At this writing, it looks like The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushie will survive last month’s attack by “New Jersey man” Hadi Matar. He was trying to collect millions of dollars from a 1989 fatwa issued by Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, and which extended to publishers and even booksellers.
“I call on all valiant Muslims wherever they may be to kill them without delay,” the Ayatollah proclaimed, “so that no one will dare insult the sacred beliefs of Muslims henceforth.” Rushdie, has to wonder why no fatwa was forthcoming for The Marrakesh One-Two by Richard Grenier, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1983. In this tale, Hollywood producers aim to tap Arab petrodollars for a film about Mohammed,
“There were half a billion Moslems in the world, right?” says screenwriter Burt Nelson. “If we had our Bible epics why couldn’t they have their Koran epics? That’s why they needed me, author of The Song of Jesus, which raked in all those shekels.” So Burt gets busy reading the Quran.
“Reams of Allah is great, Allah is one, Allah is supreme,” Nelson finds. “And suddenly you run into, You are forbidden to take in marriage married women, except captives whom you own as slaves. And then more Allah is great and Allah is merciful, until you come to, Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other and because they spend their wealth upon them. Good women are obedient. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.”
Nelson also comes across “good solid stuff” like: “Those of you who divorce their wives by declaring them to be their mothers should know they are not their mothers. Their mothers are those who gave birth to them. The words they utter are unjust and false but Allah is forgiving and merciful. Which was a good point to clear up. I mean, I was sure it had led to a lot of misunderstanding until Mohammed cleared it up.”
Nelson is a Christianity and Judaism man, so “Mohammed struck me as kind of a gamey figure for a religious leader, I mean for a man God spoke to personally.” He is “plagiarizing the Bible like mad “or it’s one hell of a coincidence,” but there’s more to it.
Mohammed “expels one tribe of Jews but they can take a little property. And then he expels another tribe of Jews, but they can’t take any property. And then he gets sore and figures they’ve really driven him too far, and when the last tribe of Jews surrenders he has the men slaughtered and the women and children taken as slaves. Allah is merciful, but not necessarily Mohammed, I guess.”
The prophet of Islam is “always praying to Allah for guidance and if Mohammed really wants something bad enough you get the impression Allah is going to tell him it’s okay. I mean, Allah can’t say no to him.” For example, “Aisha bint Abi Bakr was the beautiful six-year-old Mohammed married but the wedding wasn’t celebrated until she was nine. They gave her the good news when she was playing on her swing and let her bring along all her dolls and toys.”
On location in Morocco, Nelson notes, “I could hear the muezzin calling the faithful to prayer but I didn’t hear nobody pray, man. No, I didn’t. And it’s a pretty miserable call too, let me tell you. GWAWAWAWAWAWAWAWAK. FNUHUHUHUHUHUH – glottal stop.”
Nelson moonlights for the CIA and gets kidnapped by Moroccan revolutionaries. He escapes and the production moves to Libya.
“A good stable regime,” Nelson quips. “No coups d’etat since King Idris. No angry dissidents, underground malcontents, Montoneros, Tupamaros, Brigatte Rosse, protesters, riffraff like that. Law and order. Koranic law and order. Deep sleep at night. Deep dreams of peace and unpermissive societies where they don’t permit you to do frigging anything but the peace is beautiful, man, wow.”
Col. Kadaffi won’t spring for the movie, so the producers move on to Iran, where the Shiite regime turns down the project. That leaves Iraq, but en route to Baghdad the airliner gets hijacked, in a strange sort of way. In this part of the world, nothing is quite as it seems.
For Nelson, it was “finally the end of Mohammed Superstar, which I still think would have brought a lot of peace and understanding in the world.” Grenier’s great novel should help with the understanding part.
“The Arab world depicted with murderous realism,” reads the cover endorsement from Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the New York Democrat who regarded Grenier as a critic without peer for his work at Commentary, the New York Times, and The New Republic. See also Capturing the Culture: Film Art and Politics, from 1991.
The Marrakesh One-Two appeared just a few years after the Iranian hostage crisis but no Ayatollah put out a fatwa on Richard Grenier. The U.S. Naval Academy graduate passed away at 68 in January of 2002, so on September 11, 2001, he got to see the “murderous realism” close at hand.
The stabbing of fellow author Salman Rushdie would not surprise Richard Grenier. American officials believe a regime that calls for the murder of writers will negotiate a nuclear deal in good faith. In 2022, the Islamic world remains pretty much as Grenier described it nearly 40 years ago, perhaps more so.
As Burt Nelson said, “It just shows how little people know about things.”
Talking about MUSLIMS again,there is the UYGHUR situation in Sinkiang,China. They are 10 MILLION.
MIKE POMPEO was TRUMP’s CIA director and later Secretary of State. While being Secretary of State for Trump he actually said,to a laughing audience:
” I was the CIA director. (my note: notice he is talking about what HE did as CIA DIRECTOR)
WE (my note: that would include Mike Pompeo)
LIED, we CHEATED, we STOLE.
We had entire training courses. It reminds you of the GLORY of the American experiment.”
CHECK OUT ALTERNATIVE VIEWS
There is The New Atlas with BRIAN BERLETIC,American,who is NON-Marxist,just a freethinker,he thinks independently.
He has made his own research and in his videos ALWAYS provides LINKS to his SOURCES. He affirms,based on all of it, that the affirmation by MIKE POMPEO and others that
China has 1 MILLION ( others say 3 million ) Uyghur in CONCENTRATION camps in a GENOCIDE attempt is false.
His videos are:
“Uyghur Tribunal: US-Funded Theater Attacking China” ( OCT 2021 ) ( 45 min )
The Uyghur Tribunal held in the UK said 1 to 3 MILLION were in concentration camps.
AND
“Uyghur Tribunal: Predictable but Dangerous Propaganda” ( DEC 2021 ) ( 6 min )
Berletic has shown it all goes back to the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR DEMOCRACY ( founded in 1983)
and research it, it now known it is a CIA ORGANIZATION.
Mike Pompeo,the NEOCON who today preaches war with CHINA, which could end up in a NUCLEAR war ( with the FIRST bomb to be sent by the US,not China).
Notice the GLOBALIST press repeats and repeats it, they want it for their GREAT RESET -UNIPOLAR world to triumph.
Talking about another de facto NEOCON,there is FRANCIS FUKUYAMA who is famous for his
“End of History”(1992)
that history should be viewed as an evolutionary process, and that the end of history, which means that LIBERAL DEMOCRACY is the final form of government for all nations. Now that Communism ended in the SOVIET UNION.
HERE IS YOUR LOVER OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY
1. He has always been ANTI-Trump,calling him anti-democratic.Lies.
2. He is ANTI-ORBAN ( PM of Hungary),yes,calling him a threat to democracy.Nonsense.
3. BEFORE he was telling us the DEEP STATE does NOT exist, it is a CONSPIRACY theory.
But now,he is putting out a new series titled ” VALUING the DEEP STATE”.It is still coming out.
AFTER ALL,HE IS A NEOCON
Like all of them,he is a Machiavellian, using lies ( even to the point of sometimes saying he is NOT a neocon),deception,
all in the name of liberal democracy, human rights. They can be DETECTED very easily since they,whatever title they use ( wokist, neolib, neocon, Antifa, BLM )
are always,always pro UNIPOLAR,in other words pro-Great Reset ( TOTALITARIAN system),of
“You will have NOTHING and be HAPPY”