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August 13, 2007
Religious Terror Per Hollyweird
Posted by Dave Blount at August 13, 2007 12:59 PM
Considering that Islam's intifada against the rest of the world is the number one issue of our times, it should be encouraging to see Hollywood finally make a movie about religious terror. Is Tinseltown at last ready to climb out of its cramped cocoon of loony-left ideology and address reality?
The answer is a definitive no. The religious terrorists of Hollyweird's imagination are not Muslims, but Mormons.
The anti-Christian bigotry that characterizes the Left becomes especially ugly where Mormons are concerned, possibly because of the Mormon faith's particularly American roots. Resolutely ignoring the Islamic menace, Hollywood wallows gleefully in this bigotry in September Dawn, which goes back 150 years in its attempt to create a credible religious threat that isn't Muslim.
According to a review by Michael Medved, the movie portrays the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a "corrupt cult led by an all-powerful, blood-thirsty mass murderer."
Sounds like Mohammed, doesn't it? But the liberal weenies in Tinseltown would never have the nerve to launch a broadside like this at Islam. In Medved's words:
The trailer for the film makes clear its hostile point of view, with Terrence Stamp as Brigham Young announcing in portentous and menacing tones: "I am the voice of God. And anyone who doesn't like it will be hewn down."
The narrator then informs potential viewers that in 1857, this monster acted "in the name of God" in the savage murder of 120 men, women and children. "Who ordered the massacre, and why, has been hidden in a cloak of secrecy and conspiracy," he solemnly intones. "And the reputation of one of the nation's mightiest religious figures has been preserved and protected — until now!" At that point, the trailer offers a black-hatted character screaming, "Mormons, do your duty!" to command stern-faced gunmen to blast away at innocent victims.
Actually, the Mountain Meadows Massacre has not been hidden by any Religious Right conspiracy, but has simply been buried in the sands of time, like thousands of other equally regrettable incidents that have occurred throughout the world. Digging it up for a movie now serves propaganda, not entertainment purposes.
Historians have not determined that Brigham Young had any involvement in the massacre — but the movie's producers apparently have. Orwell was right: He who controls the present, controls the past.
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The grim face of religious fanaticism — according to Hollywood. |
On a tip from V the K.
