Wolves, Indeed

On the one hand, Valley of the Wolves, the new movie starring Gary Busey and Billy Zane is anti-American. According to the BBC:

It is rabidly anti-American, and it is the biggest draw in town.

...In one scene, trigger-happy US troops massacre civilians at a wedding party.

In another they firebomb a mosque during evening prayer. There are multiple summary executions.

And for the first time, the real-life abuses by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison are played out on the big screen.

Even the doctor - played by Gary Busey - is evil, removing human organs from Iraqi prisoners to send to patients in the US, Israel and Britain.

Israel?

The Telegraph has a different take on the same movie:

A virulently anti-Semitic film about the Iraq war has provoked a storm of protest in Germany after it sold out to cheering audiences from the country's 2.5 million-strong Turkish community.

Valley of the Wolves, by the Turkish director Serdan Akar, shows crazed American GIs massacring innocent guests at a wedding party and scenes in which a Jewish surgeon removes organs from Iraqi prisoners in a style reminiscent of the Nazi death camp doctor Joseph Mengele.

And the movie even has an inspirational message:

In the closing sequence, the hero is shown plunging a dagger into the heart of a US commander called Sam, played by Billy Zane. The audience responded by standing up and chanting "Allah is great!"

The movie defies all logic. It's as if the West has lost all sense of pride and doesn't care who is taken down.

Are we slitting our own throat so the Islamists won't have to?

Technorati Tag: Valley of the Wolves and Anti-semitism and Zane and Busey.