The Islamic dictatorship of Saudi Arabia is lifting its 35-year ban on movie theaters. And while Western press appears to be celebrating it, the first thing that comes to my mind is that Hollywood’s pandering to Islam will become even worse than it is.
Saudi Arabia Lifts 35-Year Ban On Cinemas; Movie Theaters Expected In March 2018
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Saudi Arabia has officially declared that public movie theaters will return to the kingdom for the first time in more than 30 years. The move had been expected. Deadline reported last month that an initiative was afoot to build and open cinemas after being a focus of the Future Investment Initiative conference held in Riyadh in October.
Saudi Arabia: Theater Owners Trade Group Has “Extensive Plans” For Kingdom’s Cinemas
Minister of Culture and Information Awwad bin Saleh Alawwad said today, “Opening cinemas will act as a catalyst for economic growth and diversification; by developing the broader cultural sector we will create new employment and training opportunities, as well as enriching the Kingdom’s entertainment options.” The first moviehouses are likely to open in March, per local reports.
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That picture above, with Hollywood jackasses posing with Saudi royalty, says it all. Do they really believe Saudi Arabia is just going to ‘open up’ and welcome western cinema, western values, etc.? Is Richard Gere that deluded. Wait, he probably is.
I understand that a Saudi Prince presented him with a gift .. a lifetime supply of gerbils.
Ooooooohhh!!! Good one! Too bad Mr. Gere isn’t on this thread….
I noticed a “comment” from S N Smith, on an earlier article. So, Mr. Gere may wind up here, soon.
Oh yes, and of course “Wonder Woman” will be shown in the first week.
Ha, ha. They’ll have to block out her character. They’re not THAT open yet.
The Muslim Friendly version of Wonder Woman would be literally 10 seconds long (all of Gal Gadot cut out) but I can see the Saudis charging full price for it.
What, no “Deep Throat” and the like?
deep goat
Does she keep her golden lariat hidden under her burka?
You will have to see the movie to find out.
LOL, I wonder how it’s going to look with the CGI burkas covering up the Amazons.
LOLOLOL
On the serious side, I think they are making a mistake. Will the West destroy Islam, or will Islam infest and destroy the West? Stay tuned. Personally I think Islam will melt like wax in a hot flame. The reason they hate us so much is the cultural threat we pose, as in Iran back in the seventies…and I personally had an Iranian tell me so. We’ll see.
There are only so many that will be content to live a seventh century existence. Ever little chip that is taken from the wall of islam will contribute to its collapse. The thing to do is keep chipping.
Yes, and the 800 pound gorilla here, I think, is the fact that Hollywood may pander to Islam, but there are a lot of indie film makers too, and they are not all leftys who fall in line with that sort of thing.
We’ll see. It will be interesting to see how it goes.
And don’t forget Bollywood. Indian films may be a better fit for Saudi culture. I don’t think Saudi is a big enough market to attract much Hollyweird pandering.
I agree. I don’t think Pamela has to worry about this. It’s just virtue signaling on the part of everyone involved. Letting movies of any sort play is a toehold for culture that is poisonous to their ideology in any case. Otherwise they wouldn’t have banned them to start with. This will damage them more than any pandering Hollywood does to us.
Opening cinemas in Saudi Arabia doesn’t mean that they’ll show Hollywood blockbusters or Western movies. There is an Arab media machine in the Middle East that produces lots of content that is anti-West, anti-American and definitely anti-Jewish/Israel.
I know.
However, this still amounts to opening the door a smidgeon. Let’s wait and see what actually happens.
There might be 3 or 4 indie filmmakers who aren’t leftys, but when you look at the indie film scene in general, it is even more to the left than Hollywood.
Glass half full, or half empty.
I’m fully aware of that, but I have seen some that are definitely libertarian in tone, too. The point is that the Middle East is not just a powder keg, it is also one because the powers that be fear any exposure to the West, and rightfully so. Besides, a film that you see as far left might be dangerously liberal to some of these power mad freaks.
Exposure to the West and Western culture doesn’t seem to have any real effect on Islam or Muslims. Look at all the Muslim invaders in Europe, Australia, Canada and the U.S. who may look Western on the outside and even act Western, but are still just as Muslim on the inside as any Muslim anywhere. All of these Westernized Muslims who one day go on to target infidels in a Western city during one of their Islam-inspired killing sprees. All the attempts, mostly foiled thankfully, of Westernized Muslims targeting Christmas markets throughout Europe. And then there’s Dzhokhar “Jahar” Tsarnaev, seemingly so Westernized and integrated and celebrated on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, the pinnacle of Western pop culture. So, a Muslim who sees Star Wars and wears a cool R2-D2 t-shirt is no less Muslim on the inside than any imam shouting death to the West, death to America, death to Israel…
When Eric Allen Bell went off the hollywood reservation WRT islum he was made a pariah.
Not familiar. Link?
I don’t know if Ms. Geller approves of Mr. Bell, but here’s his website:
https://ericallenbell.com/
Thanks.
Is it true their favorite soapies on TV are “All My Chickens” and “As The Stomach Turns”?
Or, “As the Worm Squirms.”
Don’t forget the ever popular ‘Ways of Our Wives’ and ‘Goat Place’.
all my goats and as the suicide vest turns
How about My Four Pre-Pubescent Wives?
Wonder Woman in hijab!
Bless al patriots! MRW
Meggido, Knights Templar, Passion of the Christ, Schindlers List, Barbarella, Girl with Dragon Tattoo, Kill Bill, Brokeback Mountain, Lone Survivor,…..
A Saudi favorite, Jeff Dunham (‘ham, LOL) and Achmed the Dead Terrorist.
Reminds me that not that long ago, Salvation Army people were not allowed to go to cinemas.
Maybe, but they didn’t kill anyone else for going.
But if the Saudis haven’t had movie theatres, how would they have killed people for going? .
Not to say the Saudi govt is in any way desireable, but it is THEIR government and if there’s to be an improvement it will happen progressively and it’s more effective to encourage progress than to criticise it.
Remember the USA didn’t progress with rights for blacks that quickly or easily. The same with many other freedoms you now have. And the point I’m making is that all religions generally have in common a feeling of having a hot line to God and having the right to tell everyone else what is allowable.
Christianity went through some murderous periods, The Inquisition { The office of which still exists in the Vatican.] And numerous others.
Be so kind as to not blather on with your inane apologetic equivalency bullshit. Yeah, it’s THEIR ‘government’, and if they have it their way it will be YOURS, at gunpoint if necessary. To make your equivalency arguments is the height of ignorance. You know very little of history, and less of history in the South, regarding blacks. Just shut your damned trap.
Oo, er Wolfie. I see you haven’t been listening to Pam when she mentions the need for freedom of speech. So, perhaps you could tell us all of the enlghtened treatment of blacks in the South, Obviously those pictures of “Strange Fruit ” hanging from trees was some sort of fake news
Somehow I’m not worried at all about the Saudis taking over at gunpoint, BUt f they do, it will probably be with American made and supplied gun
So Wolfie , if you got some valid point to make , let’s hear it , but if all you have is abuse, you haven’t really got anything to say .
And remember, we’re not afraid of the big bad wolf.
Pass on my regards to the rest of the KKK.
Brer Wolf, As you say I know little of the history of the South , can you enlighten us on this pic, The MSM would claim that this is 2 black men lynched by White Christian KKK members
Enlighten us m oh guru, what is the real story, Was the KKK outfits a handy disguise for jihadists even then?
I breathlessly await your explanation .
Something must be wrong with my eyesight. However, the two individuals, hanging, do not appear to be negroes. Why are you such a bigoted racist, Ed Nantes?
Achmed .Well you could be right , Best go to the Optician
Although you family might well have had more experience of lynching coloured people than mine. So what’s your take on the picture. probably coloured folks just acting , you can;t see their feet. all those lynchings , burning crosses, riots in Birmingham etc , just fake news never happened, Coloured folk and white people got on so well. “Please allow me to sit in the back of the bus “”no I insist allow me” “Well lets both go into that cafe and have a coffee together , they are happy to have races mixed everywhere here.”
If they don’t look black enough , would you like some more
is one of these yourself in this pic?
No. Those men, in your first picture, did not look to be negroes. Aren’t you ashamed of yourself, being the terrible bigoted racist, that you are? Why are you such a racist?
Yeah, those KKK members are REAL scary L.O.L. : )), all 5 of them, at least two of which are female, & the female of the left is black.
What is this, some skit you guys put on to simulate a KKK rally?
Achmed
Bubba, Well I have to say, you and your family would have more experience with lynched negroes than I would.
Perhaps ask your dad if he could confirm , He may have even been there at the time.meanwhile if they aren’t black enough for you , just let me know and I’ll post some ‘darker ones’ Just for you. I can’t be more helpful than that.
Those were not negroes, edie. Hell, if you had the intellect above that of an aphid, you could find many, many old photographs of lynched Americans of African descent. However, that’s FAR beyond the ken of bigoted racist, such as yourself. I truly pity you.
Well you might have clearer photos, But I don’t have access to your family album.
Umm has anyone mentioned the resemblence of KKk outfits to Burkhas.
Would the people lynched be considered white enough to sit in the front of your local bus at the time?
The KKK hasn’t been relevant in decades allahtard.
Really Isy , So you are saying it was relevant, When was that?
And when did your membership expire.?
Allahtard how many people has the KKK killed in the last TWENTY years? How many people have muslums killed in the last twenty years? Maybe we’ll just start off w/the TEN THOUSAND Christians slaughtered by you muslum vermin in Nigeria in the 21st century alone.
I’m willing to bet the f’ing muslums collectively slaughtered more people in the 21st century than the KKK killed in its entire history.
So it’s a competition to see who can kill more. Your proposition would be like the Sandy Hook killer saying “but I only killed 20 people. Forget about me you should worry about the Las Vegas killer who killed 52”
Why confine it to the KKk ,
If you want a high score , look at how many people in Laos died due to the US bombing during the Vietnamese war. And Laos wasn’t even officially a combatant, although 2 million ton s of bombs and 589,000 bombing missions, the locals might find that hard to believe. And the US was a gift that keeps on giving, The number of continuing victims is now down to “only” 50 per year, 40% children.
It’s all very well keeping score of the opposition , try looking in your own backyard.
Why don’t we talk about the 2.4 MILLION Hindus slaughtered by f’ing muslums in the 1970’s in Bangladesh? Or the thousands of Hindu women raped at the same time?
Screw you, your prophet for profit and your death cult.
Why not talk about Indian women raped and killed by their own people and families. A comment or two about the dowry system , the caste system, the endemic rape and sexual assaults.
I’m pretty sure that the point that famouswolf was making was that IF there were cinemas to go to, like if the Islamic fundamentalists hadn’t firebombed them yet, then those who had gone there would have probably been killed.
“The Inquisition–And numerous others” HOGWASH! Where’s your proof of “numerous others”, or ANY others, & where is your proof of an office of “The Inquisition” in the Vatican?
The Inquisitions were like 600-700 yrs. ago, carried out by a certain sect of “Christians”. You left wingers talk about it as if it happened last week, & blame ALL of Christianity for it, while at the same time, you SUPPORT the Islamic Brotherhood & numerous other Islamist groups that are doing those things NOW!
You claim & believe, that you’re the intellectual elite, yet you can’t see how hippocritical & WRONG it is for you to be doing these things?
Poor little edie is a bigoted racist. Seriously, Saved1973, what else would you expect out of her?
Oh I get it
“Poor little bigoted racist” is like Americans saying “have a nice day” or “Yáll come back now, y’hear”
So it’s a sign off . “This is Achmed “Bubba” Mohammedan till next time, Yáll come back y’ bigoted racists { I think Racist bigots has a better ring to it.]
No, edie. I only make that remark to bigoted racists, such as yourself. I realize, with your lack of intellect, you simply cannot understand that.
That’s “pretty sure” qualified by an “if” , well actually multpile “if”s and a “probably” thrown in.
Hardly a cast iron case.
The Inquisition, seeing that you asked. I’m a bit surprised you didn’t look that up yourself. But it’s current name in the Vatican is the “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith”
Ah and us “Left wingers blaming all of Christianity for it” Gosh that would be like Pam blaming all of Islam for the actions of a”certain sect “of Islam .
Others ÿou ask ? Well read up on the current Lords Liberation Army Christian to a man and as murderous as ISIS “Support the Islamic Brothehood” you mean the Islamic Brotherhood who “condemn violence and violent acts”and who won the democratic election in Egypt before being overthrown by a military coup which seems to have been approved by the US Government. Silly people, they forgot that democratic elections in theory are OK , but the winners must be approved by Washington. You’d think they’d have learnt that after Pinochet in Chile, and Mossadegh in Iran .
BTW thanks for the flattering description of “Intellectual elite”. It’s good to be appreciated, What with solving the Times cryptic, Writing Concertos, editing Stephen Hawkings work and helping George Soros with the plan to subjugate the world, not to mention designing the Mars mission, even we elites find it taxing helping your education.
Poor little edie. She is so intellectually challenged that she believe others will believe the same lies that she does. The Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition was founded in 1542. The Spanish Inquisition commenced in 1478, and the Portuguese Inquisition was in 1515. The Roman Inquisition was aimed. with very few exceptions, at Protestants.
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However, a poor little thing, such as you, expects others to be as stupid as you. Thankfully, that is not the case … The vast majority of the population if mentally superior to a poor little thing, such as you.
In fact { You must look up the definition of “fact” it may surprise you] The name “Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office was used from 190, and was again changed to Congregation for the Doctrine of the faith in 1965.
And while I’m sure you have the best of intentions with the use of the adjective “Poor” there is a risk it will lose its effectiveness by overuse. It’s like you have only one set of insults-.a One trick pony. Giddy up boy and watch out where you drop that horseshit.
Edie, edie, edie, do you actually believe your own lies? If so, you cannot be stupid enough to think that anything, other than a blithering idiot, would believe them? The use of “poor” is used, frequently, but only directed at those where it is appropriate. It is not an insult. Rather, it is a statement of description that fits you, and a very few others, perfectly. It is an appropriate response, each time that I use it. I truly do pity you, you poor thing. Good grief, from 100 anno domini to 325 anno domini was the Ante-Nicene period. And, you are actually stupid enough to bandy out “190” and expect people to be stupid enough to believe you. You poor thing.
Achmed
You are exceeding the boredom threshold.
A bit of advice, don’t make a career of interjection at stand up comedy gigs.. I mean, they will love you, but you might feel embarrassed,
If I recall, you still haven’t answered whether you have a tail, so I can decide whether I want the pick of the litter of your siblings.
You truly are a poor little thing. I would recommend you attempt to stay away from conversations with your social and intellectual betters. I realize that extremely limits your universe, however, that might reduce your constantly humiliating yourself.
If I ever see anything from my social and intellectual betters here I shall certainly stay away . So far so good.
Apart from that you are sending me to sleep ZZZZZZZ
You poor thing, edie. At the very least, 85% of all of the posters of this site, ARE (special emphasis added) your social and intellectual betters. That is obvious to even the most casual of observers. That fact, more than likely, causes you severe pain. As even you cannot be stupid enough to believe otherwise … perhaps you are. I truly do pity you.
Fallacy of argumentation employed: false equivalence. Because the Inquisition is nothing but a Sunday school picnic in comparison to what the f’ing muslums did and are still doing in the Indian sub-continent. But you already knew that didn’t you Ahmet Al Analtard?
“Sunday School” How appropriate for a Christian torture campaign, You obvious know their Sabbath.
You need to read up on the Inquisition , They really knew how to kill you slowly and stretch the pain out. I don’t like to go into gory details , lest you start telling the folks at you next KKK rally and they want to try them out. But trust me, you wouldn’t want to be involved on the sharp end.
Dear dumb allahtard, the upper bound on the number of Hindus slaughtered by muslum vermin like you is 80 MILLION AND COUNTING. I hope the Hindus rectify your muslum karma imbalance in the most bloody way possible.
The Inquisition didn’t even kill 10,000 people allahtard.
It’s called an argument of false equivalence and an anachronistic one at that because muslums are STILL slaughtering people dumb muslum knuckle dragger.
You Americans certainly like substitute childish insults for valid comment.
Funny how you ignore all the facts I’ve given you isn’t it allahtard?
Facts ,? and plural too. I don’t think so.
With all the filth and violence coming out of Hollowood, they were wise. I don’t look either.
Great a few Saudis will now watch more crap from Hollowwood but millions of Americans will not. Good luck with that business Strategy
Is it Halloween in Saudi Arabia what is with all the black costumes and why can we not see the nose and how the hell do they breathe?
All the Hollywood actors and dummies will celebrate the terrorist country finally allowing cinema after 35 years whoopee.
Besides plastic surgery, and girlfriends young enough to be their own daughters do these superficial shallow actors ever pick up a book and read?
How about a book called Harpoon by a true hero Israeli lawyer Nitsana Darshan-Leitner about how she sues terrorists on behalf of victims of terrorists from countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia.
I am not sure these actors know how to read.
Those aren’t Halloween costumes. They are the special shinobi of a Saudi Prince.
I always liked Richard Gere – he looks fantastic and was great in Norman.
The Israeli producer of Norman hopefully had a positive impact on Richard Gere and hoped he ate some great falafels and drank Israeli wine and enjoyed filming in Israel.
I believe Richard is one of the few intelligent actors in Hollywood.
Good to see he is no longer with controlling overbearing left-wing pro Obama supporter ex-wife Carey Lowell.
Glad to see him happy and congrats on his engagement!
I see aging Richard Queer 🙂
Maybe ragheads coming out of 1200s into 1800s. Alright. Maybe they’ll stop trying to turn lead to gold.
Alchemy which you may be referring to was practiced in Europe form the 12 century on wards . Some famous alchemists whose name you might know include Isaac Newton and Roger bacon, Claude Duval. There were many more.
The Saudis seem to have been successful in turning oil into gold, though.
Yeah Isaac Newton was just an alchemist…renob.
“Just” is your word added.
Dumb muslum ape, Isaac Newton did more for science and mathematics than all of you muslum apes put together.
So what’s your point Izy 4 real. That’s not mutually exclusive. But mathematics you ill informed dopey bastard, When you use numerals why do you think they are called Arabic numerals? Did you go to school with Trump. First he invented F 52 fighters the US is selling to Norway, [ a aircraft that only exists in a computer game] Now he’s bitching about Obama building a new US embassy in London… which was actually started under Bush. He’s cancelled his visit, to everyone’s relief.
The comment section is always free from muslims and thus enjoyable
Since you know the “Ministry of Culture and Information” will have its finger in the pie, the Saudis will have a wide variety of famous stars from which to choose, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck come to mind. However, the Roadrunner and his nemesis Wiley Coyote have rebellious overtones and will be banned. No word on the sale of that sinful popcorn?
Don’t expect them to show “The Passion of Christ” anytime soon.
With the Muslims attire, death has not taken a holiday. I’m more scared looking at them , then a horror movie.
The Saudi regime is much better than what would come if it was gone. It consists of Western educated, alcohol-drinking somewhat secular princes that are trying to control a population that are mainly crazy Wahhabis.
First off will be a feature length version of that “beloved” Canadian TV series, “Little Mosque on the Prairie” with Linda Cockroach as Mom.
LOL !
They look more threatening than the Klu Klux Klan like large dark crows. If I was in a cinema I would be scared if that lot came in. You don’t know what is underneath / do they body scan them to check thy don’t have a repeater rifle underneath that garb.
Liberals attacked North Carolina and boycotted them…yet were silent on the Muslim countries where being gay is a death sentence.
Will anything survive the CENSORSHIP? Just more Hollywood propaganda …did anyone watch THE SULTAN AND THE SAINT last week on PBS? This pretended to be a documentary…I endured 30 minutes of Islamic propaganda…got so pissed I was screaming at the screen…all about the Crusades…blaming Christians for killing Jews, while ignoring the Islamic purge and murder of Jews…banu Quraish etc…the Quran commanding the murder of Jews to this day…this was proselytizing and I noted the sponsorship of about 30 Muslim families and Orgs…
PBS has been allah about islamic propaganda for quite some time. NPR is just as bad.
When the hawse holes at PBS once called me for donations all I could do was laugh.
Hell, send them nothing but westerns! They should like the shoot-’em-up action and the 19th-century-dressed women.
more sucking up to sodomwood by the he touched me crowd.
In Hollywood they are all leeches.
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Ghere’s probably looking for some sex slave action in Soddy Barbaria or maybe some Bacha Bazi boys.