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| Pakistani officials furious over country’s portrayal in ‘Homeland’ | |
| 2014-12-27 | |
| [NYPOST] ... The biggest gripe is that the show depicts Pakistan as undemocratic and allied with terrorists. "Repeated insinuations that an intelligence agency of Pakistan is complicit in protecting the terrorists at the expense of innocent Pakistani civilians is not only absurd but also an insult to the ultimate sacrifices of the thousands of Pakistani security personnel in the war against terrorism," a source said. "E pur se muove."
We've seen that. Omar Saeed Sheikh hasn't been hanged. Hafiz Saeed is still in business, which involves blowing stuff up in India. Samiul Haq, the father of the Taliban, was the (failed) negotiator with them. The head of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi strolls in and out of court. You turned Swat over to a furry-faced holy man and his equally furry-faced son-in-law and then had to fight to get it back. Christians, Hindoos, Sikhs, and Shiites are bumped off regularly and Mullah Diesel is part of the government. Who's going to Lal Masjid every Friday? How about Hamid Gul? Mirza Aslam Beg? How many TNSM yokels made it home from the fighting in Afghanistan in 2001? Y'really wanna discuss a land of corruption and feudalism, over-seasoned with religious fanaticism? "Pakistanis never embraced the dictators who, in the past, ruled the country because they took over the presidency through violent means. Yeah. Nobody liked Zia-ul-Haq. Somehow his policies live on after he's decomposed. " 'Homeland' makes it seem that Pakistan has contempt for Americans and its values and principles. That is not true." Then his lips fell off. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Frankly, I'm astonished they didn't give it their tourism board's seal of approval. I though "ugly, ignorant, terror-plagued hellhole" was what they were aiming for. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2014-12-27 13:51 |
| #5 Pakistani officials are furious with Showtime after watching the fourth season of its hit show “Homeland,” which they say portrays their country as an ugly, ignorant, terror-plagued “hellhole.” yeah....and? |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2014-12-27 12:58 |
| #4 Come on, guys! Don't be h8ters. It's not like Pakistain was harboring bin Laden or something....... OK, that was a bad example. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-12-27 12:36 |
| #3 Hey, boys calm down. You've reached the Big Time. The movers and shakers of Hollyweird hold most of fly over country of America in contempt and portrays it so every day. Welcome to the "10 Minutes of Hate"(c,1984) club. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-12-27 09:51 |
| #2 We hold assholes,in their place if it's a sewer, so be it. You're complaining to the wrong people, EIX IT, not bitch, That's whats is wrong now, Bitching not fixing. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2014-12-27 09:08 |
| #1 " 'Homeland' makes it seem that Pakistan has contempt for Americans and its values and principles. That is not true..." Here is the rest of the quote (or what should have been)... We hold all non-Islamist values and principles in contempt, just ask those Hindoos. Also our regular attendance at the Taliban's supreme council, the Quetta Shura is purely a coincidence they just happened to be in the same cave as our agents and piles of weapons bought with US military aid money. And nevermind that 5 Pakistanis who passed information to the CIA on Osama bin Laden (which led to the successful mission to kill him) have been arrested and imprisoned by the ISI ... We are your Best Friends in the region. Trust Us. ... said the Pakistaini ISI sock-puppet. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-12-27 07:47 |