Rant about foolishness in Istanbul

I’m more than a little annoyed be this entire cartoon foolishness, as right now I’m in the thick of it. I mean there were demonstrations going on about one hundred meters from where I’m staying.

I’m in Istanbul, by the way. The thing that annoys me the most about the whole thing is the deliberate hypocrisy of it all. The Turks have just put out a new movie, (their most expensive ever) which has become a mega hit here. Its now playing all over the middle east, and will screen in Russia, the US, and most of Europe.

Its called “Irak” The plot is something to the effect of this:

An “elite”(such things exist?) Turkish army group goes into northern Iraq to seek revenge or something for a comrade that was humiliated by the Americans. (They found him in Iraq without ID, so the put a bag on his head and marched him back to Turkey. This humiliation caused him to kill himself. See “Last Samurai” etc… )

When they get there they are “horrified” to find that the GIs are breaking into weddings, shooting the kids, after raping their mothers in front of them. The rest of the party is generaly rounded up and sent to Abu Garab, where (get this) a Jewish doctor cuts them up and sends their organs off, to be sold in Telaviv and New York.

The portrayal of the American solders is comically evil, to say the least, with demonic growls of “yessss…YESSS” while raping veiled women, and “whose a naughty boy?” while gunning down four year old children. This would be funny if I was sitting in my apartment in Japan watching it. But I’m not, like I said, I’m in the thick of it.

People here are for the most part simple. They are very prone to believe nearly anything they’re fed. This country also borders Iraq. Is it prudent to release a movie (now of all times) that glorifies suicide bombers, while demonizing one of their supposed “closest allies”?

I find it aggravating that nearly everywhere I go I see or hear the trailer from this movie being played. (“yessss…..YERSSSS!!!”) ......................No.

In the end of the movie the Turks rally the northern Iraqi’s and together the kill every last American. This is done in the name of Islam.

Reality check. Who lives in northern Iraq? (Kurds) WTF were the makers of this movie thinking? They could try to make it slightly more realistic. The sad thing is, they don’t need to. These people love to believe in obvious lies, while suppressing to this day the numerous atrocities they have perpetrated. (Armenians, anyone?)

I have yet to hear a single murmur of a complaint from the US. This is blatant slander of the wildest kind, targeted at the people who least need to here it. Yet they do nothing? Why? Tolerance perhaps?

Perhaps these teribly sensitive Islamic folk could stand to learn a thing or to from, dare I say it, the great Satan, the USA? And the next moron who says 'American, baah!' to me is going to get kicked, or at very least knocked over the head with a kebap. A pork kebap. The same goes for anyone who offers me a carpet.