Portrayal of Persia too positive?


I was disturbed by the clear bias even in the first lines of the film. Persia, which people should know is another name for Iran, was presented as a great and honorable civilization. Especially where they said wherever the Persians went, "order followed". Didn't they realize that the Persian Empire was created through invasion and occupation. THey said that Alamut souldn't havent been invaded but they were on their way to invading and conquering others as well.

With kids seeing this this is insidious liberal Hollywood propaganda in the Obama era that even Disney is into now. Do they realize that Iran is where they stone women to death for alledged adultery? Or where according to wikipedia marriages are often arranged between first cousins? That is the true Persia. That and the taking of the US embassy for over a year, the sponsorship of the Beirut barracks bombings, the supply of rockets to Hezbollah and the funding of terrorist Islamic militias in Lebanon.

Oh yeah and since they are into glorifying the Persian empire, they conveniently didn't reveal that the glory days of Iran, as well as Iraq (with Mesopotamia/Babylon) and Egypt all took place before the invention of Islam. After the invention of Islam by Muhammad in Saudi Arabia, which he forcibly spread throuhg teror, violence and invasion, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, and Pakistan all never reached their previous glory again.

Now imagine we have to go to war against Iran, and instead of an enemy country are kids are like why are we fighting Prince Dastan.....

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I'm not known to be easy on the muslims when it come to criticizing their extremist views that most hopefully dont even subscribe to, but here I smell a true bigot.
So I get from your post that politics is only for you an expression of your deep fear and xenophobia that needs to be expressed in violent ways, no different from those terrorist you probably hate.
By reading your clue phrases and words such as "liberal hollywooe" and "obama" etc, I totally understand that you believe the only reality worth depicting (your reality) is one in which all foregners, especially middle easterns, are evil, therefore must be killed. You feel hollywood is in cahoots with hippies into accepting non-americans as human beings instead of doing the right thing: exterminate them all like vermin; oh and even americans who dont look like you, probably a white male, right? Since your president doesnt fit your local redneck tribe then he isnt even an american and should be treated as well for treason?
I really find this comedic.

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