Islamophobia Watch

The Christian fundamentalist website Movieguide.org is not happy about the new Brian DePalma directed film Redacted. With a summary of the film that it is "Giving Aid and Comfort to Muslim Terrorists and Their Koranic Jihad", the website lists its complaints:

"REDACTED is a controversial left-wing movie about two despicable American soldiers in Iraq leading a raid to rape and murder a teenage Iraqi girl and her family. This unbalanced, abhorrent movie will be used as propaganda by the brutal anti-Christian, anti-American Muslim terrorists who want to murder anyone who opposes their totalitarian aims."

With attitudes towards women making up a substantial part of criticisms of Muslims in the 21^st Century it is interesting to note that one of Movieguide.org's complaints is of "an anti-American diatribe by some goofy-looking young woman on the Internet".

Chris Morris takes Martin Amis apart:

"Now Amis should be allowed to wonder aloud about anything. He can suggest Muslims should 'experience painful discrimination until they get tough with their children' if he likes. Thought experiments are fine. But if he bundles his thoughts on Islam together and iterates them one after the other as he did when I saw him, he displays not unguarded musing but the forging of an incoherent creed of hate. It goes roughly like this: 9/11 was horrific, its driving ideology was totalitarian, the totalitarians were Muslims, all Muslims follow a book they believe to be the immutable word of God, I don't believe that, therefore all Muslims are idiots, and basically bastards. Idiot bastards moping around the Middle East in a paranoid funk just cos they lost their empire, and what a rubbish empire it was, too, by the way. Now, what is your balanced view of these primitive wife-beating idiotic bastards?"

The Observer