“Four Lions”

In WWII and the Cold War, we faced enemies of the caliber of Wernher von Braun and Andrei Sakharov. In the War on Terror, however, a strikingly large fraction of Muslim would-be terrorists, such as the recent Underpants Bomber and the Times Square Fizzler, are screwups. …

Directed by Chris Morris, who is apparently legendary in Britain for his TV satires (I confess to never having heard of him before), Four Lions is a British buddy comedy about five Muslim yobbos in Sheffield peer-pressuring each other into staging a terrorist attack on �unbelieving Kafir slags.� (The quintet is culled to the titular four when one, carrying explosives made from hydrogen peroxide purchased at the corner shop, trips over a sheep. CNN subsequently headlines: �ASIAN MAN’S HEAD FALLS OUT OF TREE.�)

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The movie reminds me of when Greg Cochran would tell me, “Terrorists are idiots. Now, if I were a terrorist –“ and I would exclaim, “No, don`t tell me! I don`t want to know. Don`t even say it out loud! Echelon could be listening in.”