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Bosch Fawstin Comments on the Daily Show

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The Daily ShowComic writer and artist Bosch Fawstin, who appeared on Tuesday’s The Daily Show, went on his website to talk about what we didn’t see.  As a whole, we all know the show’s strength is with impressive editing.  Fawstin on the News Real Blog describes what he actually said at times, versus what was shown.  Fawstin though begins by claiming The Daily Show is left leaning.  I’d argue it’s moved towards the center and isn’t right or left, it’s anti-stupidity and hypocrisy, but that’s not the point.

On why he did the interview (a question we’re often left wondering):

After trying with dozens of agents, editors, and publishers to get someone to take on the project, and finding that not even those who were sympathetic were willing to do so (some cited Muslim reprisal as a reason,) I needed to get publicity however I could. In this context, one day I received an e-mail from one of “The Daily Show” producers, asking me to appear and discuss my views on Nightrunner, the “Muslim” Batman, which I had discussed in this post here at NRB. After having long conversations with two different producers, and realizing their interest in having me on was real, and included an interest in discussing Pigman, I decided, for better or worse, to go ahead with it.

On meeting The Daily Show crew:

When I arrived at the shoot, I learned that my interviewer would be Aasif Mandvi, the show’s “liberal” Muslim correspondent. When I commented on this to the producer (he had actually mentioned a different correspondent in one of the e-mails leading up to the shoot), he played dumb (of course.) I smelled a rat, but proceeded anyway.

On some of of what was left out:

The most egregious omission/dropping-of-context was with respect to my answer to the question that was supposed to be the focus of the piece: “What is wrong with a Muslim Batman?” The aired segment makes it appear as if my answer was “Nightrunner could be a Jihadist.” During the actual shooting, I was prompted to state that as a complete sentence, after responding “yes” to Aasif’s question, “Could Nighrunner be a Jihadist?” That statement was NOT given as an answer to the question, “What is wrong with a Muslim Batman?”  My answer to that question is and was a lot more involved. The short answer, which I stated immediately after being asked the question, and which was edited out, was, “What’s wrong with Batman, during WWII, recruiting a German Batman with no mention of Nazis?”

Fawstin goes onto mention in his blog post that the reason Mandvi has a job and Nightrunner is a “Batman” is because they’re Muslim in a post-9/11 world.  Definitely an odd comment.

On Muslims and Jihad that was edited out:

They cut from the segment the following statement, which clearly distinguishes average Muslims from Islam’s consistent practitioners: “Your average Muslim is morally superior to Mohammed. They are individuals who may or may not be a problem. It’s Islam’s consistent practitioners, it’s organized Islam, that is the problem.” Obviously, this statement made me seem too reasonable (or maybe they thought it was too blasphemous) for it to be included in the segment.

Fawstin also recounts some jokes left on the editing room floor (and some sounded pretty funny).  Overall, it’d be fascinating to compare the unedited film, with what aired.  Chris Sims, who also appeared on the segment, recounts his experience at Comics Alliance.

Shocker, The Right Has Issues With Our Interview of David Hine

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Batman and Robin on MuslimsSome folks on the right have taken issue with our interview with comic book writer David Hine concerning the controversy of an Algerian Muslim taking up the mantel as France’s Batman.  Blogger Avi Green has responded with his thoughts on the interview.  I thought it’d be good to respond to some of it.  But first, thanks for reading Avi (and the links)!

Below are quotes from Green’s blog post and our response:

The British-born writer who wrote that whitewashy, morally equivalent story of Batman recruiting an Algerian Muslim in France gave an interview to the leftist Graphic Policy site, where he continues to be as insular as ever, and sees conservatives as merely manufacturing the news.

Green calls this site leftist.  First, yeah I’ll admit we lean left for now, but to say we’re “leftist” is a bit of a stretch.  I’ll give some more evidence of that below, but the reason we’ve covered this story and did the interview is because it’s news.  Who cares if it’s right or left, it’s interesting and political, you know a topic this blog deals with.  Here’s a challenge, if someone from the right wants us to read their comic, I’d be happy to and promise to be fair and do an interview.  We’re an equal opportunity blog.  In fact, if someone who leans right would like to start blogging here, I’d invite you too join us.  The more the merrier.

I’ve been to France too, but do I adhere to the kind of socialist leanings and contempt he probably has?

Uh, what does the new French Batman have to do with socialism?  That’s just name calling for name calling’s sake.

Wow, he really thinks even I’d care if the character was Algerian. I don’t care about his race and/or ethnicity. What I care about is his default religion, Islam, whose Koran/Hadith contains creepy verses like, “Your women are your fields, so go into your fields whichever way you like” – Sura 2:223. And, lest we forget, there’s also the matter of “prophet” Mohammed’s marriage to a 9-year-old girl, Ayesha. (See also this topic and this one for more insight). I assume Hine considers that “normal”? If this were an Algerian Christian, maybe even an apostate from Islam, who was the protagonist, all this disgust at Hine and company’s subtle insult wouldn’t have been.

Thank you for being honest in the issue being he’s Muslim, cause that makes it pretty simple.  But the reasoning and examples given are laughable.  The Bible advocates for the stoning and murder of people for so many reasons and Christianity is used to this day to justify murder and genocide.  All religion is guilty on this one.  It also paints all Muslims as the same.  I know many, and none of them believe in the above.  I guess Green truly believes everything in his religion down to the “t”?

And what’s that supposed to mean? That the French are stupid and have no knowledge of how to judge a story, and will take what’s offered no matter what? It figures that such a Briton would be so murky and otherwise contemptible. I may not be French, but if I were, I can assure you I wouldn’t take kindly to this, and it’s got nothing to do with whether or not the character is indigenous. It’s just his chilling religion.

Isn’t this part of the point?  This issue started with American Conservative bloggers, not French.  Why are you taking up the cause for some other nation and people?  Sit down until there’s an American Muslim Batman, then you can speak up.  Or how about just flipping out about the numerous other Muslim American characters out there.

Again, he fogs it all up as “racial”, in his failure to distinguish between race and religion. A man or woman who cannot distinguish between race and religion is not a very well educated person, IMHO. He should also consider the rage manufacturing his own country’s spent its time doing, like that there was ever a “palestinian Arab people” who existed. Or how about what may be the first anti-Jewish pogrom in Europe, which, as Melanie Phillips wrote in City Journal, took place in none other than England

How has Hine fogged it all up as “racial.”  Hine calls this as part of “anti-Muslim sentiment” which doesn’t fog anything.  He lays it out as the hatred of a religion.  I also understand the right has a fascination with Israel, but what does pogroms in England have to do with any of this.  Here’s the logic.  A pogrom occurred in England against Jews.  Hine is English.  Therefore Hine hates Jews.  Yeah, it doesn’t work that way.  I’ll do my version.  Americans committed genocide on Native Americans.  Green is American.  Therefore Green wants to exterminate Native Americans.

Oh, and I thought we’d moved on from a time when it seemed as though indigenous Bulgarians, Ghanians, and Armenians didn’t exist in entertainment, but do you actually see them seriously emphasized in entertainment today? Not really. Not even the Ainu of Japan seem to get much attention; it’s as though they don’t exist either! What’s so special about a religion like Islam that isn’t so special about a race like the Armenians?

But the emphasis of the character as Hine is pointing out isn’t he’s Muslim, it’s he’s Algerian and torn between being a hero and the racial tensions between that minority and the French.  Isn’t that also “fogging up” the racial and religious issue like Green himself accused Hine of doing?

Is that also his opinion on 9-11 Families for a Safe & Strong America and their opposition to the Ground Zero mosque abomination? No surprise he would merely dismiss the movement against the whitewash of Islam so cynically.

What the hell does my interview with Hine have to do with this?  I asked Hine if he followed the controversy online.  He said he normally ignores bloggers, but decided to check this out and was shocked at the anger over a comic book character.

What is this supposed to be? What’s the tragedy in Arizona got to do with this? Is this some sort of attempt to hijack something unrelated as part of the left’s effort to demonize the right over something that leftist ideologyactuallycaused?

My question to Hine about threats wasn’t specifically about Arizona and it’s point wasn’t to demonize anyone.  So settle down skippy.  The fact is, the question was about a threat, and threats in general was a hot topic when I sent Hine the questions.  The point of the question was about that, not Arizona (I might not have worded it quite as I should).  Next, for the record, the tragedy in Arizona has nothing to do with politics, right or left.  The tragedy was due to a mentally unstable person who’s cries for help went unheard.  It has nothing to do with immigration, or politics, or guns.  It has to do with a crazy person.  The suspect’s searches leading up to the tragedy had to do with mental health issues.  He was asked to get a mental evaluation.  There were signs and no one intervened.  Green might be surprised I support the 2nd Amendment and I enjoy shooting guns (not so leftist now am I?).  The point of that question was the threats.  I have covered these types of stories and have received threats over my coverage.  I was interested if he received one as a writer.  That’s it.

As it so happens, it’s very fortunate that he hasn’t recieved any threats. Let us be clear: it would be wrong to do what the Islamofascists have tried doing to Lars Vilks.

I agree it’s nice he hasn’t received threats.  And as far as that issue, this “leftist” blog has covered that pretty down the middle as you can see here, here, here, here and here.  For the record we condemn those threats and those who make them should go to jail for a long time.

Speaking of which, “Nightrunner” is actually pretty weak for a code name too.

Here’s something Green and I agree on.

David Hine Talks Muslim Batman

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Batman and Robin on MuslimsWriter David Hine talked with the BBC World Service over the controversy surrounding his use of an Algerian Frenchman for a Batman, Inc. recruit.  This interview was in response to the uproar of the introduction of the character Nightrunner.

When asked if he was part of indoctrination:

Well not only have I not been indoctrinated, I have no intention of indoctrining anyone else. What we’re doing is writing a series of stories about Batman going worldwide . It’s becoming a global franchise, so we’re going to have a Batman in France, we’re going to have a Batman in Argentina, in Africa. It was my task to come up with a story set in Paris. and I wanted something new, something a little bit different…

On whether this is political correctness run amok:

I’m not sure whther political correctness is supposed to be good or bad, I don’t even think about it, I mean, I’m writing a story that entertains, that I want the characters  to be engaging and interesting, and if there are political elements, obviously, there are going to be political elements come into a story but that’s not what we’re setting out to do.

I must say having seen these bloggers who I think are based in America, the reaction has been  stunning, overwhelming from both American and French fans, and it’s been quite, I’ve been very pleased with the reaction and people are loving the character, irritated by this comments.

We have our own interview with Hine coming down the pipeline

Updated: Writer David Hine Responds To Batman Outrage

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Batman and Robin on MuslimsI feel like today is Islam controversy day here at Graphic Policy.  Our friend Andrew Belonsky over at Death and Taxes has an article looking at writer David Hine‘s insight into the character surrounding the controversy of making an Algerian Muslim immigrant the French Batman franchisee.  He also gives some thoughts on the right-wing’s attacks as Hine’s comments put things in a better perspective.

In responding to leaked concept art, Hine felt going with the existing character, The Musketeer, for the latest Batman Inc. franchisee would be too cliche and bland.  Instead he, and his team wanted to create a character who tapped into France’s zeitgeist and current events.  Over at Emma Houxbois, Hine had this to say:

Rather than use the obvious choice of The Musketeer as the new French Batman, I wanted to come up with the kind of hero I would want to see in a comic book if I were French. The process of developing a story is complex and there are all kinds of things I looked at. The urban unrest and problems of the ethnic minorities under Sarkozy’s government dominate the news from France and it became inevitable that the hero should come from a French Algerian background. The Parkour element was maybe a little obvious, but it fitted very well with the concept of a hero from the streets. Clichy-Sous-Bois, as you point out, is the flashpoint for rioting in Paris, so again was the obvious location for Bilal.

The location chosen for the French Nightrunner to be based wasn’t a coincidence.  The Clichy-Sous-Bois, a neighborhood known for it’s riots, was an “obvious location.”

While Alvin Green at The Astute Blogger argued that a Muslim can’t be a hero Belonsky feels different.

Had these critics bothered to read Hine’s story, told in ‘Detective Comics Annual #12′ and ‘Batman Annual #28′ they would see that Nightrunner’s fits quite nicely into the archetypal “hero” format.

He goes on to dissect Nightrunner’s origin and his “hero cred.”  Belonsky further points out that:

Right-wing anger over Nightrunner’s introduction isn’t based solely in anti-Islam attitudes, nor is it only about how DC eschewed a native—read: white Frenchmen—Frenchman. It’s based in an increasingly firm belief that only natives know what’s best for their country. Outsiders, real or imagined, can’t uphold a nation’s particular ideals.

This idea that one must be “native” to defend one’s country is absurd.  But it’s manifested in the real world by the right’s opposition to the DREAM Act which would provide a path to citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants by either enlisting in the military or enrolling in college.

As we’ve pointed out, this outrage is ludicrous.  Applying this same reasoning, the right should be getting the pitch forks out over Superman.  An illegal immigrant who defends his adopted nation and world.  The lack of outrage there shows this for what it really is, hatred towards the Islamic religion.

More Right Wingers Take Up the Anti-Batman Battle

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Batman and Robin on MuslimsWatch the pile on continue as the right wing rages on with their march against Islam by using Batman as a rallying cry.  We said more would be coming and are still waiting for the “big two” to chime in.

Bosch Fawstin over at NewsRealBlog goes on a rant against the latest Batman storyline that sees an Algerian Muslim immigrant become the Batman franchisee in France.  He’s been on a tear lately claiming DC Comics has become “IslamiComics.”  He even has two earlier parts pointing the finger at Superman and Wonder Woman as part of the conspiracy.

Fawstin rants for a few paragraphs against Islam but really doesn’t make much of a case in his arguments.  Such grand inflammatory statements such as:

At this rate, Superman converting to Islam is inevitable.

There’s not much meat here, just screed and pure hate of Islam.  Instead, Fawstin uses it to pitch and hock his anti-Islam comics book The Infidel which stars an “ex-Muslim superhero who is the jihadist’s worst nightmare.”

The NewsRealBlog is part of David Horowitz’s online network in “defense of of free societies.”  Horowitz’s Freedom Center is set up to fight the “left’s takeover of education.”

We just took a step or two back from the brink. Americans, exercising the common sense that has always been at the heart of our national character, took action in the voting booth on November 2 to repudiate Barack Obama’s efforts over the past two years to radically transform our financial and social institutions. The message they delivered was loud and can be summarized in one unequivocal word : NO! They won us some breathing room while we figure out how to finish the job in 2012.

The Freedom Center is proud to have played a role in this effort to lift the socialist fog that has descended over our national life. For the last year and half, as Obama showed soon after taking office that he had no intention of governing as the moderate he had painted himself during the campaign, we have been warning Americans about what this administration really was and what it wanted to do to our country. To show the true nature of the Radical-in-Chief, we published David Horowitz’s pamphlet, “Barack Obama’s Rules for Revolution: the Alinsky Model.” This critically important work shows how our thet President is fulfilling the blueprint for social revolution produced by Saul Alinsky, godfather of the 1960s New Left, and like Obama a “community organizer” from Chicago. With over 800,000 copies distributed in the last few months, this pamphlet has created a national dialogue on the true intentions of this administration. Just recently we published a sequel, “ Breaking the System: Obama’s Strategy for Change,” which shows how the White House uses “manufactured crisis” (as if those it already caused weren’t bad enough!) as a cover to advance its radical social agenda.

The Freedom Center’s other major initiatives involve our universities– bringing traditional values and intellectual standards back to our universities by taking indoctrination by tenured radicals out of the curriculum and promoting academic freedom for students, especially conservative students, who are a stigmatized minority on campus these days. No other organization over the last decade has so frankly identified the enemy our students must deal with: professors who use their classroom as a pulpit for leftist ideology; an unholy alliance between student radical groups and pro jihad organizations that has declared war on America, Israel and the West. No other organization has done more to bring objectivity and true intellectual diversity back to our universities.

This fall, coinciding with the publication of David Horowitz’s Reforming our Universities, we launched another in our series of campaigns to reform the university. Called “Adopt a Dissenting Book,” it showed students how to resist classrooms that functioned as indoctrination chambers by pressuring their teachers, their school’s administrators and boards of trustees to make sure that there is at least one book that presents an alternative point of view on course reading lists which are now mono-chromatically leftist.

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Why does this matter?  Come back in an hour to find out.

Angry White Dude which is written “In defense of the most ridiculed and unappreciated being on the planet… THE WHITE MALE,” has this to say on the subject:

Nightrunner? I thought it was written in the Koran that every Muslim’s name has to be Muhammad…including women. Or is that just the savage terrorists? Or is that redundant? Nightrunner the Muslim sidekick will have strange new powers to bury women to their waists and bash their heads in with large rocks. Batman has been needing that skill for a while ever since Catwoman went out to check the mail without wearing her cat burqa. Well, I guess AWD will have to go another 49 years without reading Batman comic books to protest!

The writer even goes on to say “Kill the Batman.”  Um, am I missing something?  You’re calling Muslims savages and murderers, but you incite that Batman should be killed?  I believe that’s called hypocrisy.  In his Saturday musings, this great thinker also throws in homophobic comments about “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” and anti-immigrant comments about the DREAM Act.  A real Renaissance man, this one is.

Danish Cartoon Murder Plot

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Danish police are saying five Muslim men have been arrested after raids for “planning a gun attack at the Copenhagen offices of a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in 2005″.  The suspected Islamist extremists were planning to attack the office of newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Four suspects are held in Denmark and one in Sweden.  The suspects are two Swedish residents with Tunisian backgrounds, one Lebanon-born Swede, an Iraqi and one with Swedish heritage.

Why Do Conservatives Hate Superman?

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On Saturday I dove in for the second time and commented on the conservative outcry over an Algerian Muslim being recruited for the Batman franchise in France.  But this feigned anger from the right got me thinking about all the other immigrant super heroes defending their adopted country.  It made me ask, why do conservatives hate Superman?

You see, Superman is an immigrant.  On top of that, he’s an illegal immigrant from the planet Krypton.  He’s raised the “American way” by a simple family and defends his adoptive country (and world).  Superman might have been raised Methodist, but really he’s Kryptonian and was born into that religion.  Do conservatives hate Superman?  If not, isn’t that hypocrisy or does it show their bigotry towards Muslims?

On top of Superman what other immigrant characters defend their adopted nation?

  • Superman – see above as to why he’s the poster boy for immigration and defending your adoptive country.
  • Wolverine – James Howlett was born a Canadian.  That didn’t stop the man called Logan and Wolverine to work for the C.I.A. or fight side by side with Captain America.  On numerous times he’s defended and saved the United States, his adopted country.
  • Martian Manhunter – Another illegal alien (an actual alien, the guy is from Mars) who laid low and hid in his adoptive world.  On numerous occasions he’s saved the United States and the world.
  • Dust – Sooraya Qadir was born in Afghanistan and legally immigrated to the United States.  As part of the X-Men, she’s saved the world and United States on so many occasions.  Oh yeah, she’s Muslim.  Just taking up a slot meant for a good read blooded American I guess.
  • Blue Agave – He’s an immigrant from Mexico and lives in the US, no idea his religion.
  • Colossus – He’s Russian, he currently lives in the United States, has for a while.  He was a commie, and foreign, guess he’s not qualified to protect us.
  • Banshee – An Irish mutant was living in Tennessee when he was recruited to be a part of the international team of X-Men.
  • Blade – Did you know Blade was British?  Yeah, I didn’t either, Wesley Snipes didn’t do the accent well at all.  He’s the only thing protecting us from being overrun by Vampires.  Guess he can only do that for the UK according to conservatives.
  • Deadpool – Another Canadian (they look just like us!) was recruited to be part of a joint US/Canadian program.  What no Americans good enough!?
  • Doc Voodoo – He’s from Haiti.  He lives in the United States.  He was the Sorcerer Supreme.  He’s saved the world.  No go back to Haiti!
  • Thor – Recently in the news for a whole other protest, in his newest comic series volume we see the Odinson and the rest of the Asgardians set up Asgard in Broxton, Oklahoma.  Not only is he an original Avenger and saved the world and United States numerous times but he’s a god, not exactly an American.  But, more importantly, where’s the outrage for the land grab by a foreign nation?  Would conservatives be so quiet if Doctor Doom did the same?

There’s so many more examples of characters who are immigrants (some are even Muslims!) defending nations of which they were not born.  Where’s the outrage been?

Conservative Warner Todd Huston at It Again. This Time Attacking Batman and Muslims.

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Batman and Robin on MuslimsConservative/Right-wing blogger Warner Todd Huston is at it again.  You might remember Huston as one of the right wingers who lead the over blown charge that Captain America was anti-Tea Party.  Huston has taken up the right wing’s latest anti-comic book cause, attacking Batman‘s recruitment of a Muslim to don the cape and tights as part of the franchising of Batman.

Writing for Canada Free Press (was there no Canadian to do this dirty work?) Huston argues this is the latest “PC indoctrination” to hit comic books.  While Huston is correct in the current tensions between Europeans and Muslim immigrants it’s what he equates this plot line to that’s the telling point.  But we’ll get to that later.

Along with this recruitment by Batman, Huston also cites the before mentioned issue with Captain America and also:

It’s PCism run amuck, for sure. But it isn’t surprising for DC, a comic book company that has a character whose creator based it on “corporate greed.” Nor is it surprising in an industry where tea party members are made the enemy of super heroes. For the character based on “corporate greed” look up DC’s Larfleeze character and see the Marvel comic Captain America issue 602 where The Captain makes Tea Partiers into an enemy to America (Marvel later apologized). For that matter, check out the words of the director of the new 2011 Captain America movie who said that his Captain America won’t be a big “flag waver.” Imagine that. Captain America not being that into America.

These few examples aren’t the only ones, either. Among many other instances, last April the venerable Archie Comics announced they were adding a gay character and back in 2007 movie makers announced that they intended to remove all mentions of the U.S. military from G.I. Joe (they later relented to a degree).

It all adds up to a PCing of the American comic book industry that has been going on for far too long.

Yes, you see that bold.  Huston equates Batman recruiting a Muslim character to join his crusade along the likes of having ONE gay character in your comic book.  These are both injustices in Huston’s world and to conservatives as a whole.  Gays, Islam, especially in a positive light, are taboo.  Both should not be mentioned, in hopes they’ll go away.

What Huston isn’t saying is, he dislikes anything that doesn’t espouse his conservative views.  God forbid a character is Muslim.  Let alone an Algerian Muslim in France.  Huston also seems to forget France has a tradition of riots.  I’m pretty sure all of them weren’t by Muslims.  The comic book is written by a British writer.  Who I’m going to guess has a better perspective on European affairs than an American conservative blogger.

But that’s the issue with the right, they feel their view shouldn’t just be the view of America but also the world.

The right as a whole has an issue with Muslims in comic books.  This is just another salvo to them and another example of comics reflecting the very real multi-cultural and connected world.

Batman turns to a man that he helped police arrest earlier in part one. When first encountered the young man was dressed in a skin-tight, black costume and sported a facemask. Batman arrested him when this man tried to involve himself in some rioting. Batman didn’t know the young masked man was actually trying to stop the riot but later learns of his good intentions

So the comic mentions riots?  Did I just read Huston’s own commentary right?  So Huston is angry that it shows a Muslim in a positive light?  Is that the issue?  But lets look at the most idiotic of statements.

You see, DC Comics has decided that the “French savior,” the French Batman is to be a Muslim immigrant.

What’s the issue here?  Can’t a person protect their adoptive country?  Why must every “national hero” be native born and bred?  Is it the issue he’s a Muslim?  He’s an immigrant?  He’s a Muslim immigrant?  If it’s the religion, that’s pure bigotry.  If it’s the fact he’s an immigrant, then I sure hope every American super hero is Native American.

As blog Death and Taxes points out.

Nightrunner illustrates the natural inclusion of a very real group: Muslims make up about 6% of the population, and an estimated 1.5 million of those people hail from Algeria, a country France occupied for over a century.

So really the story is about a young man who’s people were occupied by a nation rising up to defend that nation.  This is a bad thing?

What’s comical is Huston’s other targets.  He clearly dislikes gays, why then even mention Archie?  If comics are a reflection of the real world as Huston wants by acknowledging French/Muslim tensions, then surely one gay must exist in the world of Archie?  But no, one is too many for Huston.

He also cites Larfleeze, the Orange Lantern.

But it isn’t surprising for DC, a comic book company that has a character whose creator based it on “corporate greed.”

I can’t say I agree with that interpretation.  He represents GREED, period.  Drop that word “corporate” from there.  I’m pretty sure the Bible mentions it as a sin.  So, is that now PC too?  The concept of the various Lantern Corps.’s powers is based on emotions.  In Larfleeze’s case the Orange Lantern is powered by avarice.

insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth.

And as expected he picks and chooses quotes to attack comic books and ignores facts (and even cites the G.I. Joe movie.  I’ll repeat movie.  A movie that was a animated television show and toy before it was a comic book).

For that matter, check out the words of the director of the new 2011 Captain America movie who said that his Captain America won’t be a big “flag waver.”

If you actually hear the director speak on the topic the issue is international distribution.  A movie needs to sell overseas to be profitable.  Especially a big budget one.  By having the movie a very pro-American, jingoistic movie, the likely reception will be cool and it won’t sell well outside of the United States.  That decision is about profits and the dollar.  I thought conservatives were pro-corporations?

Huston seems to focus on these riots and the cause of them.  Sure, there’s riots caused by disaffected youths.  A simple Google search of “French riots” shows these stories.  But the bigger point is, that’s not this story.  Maybe that will be mentioned later, but that’s not the focus of what David Hine wants to tell during this issue (I haven’t read it).

Forget the riots though, that’s just a smoke screen.  Boil down Huston’s rant and it’s this.  Some Muslim youths riot.  Some of those Muslim youths are immigrants.  Those Muslim youth are bad.  Thus, all Muslims are bad.  A Muslim immigrant is really bad.  A Muslim can’t be a hero.  That is his twist if A then B logic.  If it’s not, then why can’t he support one character rising above the “bad influences” around him and doing good?  I’m sure he or she can, as long as they’re not Muslim.

Muslim Hating Right Now Targets Batman

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Batman and Robin on MuslimsRight-wing website The Astute Bloggers has rallied the hate of the right, this time focused on Batman.  In a recent issue Batman heads to France to recruit his latest franchisee in Batman, Inc. The latest recruit just happens to be a Muslim Algerian.

From the website Alvin Greene writes:

I knew it was only going to get worse at DC Comics: in his continuing efforts to form Batman Inc, Bruce Wayne recruits an Algerian Muslim living in France, in Clichy-Sous-Bois, where the Muslim riots grew out of in 2005, over the death of 2 delinquents who electrocuted themselves by stupidly entering a power station, and the blame was laid upon at least 2 policemen who weren’t even at fault and didn’t even know they were there. How about that, Bruce Wayne goes to France where he hires not a genuine French boy or girl with a real sense of justice, but rather, an “oppressed” minority who adheres to the Religion of Peace.

The blogger claims this is a sign of DC’ Comics’ false conservative credentials and that the comic book publisher is going down hill.

The blog says it promotes “Universal Human Rights.”  I guess those rights doesn’t include anyone being able to grow up and be Batman.

This comes on the heals of general hate from the right when it comes to Muslims in comic books.  The previous target was the comic book series The 99.

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