UAE-Hollywood film depicts Qatar as ‘terrorist state,’ establishment media and other jihad enablers enraged By Christine Douglass-Williams

Jihad Watch : The jihad-funding state of Qatar was portrayed as a “terrorist state” in The Misfits, a new Hollywood film that an Emirati film company co-produced. Al Jazeera — the notorious international news channel based in Doha and funded by the Qatari government — featured reactions from various Islamic authorities, who denounced the movie as “immoral” and “absurd.” joining the pro-jihad critics were Leftist media activists, who have been working hard to damage the film’s reception by means of vigorous criticism. The activist media rushed to the defense of Islam:

• According to the New York Times, The Misfits is “insulting to Arabic dialects and the Muslim Brotherhood” and “inarguably awful, its grandiose muddle of a plot unimproved by bored camels and barely clothed women.”
• Hollywood Insider described The Misfits as having “a few attractive criminals”; the film’s authors “threw them in the Middle East, and wrote jokes with a poor taste of terrorism and stereotypes.” The criticism did not include any real information to back its claims.
• Variety says that in The Misfits, “the action is slick, if strangely outdated, in this miscalculated curiosity, which finds half a dozen criminals breaking into a Middle Eastern prison.” In reality, the film’s subject matter couldn’t be more timely, given the UAE’s normalization with Israel and distancing itself from normative jihad violence.
• Similarly, Slight Magazine described The Misfits as a “refreshing” but “flighty film” which “remains defiantly ignorant of the world in which it exists.” Slight Magazine also says that the movie is “ignorant” of its topic.
• Indie Wire described it as “a low-rent slog peppered with racism in lieu of any other flavoring.”

Doha News, like Al Jazeera, focused on the UAE’s involvement in the film:

“The Misfits” is alleged to be yet another Emirati attempt to portray Qatar as a terrorist state and a global financier of terrorism, prominent journalists have claimed.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) funded film, which is co-produced, filmed, and financed by the Emirati owned independent film production company FilmGate Production, in partnership with Paramount Pictures and Highland Film Group.

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