Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Batman a Muslim? What Next? Robin Wears a Burqa?

FUCK ISLAM:

Reality isn’t always very fun. Because of that many people turn to comic books for a little escapism. But there’s escapism and PC indoctrination. Sadly, it appears that DC Comics’ Batman is angling for the latter and not the former. You see, Batman has decided to hire a Muslim to “save France.”

First the reality. The country of France is having serious domestic problems between its immigrant Muslim community and those natural-born, European Frenchmen. Immigrants have been rampaging across the country for several years now. Clashes between police and large groups of rioting Muslim youth have wreaked havoc on the Gallic nation. Violence is all too common — it is woefully common for hundreds of cars to be lit afire in these riots and dozens of arrests to be made. It has the country split and frightened.

It has gotten so bad in France that in some parts of its cities, those parts controlled by marauding gangs of Muslim youths, whites never enter for fear of their lives. Not only that but not even police dare enter these areas. This dangerous situation does not seem anywhere near being solved. In fact, it’s just getting worse.
Now for the fantasy: enter The Batman.

DC Comics recently launched a series called “Batman Incorporated.” Essentially, Bruce Wayne (well-known as Batman’s alter ego to comics fans) is cruising the world setting up a “Batman” for major cities across the globe. These Batman figures, though, will not be vigilantes. They will be sanctioned by whatever local police force is in charge of the area in which the new Batman is operating. In the case of Detective Comics number 12 (Part one) and Batman Annual number 28 (Part two), Bruce Wayne has come to Paris, France to find a “French savior.”


The story reveals to us a cult-like group that is assassinating France’s fringe political figures. The cult’s goal is to cause unrest and riots to be led by the murdered political figure’s followers. This group hypnotizes its members to kill and then to commit suicide so that the cult cannot be discovered.

First a “popular” French union activist “with ties to the French Communist Party” is murdered. Next the leader of a “break-away Neo-Nazi Party” is killed. Then Batman discovers that a “minor diplomat” from Saudi Arabia is targeted. Batman tries to stop the assassination but is too late.

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 face mask. 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. Consequently the Dark Knight decides to put this man to work to help stop the cult that is assassinating French political figures and causing riots.

In the course of this story Batman, aka Bruce Wayne, decides that this man should become the French representative of Batman Incorporated. As Wayne styles the man, he’ll be the “French savior.” He ends up calling himself Nightrunner.

So what’s wrong with all this? Only that it is completely absurd and so badly misleads people from any understanding of why riots are really going on in France that it almost qualifies as a crime itself.
You see, DC Comics has decided that the “French savior,” the French Batman is to be a Muslim immigrant. The character’s name is Bilal Asselah and he is an Algerian Sunni Muslim and an immigrant that is physically fit and adept at gymnastic sport Parkour. Apparently Batman couldn’t find any actual Frenchman to be the “French savior.”


As DC told the tale of this character’s origin, it badly downplays the seriousness of the actual racial tension in France. In essence, all you get from the story is that “they hate us, and we hate them.” There is no attempt at all to explain the real underlying problem. The true cause of the riots and violence between Frenchmen of European stock and that of immigrant Muslim stock is glossed over as if it doesn’t even exist. DC Comics makes the whole problem as simplistic as mere racism as if that is all there is to it ignoring the fact that Islam is the single most important factor in the strife.

Unfortunately, readers of Batman will not be helped to understand what troubles are really besetting France. In this age when Muslim youths are terrorizing the entire country, heck in this age of international Muslim terrorism assaulting the whole world, Batman’s readers will be confused by what is really going on in the world. Through it all DC makes a Muslim in France a hero when French Muslims are at the center of some of the worst violence in the country’s recent memory.

10 comments:

Damien said...

Pastorius,

I haven't read the new comic, and I wouldn't even know about this new series if it weren't for you guys. Actually the tensions have little to do with race and much more to do with culture and religion. Someone should point that out to the people at DC.

Pastorius said...

The conflation of race with culture is important to all those who want to promote racialist thinking, whether they being racists or multiculturalists.

revereridesagain said...

Comic book heroes may not sound like an important "theater" in this war, but this sort of betrayal can strike at a very personal level.

Word is that there is a major director vs. director re-make war about to start over my favorite childhood movie, which is Disney and sci-fi. I'm horrified at the prospect of all the PC/MC climate change anti-Western crap they can drag into this if they want to and which I will have to put the energy into ignoring for months until the whole thing finally goes away.

Maybe not -- one of the directors is "Robin Hood" Ridley Scott -- but I know better than to entertain false hope.

Damien said...

Revere Rides Again,

Well I don't think that a lot of people will be swayed by this one way or another. What tends to change people's thinking is their life experiences more than anything else, not stories. Truth of the matter is through, the people who wrote this story problem didn't mean any harm. They probably don't really understand the situation over there.

Always On Watch said...

Damien,
Well I don't think that a lot of people will be swayed by this one way or another.

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

Once an imprint upon the mind is made, particularly on a young mind, that imprint is exceedingly difficult to nullify.

WC said...

Should buy a copy. Will be a valuable collector's item - like Chamberlain's letter from Hitler - after the final war with Islam.

Pastorius said...

Only problem is I don't think I could refrain from vomiting on it, if I have to actually look at it when I buy it.

Avi Green said...
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Avi Green said...

I found the writer of this intellect insulter, David Hine, giving his story on this leftist site called Death and Taxes, in reply to my own topic on the subject. He even gave a reply in the comments, and it sure looks like he doesn't like me, or even conservatives, for that matter. We can only wonder where he stands on Feisal Rauf's planned mosque at Ground Zero, or what he even thinks of the 9-11 families who have every right to oppose the mosque.

American Rose said...

I like you Avi! Can we be partners in crime prevention? ;)