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| Bollywood is brainwashing muslims |
| 2006-09-01 |
| Bollywood may wear its multi-religious pluralism as a badge of honour, but for the angry young British Muslims of Pakistani denomination, itÂ’s all a sham and therefore a matter of extreme discomfort. As India's oversized filmdom stampedes across the world winning accolades, a group of British Muslim youth is trashing the Bollywood genre, warning that the "cheesy second-rate imitation of Hollywood...is overrunning Pakistan and brainwashing musalmaans". In a rap-video posted on youtube.com that is being widely circulated in Pakistani circles, the group reserves much of its venom for BollywoodÂ’s reigning stars, many of who happen to be Muslims. "What do you want to give your kids?/Is it Salman Khan or Islam?/Is it Shah Rukh Khan or AllahÂ’s book?/ Is it Bobby Deol or save their souls?/ Is it Amir Khan or imaan?" intones a singer, preferring a hip-hop style to convey the message. Hiphop is an African-American influenced musical and cultural movement that has itself attracted criticism for its language. YouTube is a social networking website that allows users to upload, view and share videoclips and it too has attracted criticism for encouraging violence and copyright infringement. But for the extremist Brit-Pak brigade, Bollywood bashing comes first. "Everywhere you look/ItÂ’s that kufr Bollywood/Video stores selling whores/Semi-gay actors with Muslim sounding names/With Hindu propaganda designed to create chains," goes one rant. The unnamed group, which has produced the video from a collage of Hindi film clips and posters, says Bollywood movies are officially banned in Pakistan but it is freely available on video and DVD by piracy, which it says is "a conspiracy to allow Hindu culture thorough the backdoor." Reports from Pakistan speak of the movie Fanaa being a big hit in the countryÂ’s underground circuit. Songs from Fanaa and other new Bollywood blockbusters are played openly in taxis and private transport. The Pakistani elite and the ruling class lead the ranks of Bollywood aficionados, a fact that seems to rankle the British Pakistani youth who are in the limelight for their extremist views and fondness for madrassas. "They kill Kashmiris but you still watch Mission Kashmir,Â’Â’ they admonish Pakistanis in one passage. Another rap passage wonders: "Bollywood Bollywood whatÂ’s the future hold/ As film by film you get ever so bold/ Stories of lesbianism enter the fold/ Now you have to heat it up as it starts going cold/ Topless movies or is it incest next/ All the time it is sex sex sex." |
| Posted by:john |
| #8 God-based Totalitarian ultra-Conservatism - whats not for any Euro-SOcialist to dislike??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-09-01 22:39 |
| #7 Quite entertaining if you are bombed outta your mind with a suitable bunch of friends and you are in the mood for coming up with your own "subtitles", actually. Hell, Swamp Blondie, the same applies to a majority of crap pumped out by Hollyweird, be it television or film. All I can say is that if Bollywood's vapid and plot-free programming is capable of "brainwashing Muslims", my theory regarding Islamic microencephalism is about ready for publication. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-01 22:19 |
| #6 Bollywoods coming a long way. I'm actually enjoying some of the stuff I've been seeing out of there recently, but would like to see 2 trends go away: 1) Please! Please! Please! Why so much singing!!??!! 2) Movies don't always have to average 3 and a half hours in length. |
| Posted by: Thoth 2006-09-01 21:40 |
| #5 SB: Fer crying out loud, they aren't even allowed to kiss in Bollywood movies! No kidding. Their idea of steamy is revealing a bit of forearm. And the jihadis find this objectionable. You gotta wonder about these people. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-09-01 20:39 |
| #4 Fer crying out loud, they aren't even allowed to kiss in Bollywood movies! They just spend a lot of time making goo goo eyes at each other and breaking into complicated dance numbers about every eight minutes. If that is your idea of "sex, sex, sex", you really need to get out of the madrassah now and then, son. (Quite entertaining if you are bombed outta your mind with a suitable bunch of friends and you are in the mood for coming up with your own "subtitles", actually.) |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2006-09-01 19:24 |
| #3 What the hell are they doing watching movies anyway? Isn't it a SIN? GET BACK ON YOUR PRAYER RUGS! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2006-09-01 18:35 |
| #2 Nah, the brainwashing of Islam is fighting the "brainwashing" of Bollywood. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-09-01 18:33 |
| #1 "Bollywood is brainwashing muslims" Impossible. To be brainwashed, you first have to have a brain. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-09-01 18:21 |