Woodard, left, as Iranian actress Fatemeh Motamed Arya, looks
on at center, during a seminar 'Acting for Film' given by Bening
and Woodard, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, March 1, 2009.
A delegation of Hollywood dhimmis is going to Iran to open up talks with the friendly old mullahs, as Pamela reported yesterday. But here again we see that appeasement only emboldens the one who is being appeased: it isn't enough for the dhimmi stars to legitimize the oppression and brutality of the mullahs' Sharia regime; they also have to apologize for how mean, mean, mean Hollywood has been to Iran.
Apologize for 300! And The Wrestler!
There are plenty of Hollywood films that the filmmakers should apologize for, but those two are not among them.
Source: AFPApologize for 300! And The Wrestler!
There are plenty of Hollywood films that the filmmakers should apologize for, but those two are not among them.
The art advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urged a visiting Hollywood delegation to apologise for "insults and slanders" about Iranians in films, the ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.
"(Iranian) cinema officials will only have the right to have official sessions with... Hollywood movie makers when they apologise to the Iranians for their 30 years of insults and slanders," Javad Shamaghdari said."The Iranian people and our revolution has been repeatedly unjustly attacked by Hollywood," he said, citing '300' and recent Oscar nominated movie 'The Wrestler' as among offending films.In 2007, the war epic '300', a smash hit in the United States for its gory portrayal of the Greco-Persian wars, drew the wrath of Iranians for showing their ancestors as bloodthirsty.
Similarly 'The Wrestler', was booed in Iran and heavily criticised for the scene of breaking and tearing of the Iranian flag by the picture's star, 2009 Oscar nominee Mickey Rourke.
"We will believe (US President Barack) Obama's policy of change when we see change in Hollywood too, and if Hollywood wants to correct its behaviour towards Iranian people and Islamic culture then they have to officially apologise," Shamaghdari added.... Read more ...
H/T: Jihad Watch
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