‘Star wars’ actor Riz Ahmed calls for more diverse movie roles or people will turn to ISIS

March 3, 2022 By Culture

British actor Riz Ahmed issued a warning to the entertainment industry.

The actor said a lack of diversity in television and movies in the U.K. could cause people to “retreat to fringe narratives, to bubbles online and sometimes even off to Syria.”

The actor, while addressing British Parliament, said the U.K. has failed to represent minorities on screen.

“If we fail to represent, we are in danger of losing people to extremism,” Ahmed claimed.

The 34-year-old rose to fame in 2016 with major roles in “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” “Jason Bourne” and HBO’s “The Night Of.”

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“If we don’t step up and tell a representative story. .. we are going to start losing British teenagers to the story that the next chapter in their lives is written with ISIS in Syria,” he told Parliament.

“We are going to see the murder of more [members of Parliament] like Jo Cox because we’ve been mis-sold a story that is so narrow about who we are and who we should be.”

Ahmed, whose parents moved to England from Pakistan in the 1970s, said actors like him have been forced to move to America in order to find acting roles.

“We end up going to America to find work. I meet with producers and directors here, and they say ‘we don’t have anything for you, all our stories are set in Cornwall in the 1600s.”

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  • DrArtaud

    What Islam Isn’t By: Dr. Peter Hammond
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    Please see the full article at:

    What Islam Isn’t By: Dr. Peter Hammond FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, April 21, 2022

    Islam…is a complete system….has religious, legal, political, economic and military components….Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called ‘religious rights.’ When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to ‘the reasonable’ Muslim demands for their ‘religious rights,’ they also get the other components under the table…..

    As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone….

    At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

    From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

    They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).

    At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

    When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris -car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam - Mohammed cartoons).

    After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:

    At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

    From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

    After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

    100% will usher in the peace of ‘Dar-es-Salaam’ — the Islamic House of Peace — there’s supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:

    Of course, that’s not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.

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    Separately, I’m not sure of the source for this:

    A radical muslim will cut your head off.
    A moderate muslim will ask the radical to cut your head off.
    A peaceful muslim will sit in silence and watch the moderate ask the radical to cut your head off.

    So the day that the muslim world stands up ENMASSE and denounces its radicals is the day every last one of them ceases to be a threat to humanity.

    Not a single day before.

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  • zanzibar27

    Riz, you’re an IDIOT. Maybe islam 101 teaches you to try this kind of fear mongering slop. But it will NOT work on Americans. In fact this just pisses us off. Watch your back while in the US. WTF are you doing here anyway?