Terror in Mumbai: Finally, an Unapologetic Look at Jihad
HBO’s programming slate teems with documentaries eager to please the blue states.
This month‘s presentation of By the People: The Election of Barack Obama is the most recent example, but other films like Teddy: In His Own Words and Right America: Feeling Wronged — Some Voices from the Campaign Trail did little for those with a copy of Going Rogue on their nightstand.
Now, the movie channel is shaking things up with an unflinching look at the threat of global terrorism.
Terror in Mumbai, airing tonight, sounds as if the Weekly Standard wrote the narration and chose the images to display. It doesn’t mince words, hide the truth, or make excuses for the monsters behind last November’s attacks on the Indian metropolis. No mindless recitations of “Why do they hate us?”
“The Mumbai attacks should worry us all,” says host Fareed Zakaria, the Newsweek correspondent who offers a bit of his own perspective on the attacks. He grew up in Mumbai, and many members of his immediate family still call the city home.
For Zakaria, the attacks were personal, and his grave appearance reinforces that reality. It’s an approach perfectly suited for the film, which offers a seemingly unprecedented look into nearly every aspect of the terror assault. You won’t be able to look away, but you’ll wish you could close your eyes and make the images fade.
Terror in Mumbai is like a grisly slasher film, but the real-life implications are too terrible to ignore.
The documentary promises a 360-degree view of terrorism, and it’s mostly true to its word. We hear from the survivors of the attack, watch surveillance camera footage of the assault in action, and listen in on intercepted cell phone conversations between the terrorists and the madmen pulling the strings.
The latter is the most amazing component of the production. Their running dialogue reveals the fears, motivations, and anger that made the attacks possible.
“a group of deluded young men with some automatic weapons and grenades”
There’s something missing here, wouldn’t you say? Not one time in your article did I see the words,
Militant, Radical — with World Domination as their goal — Islamic Jihad.
“…deluded young men.” CAAR, the Council on Amish-American Relations released a statement today denying any connection between the Amish and the so-called Amish who have been waging war on modernity. “This comes” following the thirteenth attack on retailers of used electric motors by so-called, but not really Amish, and a really, really tiny splinter, group WDKNBM, “We don’t know nuthin’ bout’ no modernity.” In other news, 74 gunmen who may have had long ugly beards, and screamed ugly sounds in a guttural tongue did really bad things somewhere in the world, but not too many people died this time. Back to you Tiffy. “Thanks Dave”
Yet, the Democratic party in this country refuses to see the threat that is implicit here. Mumbai and Fort Hood are part and parcel of what radical Islam has for the world. Unfortunately, the left in this country and in Europe refuses to face reality. They see the problem as a “police” matter, rather than as a “war”. Until we all get on the same page here, there will be reprises of both these atrocities.
The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution is the best deterent to actions like this. I remember from the late 1970′s oro early 1980′s a bank robbery that was thwarted in Dallas, TX (if I recall), where 2 civilians stopped their vehicles and shot the robbers down (just as happend in Northfield, MN in the not so “wild west”). If more people were legally permitted to carry, if not concealed, but rather in POV’s, then the chance of snipers/shooters like these would, if not deterred, be significantly reduced by quick action of the populace itself.
That to me is the lesson to be drawn from Ft. Hood/Mumbai.
“Their method of attack could be easily adapted to any American city,” he says.
Which, of course, it will. The only question is, which city (cities), and how soon?
Then, Maximum Leader is going to be in a real pickle.
I can hear him now . . . “Let’s not jump to conclusions, and a ‘shout out!’ to all those grieving families.”
I’ll have to watch and see, too many documentaries now days are heavily slanted to the left, especially on HBO. In fact last night I was watching the History Channel and after the WWII in HD a show on Hitler came on. It was somewhat interesting, however it was annoying that several times through out the show that the interviewed “experts” associated Nazis, Neo-Nazis, the KKK, and other hate groups with “Right Wing” groups. The Nazi party and other socialist and communist hate groups are clearly on the left side of the political spectrum. Also the Leftist hate groups often conceal their hatred for others in “feel good” rhetoric like PETA and the environmentalists. The truth is that if their polices were enacted many people would die of disease, starvation, and many other things common to the pre-industrialized world.
“Zakaria cautions audiences that the simple resources behind the attack — a group of deluded young men with some automatic weapons and grenades — is an easily replicable formula.”
These jihadis are not a group of “deluded young men”, they are the real Muslims and Zakaria refuses to call them that!!! We always get this BS fro Islamic apologists and the so called “moderate Muslims”, Zakaria being one of them. Truth be damned – Islam can’t be responsible for filling Muslim minds with hate venom against non-Muslims throughout the Muslim world – it is always a tiny minority of extremists, or deluded young men, or radicalized young men, or some such nonsense, but never Islam itself!!!
Until we hold Islamic apologists’ feet to the fire we will be getting this drivel in defense of Islam!!!
I will watch the show tonigh. I will also count the number of times the word ‘jihad’ will be mentioned. That will tell me about the documentary quality of the documentary.
Can someone download this on YouTube as HBOCanada isn’t airing this show and I’m really interested to see it.
The untold story is that some 11/26 victims were sexually humiliated and tortured before being murdered. These victims include the rabbi and his wife at the Chabad Center.
I’m in Canada and HBO Canada isn’t running it. Is anyone downloading it later to see?
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Megan I am recording it. email me bill5150_1953@yahoo.com for details
It’s better than usual, but anything with Fareed Zakaria or anyone else who frequents the Communist News Network must be taken with a grain of salt.
wait, you mean the same Fareed Zakaria who advised Yale not to publish images of Muhammad in a scholarly manual because they might cause Muslim rioting, and the same Zakaria who told us via a Newsweek cover in Arabic that we should live with radical Islam?
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yeah Frank is right about the salts…
before we got into WW11, nazis by the thousands marched around all over the place right here in our own backyard spouting their crazy talk ;there were hitler youth organizations and stirring up of the usual suspects.
until pearl harbor, we didn’t do sh*t.
this muslim crap will just get worse until even obama won’t be able to unstick it from his oily slippery self. it will be his bad.
no more hiding in the bushes.
…. the most amazing component of the production …. reveals the fears, motivations, and anger that made (possible) the attacks (by) “a group of deluded young (GUNmen)” with some automatic weapons and grenades?
“Deluded?”
Young men?
“Gunmen?”
The lock-stepping Goebbelsesque, America-hating CNN propagandist and pamphleteer, Fareed Zakaria, is a “Newsweek ‘correspondent?’”
B bloody S!
The Bombay attacks were nothing more nor less than the psychopathology its sufferers call “Islam” being projected by a typical sampling of its systemically psychopathic. And the rest of us had better (before it similarly sexually mutilates, rapes and/or slaughters us all) begin to call it by its name.
It is a well established and rapidly metastasizing malignancy, a massive tumor within the body of Judeo-Christian/Western/Human Civilization.
And its name is Evil.
Brian Richard Allen
Lost Angels – Califobambicated 90028
And the Very Far Abroad
Stopped cold when I read Zakaria is involved. He writes non-fiction books & articles that he seems to wish were true. His recent book,
‘The Post-American World’
His two recent cover stories in Newsweek:
‘Radical Islam is a Fact of Life: How to Live with it’
&
‘After Iran Gets the Bomb it Won’t Be the End of the World’
He preemtively submits to things that must be stopped and wants all of us to be as comfortable as he is about them. That’s all I need to know about Zakaria and anything he’s involved with.
There is only one way to deal with terrorists. Kill them. It’s that simple. What the attacks in Mumbai show is that to defeat the terrorists you must be eternally vigilant. Those in power who want to leave us defenseless in ideology and in defense across the world for the sake of “peace” must be removed from office. All must Obey for the common good. For the community. In Mumbai, the Indians have had years to deal with terrorists such as Lashkar et-Tayyiba, and even with all the information they acquired on this group, the Indian police and military were defenseless in the end. There are days I wonder when Mother Nature take out her anger on the world and just let er rip. The PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, LET, Al-Qaida, all faces of evil. The Nazis warped Christianity, LET and other warp Islam. And yet today…even now average Muslims cannot see the truth that the belief that Muslims do not kill other Muslims…is a lie. Tell THAT to those who lost loved ones in Mumbai, at Ft Hood., in London, in Madrid, in Ankara, in Riyadh, in Morocco, in Bali, in New York, in Washington, and in Shanksville, Pennslyania…because they were considered “unbelievers.” This War of Terror has been going on for some time. It would be a pleasant thought if that mindset would finally sink in to the naive all across the world.
During that crisis last year, I watched, fascinated, via CNN India, the whole horror show over – what, 3 days?? The streaming videos and CNN did a good job, and I really really want to see that documentary.
Several things struck me: Mumbai looks like a totally great city, one of the few I would actually like to visit! I was so impressed that the people living on the beach noticed those young men, and knew they were strangers. The police, with primitive firearms and little training, were incredibly brave, running around those hotel hallways. I didn’t blame them for not being more aggressive in the train station: they were armed with Lee Enfield rifles, for gosh sakes. The Commandoes, when they did arrive, seemed overly dramatic as they twirled around their cables, into the Jewish Centre.
and the political leaders (I know, I am very ignorant of them anyway), impressed me as a bunch of Canadian type Liberal/NDP’s (ie, incompetent).
Anyway, I am so interested in this! And I WILL track down a copy of its DVD!
Also, Dubya Bush will be remembered not only for his strong, unwavering support for the Iraq War; but also supporting a stronger alliance with India.
Zakaria is just attempting to normalize/desensitize American audiences to the kind of terror that is soon coming to your shores. You got a small taste of it at Fort Hood, but that is just the beginning of what these pieces of @#$% have in store.
There is a very disturbing sequence in the latest Call Of Duty-Modern Warfare II video game where Russian terrorist conduct a mass slaughter in a airport. Within the span of a few minutes hundreds of innocent people are murdered. Now imagine that happening all at once all over America.
If you own a gun, learn how to use it, get a concealed weapon permit and carry it everywhere you go. At least you might have a fighting chance.
Life is reality, it is not a movie, common sense is an essential, it is not a crime!!!!!!!!! CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF!!!! When the liars in control can justify their own fantasies and get away with it at will, we might have a problem as a Sovereign Nation!!!!!!!! Wake up people you are being connived!!!! To not believe in God, is to have to turn away from something of powerful influence over your life, problem is, when you do, you turn to government to fill that void, it becomes your god, you turn to it to fulfill your every need!!!!!!!!!
So this is a “honest” documentary eh? Bull. It still treats Mumbai as the product of a “fringe” element in Islam. These terrorists arent fringe..they are simply devoted to their religion and take it seriously. There is no “moderate” Islam..only those muslims who arent taking seriously what the Koran is commanding.But the passages
commending Martyrdom, and promising Paradise to those who die
killing infidels..will always be there.waiting for fresh eyes to fall upon them. Islam mass produces terrorists..and 100 years from now Americans because of early 21st Century freak movement know as MultiCulturalism erased the natural and cultural boundaries keeping Islam at bay.
“a group of deluded young men”
A pack of quasi-human, murdering scum who need to be put down like the mad dogs they are is how I prefer to describe them.
keep your guns. we’re going to need them since the current administration will not do anything to stop the infiltration of the murdering muslims. we will stand together and stop the muslim menace the Jack Bauer way.
it’ll be a turkey shoot . the enemy uniform usually fas a picnic tablecloth wrapped around it’s head with a filthy beard attached used to hide soup.
After viewing this documentary I was struck by one thing. In all of the recorded conversations between the “controller” and the gunmen, not once did I hear the words “Allah Akbar”. Are we to believe that these words were never uttered?
Banned by Huffpo quotes, Their method of attack could be easily adapted to any American city,” and asks “which one and how soon.”
How about NYC during the KSM trial?
Maybe Holder should have screened “Terror in Mumbai” before making his decision.
Ok I watched it, twice just to make sure I didn’t miss anything and its not a honest look at jihad. It treated the Mumbai attack as a group of secular terrorists. If it weren’t for the phone recordings and the testimony by the Turkish couple you would not even know that were Muslims or religiously motivated. Without those two things to give it context you’d think they were a Pakistani nationalist group with no ties to Islam.
This was not honest, this was the typically slanted HBO special that placates the left. While they did graphically portray the attack the motivations and perpetrators were severely whitewashed to make the Leftists and Muslims feel good.
Until the civilized world understands the threat it will only get worse.
We must continue to take the war to them – a defensive, naive US dithered with Germany and Japan until it was nearly too late – those who seek to destroy you must be destroyed or they will…I hope the political leaders in the US wake up to the lessons of history very soon.
If for once HBO doesn’t give it a liberal slant, and lets the attackers be seen as what they are, and not excused as having been somehow ‘pushed to it’ by awful Indian society…
I’d wager that its more honest for a change only because the victims *weren’t* Americans or Westerners (who are somehow to blame whenever attacked).
the show mentions islamic jihad all throughout and even shows a couple who were not killed simply because they were muslim.
the police in the footage are not overwhelmed at all! They were absolute cowards who literally ran away and hit. Some even watched for 15 minutes while the jihadists executed innocent people and did absolutely nothing.
I commend you for posting the link to this documentary. I want to see it, and I hope it is as unapologetic as is claimed.
However, I have real problems with your comments and site. You tout people like Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other ultra right-wing conservatives, as if they are not IN BED with the Christian Theocrats who are just as adamant about taking over the world for Jesus. Perhaps not through jihad, but the Evangelical Christian movement in our military makes eyebrows raise.
One flavor of religious fascism is no better than another.
Did anyone do anything to help like the UN to stop and eliminate the terrorist? If not why?
Can I download the movie as I would like my daughter-in-law, who is coming with my grandchildren (too young) to visit to be able to see it too? Thank you.
Jo Joffe
How can I view the documentary movie,” Terror in Mumbai” other than waiting for its rerelease on HBO?