's the outcome? What do Arabs think of us that sees these movies? Because these type of movies are rendered all the time. Movies showing us killing them. What do they walk away with? Does this bring us closer together? This is advance peace? Or does this separate us?
Islamophobia now is a part of our psyche. Words such as Arab's and Muslim are proceeded as threatening words. And if the words are threatening, what about the images we see in the cinema and on our television screens? We are at war with Iraq. Once a war in march 2003. But didn't our entrance to the war, wasn't that made a lot easier primary because for more of a century that we have been vilifies all things Arabs. And now, given what happened at 9/11, the tragic events that took place on that day where 19 Arab/Muslim terrorists were responsibly for the deaths of nearly 3000 people. Now instead of saying that's the lunatic fringe, we say "no, no, no", the actions reflect the actions of 1,3 billion people. Now that's dangerous. We don't say that the actions of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members, who are Christians represents Christianity do we? Look at Oklahoma city, Timothy McVeigh, good Irish catholic boy. Do we say all Irish Catholics are terrorists? No one knew McVeigh's religious believes as part of the story. Yet of course have that been an American with Arab roots or an American Muslim, it would have been a part of the story. Remember when the news of the bombing took? Reporters and politicians, nearly everybody rushed to judgment. Without any proof whatsoever. Because the bombing was so destructive they believed that it must have had middle-eastern roots all over it.
The stereo type has become so widespread, that it has become invisible to some people. And the reason being is that we've all grown up with these images. Just take a look at the series "24" and many, many other films/series.
Dr. Jack Shaheen quote