Rogue One: A Far-Right Review

Directed by: Gareth Edwards

Screenplay by: Chris Weitz & Tony Gilroy

Story by: John Knoll & Gary Whitta

Starring:
Felicity Jones
Diego Luna
Ben Mendelsohn
Forest Whitaker

Distributed by: Walt Disney Studios

Release Date: December 10, 2016 



Thirty-seven minutes into a movie that I refuse to pay for, here’s what I think. Loads of quips, trying so hard to be funny, getting a bit annoying now. The girl, she’s beating up all of the men, easily, white stormtroopers, something about male disposability going on here, unintentional, obviously, them being white, also unintentional, just how it goes, right?

Didn’t one of the writers say something on twatter about the cuckfest movie being about a team of multicultural heroes against white supremacy? I see that. I also see the lefts ridiculous framing of themselves as heroic rebels, against the evil empire of white male patriarchy, whilst being completely oblivious to the fact that the lefties have been destroying western civilisation in political, academic and media power hubs for decades now. How do you portray yourselves as the heroic ‘rebels’ when you are in charge of everything? I know, let’s go back in time and pretend that the mythological evil that is the ‘far-right’ is actually in power, not us.

'Hello, we are the patriarchy, how may we assist you?'

That’s what they are doing in the movies anyway, cough ‘A Force Asleepens,’ and in the real world you finally have something real to fight against. The rise of the real world evil empire, starts this Friday with the Trump inauguration ceremony, fear, fear, fear, safe spaces needed. Hey soft guys and girls (I know, no difference now, is there?) great news for you all, you get to play at being the rebels again, just like in this movies. Yay, call for the assassination of Trump on your twatter platforms. You are so heroic, so progressive and so rebellious, even though you are serving the agenda of totalitarian globalists.

Talking of tools, that female lead can’t act at all, how funny it is, not as funny as seeing her beat up all of the men who are three times her size, but still pretty funny nonetheless. You’d think they’d at least be able to find a skinny white girl with a vaguely ‘British’ accent that could act a bit. I guess not, how hard can it be? But hey, that’s leftists for you, they screw up everything. Enough with the writing, I need to get back to the movie. I’m not enjoying it by the way. So glad I didn’t pay Disney corp for this tosh. Okay, back in. I’ll let you know what I think in another thirty minutes or so.

Oh man, back already. Just seen Forest Whitaker ‘acting' with the little girl character and I couldn’t believe this was possible, but he’s actually chewing the scenery worse than she is, putting on a ridiculous Broken Matt Hardy accent in an attempt to be ‘crazy.’ It’s flipping hilarious, really, unintentionally hilarious. What happened to him? He used to be good, didn’t he? I have to get back. Broken Forest Whitaker is so bad he’s cucking awesome.

Multiculturalism to the rescue.

Ha ha ha, they’re just explaining the ‘flaw’ in the Death star, that old plot hole from the original movie. Quite lame, obviously, but they’re loading up the syrupy sentimentality in a hope to get away with it. It will work of course, the cucks watching this shite will lap it up. Oh and Peter Cushing looks like a CGI Peter Cushing, doesn’t sound like him either, sucks, but that’s how it is. As for the comedy relief robot that is getting rave reviews. Nah, bores me, much like the movie is already boring me now at the 48-minute mark. Germanic villains from a WW2 movie, cartoonishly evil, not real people, Hollywood being Hollywood again. Hi Israel. Not even one hour in and I’m bored, bored, bored.

Missing fathers, always missing fathers. Cuck Wars is a universe with missing fathers, says so much about the world we live in today. No fathers equals no resistance, genuine resistance, not lefty bullshit coming out of the foundation funded university system and bled into news/entertainment/culture with ambitious young careerists repeating their programming to get ahead. Get rid of dad and the children run to the globalist empire. That’s real world stuff now, important stuff. Get that and we have a chance, don’t and we might as well go the cinema and shovel multicultural popcorn into our brains.

65mins in and I’m so bored. I don’t care about any of these people, the acting is terrible and the villains are not believable. They must be reading my mind, because here comes a big battle scene, noise, explosions, special FX masking a boring movie, lifeless script, dull 2D characters. Is the dad dead? I don’t care.

Yep, he’s dead. The new message, die dad die, young girls are the future now. Well, is anybody surprised? That’s what Hollywood and the lefty globalists want, get rid of nationalistic dad, your children belong to us now. Only in your movies, losers. The real rebellion is well underway in 2017. Brexit, Trump, bitches. You cannot kill genuine masculine resistance with feminism and white knighting cucks. Ask Hillary, she’ll tell you, if she’s sober that is.

Here comes Darth Nostalgia, that breathing, the cucks are wetting themselves. Hang on, ten seconds in and even Vader is over-acting. What a joke it all is. And he departs, with a ‘choking’ pun. Man, what a suck-fest cuck-fest.

Broken Forest Whitaker says, 'I knew you would come.'

And now the little girl is lecturing a multicultural collective of brave rebel heroes with the wordly wisdom of a couple of years of adulthood. How old is she? She looks like she’s barely out of lefty government school. Oh and a woman is their dictator and none of them appear to mind that she has the final say on a huge decision that could end the lot of them. Well, we all know how the left love a dictator don’t we, so I guess they got that right at least.

Just over half an hour left, waiting for another big battle, don’t care about anything that is happening, time is slowing to a crawl, so glad I didn’t go the cinema and pay for this turd.

Oh man, the teenager is giving a leadership speech now to all of the blokes, what a joke, all of the men bowing to this great eight stone warrior girl with too much eye make-up and a wonky English accent that comes straight out of a Simpson’s cartoon. Is the actress a Brit? I think that she is. I guess that being driven to drama school in a Chelsea tractor for over a decade didn’t exactly give her much experience in the real world and her ‘I was like and she was like’ real life accent is probably not ‘English’ enough for the movie. Multiculturalism destroys hosts cultures. Talk to an English girl today, you’ll see. They sound like idiots, American idiots. Hey Green day. Fuck off Green day. Libtard drunks, back now after eight years of drinking, you are the tooliest tools of all the rock and roll tools.

Down go the whitey stormtroopers, yay multicultural heroes, death to whitey, look at whitey die. Fan service stuff, how long left? Twenty minutes? That’s too long, much too long. My brain is shrinking, my will to live….fading.

Gin Asshole? Is that her name? I like it. Finally, something that I like.

Worst marksmen like totally evvvveerrr.

The end is like the original movie, just without characters that I actually care about. Why can’t they write believable or likeable characters anymore? Comedy characters don't count. They're silly, childish and easy, hello Mr robot, you are supposed to be the best character in the movie, you, the comic relief. I agree with that commonly held opinion, your silliness is amusing and that’s all that the movie has, none of the other characters make any impact whatsoever. The robot is dying now and it’s a little bit sad, the life of the movie, metal comedy relief, is gone, the movie now limps to the conclusion.

Girl jumps first, man follows, of course, the message of the movie, just like all Disney movies. Strong independent women need no man, that role being taken by socialist/globalist government now.

Is he dead? Sacrificed his life for the girl? Don’t do that. Don’t be a white knight, don’t be a cuck. They wouldn’t do it for you. They run to government, betray you, betray their own people and invite in a real patriarchy. Do not self-sacrifice for government girls who will destroy western civilisation to feel good about themselves on twitter.

Much better than Jar Jar.

Oh, boyfriend is back to save the girl. Not dead, yet. Sucker. CGI Peter Cushing is back, over-acting as the real Peter Cushing would never do. Bang, are they all dead? I hope so. Hello, here’s Darth Nostalgia, staring menacingly. Oh, they are not dead yet, the dull couple. Please kill them Lord Nostalgia, just don’t talk, your accent is a bit wrong, like all of the accents in the movie actually.

Nostalgia Vader ain’t talking, chopping, best bit of the movie. He's kicking lefty rebel ass, blending into the original movie, that first bit when Darth makes his entrance and oh, here's Princess Leah.

‘What is it they sent us?’

‘Hope.’

END

Well we all know how that really ends don’t we. It ends with Obama's empty slogans, broken promises, drones, war, government dependency, SJW tantrums, failure, BLM, ISIS and Donald Trump coming in to sort out all of the damage that has been caused.

Movie reviews are supposed to end with a summary, a conclusion, but this here, this thing, was different, don’t you think? I didn’t pay for this movie and I’m glad that I didn’t. It was soft leftism, out of touch, nostalgia, fan service, comedy robot, feminism, dullness, multiculturalism versus white nationalism, the usual fare that you can expect from Hollywood for the next four years. Don’t go the cinema. It’s only going to get worse, hey Meryl?

Libtards have been in charge of everything for far too long and now we are living during the time of the real rebellion, a nationalist uprising against their globalist socialist evils. Cinema has to change, or it will die. Same story for television, academia, politics, literature, comic books, everything. Change, adapt or die, it’s evolution baby, the false god of libtards that is now biting them on the butts and how amusing it is indeed. I’m looking forward to Friday. Donald Trump, a new beginning, not just for America, but for the future of western civilisation. The era of empty, passive hope is dead. Hollywood is dying. The new era is of competence, hard work and individualism. To hope is to be passive. Don’t hope, don’t wait, get up, believe in yourself, create, work, do.


Rating for movie: 2/10 (For Darth Nostalgia getting choppy at the end and the comedy robot being an amusing antidote to the dullness that surrounded him/it)

Feeding Time (How westen neoliberalism created an Islamic monster)

BBC One Schedule 1-12-2015: The television guide (as it should be)

06:00- Breakfast: Framing the day for the masses with the latest brainwashing from bank funded public relations companies, presented by a stand-in mother and father figure cooing at you like kindly owls.

09:15- Fake Britain: The paranoia programming begins here. Watch how loveable, workingclass 'blokes' track down petty criminals selling fake watches and handbags in the highstreet, whilst ignoring all of the serious criminals in the corporate/government buildings around them.

10:00- Homes Under the Hammer: Mum and dad substitutes look at houses that you cannot afford.

11:00- Oxford Street Exposed: Authority worshipping documentary that follows the gods of the state (cops) as they investigate petty crimes and (like Fake Britain) ignore the corporate/governmental crime that is happening all around them.

11:45- Rip Off Britain: More paranoia programming, again looking at petty crime.

12:15- Bargain Hunt: Fake eccentrics wear silly jackets and bow ties in an attempt to impress lonely old ladies.

13:00- BBC News at One: National corporate/state propaganda, keeping the masses in fear and ignorance in order to maintain the status quo.

13:30- BBC Local News: As above, but with things to be scared about on a local level.

13:45- Doctors: Homosexuality/Cultural Marxism programming about handsome doctors and their fascinating private lives.

14:15- The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Australian drama about a television safe ‘eccentric’ doctor who spends his time investigating mysteries. Starring the bloke who used to be in Neighbours and is not Jason Donovan or Guy Pearce.

15:10- Escape to the Country: Another show about houses that you cannot afford.

16:15- Flog It: Another antique show featuring a fake eccentric in anachronistically quaint clothing.

17:15- Pointless: The name says it all. More harmless eccentricity, with a quiz show going on in the background featuring the banal, cardigan wearing public answering ‘pointless’ questions about safe subjects like bees, old movies and Mexican football teams.

18:00- BBC News at Six: Here’s what we want you to think at 6pm.

18:30- BBC Local News: Detailed information about that local murder, just to make you too terrified to leave your house tonight.

19:00- The One Show: Banality personified, presented by sexless/unthreatening mommy and daddy types talking to viewers like they are five-year-old children.

19:30- Eastenders: Cultural Marxism masquerading as drama, with random murders keeping the public in a constant state of anxiety and fear and with story-lines that push the neoliberal agenda of multiculturalism, homosexuality and everything else that is designed to destroy western civilisation. Essential viewing, if you hate yourself and want to see the western world burn.

19:57- BBC News and Regional News: More fear from the state, and some blatant lies and deception designed to make you think that their authority over you is legitimate, which it isn’t.

20:00- Holby City: Unbelievable hospital drama featuring attractive young people, and focussing on their relationship issues. Interspersed with gruesome murders, drug overdoses, car crashes and ladder based accidents. Expect your usual BBC dose of homosexuality and anti-family propaganda programming.

21:00- Capital: Politically correct drama programming about multicultural London stereotypes, based on a book described on Amazon as, ‘Weak stereotypes interrupted by flaky, identical characters that lack any substance, wrapped up in the complete absence of any engaging plot. Avoid.’

22:00- News at Ten: Oh God, does it never end?

22:30- Local News: Apparently not. Are you scared yet?

22:37- Weather: Random guesses about whether or not it’s going to rain tomorrow.

22:40- Imagine: Alan Yentob (former ‘Director of Drama, Entertainment and Children's Programming’ on the BBC during the Jimmy Saville child-rape era and chairman of fradulent, money-wasting charity ‘Kid’s Company’) is given legitimacy that he does not deserve. Here he interviews one of his old architect mates. A show for the drunk, dead, or family members of Mr. Yentob.

23:50- Possession: 2002 movie about eccentric English poets. Reviewed on the BBC website by Jamie Russell, where he describes it as, ‘Lacking the intelligence of an arthouse picture, or the classy sheen of a British production, "Possession" isn't possessed of anything other than over-wrought emotionalism and unintentional silliness.’


Goodnight, and thankyou for wasting your day on BBC One. Same s**t tomorrow? You betcha.

What happens if the progressives win? - A rant about multiculturalism, progressivism, Islam and the west.

Article by: Rorshach1004
Date: 27th November 2015



The weakness at the heart of European neoliberal, progressive, multicultural, political ideology is a suicidal self-hatred that rots from within.

There is no strength, no resistance, no energy, no passion, no life and no future in the movement. It is a collectivist system of weak, pathetic, grovelling cowards and masochistic martyrs who are just begging for a cross and somebody to nail them up on it. You become a ‘Progressive’ if you want to suffer, or if you want to die.

All that subscribe to the toxic, self-defeating ideology of progressivism will be used, abused, and killed when no longer needed. Sadly enough, executioners will not be necessary, as the progressives will happily, joyfully, kill themselves first, just to stop any bother and unnecessarily hold-ups in their dream future of a multicultural BBC paradise. That future does not include them, or their children, but they are perfectly okay with that.

If the west has to die, then that’s okay. We the white people, we the west, are all evil racist bigots anyway, right? Remember the Holocaust? Remember slavery? Remember the crusades? Remember the Inquisition? Are you white? If so, all of the historical crimes ever committed by white people in the past are your fault, and you deserve to suffer for it.

If the progressives win, Islam dominates. If the progressives win, western civilisation dies. It is 2015, almost 2016, and Europe is under attack. The attack comes from the progressive movement on the inside, and the Islamic movement on the outside. This unholy alliance of progressivism and Islam, if successful, will kill off western civilisation, and when Islam reaches a certain point, the progressives will be killed off as well, but don’t feel sorry for them. They love it, they really do.

Islam will do what it always does. It will moderate it’s demands, bide it’s time, and breed itself into dominance. When it’s numbers reach 8-10% of the population, it will push for Sharia law and demand that western civilisation becomes an Islamic civilisation, a civilisation where (amongst numerous other terrible examples) the ‘crimes’ of homosexuality and adultery will be punishable by death.

That is the threat that hangs over Europe right now. It is a threat that is being advanced by the progressive movement with their calls for diversity and multiculturalism and the fact that the native white (and other, non-Islamic) population’s birth rates are dramatically lower than the birth rates of the Islamic migrants.

Western countries, by admitting large numbers of Islamic migrants, are preparing a future for themselves where their newly Islamic population will (democratically) call for Islamic law to be the highest law of the land. This will put an end to all of the human rights that western civilisation has gained through hundreds of painful, brutal years of individual rebellion against centralised, dictatorial, ideological, religious authority. A new dark age of top down state repression will begin all over again, and if you want to look at a good example of that right now, look at Saudi Arabia.

Unless the west starts to reject the self defeating, suicidal tenets of multiculturalism, tolerance, diversity, and all of the other PC crap that has come from the progressive movement then perhaps the Islamists are right? Perhaps they will really just breed us off of the face of the earth? Perhaps the west really is a decadent, dying culture on its last legs, and just waiting to be put out of its misery?

Here’s the hard truth. If we don’t start doing something about it, if we don’t start defending ourselves not just from Islam, but the suicidal cult of progressivism, then perhaps we really do deserve to be wiped out?

If you are not prepared to defend yourself then, sooner or later, you will be attacked, you will be badly hurt, and you will die. That is what is happening to the west right now.

The west is under attack, and we are not even defending ourselves. I’m not the kind of guy that takes kindly to being punched in the face. I read comic books, but I’m not a suicidal/progressive liberal drip.

I’m not ashamed. I’m not scared, and I’m not going to put up with the progressive destruction of the west. The fight is on. I’m not going to shut up and let everything that was built by far better people than myself collapse all around me. I’m not going to go along to get along, that’s not my style.

Hey progressives. Kill yourselves by all means, but you are not going to take me down with you. The ideological war is on. Progressivism is a suicidal death cult, and it’s time that we called it out for what it actually is. We need to talk about it, how it is enabling the growth of fundamentalist Islam, expose it, and get rid of it for good. Here’s to a healthy future away from progressivism, Islam and all of the other stupid collectivist ideologies that man invents to enslave other men. Take care, enjoy the weekend, and speak truth whenever you can, even if it does make you the least popular person in the room. Sod it. Speak truth. What else are you here for?

50-Word (Comic) review- 2000AD- PROG 1956: My mind is on other things

Writers & Artists: Various
Publisher: Rebellion (time to live up to the name folks)
Released: 11th November 2015



Reading comic at work, memories of 1980’s flooding back. Dredd story is silly. Defoe is rich v poor. Brass Sun so convoluted will read better as a whole. Dexter inconsequential. Bad Company all nostalgia. How to think about a comic when Islam is showing it’s true face of intolerance again?

Rating: 7/10



I read this comic book last night, and I enjoyed it. Dredd made me laugh, and there was a nostalgia factor to the book as a whole, but how much longer can we bury our heads in nostalgia whilst ignoring the reality of the world around us? Knock, knock, here’s a reality check. Western civilisation, look at what has happened to us. We are under attack, and most of us are too scared to even defend ourselves. Cowered by political correctness into shutting our mouths and living in a delusional non-reality world, or the dead world of the past, our heads are in the sand and our asses are up in the air. No more enforced ‘respect.’ It’s truth time. We need to start getting with reality. We need to start defending ourselves. Radical Islam is a real threat that seeks to kill us all. This threat needs to be recognised EVERYWHERE, and comic books need to do their part as well. Have a good weekend. Speak truth now. We have been building our own graveyard, labelled with the cultural Marxist epithets of 'diversity’ and ‘tolerance.’ Stop building the graveyard. It’s time to smash it down, and to rebuild what we have been programmed to destroy. Start speaking truth. Stop living life as a politically correct coward. Start defending yourselves. If you don’t, you know what’s going to happen next.

#WhiteGenocide (A webcomic about the anti-white agenda)

Comic review: Doctor Fate #1: PC Muslim Hero Abandons Faith to Join Egyptian Cat Cult

Writer: Paul Levitz
Artist: Sonny Liew
Publisher: DC Comics
Released: 17th June 2015




Here’s an interesting book, that within its pages includes a valuable lesson about the portrayal of Islam in contemporary neoliberal western comic book narratives.

The book stars a Muslim hero, with a white Mother, a hot girlfriend, and a promising future career as a Doctor. Wait, it gets even better. If all of that wasn’t enough for you, the narrative then has him saving a baby from underneath the wheels of a subway train, sacrificing his life for a complete and utter stranger.

What a guy hey? See multiculturalism is great, no problems to be had at all. Muslims love to integrate and contribute to society, they even save babies from underneath subway trains. I say let them all in, and take over the country, take over the world actually, what could possibly go wrong?

White racists need to die anyway. Let’s bring in the dawn of this brave new era of ‘moderate’ Islam, with tolerance and diversity for all.

Certain kinds of people are going to love this review. They are going to read it, and positively explode with righteous indignation and rage. So I say, come on, bring it on. Come on then. Accuse me of being an evil intolerant Islamaphobic racist. I know you want to, go on, accuse me until the cows come home, it will be fun.

Jump up on that moral high horse of progressive liberalism and tell me that 99% of Muslims are moderate and tolerant. Pretend that ISIS doesn’t exist. Pretend that Saudi Arabia doesn’t exist. Pretend that Syria doesn’t exist. Pretend that Libya doesn’t exist. Pretend that Boko Haram doesn’t exist. Pretend that Sharia law doesn’t exist. Pretend that the Rochdale sex trafficking gang didn’t exist. Pretend that the Beslan school massacre didn’t happen. Pretend that the Charlie Hebdo massacre didn’t happen. Pretend that all of the other massacres and beheadings and atrocities worldwide didn’t happen as well.

Blame US foreign policy. Hell, even blame George Bush if you like. Pretend that the UK Muslim community doesn’t shut itself away in their own little communities with their own laws. Pretend that Muslims just want to integrate into society like some kind of neo-liberal mythical paradise. Pretend that reality itself is an abstract construct and those moral high horses and neoliberal utopias are the ‘tolerant’ way of looking at reality.

It doesn’t matter what evidence you see or hear, it doesn’t matter, because you will always be right. Even in the middle of a massacre when you yourself are being chopped up because you are not the right kind of wahabbi Muslim. They are not extreme, it’s intolerant to say that, they are just expressing their dissatisfaction with US foreign policy as they chop you and your kids into little pieces whilst screaming for their god like a nightmarish cult of devil worshippers. No, you will always be right, because you are a liberal, a dead, chopped up liberal, but always right, and always tolerant and always passive and pathetic and indoctrinated and self-hating and feeble and weak, and useless until the very end.

Here’s a question. Have you ever read a comic book where Muslims were portrayed as the villains? I have. It happened ONCE, in a book called ‘Holy Terror,’ by Frank Miller. The following quotation pretty much sums up how it was received by the mainstream press:

"Frank Miller doesn't do things halfway. One of the true comic-book greats, he’s created several of the most extraordinary stories ever to grace the art form. So perhaps it's fitting that now he's produced one of the most appalling, offensive and vindictive comics of all time ... Miller's Holy Terror is a screed against Islam, completely uninterested in any nuance or empathy toward 1.2 billion people he conflates with a few murderous conspiracy theorists." (Spencer Ackerman of Wired Magazine)

You don’t criticise Islam in comic books, even in a very small way, and if you do, then prepare for a whole heap of trouble coming your way. No, if you write Muslim characters in a 2015 era comic book then they must ALWAYS be positive, heroic, tolerant, liberal drips, just like the writers themselves actually.

Doctor Fate #1 then is a specimen of it’s time, an example of how you write Muslim characters in contemporary comic books. For that reason alone the book is worthy of study. I don’t expect contemporary comic books to demonise the Muslim community, because that would be horrible, and completely unfair to the vast majority of peaceful Muslims around the world. So what do I want? What is the point that I’m making here?

My point is that comic books have to stop being so bloody cowardly. I know that the writers watch the news. I know that they see the same things that I do. I know that they have opinions on it, so why am I not seeing a DIVERSE range of opinions in my comic books when it comes to the portrayal of Muslim characters? They can’t always be heroes can they?

What is being created here is a parallel universe, with mainstream comic book creators going out of their way not to offend. This snake-bellied cowardice is creating a mythical almost idolatrous image of Muslim people that is completely at odds with what is happening in the real world and DAILY on our television sets. What I am complaining about here is a LACK of diversity when it comes to the portrayal of Muslims in mainstream comic books, as described by the dictionary definition of the word.

Diversity
/daɪˈvɜːsɪtɪ/
noun 
1.
the state or quality of being different or varied
2.
a point of difference
3.
(logic) the relation that holds between two entities when and only when they are not identical; the property of being numerically distinct

All I am calling for here is for diversity, a point of difference, and when it comes to the portrayal of Muslims in comic books in 2015 I am not seeing this at all. What I am seeing is a very PC image, an image of the tolerant Muslim, of the not very religious Muslim, the neo-liberal fantasy Muslim. It’s a fantasy as real as the moderate rebels in Syria and the integrated Muslim television characters I see in Eastenders, that fantasy neoliberal London paradise of integrated communities that bears zero resemblance to the real London of today.

So what about this actual comic book? This is supposed to be a review, right? Yeah it is, so here we go.

The art is messy, the tone is soft and fluffy, and the story is about Ancient Egyptian Gods preparing a new flood to wipe out humanity. The Muslim protagonist takes to the Egyptian religion very easily, a cat speaks to him, tells him to put on a silly hat, and after some initial fears that have nothing whatsoever to do with his own faith, on it goes. This means that the protagonist is about as serious and dedicated to his religion as neo-liberals are to their own. He doesn’t even identify himself as a Muslim. Instead he very noticeable describes himself as ‘an American.’ Ah, it’s the liberal dream of diversity, alive and well within the pages of comic books at least.

In reality, this guy is a terrible Muslim. He completely disregards his own faith and jumps on board a new religion like it’s no big deal at all. He is a Muslim, but his faith plays no part in this comic book narrative whatsoever. His Muslim identity then is exposed as hollow, and meaningless. It’s a token gesture, a bone of political correctness thrown out so DC can stamp a label of ‘diversity’ onto one of it’s comic books.

This book is not going to impress any strong believer of the Islamic religion, as the religious aspect is mere background, and when faced with miraculous, amazing things that are happening around him, the protagonist doesn’t even refer to his faith one single time. So if it’s not trying to impress actual Muslims, who is the book trying to impress, and what is it trying to do?

You already know my answer to that question, right? The book is simply ticking PC boxes, and going out of its way to not offend anybody. The ironic thing about this situation is that offending Muslims is an extremely easy thing to do, and as hard as you try not to offend, the more likely it is that you will end up offending somebody. I’ll explain.

The very fact that the writer has put the old Egyptian religion into the lap of a young Muslim is probably something that he didn’t even think about. It’s just a story, something cool to do, right? What he has actually done, if he thought about it for a bit, is to make a young Muslim a Kuffar (an unbeliever) by willingly accepting the authority of another religion that is not Islam. As soon as he buys into the powers of the magic helmet, he has in essence rejected his own Muslim faith.

‘He that chooses a religion over Islam, it will not be accepted from him and in the world to come he will be one of the lost.’
Quran 3:85, "The Imrans,"

So by going out of his way not to offend liberal sensibilities, what writer Paul Levitz has actually done here is to create a narrative that demeans Islam and would likely cause huge offence to many Muslims all around the world.

What a twit.

That’s how it goes when you pussy foot around a topic that needs to be tackled with true courage and integrity. The more you try not to offend, the more you do offend, and that’s the problem with Islam, the problem that mainstream comic books do not want to discuss.

Writer Paul Levitz probably really is a very decent and tolerant person, but that counts for nothing, and by trying to write another PC Muslim hero he’s just gone and dug his own pit of trouble. I feel sorry for the guy, really. His intentions were good, they always are with liberal types, but this whole fake ‘diversity’ thing is a difficult construct to escape from, especially with people shouting ‘racist’ at you whenever you even question it.

I didn’t hate the book. I see it as misguided, and it teaches a valuable lesson about the portrayal of Islamic heroes in contemporary comic books, so it’s worthy of a purchase. American popular culture is at a bit of a crossroads at the moment, it’s lost, confused, and trying to find it’s way through these dark times of neo-liberalism where truth is dying at the alter of political correctness. This time period in world history will make for a fascinating area of study at some future date, but at the moment it’s not easy. I can write my reviews and say whatever I like, but the poor comic book writers are trying to make a living, they are trying to be PC, trying to be good people, but ultimately they are just ending up getting lost in a maze littered with corporate ‘diversity’ landmines.


Rating: 4/10 (PC Muslim hero ends up quickly abandoning his faith at the first opportunity, oops)