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Happy World Travel In the Age of the War on Terror
Indefinite detention, torture, Islamophobia, Guantanamo, the "war on terror". Ten years after 9/11 this remains the new normal that we live in, and there's nothing funny about it.
But humor can be powerful -- so we at Amnesty International USA invite you to check out our new short video "Happy World Travel", featuring Dileep Rao (Avatar, Inception). What happens when a normal dude named Rob (or is it Raj?!) heads to a travel agency looking for a relaxing vacation? Will he be eligible for the "Not-so Geneva Package"? Could Rob's story be yours if we continue to allow the US to flout the rule of law?
What can you do? Join us on January 11th in Washington, DC for a day of action to close Guantanamo. http://www.amnestyusa.org/jan11
And visit Amnesty International USA's Security with Human Rights campaign to learn more about ending torture and indefinite detention, once and for all.
http://www.amnestyusa.org/security

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Show AllCoincidentally, another "funny" movie out during this same time, is "A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas 3D," starring Kal Penn, who had a stint in the Obama WH as Associate Director in the White House Office of Public Engagement no yet. The point of these genres of films is to depict asian-americans and indian-americans as regular-dumb-american-folk, kinda like these travel agency staff are (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkxleZ-SpFs&feature=fvst,) with some T&A thrown in so the 20-something white male regular-dumb-american-folk demographic will go see it. Maybe that's what this is missing to give it that americana-stupida/whata-feelin batta-bing/zing? (the dumbing down continues, with even public-service anouncements...)
Dumb and Dumber! Phobia is an irrational fear of something that is not real!. Were Jews phobic when Nazis came to power and started their apartheid (dhimmitude) of Jews, which led to a Holocaust. those "phobic" Jews in Nazi Germany escaped while fools who did not believe that Nazis would find willing executioners perished in the smoke of Auschwitz and other extermination camps.
When white washers of Islam, including "moderate" American Muslims, presumably depicted in this video, are white washing Islam and the "peaceful" religion, in spite of Koranic verses, and Hadith promoting supremacist ideology of hate of non-Muslims, apartheid, pedophilia, misogyny and murder in the name of Allahu Akbar. When 1,600 millions of Muslims take as their "final" prophet of their "most perfect" religion an illiterate pedophile polygamist (who married Aisha, one of his 12 wives, when she was 6 and he was 51) and a murderer, responsible for gruesome murder (by beheading) of 900 Jews of Medina IS THAT PHOBIA ,or rational concern? Most Muslim countries refused to sign the Universal Declaration of Human Rights because their sharia does not respect rights of individuals and DEMANDS SUBMISSION!
After all, those terrorists on 9/11 2001 did not shout Hail Mary, Our Father, Shema Israel, or OM, when they were plunging those planes into WTO, but Allahu Akbar, which had become a war cry for terrorists around the world, including American born and highly educated Muslims, such as army psychiatrist at Fort Hood when he murdered 13 of his colleges. Do we really need this war cry of terror in our midst, disturbing our neighborhoods from Mosques' loudspeakers? Do we want more "honor" murder of young women who want to wear jeans and date somebody who their parents do not approve of, and make it LEGAL, as it is under Sharia? Do we want burkhas (canvas prison) on the streets of America as they are now in Detroit?
The American Muslims should REFORM Islam to make it compatible with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights if they want non-Muslims to stop worrying about Jihad in their midst. Explicitly hateful suras against non-Muslims in Koran and writings of Hadith need to eliminated and ideas of "martyrdom" though murdering Jews and Americans in order to get a fast passage to Paradise with 72 virgins must be eliminated, since they are major motivation for young Muslim to commit those dastardly terrorist acts. Live and let LIVE, and :LOVE LIFE, rather than DEATH that Koranic verses recommend.
Read Koran and Hadith to see for yourself, before you sing cumbaya with those who may behead you, as they did to Daniel Pearl in Pakistan BECAUSE he was a Jew who wanted to know THEIR story! Salmon Rushdie almost got beheaded for telling truth about Islam and Mohamed in his Satanic Verses, and he is a kind of Muslim we need in USA, and not CAIR and others who are claiming "phobia". Theo van Gough was murdered in his OWN country for "offending" some Muslim for telling the truth about Islam, .The fear if based on facts as described in Koran and Hadith.
You are viewing this out of perspective. The reason you really want Gitmo around is so that you can scoop up Jamie Dimon [JP Morgan] and those guys over at Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse, hood them, toss them on a black-ops airplane, and six hours later they are having breakfast with the guys from Falluja. That should put a stop to all the foreclosure abuse.