7th Rangers: Al Jazeera aka Jihad TV, carefully left out any mention of what is surely of most significance in Rami Malek’s background that he is a Coptic Christian - Part One by Hugh Fitzgerald
Fighting Seventh
The Fighting Rangers On War, Politics and Burning Issues
Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
Al Jazeera aka Jihad TV, carefully left out any mention of what is surely of most significance in Rami Malek’s background that he is a Coptic Christian - Part One by Hugh Fitzgerald
Jihad Watch : Rami Malek, the son of Egyptian immigrants, won the Oscar for Best Actor
last night. Arab websites were both ecstatic about his win, and
curiously silent about Malek’s background.
Here is the story as Al Jazeera covered it: Repeatedly Al Jazeera referred to Rami Malek’s Egyptian background: “The actor of Egyptian descent”; “the son of immigrants, from Egypt”;“Fellow Egyptians”; “Rami Malek is paving the way for Egyptians.”
Al Jazeera, however, carefully left out any mention of what is
surely of most significance in Rami Malek’s background: he is a Coptic
Christian. It may even be that his family came to America in order to
escape from mistreatment by Muslims, and from the general atmosphere of
fear which so many Copts must endure. Al Jazeera’s writers and editors no doubt hope that readers will simply assume that Rami Malek is Muslim; their silence is telling. It may even be that his family came to America in order to escape
from mistreatment by Muslims, and from the general atmosphere of fear
which so many Copts must endure. Al Jazeera’s writers and editors no doubt hope that readers will simply assume that Rami Malek is Muslim; their silence is telling.
And also telling is how they covered the story of Freddie Mercury, the frontman with Queen about whom Malek notes that “I never thought I could play Freddie Mercury until I realized his [birth] name was Farrokh Bulsara.” That’s all Al Jazeera chose to report about Freddie Mercury.
But Mercury belonged, and Malek belongs, to peoples who suffered
similarly from the arrival of Islam. Mercury was a Parsee (Persian), a
descendant of those Zoroastrians who migrated to India from Persia
during the Arab invasion of 636–651 AD to escape persecution, and
possible death, from the Muslim conquerors.
According to his parents,
Freddie Mercury was very proud of his Parsee ancestry, though he did not
often speak of it. Al Jazeera doesn’t mention Mercury’s background at all, save for giving his birth name as “Farokh Bulsara.” Al Jazeera
thus leads many to assume that Freddie Mercury was Muslim at birth —
how many would recognize that name as Parsee? — with “Farokh” taken to
be a variant of “Farouk,” a common first and last name among Arabs that
means “the Redeemer.”