David Yeagley is the great-great-grandson of Comanche leader Bad Eagle. 
Hindu Mira Nair’s film, “The Reluctant Fundamentalist” (2013) opened the Venice Film Festival (the oldest film festival in the world, on its 80th stint–according to REUTERS’ Mike Collett-White, but it’s actually the 69th) on Wednesday, August 29, 2012. The film is not immensely popular because of its very limited audience appeal–namely those Muslims in America who are trying to live as Americans, but who encounter the natural prejudice and suspicion that the “religion of peace” creates as it wreaks havoc in the free world.
Kate Hudson, Riz Ahmed, and Mira Nair, at the 69th Venice Film Festival, 2012.
Think of the suicide mass murders, the brutal “honor” murders, the mass murders (actual and attempted) in the American military, to say nothing of the Islamic bombings throughout world, and above all and especially 9-11.
Yet The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a sympathy movie, intended to “build bridges,” that is, to make Muslims appear more acceptable and normal in American life. The ostensible “inspiration of the film” was, of course, 9-11. Or so director Mira Nair tells us. The idea is a social gesture, to try to create emotional empathy for Muslims in the very world to which their religion is avowed hostile.
Of course, true to its purpose, liberal media (REUTERS) wouldn’t dare refer to anyone associated with the film as “Muslims,” for that would incite religious aversion immediately. Instead, all are “Asian,” referred to by race, rather than religion. The liberal media is trending toward the race identity, so as to skirt (or hide) the religious motivation behind the conflict. The liberals are trying to have better luck at destroying the nationality of America and Europe by appealing to fear of racism. Why, no one wants to be called a racist. So, if you show any aversion to a Pakistani or an Arab, then it is because you are a low down racist, and not because you are concerned about a religion that fosters violence, murder, and mass destruction.
Kate Hudson, at the Venice
Film Festival, 2012.
And the film naturally features white American frosted blonde female Kate Hudson in the swarthy Asian Muslims. That’s the only “bridge” that really works–at least temporarily. Many are the white women in the West who have lived to regret their horrible relationships with Muslim men. (Shall we tally the beatings, child kidnappings, rapes, and murders?) In Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the lead character, Changez, a young, successful Pakistani male, is hopelessly in love with a white American, who is emotionally unavailable due to a previous hurtful relationship. So, even in sexual circumstances, the poor Pakistani is bound for rejection.
The whole effort is to create personal empathy for the Asian Muslim who, if he is a jihadist, was coerced into it by overwhelming circumstances. Of course, the novel ends without revealing the course Changez finally chooses, but that is only because the purpose of story is to let everyone know the kind of drama that is in the life of a Muslim who is trying to be a Westerner.
The story wants you to think that the jihadist is a victim, or, the result of a total fall-out of circumstances. And the poor Asian Muslim male has to chose between a blonde and a bomb, so to speak. If the white girl isn’t available for him, he will likely choose violence. This the psychological architecture of the story, regardless of any other intent, sincere or manipulative.
What little reviews there are of this novel or its motion picture all fail to address the most fundamental issues of all: race, religion, and sex. Those are the elements of the film, nothing more. It is just another attempt to make something that is adverse and foreign seem more palatable–through the manipulative use of sex, religion, and race. Note, again, however, that the religion of Islam, the Muslim element, is down-played considerably.
There is one review, by Allan Wilford Howerton, which displays the perilous, suicidal nature of empathy. Howerton writes
The girl with whom Changez falls in love is also, in a sense, a prototype for an America that cannot give up the memory of a dead lover (our nostalgia for the innocent security of a time that is past) and accept Changez for what he is: a smart, well-educated, if culturally different, Muslim foreigner who longs for acceptance.
Thus, the bleeding heart liberal invites the potential, likely jihadist mass murderer into the living room, tempting him to blow up the house.
Mohsin Hamid, author of “The
Reluctant Fundamentalist.”
One too many Muslims has done his thing, given the chance. This happens in the West, to say nothing of the interminable violence in his own country. So, why invite him here? Let him blow up his own country. Why urge him to come to someone else’s, and try to create sympathy for him so that it will only be easier for him to commit mass murder?
The risk is too great. The aversion–which Muslims themselves have created, is irreversible. If he wants to be a Muslim in a country which does not value his religion, let him endure aversion like a man, not a liberal Democrat. If he wants to have sexual relations with foreign white women, let him bear the inevitable frustration with dignity, not insanity.
I don’t have sympathy. I have disapproval. I am willing to see correction–of the foreigner, not the native. There is no purpose but confusion, dilution, and weakening of the society by the forced injection of foreign, antithetical values into it.
I am a nationalist, a patriot, and indeed a native. I know of no other meaningful response to invasion.
I’ve been through it once. I respectfully decline any second offer.
13 responses so far ↓
1 hulagirl // Aug 30, 2012 at 2:08 pm
It amazes me how those Hollywood people get it wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME! They sympathized with the Communists and now the Islamists? They make me ill. As for the poor “Asian” not being able to have the white Kate Hudson, well by all means, America needs to prostitute herself, literally and figuratively, eh??
2 David Yeagley // Aug 30, 2012 at 2:17 pm
That’s the idea. They way you show you are not prejudiced, the way you show you believe in equality, is through sexual relations with someone far different from your own race. That is the liberal requirement.
I just don’t believe that is the truth, at all. It certainly isn’t based on any Biblical precedent. (Indeed, the opposite value is proscribed in the Torah, and it seems evident in the New Testament as well.)
3 Sioux // Aug 30, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Speaking as a former idiot (i.e, liberal) white woman, I can tell you that guilt is a prime motivator to jump over the hurdles of “mixed” relationship — trying to right all the past and present “wrongs” done to minorities & save the world through your selfless actions. It is as Dr. Y says kind of an infantile behavior – immaturity and permanent adolescence seems rampant these days in men. But, women – what is your excuse? Power over a man thru sex? Now that was hard, wasn’t it….
The only thing an Arab man and I would have in common is our love of falafels and hummus, which I understand the Israelis invented any how.
4 David Yeagley // Aug 30, 2012 at 4:55 pm
Pow!
5 zephyr // Aug 30, 2012 at 5:16 pm
“It amazes me how those Hollywood people get it wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME!”
Hula, me too. A friend of mine interprets the beast in Rev 13 in a very comprehensive way, i.e. that the beast is the satanic motivator behind much of what happens in the world today, but particularly in the entertainment industry. After all, the general public allows Hollywood to define morality for them without question, and we are saturated with those messages if we ever turn on the TV.
” . . . And the whole earth was amazed and followed after the beast; they worshiped the dragon because he gave his authority to the beast; and they worshiped the beast . . .”
Rev 13.3-4
I”m not suggesting that Hollywood is the only entity that fits this description, but the world certainly bows at its altar.
6 zephyr // Aug 30, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Excellent piece, David ~ this movie makes me sick and I haven’t even seen it.
7 zephyr // Aug 30, 2012 at 5:24 pm
If you know of any non-Muslim woman who is dating or engaged to a Muslim guy, PLEASE show them some of the passages on women and Islam from the Qur’an and hadith. You can download and electronically search these writings from many Islamic websites.
Another great resource–if they will listen–is the _Women in Islam_ DVD by Usama Dakdok.
http://thestraightway.org/PRESENTATIONS.asp
Dakdok is an Egyptian Baptist minister who tells the truth about Islam. He’s also American, but grew up in Egypt in the public school system there (aka mdrasas) and shares some of the most pertinent passages regarding the treatment of women. Do NOT say nothing if your female friend or relative is about to sign her life away. She probably has no idea of what she’s really getting herself into.
8 David Yeagley // Aug 30, 2012 at 8:00 pm
There is a French woman whom I met at a Horowitz conference some years ago (2002?), who was married to a Middle Eastern (I think Pakistani) medical doctor. He practiced in Canada, then moved to the US. She had I believe three children by him.
It turned out that he was involved in the 9-11 plot somehow seriously, and he left her, absconding with the children. Her case wound up in a court in Tennessee, thrown out because the female white liberal judge allowed Sharia law, basically, if I remember right.
I used to correspond with this woman, on an Outlook Express mechanism on my computer. It has since been removed, and I have lost all her info. I can’t remember her name, the judges name, or anything.
Anyway, I know of other stories like this. It is a nightmare than never ends.
This woman was a true French patriot–for the United States! She was like a 18th century character. Very admirable.
9 zephyr // Aug 30, 2012 at 9:37 pm
It’s one thing to share the plan of salvation with everyone.
It’s another thing entirely to trust anything or anyone connected with Islam.
10 David Yeagley // Aug 30, 2012 at 9:40 pm
That is precisely the liberal, deceptive position: honor every Muslim, and everything about Islam. Give it space, your space. Let it overshadow you.
Give up being American. Give up being Christian. Give up. “Submit” to the iron cowl of Islam. Espouse brutality, indulge the male libido, in all its naked mayhem and satanic slaughter.
11 David Yeagley // Aug 30, 2012 at 9:42 pm
I know there is another side. I know there are Muslims who do not entertain murderous thoughts.
I say, it is too big of a risk to shape our world to accommodate them. We shouldn’t have to. And, yes, there are “Muslims” who don’t expect us to.
But, these have a completely insignificant influence. They function, intentionally or not, as nothing but camouflage for the murderers.
12 Bonus Gift // Aug 31, 2012 at 3:03 am
Hopefully Mr. Yeagley will allow me the indulgence of a story. Although, this story is strictly second hand (i.e., from my father’s father to my father to me), and I may butcher it a bit (as well as I know my father liked to embellish his stories); but it is at least based on an actual event or sequence of events.
My Grandfather worked at a U.S. oil company from, as oral tradition told, elementary school through his early retirement. I believe during the “Great Depression” (or just after – I forget the exact timing) he was on a trip to visit Saudi Arabia with some other oil executives from that same company to visit king Ibn Saud (i.e., the guy Saudi Arabia is named after). The king had a dinner in their honor and the scene is as follows: oil executives and certain male royals seated around eating. In addition, at least one of the American oil executives had brought his wife to the feast; and therein is the nub of the story. Apparently, one of the sons of Ibn Saud (note, he had many sons by many wives) made a pass at the oil executive’s wife; and, did I mention the son was drunk? Anyhow, the story goes that the King turns to the American oil execmale and asks something to the effect: “How do you want him killed?” The flustered and blushing oil executive responds something to the effect: “He was drunk, no offense taken, etc., etcetera … “. Whereupon the king tells him that drinking is forbidden and making a pass at a guest’s wife is not good form anyway, and then repeats his question: “How do you want him killed/executed?” Furthermore, he states: “Will it be by beheading or drawing and quartering?” The American male is flabbergasted, yet the king is insistent. Long story short, the king chose to draw and quarter with an American twist. The next morning at dawn two pairs of ropes are attached to one arm and leg and then to two American jeeps, whereupon one jeep headed toward Mecca and one directly away from Mecca.
Why tell this story? Well, as my father would have said (and his father before him): Muslims (especially Sunnis) are completely antithetical to western society (and Northeast Asian as well for that matter; and American Indian, Persian, etc., etcetera). Their behavior and even their laws are absolutely alien to most of the planet (i.e., except some other co-ethnic Arabs and possibly sub-Saharan Africans and a few other select untouchable groups). A western or American man, and especially an American woman, would have to have their head firmly planted up their rectal column (one of my father’s favorite expressions, by the way) to invite them into their country, let alone try to parent offspring with them. The point of my little trip down memory lane is that even, and maybe especially, the King of the Sunni Arabs behaves in such a way through the use of that supposed religion (which I consider a kind of political cult) what hope do we have of expecting lesser Sunni Muslims to behave in accordance with acceptable American or western behavior? That was rhetorical, you don’t. Remember, the experimentalists working definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Historically, and as stated by their holy scriptures, with Sunnis that overwhelm non-Muslims we have the following choices: (1) submit or die or (2) submit or be a slave. Why in the world we ever invite such an outcome. It’s just flat out suicide indeed. Therefore, the lesson is twofold: (1) never import Sunnis, and (2) when in Sunni lands don’t bring your wife with you if you can help it.
13 zephyr // Aug 31, 2012 at 7:29 am
Quite a story, BG. And the “slave” option only applies for Jews and Christians, and only until a fake Jesus returns as a Muslim–then it’s open season on everyone.
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