# The Third Jihad-recommended viewing **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 16, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953 "2010-07-16T18:28:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/61 "2010-07-16T20:49:56Z")
What is it about July? Is it the heat? ---
**Author:** ![Skeleton10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Skeleton10](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeleton10)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/62 "2010-07-16T21:02:05Z")
Someone will like it and others won’t, no big. When we get a few people commenting on this then I’ll invoke my opinion. Personal attacks, keep em coming, it’s your dime… ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/63 "2010-07-16T21:04:44Z")
I watched part of the oeuvre. If the characterization of the dramatis personae is overall weak and the plotlines are quite full of holes, I found that the themes presented by this opus were interesting - man’s inhumanity to man, the essence of mistrust and phobia, the banal alienation of modern life, all laid bare by the artist in a vivid neo-modern canvas pulsating in tune with America’s zeitgeist of utter fuckwittery. Hang on, what’s the artsy-fartsy word for “fuckwit” ? ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/64 "2010-07-16T21:20:38Z")
> [@Gorsnak](#): > > So I think that means that any minute now you should expect to be forced to wear a burqa. When I was in India last summer, I saw this woman wearing a burqa decorated with lots of sparkly blue sequins. If my burqa can also be covered in sequins, I would appreciate that. kthnxbye ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/65 "2010-07-16T21:24:19Z")
> [@Skeleton10](#): > > Someone will like it and others won’t, no big. When we get a few people commenting on this then I’ll invoke my opinion. I’m teetering on the end of my stool. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/66 "2010-07-16T21:33:18Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I watched part of the oeuvre. If the characterization of the dramatis personae is overall weak and the plotlines are quite full of holes, I found that the themes presented by this opus were interesting - man’s inhumanity to man, the essence of mistrust and phobia, the banal alienation of modern life, all laid bare by the artist in a vivid neo-modern canvas pulsating in tune with America’s zeitgeist of utter fuckwittery. > > Hang on, what’s the artsy-fartsy word for “fuckwit” ? “Postmodernist” ---
**Author:** ![Skeleton10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Skeleton10](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeleton10)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/67 "2010-07-16T21:42:24Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > I’m teetering on the end of my stool. Normal people don’t do that, they just wipe and flush, Activia might help… ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/68 "2010-07-16T21:48:35Z")
> [@Skeleton10](#): > > Normal people don’t do that, they just wipe and flush, Activia might help… Are you **elucidator** ’s sock? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/69 "2010-07-16T21:50:45Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > Are you **elucidator** ’s sock? 😛 Obviously not. It was actually funny. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/70 "2010-07-16T21:53:29Z")
I can’t watch it - I haven’t seen _The First Jihad_ or _The Second Jihad_ yet, and I don’t want to ruin the whole thing by watching them out of order. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/71 "2010-07-16T22:18:21Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > I can’t watch it - I haven’t seen _The First Jihad_ or _The Second Jihad_ yet, and I don’t want to ruin the whole thing by watching them out of order. And that was even funnier. Well done. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/72 "2010-07-16T22:30:04Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I think I have [something else](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOU8GIRUd_g) that you might be interested in. THERE we go. I was opening all the links, looking for that. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/73 "2010-07-16T22:34:06Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > We need to provoke the radicals into coming out of the woodwork just long enough to grab them, stick on them on the next plane flying over Afghanistan, and drop them out of the plane, parachute optional. Yes, you have the freedom to express your discontent, but now you can do it in down-town Kabul, you ungrateful fuckers. Yes, now that you mention it, that **does** sound like a good way to deal with the Tea Partiers! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/74 "2010-07-16T22:37:52Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Have you bent over lately? You need to ask? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/75 "2010-07-16T22:49:38Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > I’m watching this now, about half way through, and your characterization is not even close. The film was made by a Muslim. It seeks to separate out radical Islam from Islam. I don’t think your objections necessarily work. One can be a Muslim and yet Islamophobic. You can be part of any group, yet be prejudiced or unnecessarily fearful of that same group. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/76 "2010-07-16T22:50:50Z")
> [@ghardester](#): > > What is it about July? Is it the heat? It’s not the heat; it’s the stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![Skeleton10](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Skeleton10](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeleton10)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/77 "2010-07-16T23:50:52Z")
> [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](#): > > It’s not the heat; it’s the stupidity. So I take it you didn’t like it Mr. 3, or did I take that out (stupidity) of context? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/78 "2010-07-16T23:57:02Z")
Reasoned and informed explication of OP’s opinions coming in … ohhh fuck it, probably never. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/79 "2010-07-17T00:06:45Z")
> [@Revenant\_Threshold](#): > > [QUOTE=magellan01] > Originally Posted by magellan01 > I’m watching this now, about half way through, and your characterization is not even close. The film was made by a Muslim. It seeks to separate out radical Islam from Islam. I don’t think your objections necessarily work. One can be a Muslim and yet Islamophobic. You can be part of any group, yet be prejudiced or unnecessarily fearful of that same group. [/QUOTE] So, you chose to quote, but ignore the last sentence. Odd. you’ve not countered the point I’ve made. You attacked a position in which my objection summed up in Sentence #2 would “necessarily” work, i.e., work in all instances. I’m not of that opinion. Which explains why I added the third sentence. You know, the one you chose to ignore. By the way, did you watch the video? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2010, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953/80 "2010-07-17T00:09:14Z")
Only the _third_ jihad? Those are toddler jihadists. I don’t take anyone seriously until the’re jihad teens – 13 or more. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-third-jihad-recommended-viewing/546953.md?page=5)