Moving Pictures
Gere-ing Up for Nazi Propaganda
By Julia Gorin
FrontPageMagazine.com, November 3, 2006
Up against Richard Gere and Nicole Kidman, the historical record doesn’t stand a chance. Gere is in Bosnia and Kidman just visited Kosovo. Beating a dead horse, the former is entering the familiar genre of anti-Serb films (Behind Enemy Lines, The Peacemaker) — and UN Goodwill Ambassador (and, coincidentally, Peacemaker star) Kidman is listening to more unverifiable yarns from Kosovo’s Serb-loathing Albanian Muslims (without, of course, visiting those who are actually under siege in the province — the handful of remaining Serbs who can’t step outside their miniscule NATO-guarded perimeters without getting killed by Albanians).
How can we fight the jihad when Kidman and Gere are being used to enable it? Just when the Aussie gave us some hope in so prominently signing her name to an anti-terror ad in the L.A. Times — going against the grain and calling terrorism against Israelis by its name — we’re still at Square One when it comes to terrorism against Serbs.
Of course, if our own government is helping the jihad secure its Balkan base, what does one want from two actors?
For Gere’s movie — a “light-hearted thriller” entitled Spring Break in Bosnia that has him hunting down the fugitive former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic — filming is being done in Croatia and Bosnia, with the help of local propagandists as consultants, of course. The Serbs, yet again, will be collectively portrayed as the villains in the Balkan tale. Never mind that Gere returned from Bosnia to Croatia ahead of schedule last month, after only 10 days of shooting, reportedly because he was “too scared to stay” in the area.
One wonders what could have spooked him. What did he have to fear from Bosnia? Could it be the ominous signs that the country has been reawakened by the Saudis from its Communist slumber to its Islamic roots? Or did something happen that might have reasserted Bosnia’s fascist sympathies, which the UK Telegraph’s Robert Fox described in 1993:
These are the men of the Handzar division. “We do everything with the knife, and we always fight on the frontline,” a Handzar told one U.N. officer. Up to 6000 strong, the Handzar division glories in a fascist culture. They see themselves as the heirs of the SS Handzar division, formed by Bosnian Muslims in 1943 to fight for the Nazis. Their spiritual model was Mohammed Amin al-Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who sided with Hitler. According to U.N. officers… “[m]any of them are Albanian, whether from Kosovo…or from Albania itself.”
They are trained and led by veterans from Afghanistan and Pakistan, say U.N. sources…The first political act in this new operation appears to have been the murder of the two monks in the monastery…Mysteriously the police guard disappeared a few minutes before.
Or maybe something happened after Gere “disappeared down a small street in Sarajevo’s old Turkish quarter to film the next scene,” as BBC.com reported. “It is the early hours of the morning and a Hollywood film crew with blazing lights and buzzing walky-talkies is being put through its paces in the shadow of a mosque.”
Whatever it was, Gere returned to the “villa on a hill” where he’d been staying in Zagreb, Croatia. Though the Catholic Croats and Muslim Bosnians are often at each other’s throats, they have an uncanny similarity. You see, “Croatian” is more or less a synonym for “Nazi.” Except the Croatians managed to sicken even the Germans with the creative lengths they went to for Serb-slaughter, including sawing heads off slowly. (Bosnian Muslims, meanwhile, served in Croatia’s concentration camps such as Jasenovac, where 700,000 Serbs were killed alongside tens of thousands of Jews.)
Nazism is not just part of Croatia’s past; it is their present as well. [...]
Entire article by Julia Gorin, Gere-ing Up for Nazi Propaganda
Another Kind of Moving Pictures: Documentaries
Julia Gorin has also drawn our attention to a documentary showing a very different view of the war-torn Bosnia, airing on Fox today at 8:00 pm and repeating on Sunday at 1:00 am:
At one point in the film, we witness Bosnian Muslims relishing in the destruction of an Orthodox Church in Bosnia. With this one brief segment, “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” becomes the first film to receive wide attention in the U.S., that truthfully shows Muslim aggression in the Balkans as well as the Balkan connection to the worldwide Islamic jihad — rather than falsely portraying Balkan Muslims as nothing more than hapless genocide victims, as they have been depicted for more than a decade.
FrontPage Magazine’s Jamie Glazov offers a discussion about another newly released documentary, Islam: What the West Needs to Know.
The entire truth is out there and accessible to all, one only needs to want to know.