Any movies or tv shows about anti-muslim terrorism in the Bosnian conflict?
Dated a guy briefly who had a back covered in scars from getting blown through a plate glass window in N. Ireland from a nearby car bomb. He might not agree with you.
I hope this doesn’t turn into a terrorism debate. I’m really just looking for terrorist films and television shows where the baddies are not Muslim.
The Jackal (w. Bruce Willis)
Nighthawks (Stallone)
All of the real-life people and groups mentioned were relatively long ago. Even the IRA has quited down. Your co-worker out\ght to face it: The religious terrorist du jour is Islamic.
Yes he has, and he and his followers have faced charges for it. Also, Baker who has encountered him in person says he threatens and intimidates people.
He also severely beat his own children and wife, (and allegedly killed the fiance of one of his sons to get rid of her) according to testimony given by some of his children, though he was never convicted of it. Those still in his flock deny any abuse happened, of course.
He is not a true Scotsman.
I stand corrected, I didn’t know that they had actually done anything other than annoy people.
Pick an episode of Walker Texas Ranger at random, and the bad guy of the week will usually be a redneck or KKKrazy of some sort. A few of the episodes even include terrorism, I think.
IIRC, “Behind Enemy Lines” featured, as the plot-motivating factor, a US Navy reconnisance jet witnessing a public execution by Eastern European soldiers, who then try to kill the messenger before he can get back to base (I don’t remember who they were executing, since I have never seen the first half of the movie)
There was also a first-season episode of JAG which had crazy militia-types trying to steal nuclear weapons from the Navy (though one of them was planning to betray his friends and instead sell them to the Iraqis for some large sum of money), and Clark Palmer, one of the more devious bad guys on the show, was a clean-cut all-American guy who tried to do stuff like assassinate a witness in a trial with a small-scale bio-weapon, and managed to be a severe thorn in Commander Rabb’s side even after he was locked up at Fort Leavenworth.
A very interesting movie to watch in a modern-day context is Red Dawn, which has American teenagers waging guerilla warfare against occupying Mexican, Cuban, and Russian soldiers in rural Colorado, even at one point blowing up a book store that had been turned into a “Friendship Center” or something like that. Has guys on both sides of the conflict in the movie portrayed as good people doing very bad things in the name of war at various points in the movie.
IIRC, the defining factors for whether or not an attack is a terrorist attack is that they aren’t done by a state directly (ie: It’s not done by Iranian or Iraqi or Saudi or Irish or American soldiers), and the primary purpose is to cause terror out of proportion to the actual material damage (ie: if a squadron of Air Force bombers flattens several city blocks to destroy a factory, terror wasn’t the primary motive).
Thus, a cruise missile hitting an enemy barracks certainly isn’t a terrorist attack, since it’s one soldier fighting another soldier (albeit from 100 miles away with a guided missile at 3AM), and a truck bomb plowing into a Marine barracks, while definitley a very bad thing from where I’m sitting in the USofA, is a much fuzzier area than it is often historically made out to be. Soldiers in a war are arguably open targets, even to less-traditional strategies, but the intent of the attack was arguably to scare the Americans off, rather than killing them all or otherwise leaving them physically incapacitated to fight. Anyhow, this isn’t really on topic, so let’s just wrap it up with “Life would be better if we all just had food fights instead of wars.”
One could argue that the 1857 Mountain Meadows massacre of westbound emigrants (mainly from Arkansas) was an act of Christian terrorism. Although the subject is highly controversial, it’s generally accepted that the massacre, in which up to 140 pioneers were slaughtered, was carried out by Mormons, some of whom may have been dressed as Indians (the “False Flag” style of operation being a common component of terrorism). [Note: I don’t want to drag this into GD, and am making no claim that the massacre was carried out on the orders of (or with knowledge of) Brigham Young.] The Fancher party – men, women, and children – posed no military threat to the Mormon militiamen, and were massacred while being “escorted” after a white flag “truce”. The Mormon participants were later sworn to secrecy.
There was a low-budget 2004 film on the subject called Burying the Past: Legacy of the Mountain Meadows Massacre, but – more relevant to the OP – there’s also an upcoming higher-profile film: September Dawn with Terence Stamp as Brigham Young , Dean Cain as Joseph Smith, and Jon Voight.
Well, no not really. What you see in the film is when the Confederate army evacuated Atlanta. They torched their supplies and ammunition train, as well as any infrastructure, like factories, which they thought could be used by the Union. The fires weren’t meant to completely destroy the city, nor to terrorize the populace.
The director actually sent out a memo to theaters and the press asking that the “burning of Atlanta” scene not be referred to as such and explaining what the scene actually represented.
Eventually annoyance becomes illegal harrassment. An abortion clinic won a $8,400,000 settlement against pro-lifer, anti-abortionist Randy Alcorn
Seriously, give me a cite showing that Timothy McVeigh was a professing Christian, especially during the Oklahoma City bombing. His inspirational book
THE TURNER DIARIES was written by William Pierce, whose brand of white
supremacism was vehemently anti-Christian.
Ok, anything by Stephen Seagal, really.
The Die Hard films.
Contact, with Jodie Foster. There’s a crazy white-haired Jesus Freak that blows up the first contact machine and kills Tom Skerritt.
If my memory serves there were no Islamic Terrorist enimies in any James Bond film. (Though JB does meet up with the Muja Hadim (sp) as a friendly force in one film).
Alias has very few middle eastern terrorists/spies (the distinction between the two in Alias is very indistinct) that might be assumed to be Islamic.
Though less common now, their was a time when every film seemed to have an Englich accented evil enimy, who more often than not could be deemed a terrorist.
The first season of St. Elsewhere had a terrorist who was a young (20ish) white male from a weathly New England background who set off a bomb in a bank, killing three people. While they didn’t go into his faith, I’m assuming his upbringing wasn’t Muslim.
And he was very obviously a terrorist since they referred to him as such about ten or fifteen times during the story arch.
Yes, it was. And he was played by a young Tim Robbins. I bought the first season of St. Elsewhere on DVD, and it’s interesting to see him that early in his career. I thought he was frighteningly good.
First Contact being in Post #14 above …
Isn’t First Contact about cyborgs attacking a space vehicle launch site?
I mean, granted, they were white. One might say Swedish (well, OK, only one would say that, and she didn’t quite know what she was talking about…)