My latest in PJ Media:
Spiked columnist Luke Gittos noted Wednesday that “musician and actor Riz Ahmed’s new short film, The Long Goodbye, has been released to accompany his new album of the same name. The film depicts an Asian family – in the midst of preparing for a wedding – being dragged from their homes and executed.”
Sounds like a solid miss? Absolutely. And it gets worse: “The killers are a gang of armed white men who arrive in a black van. The police, also white, stand by and do nothing. The family’s white neighbours then watch from their window as the Asian [the UK media’s favored code word for “Muslim”] family members are shot in the head. The film ends with Ahmed rapping about how he doesn’t feel at home in the UK. The message? Presumably that Ahmed’s own feelings of disillusionment is rooted in his foreknowledge of an impending fascist slide in British society.”
Nonetheless, and predictably, “the film has already received much acclaim.” And Ahmed “gave an interview to Radio 4 in which he argued that there are many people in Britain who would not consider him to be British. When asked whether racial divides are more pronounced in America than in the UK, he replied ‘pick your poison’. In other words, British Muslims are in a comparable position to blacks in the US. Or possibly worse. The Holocaust also came up in the interview.”
Gittos observed that The Long Goodbye “seeks to trade off the message that British Muslims are in a comparable position to European Jews prior to the Holocaust. This is the message of his film. His own feelings about ‘not being at home’ in Britain, which may be explained by the fact that he spends a lot of time making films in the US, is somehow reflective of the precarious situation all British Muslims apparently find themselves in.”
Riz Ahmed’s new film is lurid and trashy victimhood fantasy porn that non-Muslim Leftists in Britain will lap up eagerly as they cry for more. But its intent is even more insidious than to reinforce feelings of grievance and entitlement among Muslims in Britain.
Note what Luke Gittos adds about the attitudes and assumptions that led Ahmed to craft his exercise in industrial-strength self-pity: “The Independent claimed in 2019 to have uncovered evidence that Islamophobia is ‘thriving in all parts of British society’. It cited statistics suggesting that 31 per cent of the population believe that Islam poses a threat to the British way of life, and only 32 per cent believe that Islam and the British way of life are compatible.”
There is much more. Read the rest here.
terry sullivan says
tell ahmed to leave uk
Savvy Kafir says
Right! Pretty simple. If you’re a Muslim living in the West and you don’t feel welcome, get the hell out. Because some of us are not willing to let you turn London into Lahore, just so you can feel more at home. Islam does not belong here. Muslims do not belong here.
mortimer says
No one should be persecuted on account of their beliefs, and in the West, Muslims are generally protected from rudeness. This film is a FANTASY. He is searching for sympathy for something that did not occur. Nice trick.
Savvy Kafir says
Mortimer — Defending your society against people who seek to destroy it does not qualify as “persecution” in my book. If we allow Western societies to be transformed into Islamic hell-holes because we didn’t want to “persecute” the Muslim colonizers and invaders, future generations will despise us — and rightfully so.
gravenimage says
How is saying that someone who doesn’t appreciate the free West should leave “persecution”?
lilyDarcey says
Muslims are good at self victimizing to garner sympathy from the useful idiot left.
AP says
Maybe you’ll change your mind about this when one kills someone you love, because of their beliefs.
James Lincoln says
Savvy Kafir,
Strongly agree!
Jerry says
Not into Idlib or Sanaa either.
Glyn Davies says
Moslum woman 22 years old driving at reckless speeds (100kph over the designated speed limit )through suburban streets in Sydney Australia while driving disqualified gets pulled over by police officer and continually spits in his face & screams she has “The Virus”…with absolutely NO respect whatsoever…send these entitled pieces of shit back to where they feel more comfortable…we all know what they stand for
JCscuba says
Complete agreement, Savvy Kafir. Our walls keep people out not in.
Iambob says
This ‘film’ (propaganda) presupposes the same faulty and fictional narrative, of the Left, that compares the plight of homosexuals with that of ‘my people’ (blacks in America). The fundamental failure of modern-day public schools in America to educate-no longer teaching history as it was, not as the Left desires it to be, enables such pervasive ignorance and irrepressible nonsense.
The most insidious and defining attribute of Leftists may be witnessed in how so easily they are deceived and deceive. How they, deliberately, confuse rank fiction with historical reality.
Truth is, there are no substantive similarities between migrant Muslims in Great Britain and the black experience in America. Claims to the contrary are grossly illegitimate at best.
Fiction and fantasy should never be misconstrued as history.
As for this author’s rather ominous conclusion: ‘When I am silenced entirely and my books and website are unavailable, and everyone is marching together into the glorious multicultural future without distraction from “Islamophobes,” and yet for some reason the jihad massacres keep happening…’ that is a legitimate concern that I’ve harbored for more than a decade.
The old adage, ‘Those who forget the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them’ may very well be the epitaph of Western civilization should it soon fail to heed the intrepid voice of Robert Spencer crying loudly and courageously, in the wilderness, ‘Wake up, before it’s too late!’
We minimize or, altogether, dismiss his scholarly research and sage counsel to our own peril.
Sam says
Why do these people NOT go back to their “wonderful” countries and suffer this “terrible” discrimination. I am more pissed off at westerners allowing this garbage.
Zundfolge says
Sounds like projection to me.
Political Oracle says
What kind of foe dramatization is this? The video is leaving out a major detail. This is not happening in the USA or UK. This video is nonsense! Democratic societies need a secular definition of religion; not a one size fits all societies. Until democratic governments truly understand religion, you will see subversion, subjugation and finally total collapse of society into a slave nation. Wake up!
Rufolino says
This absurd film turns reality on its head.
In some significant ways Britain is already a slave nation. We may not criticise Islam, so therefore, following Voltaire’s model, we are in Islam’s power.
What is slavery if not being subject to the power of someone else ?
Moslems are the new aristocracy, and in achieving this, Moslems have made the “islamophobia” scam a hugely successful tactic. This obnoxious film capitalises on the islamophobia myth, exaggerating it beyond your wildest dreams.
Steven Taylor says
Muslims are here in America.
They are now living a better life than they had in the Islamic land in which they formerly resided.
However, despite the foregoing, they are very disturbed and “offended” by certain conditions.
For example they are offended by our American flag, the Pledge of Allegiance and the singing of our National Anthem.
They want us to eliminate these patriotic symbols of our love for the country we reside in.
They also want our laws to become abolished in favor of Sharia Law.
There are multitudes of other “modifications” they demand.
Look here Muslims.
If you are in any way “offended” by what is and has been our way of life here, THEN GO BACK TO THE HOLE YOU CRAWLED OUT OF!
Political Oracle says
This is called political islam. Political terrorism.
James Lincoln says
+1
Battle says
+100.
mortimer says
NO ONE SHOULD BE ABUSED ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR RELIGION.
HOWEVER, this film is an imaginative ‘what-if’, made-up, HORROR FANTASY and an obvious example of PSYCHOLOGICAL PROJECTION … the technique of defending oneself against the accusation of having unpleasant, immature or neurotic impulses by denying their existence in oneself, while attributing them to others. This film is intended to distract Westerners from the REAL JIHADS against non-Muslims taking place in Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Malaysia.
In this film, we see an example of KINETIC JIHAD, the physical attacks that Muslims commit on a daily basis against disbelieving, non-Muslim kafirs. There are an average 3 to 5 jihad attacks every day of the year in which up to 50 people are killed. The film project is a PROPAGANDA JIHAD to get sympathy for Islam by using FANTASY and IMAGINATION.
In fact, this film is the MIRROR IMAGE OF KINETIC JIHAD … physical attacks Muslims are doing every day against Christians, Hindus and Buddhists and atheists in Muslim-majority countries. This REVERSE IMAGE OF REALITY is intended to RAISE SYMPATHY FOR MUSLIMS who are statically among the least likely to experience persecution and take sympathy away from white Christians by scapegoating them with the sins of jihadists.
We OBSERVE what Riz Ahmed’s TRICK FAUX-TOGRAPHY is.
Riz Ahmed is EXPOSED as a not-so-clever manipulator. This is ISLAMIC MELODRAMA and ISLAMIC VICTIMOLOGY combined to depict the MIRROR IMAGE of real events perpetrated daily by members of the ‘religion of peace’.
gravenimage says
Yes–this is projection.
In reality, this is what Muslims do to Infidels all over the world.
Emilie Green says
“It cited statistics suggesting that 31 per cent of the population believe that Islam poses a threat to the British way of life”
Are they that blind? That percentage should be closer to 90%.
James Lincoln says
Yes Emilie – at least 90%…
Brian Hunter says
I have seldom seen a more brazen case of projection. Ahmed knows full well that real atrocities like this are committed by Muslims against Christians in Africa every day.
ploome says
and Jews-
exactly
gravenimage says
New Film Has Non-Muslims Drag Muslim Family from Home and Murder Them as Non-Muslim Neighbors Watch Approvingly
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What utter calumny. Riz Ahmed has made a career out of fake Muslim victimhood.
ploome says
Riz Ahmed took the storyline from Iraq, Iran and other countries in the Middle East, where muslims have been doing that to Christians and Jews for centuries..
Turkish Ex-Muslim says
+1 Best comment ever
Battle says
Riz Ahmed is hater of europeans, hater of christian’s, and a hater of jews.
Riz Ahmed jihadi jew hater.
Riz Ahmed hypocrisy?
Riz Ahmed lying?
Lynette Gaye Chase says
Yes to 1, 2, 3, 4. NO question here! of course he is Lying. that is typical islamic deceit.
Wellington says
Projection (in film form).
David Dzelilovic says
I agree, “projection” of the exact evil nature of Islam onto Christians.
I think the technique was devised by Saul Alinsky and published in his book “Rules for Radicals”, and embraced by the radical Left and now Islam. It fits like hand-in-glove in “taqiyya” (Islamic lies to non-Muslims for the advancement of Islam).
So the film’s false portrayal of Christians in in fact a true portrayal of Muslims.
The Islamic ideology is the anthisesis of Christianity.
Although off topic, in case some readers are unaware, it is on record that Hitlary Clinton has personally sought advice from Saul Alinsky, and adopted many of his maniulative techniques (including “projection”) in her personal, business, and political affairs.
Jayell says
Yes, ‘projection’ is the keyword, because all the scenes as described here seem to come from a very un-British muslim mind, having little or no basis in reality in the UK , but instead a very clear and verifiable correlation with muslim attitudes and behaviour not only in muslim countries but also here in the UK. As Mr. Spencer so rightly says, “Riz Ahmed’s new film is lurid and trashy victimhood fantasy porn” – it’s baseless, fanciful fiction. But why has Ahmed contrived all this rubbish? As he says, he ‘doesn’t feel at home in the UK’ and he’s aware that ‘many people in Britain don’t regard him as British’ – but he clearly doesn’t have a ‘British’ background and is equally clearly incapable of/ unwilling to subscribe to ‘British’ values. So, logically, he’s not, and never will be, ‘British’, and that’s why he ‘doesn’t feel ‘at home’ (because he’s obviously not ‘at home’!!) – end of!. So the logical answer is simply go somewhere where the people suit his mindset and then he’ll be perfectly ‘at home’!!! But that doesn’t suit the supremacist muslim mindset, which seeks to claim all territory for its own (and, of course, where they’re automatically be ‘at home’ – because everything belongs to them, or so they think), then dominate and control. And if they don’t get their way, if people don’t dance to their tune, their egos are offended and they’re being insulted and oppressed. So they make stories up about fictitious crimes and assaults to justify their self-inflicted bruised egos on the assumption that there’ll be gullible idiots who’ll believe their lies. The trouble is, history is full of manipulative liars who’ve got away with it. Just like Riz Ahmed.
rubiconcrest says
The film is an example of Islamophobia-victim narrative used to justify jihad. Islam never looks within. It continually must find enemies outside that must be attacked. The movie wants Muslims and non-Muslims to understand that their Jihad is justified because we don’t like their religion.
maemae77 says
Islamic propaganda in the form of a movie. I really wish most non-Muslims would stop being so willfully ignorant. Infidels willful ignorance is exactly why the Middle East, Northern Africa, parts of Asia, Australia and United States is conquered or are in the process of being conquered.
Battle says
Reply denied again.
Is there a reply denier tyrant?
Chrissie01 says
Yes, war is peace,
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strengthe (Huxley)
and the perpetrator is the vicitm (me)
Battle says
+100.
Battle says
Chrissie01 hits nail on head. Good.
Battle says
Riz Ahmed is a hater of Europeans, Christians and Jews.
Riz Ahmed is jihadi jew hater.
Riz Ahmed is hypocrite?
Riz Ahmed is lying?
The film is jihad.
Brian Hoff says
In NC than Islamoprobic redneck shot and murder 1 Muslim man execute style along with 2 muslim female in cold cold blood.
Boromir's Horn says
Yes, and a blue moon does occur
FYI says
Your “prophet” muhammed{PBUH,actual Prophecy Be Unknown to Him} mass-murdered Jews{Abu Dawud 4390}on behalf of your perverted ARAB god allah{hubaal}
Will you condemn your demonic “prophet”?Of course not..
gravenimage says
What “Brian Hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–does not tell us is that this was a dispute over parking, *not* a case where where Muslims were targeted as Muslims:
“Craig Hicks Sentenced to Life for Killing Three Neighbors (Part 1)”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/06/craig-hicks-sentenced-to-life-for-killing-three-neighbors-part-1
The killer was quite rightly sentenced to life for these appalling killings.
Where has “DefenderofIslam” *ever* had anything negative to say about his coreligionists slaughtering Infidels? Waiting…
John Allan says
And he couldn’t even come up with an original name, never mind a Muslim one, for this work of art!
andrew mckendrick says
How about a film depicting Jews leaving Europe because of Islamic persecution from Muslim immigrants?
Chrissie01 says
Yes, or about Christians or Bahai or HIndus beaten to death by Muslims. How about a film about the destruction of all the Hindu libraries upon Muslim invasion in the first jihad?
Forget it! Forget it quickly.
Mainstream will scream: hate speeeeech…
Richard Courtemanche says
This movie producer has got it all wrong, likely on purpose. The non-muslims are the actual victims.
Fraser says
There are reality films every day in the reports of infidel families “actually” being dragged out of their homes & murdered in Nigeria by jihadi terrorists! Will the liberal media & entertainment industry ever acknowledge these and worldwide daily Islamic murder & chaos as perhaps a reason for the concocted smear of Islamophobia.
enoughalready says
Absolutely!! I am shocked the stats in the UK are only 31-32%. I would think more Brits would be aware of the threat Muslims pose to their way of life. The grooming gangs and lack of freedom is not in dispute. Look at what Tommy Robinson has had to endure simply for speaking the truth.
Jim Jarrett says
I can’t wait for American and British celebrities and politicians to praise this film by calling it “stunning and brave” and a “wake up call to the White Supremacy in our midst”.
Geof Barrington says
Instead of muslums being murdered why wasn’t the film about muslum grooming gangs or muslums genociding people or acid attacking people or any number of instances of muslums making war on infidels ?
OLD GUY says
Just more pity me muslim bullshit. I find no pity for a religion or ideology that condones and approves of rape, murder and genocide as the muslim islamic followers do.
DazzleMe says
Yep exactly OLD GUY!
DazzleMe says
All this is doing is making them martyrs, just what they want.