Who is a terrorist?
I wrote something on my blog about this TV show a few days ago. Since then, I read Aghdashloo’s interview with Radio Farda, a Persian language radio program, on their website. She was more blunt about her views than what she presented in English language media about her role in the show as a terrorist. She made these contradictory statements trying to defend her poor judgment in taking the terrorist role in “24”: (1) The reality is that although not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim!! And “24” is just a dramatized version of reality. (2) “24” is just a TV show, a cartoonish kind of show, and no one should relate that to reality!
Yes, all the September 11th terrorists considered themselves to be Muslims. But let’s also remember another September 11th about 30 years ago where another nation was terrorized by a group of terrorists who staged a coup and murdered a democratically elected president. I am talking about Chile and the CIA supported coup which led to years of terror in the hands of bunch of torturers and murderers trained, financed, and supported by CIA and US government. I don’t think those terrorists considered themselves to be Muslim.
Let’s also remember about 50 years ago, when another democratically elected prime-minister in Iran was ousted by a coup engineered by US which led to many years of terror for a nation, and which finally brought about the current tyranny of Islamic government. If you don’t know what I am talking about read the book “All the Shah’s Men” by Stephen Kinzer . I don’t think those terrorists considered themselves to be Muslim.
If you don’t want to go back that far, remember what happened in Oklahoma City just a few years ago. I don’t think Timothy McVeigh considered himself to be a Muslim.
Or just go down south of the border from country to country from Guatemala to Honduras, to Nicaragua, … and ask about the US supported terrorists killing innocent people and ask them about their religious affiliation.
Or go down to Middle-east and talk to Palestinians whose kids, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, … are killed by the occupiers of their land. Ask them who is terrorizing them in their own land, and inquire about the religion of their torturers.
Ask Mr Rumsfeld about his religion when he was sitting with Saddam in Baghdad in 1984, giving him support to cast terror of chemical weapons on the people of Iran and Iraq.
Ask Mr. Kissinger about his religion when he sat with Suharto and gave him his support and a green light to start the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians, and ask the east-Timorese about the terror inflicted on them.
Yes, there are many Muslim terrorists. Iranian nation is now living under the terror of a religious tyranny. Terrorist groups of Muslims, coming up from Indonesia to Chechnya, commit despicable crimes as their way of forcing their backward politics on others, but let’s also not forget the powerful states doing even worse atrocities to force their agenda on others.
Who is going to make a TV show about them?
Yes, all the September 11th terrorists considered themselves to be Muslims. But let’s also remember another September 11th about 30 years ago where another nation was terrorized by a group of terrorists who staged a coup and murdered a democratically elected president. I am talking about Chile and the CIA supported coup which led to years of terror in the hands of bunch of torturers and murderers trained, financed, and supported by CIA and US government. I don’t think those terrorists considered themselves to be Muslim.
Let’s also remember about 50 years ago, when another democratically elected prime-minister in Iran was ousted by a coup engineered by US which led to many years of terror for a nation, and which finally brought about the current tyranny of Islamic government. If you don’t know what I am talking about read the book “All the Shah’s Men” by Stephen Kinzer . I don’t think those terrorists considered themselves to be Muslim.
If you don’t want to go back that far, remember what happened in Oklahoma City just a few years ago. I don’t think Timothy McVeigh considered himself to be a Muslim.
Or just go down south of the border from country to country from Guatemala to Honduras, to Nicaragua, … and ask about the US supported terrorists killing innocent people and ask them about their religious affiliation.
Or go down to Middle-east and talk to Palestinians whose kids, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, … are killed by the occupiers of their land. Ask them who is terrorizing them in their own land, and inquire about the religion of their torturers.
Ask Mr Rumsfeld about his religion when he was sitting with Saddam in Baghdad in 1984, giving him support to cast terror of chemical weapons on the people of Iran and Iraq.
Ask Mr. Kissinger about his religion when he sat with Suharto and gave him his support and a green light to start the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Indonesians, and ask the east-Timorese about the terror inflicted on them.
Yes, there are many Muslim terrorists. Iranian nation is now living under the terror of a religious tyranny. Terrorist groups of Muslims, coming up from Indonesia to Chechnya, commit despicable crimes as their way of forcing their backward politics on others, but let’s also not forget the powerful states doing even worse atrocities to force their agenda on others.
Who is going to make a TV show about them?
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