Pierre Rehov – Suicide Killers
French documentarian Pierre Rehov is screening his new documentary at Liberty Film Festival this weekend, and from the interview I heard with him Friday night, it’s going to be incredible. He examines the justification that Militant Islamists have for blowing up women and children, and how their culture, laws, and lifestyle choices have played into such violence in the name of their God. The film is called “Suicide Killers”, and may very well be nominated for an Oscar.
I’ve done a bit of reading over the last few days on this director, and he has certainly done his research. I wonder if the next documentary he decides to do will examine the treacherous Christians in Texas who, much like blowing up unarmed women and children in public, protest in front of clinics, and don’t want to see gays married (that’s sarcasm for those who don’t pick up on it in text).
Do yourself a favor…abstain from the moral equivalency crap, and the “it’s their culture and the who are we to judge” BS. There is evil in the world…I see people who see only gray as narrow-minded. I understand there is gray, black and white. This isn’t a random group of people who are on the fringe. These “martyrs” have their names and faces plastered in the public square…these are their heroes, their wise men, their role models.
Taking odds on whether Jihad and death will be called for his observations…putting him in the Robert Spencer
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin covers this at HOTAIR. Looks like he’s picking up a bit more…this kind of Momentum is warranted. Check out the link and view her film for more information. I love it when HotAir picks these stories up, because there’s only so much of an audience I can reach…they have real clout.
While I do agree that there are religious crazies in the US, their extreme views are not held and sponsored by the government. Yes, Bush is Christian, but you won’t see him giving a speech saying a clinic bomber is a Hero. We recognize extremism here…but in areas like Palestine, martyrdom is not synonymous with extremist ideas. It’s normal and accepted in many facets of the cultural mainstream.
I agree that in no way is or will extremism be tolerated or supported by our government for any Christian cause. The video shows nothing more than exceptions, Christian minority, trying to be as radical and fanatical as their Muslim counterparts.
But though I believe the fraction is much higher between Muslim radicals vs. Christian radicals, I have to disagree with the implication that the majority of Muslims are extremists. They’re merely perceived that way due to their crazies making the headlines.
I agree that the majority are not extremists, but the same way, what their culture see as extreme over here (tattoos, pornography, “prochoice” behavior) while not necessarily practiced by the majority, it is something that the majority accepts. My contention is that the acceptance of such radical suicidal behavior is what should truly be feared. That’s why I push so hard for the condemnation of terrorist activities by the Muslim mainstream…they need to hear it’s wrong, and unacceptable in modern society.
Fair point. I hadn’t looked at it that way, and, now that I have, share said fear. I don’t personally fear it, but I fear it for sakes of others.
I admit that I do not know enough about their religion or it’s followers, statistically and in general, to have any basis to further this argument.