movie:american sniper

Did “American Sniper” Play a Role in the Chapel Hill Shootings?
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In late January 2015, the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), the largest Arab American civil rights organization in the United States, sent a letter to Bradley Cooper, the star of American Sniper, and Clint Eastwood, the movie’s director, informing them about the film’s role in increasing anti-Muslim sentiment. While ADC requested a public statement from the two men condemning the threats fueled by their film, they have yet to respond to the request.

And, while there is no proof the film played any part in the Chapel Hill Shootings, we must remember that Islamophobia, like many other forms of bigotry, feeds off a social and cultural environment that accepts and reinforces those views.

Marine Corps Veteran Opens Eyes, Hearts, and Minds of “American Sniper” Movie-goers
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How does modern propaganda work? How effective is it? Marine Corps Veteran, Adam Kokesh interviews audience members exiting the theater after watching the new film “American Sniper”. By slowly...

Why Hollywood War Propaganda Like ’American Sniper’ Is So Effective
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Following the release of Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper,the masses of America have been chomping at the bit to slaughter Muslims. The film, which portrays the deadliest sniper in United States...

U.S. Arabs, Muslims concerned ’American Sniper’ provokes violent threats, hateful language
The film is a box office hit and has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture.
By Mark Guarino Jan. 26, 2015 | Haaretz
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REUTERS - An Arab-American civil rights organization has asked “American Sniper” director Clint Eastwood and actor Bradley Cooper to denounce hateful language directed at U.S. Arabs and Muslims after the release of the film about a Navy marksman.

The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) said in a letter to Eastwood and Cooper that its members had become targets of “violent threats” since early last week, before “American Sniper” went into general release. The letter said Eastwood and Cooper, the film’s producer and star, could bolster the ADC’s message of tolerance.

“It is our opinion that you could play a significant role in assisting us in alleviating the danger we are facing,” said the letter, dated Jan. 21. Reuters was provided a copy on Saturday.

The film is a box office hit and has been nominated for six Academy Awards, including best picture.

The ADC said it was working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and police to assess the threats.

The film tells the story of Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL sniper. His 160 kills in Iraq is considered the highest count in U.S. military history. Some critics have said the film glorifies war and sanitizes Kyle, who called Muslims “savages” in his memoir.

Kyle was killed by a disgruntled U.S. veteran at a Texas gun range in 2013.

ADC President Samer Khalaf said on Saturday that it did not make sense to call for a boycott given the film’s box office success.

“If we boycott it, it will only cause people to want to see it more,” he said.

The Washington-based ADC asked Arabs and Muslims to send them copies of threatening messages they had received. More than 100 have been collected, all from social media.

“Nice to see a movie where the Arabs are portrayed for who they really are - vermin scum intent on destroying us,” said one Twitter post collected by the ADC.

Jack Horner, a spokesman for Warner Bros., the studio releasing the film, said in a statement that the company, a unit of Time Warner Co, “denounces any violent, anti-Muslim rhetoric, including that which has been attributed to viewers” of the film.

He added, “Hate and bigotry have no place in the important dialogue that this picture has generated about the veteran experience.”

Spokesmen for Eastwood and Cooper had no immediate response to requests for comment.

American Sniper’s Patriot Porn & Celebration of Psychopathy
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Abby Martin interviews independent journalist, Rania Khalek, about the new film ’American Sniper’ and why it’s such a controversial choice to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination. 

“American Sniper” spawns death threats against Arabs and Muslims | The Electronic Intifada
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Following the release of the film American Sniper in theaters across the US, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) has warned of a “significant rise in violent hate rhetoric targeting the Arab and Muslim-American communities.”

While the ADC believes the threats “are directly linked to the negative media coverage and hateful propaganda launched against the Arab and Muslim communities following the attacks on the Charlie Hedbo offices in France” earlier this month, the civil rights organization notes that racist threats have intensified in the wake of American Sniper, with moviegoers taking to social media to express their desire to murder Arabs and Muslims after leaving the theater.

Having both watched the movie and read the book on which it is based, I am not the least bit surprised by the incitement it has spawned. American Sniper is brilliant propaganda that valorizes American military aggression while delivering Hollywood’s most racist depiction of Arabs in recent memory, effectively legitimizing America’s ongoing bombing campaigns across the Middle East.
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Following the movie’s debut in select theaters on Christmas Day, author and journalist Max Blumenthal and I were deluged with death and rape threats for tweeting our disgust with Hollywood’s glorification of a mass killer and exposing the racism and lies espoused by Kyle. Although Kyle’s most ardent supporters claim to hate ISIS and al-Qaeda, they often call on these terrorist groups to behead critics of US military aggression.

The movie has since broken box office records, grossing $105 million during its nationwide opening and garnered accolades from across the political spectrum (Vice-President Joe Biden said he wept at the Washington, DC premier). In addition, the movie scored six Academy Award nominations.

Frustrated by the glorification and whitewash of a racist mass killer, I posted passages from Kyle’s book on Twitter, highlighting his hateful and homicidal statements and drew attention to the anti-Arab and anti-Muslim threats the movie was inspiring, all of which I compiled into a Storify that went viral.”

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’American Sniper’ Is Dangerous Propaganda That Sanitizes a Mass Killer & Rewrites the Iraq War
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While the glorification of American psycho sniper Chris Kyle on the big screen is atrocious, the movie’s rewriting of the US destruction of Iraq and racist portrayal of Arabs is worse and far more...