February 25, 2007, - 2:06 pm
More Islamist, Anti-U.S. OSCAR Nom BS: Muslim Arabs-NOT AMERICANS-Liberate French From Nazis?!
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**** UPDATE: Fortunately, this film did not win the Oscar. ****
You’ve read my work on why anti-Israel, pro-Islamic terrorist screeds like “” and anti-American, pan-Islamist, pro-Illegal Alien BS like “” have been nominated (multiple times for “Babel”) for tonight’s Academy Awards.
But French website GalliaWatch alerts us to another false, propaganda-filled nomination (for Best Foreign Language Film) at tonight’s Oscars telecast, “Indigenes” a/k/a “Days of Glory,” which attributes the World War II liberation of France as the WORK OF MUSLIM ALGERIANS!!! HUH?!!!!! Hello . . .? Who was it that died on the beaches of Normandy? Get a fricking clue: The liberators were AMERICAN SOLDIERS, not Muslim Arabs from North Africa (who were working WITH–NOT against–the Nazis). Unbelievable.
Supposedly, this movie is about four Algerian Muslims who enlisted in the French Army to fight the Nazis. But let’s get real. The liberators were Americans (and British), and most North Africans–Arab Muslims–helped the Nazis and maintained concentration camps of Jews there.
Read about this absurdity (and have a barf bag ready). Oh, and by the way, this trash was funded by the French Government. That’s what we get for saving their asses.
“No good deed goes unpunished” TIMES TEN!
(For the record, I haven’t screened this film yet b/c it does not come to Detroit until April.)
Tags: Academy Awards, Babel, Days of Glory, Debbie Schlussel, Detroit, Fortunately, France, French Army, French Government, Indigenes, Israel, Normandy, North Africa, Oscar, Oscars, the Oscar, West Bank Story
Lack of opportunity following military service to France (during both WWs) was a common gripe among French colonial subjects. Frantz Fanon mentions it in his passionate, quasi-Marxist writings. Many leaders of Algeria’s war against France had served in WWII.
Good on warning American audiences against gobbling up a potentially heavy-handed, white-guilt slant to this story. Yet it focuses on one French platoon only and not the entire Allied struggle. If the film even does mention the mighty American liberators, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s only to say that liberators’ army was segregated, too.
Can you imagine The Young Lions without the Jewish character of Noah Ackerman? This Franco-Algerian story deserves to be told — but told well.
Jeremiah on February 25, 2007 at 3:05 pm