Jihad Sheilas versus John Rambo

Mash up mash up et cetera. Jihad Sheilas! Aaaiiieee!

vents on John Rambo:

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Rambo 4

This movie is incredible. If you see one movie this year make sure it is ‘John Rambo’.

If you didn’t already know; Rambo is truly the baddest cunt ever. He is like 1,000 Nintendo power gloves combined. In the first five minutes he is on screen he catches a cobra with his bare hands and puts it in a sack; catches a fish with a bow and arrow; and smiths some bad ass knife (which will be used later in the movie for eating the fish, of course).

“We need to use your boat, Rambo”
“Are you bringing any guns?”
“Of course not”
“You aren’t going to change anything”

This was the moment when I knew I was in for a great movie experience and I stood up and cheered and flung my cock back over my shoulder…

Notes:

Despite being of draft age during the US / Viet Nam War, having been born in 1946, Sly managed to avoid being drafted. According to one source:

After high school, Stallone coached women’s athletics at the American College of Switzerland, and became involved in drama, appearing in a school production of Arthur Miller’s Death of A Salesman. He returned to America and studied drama at the University of Miami, but dropped out to become a struggling actor in New York. Stallone appeared in an all-nude off-Broadway play called Score, and in 1970 he was paid $200 to appear in a cheap porno feature called The Party at Kitty and Stud’s. Years later, after Rocky made Stallone famous, The Party was re-released as The Italian Stallion, with an orgasm-faced Stallone on the video box. In 1971, he had a bit part as a thug in Woody Allen’s Bananas. In 1972 he auditioned for a small part in Coppola’s The Godfather, but did not get the role, so Stallone decided he might have better luck as a writer…

The two so-called ‘Jihad Sheilas’, Rabiah Hutchison and Raisah bint Alan Douglas, “say they have been tricked by the ABC. They claim they were being interviewed for Australian Story but instead they appear in a documentary to be be aired tonight [February 4] titled Jihad Sheilas. The women delivered a protest letter to the ABC’s Sydney headquarters” on February 4. The ABC denies the allegation.

As usual, Irfan Yusuf provides some insight on the subject of Islam and Western converts.

Converts’ dangerous pull towards extremism
Irfan Yusuf
The Sydney Morning Herald
February 7, 2008

This week the ABC screened Jihad Sheilas, the story of two Australian women who became caught up in a whirlpool of religious extremism. They were just two among a tiny proportion of a generation of Muslim youths and converts radicalised by people linked to past conflicts in Afghanistan…

So much modern political radicalism in Muslim communities is rooted in contemporary political conflicts in the nominally Muslim world. These often become the centre of spiritual attention for young Muslims with little exposure to mainstream Islamic theology and little understanding of the nuances of the conflict.

However, it would be wrong to generalise about all converts. Islam attracts people from all walks of life. Prominent Australian converts include former diplomats, prominent sportspeople and a former ABC foreign correspondent. People turn to Islam and other non-Christian faiths for any number of reasons. They might feel outcasts in conventional society or disillusioned with aspects of mainstream culture. They might be searching for an alternative lifestyle…

In Rambo III (1988), Stallone plays Rambo in Afghanistan:

God would have mercy, John Rambo won’t!
The first was for himself. The second for his country. This time is for his friend.

Uh-huh.

In reality, Rambo III was little more than a propaganda piece for the Reagan Administration’s proxy war on the Soviet Union. And as is common knowledge, the role of his Government and the US state in arming, training and supplying Afghan mujahideen has been well-documented, and the forces which now struggle against US forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in the world owe Ronald Reagan a debt of gratitude.

Twenty years after Rambo III, the film Charlie Wilson’s War comes in for similar criticism. Otherwise, sit back and enjoy The war of a thousand years (Alain Gresh, La Monde diplomatique, September 2004) — and pray it doesn’t come knocking on your door.

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10 Responses to Jihad Sheilas versus John Rambo

  1. Ultimate Hater says:

    Well Vents I was prepared to sit back and let you take the credit at first but I will have everyone in this audience know that you stole the power glove analogy off me and frankly I think it was probably the clincher for @ndy re-pasting your comments on his blog.

    You both owe me a sandwich and they must be delicious as 1000 duck hunt guns.

  2. vents says:

    ^^ Nope that is not true and you are going the right way for an exploding arrow into your helicopter.

    I was going to go to the movies the other night & see Charlie Wilson’s War but then i figured I would probably sit there the whole movie making snide commentary to my girlfriend in the cinema and become one of those people I hate so much. So I stayed home and watched Rambo 4. Sure it is Rambo enlightening the uncivilised world with some exploding arrows again but at least they are not the slightest bit apologetic about it. Now I look back it reminds me of something the South Park guys would do for a laugh. Whatever, it was fucking sick, go see it you will thank me.

  3. Ultimate Hater says:

    What is that commissar propagandist? You base your analogies around 80s multi nationals and this reflects your admiration for the capitalist way of life? Yes ok you are the one who thought up the Nintendo jokes, aristocratic land owner and purveyor of lies.

    Meanwhile it is sad to see Squishy-face Hanks in this piece of Hollywood propaganda.

  4. THR says:

    We cannot have enough people drawing the link between Rambo and fascism.

    Incidentally (and I was going to put this on my blog, but you get more traffic), what do you think of the welfare state? You know, Keynesian economics and all that…?
    I mean, it’s one thing to be anarchist, but we both know that an anti-Govt stance in, say, the area of health, will most likely not result in a better result for cancer-sufferin’ proles. This, in my opinion, is a more difficult question than what party to vote for, or what t-shirt to wear. We genuinely do have a position to influence those in power, but it all depends on what we get them to do…

  5. @ndy says:

    The welfare state. Hmmm. What I think of it is complex but in general, I think social welfare may be defined as fire insurance for the rich; Keynesian economics — an attempt to produce a solution to a crisis-ridden system which (arguably) failed, or, at the very least, failed to secure the necessary political support required to make it withstand real and (in my opinion) systemic economic pressures from derailing it.

    In terms of human health, I think the struggle has aspects that are perhaps unique and others that are common to most if not all political struggles. In general, and on principle, I believe anarchists believe in and endeavour to socialise health care; in other words, to make knowledge about human health and the best means of advancing it available to as many people as possible. I dunno… aside from making general observations, which I think are fairly obvious, it’s hard to say. With regards cancer, again, I dunno, but it could be argued that the same system which profits from its treatment is the same system which ensures its mass spread.

  6. vents says:

    I don’t take an “anti-Govt stance” in the area of health, that seems pretty bizarre dude. I want socialised medicine and health care. Watching my grandmother die from cancer kinda made that decision for me without the need for anti-state ideology or philosophical anarchism or whatever you mean by that. And decent working conditions and wages for nurses, doctors, and people that clean the shit in the toilets. Anyway, I thought this was about Rambo.

  7. Dr. Cam says:

    Vents, how did you rate the latest Rambo in comparison with Die Hard 4.0?

  8. juancastro says:

    Do you really think Rambo would let himself be restricted to the thread topic?

  9. Lumpen says:

    What’s odd is that there was never a Rambo 1. It was called First Blood. That latest film is the first one simply titled ‘Rambo’. I’m really looking forward to it.

    I take it Vents you saw the workprint version. Any good? Or should I wait for the cinema?

    Don’t forget the Rambo cartoon. Classy.

    This will make you lose your shit if you haven’t seen it before.

  10. vents says:

    Die hard 4 was shithouse. Computer hackers? Wow

    Lumpen I am not sure what I saw but it was watchable

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