Netflix's Cuties: Islamophobia Gone Wrong

Cuties, which is called Mignonnes in French, is a 

2020 French coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Maïmouna Doucouré. For short, Cuties can be described as a French movie with scabrous content that was meant to malign Islam.

The description of the movie by the makers is as follows: “Amy, 11, becomes fascinating with a twerking dance crew. Hoping to join them, she starts to explore her femininity defying her family’s tradition.”

After receiving a massive backlash from the public, Netflix tried to save face by unabashedly drafting another description which goes thus: “Eleven-year-old Amy starts to rebel against her conservative family’s tradition when she becomes fascinated with a free-spirited dance crew”.

The film premiered in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition section of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival on 23rd January 2020. It was released in France on 19th August 2020 by BAC Films and internationally on 9th September 2020 on Netflix.

Movie lovers and activists have called out Netflix over what has been called ‘the sexualization of children’. Netflix is an American online movie streaming service provider which has also delved into movie making. It is headquartered in Los Gatos, California. America.

Westerners tag anyone who has sexual relations with anyone below the age of 18 a pedophile however; millions of girls below 18 joyfully engage in premarital sex and get pregnant every day.

‘Pedophilia’ is another ‘crime’ Islamophobes have dropped at the door step of Islam. Pedophilia or paedophilia is defined as a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children. Miraculously, the movie, Cuties, has exposed the fact that westerners very well fall in love with girls under 18.

Islamophobia

The demon, Islamophobia, has continued to rage across the globe. In extreme cases, Muslims have lost their lives. Islam-haters try to put a dampener on their bigotry by denying the existence of the words ‘Islamophobe’ and ‘islamophobia’; this will always be in vain.

A major narrative Islamophobes try to sell is the ‘Islam oppresses women’ cliché.

France has long been tagged the most Islamophobic country in the world. France was the first European country to announce a ban on the Islamic veil in public on 11th April 2011.

Though, movies with similar themes

(Islamophobia) have come from other countries, no movie has ever exposed the aim of Islamophobia like Cuties. Accuse others of that which you are guilty.

The makers of the movie tried to portray a Muslim girl oppressed into modesty in the character Amy.

With the number of individuals who have taken umbrage at Cuties and inveighed against Netflix, it is obvious western Islamophobic media overegged the pudding this time.

 Backlash

• On 10 September, #CancelNetflix started trending on Twitter in the United States.
• The Turkish Radio and Television Supreme Council, requested Netflix to remove the film.
• The National Center on Sexual Exploitation, a religious organization, condemned Netflix for giving a film "that has permitted the sexual exploitation of children" a platform.
• Shortly after its release on Netflix, Cuties had an IMDb rating of 1.7/10.

Quite disgustingly, the writer and director of the movie, Maïmouna Doucouré, won the Directing Award – Dramatic at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

Moral of the story; an attempt to paint Islam black has once again exposed the hypocrisy of Islam-haters.

Four 9/11 Questions With No Answers Yet

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Tomorrow, 9/11/2020, will be the 19^th anniversary of one event that  has change the course of human history. 

An ‘attack’ in America that is said to have claimed over 3000 lives from different nationalities has continued to shape world politics.

The blame has been dropped at the door step of Islam and Muslims.

A closer look at anomalies in the official account of the American government made it obvious that as far as that even is concerned, there is more that meets the eye.

Here are some questions that have not been answered by pro America debaters as compiled by Mike Rudlin of the BBC in 2007.

1. Why was the hole in the Pentagon wall so small and why was there so little damage to the outer wall?
2. Why does it look like there is no plane at the crash site in Pennsylvania where flight United 93 came down?
3. Why did a building called World Trade Centre Building 7 collapse even though it was never hit by an aircraft?
4. And why was America so unprepared when terror attack warnings had been received?

Jim Fetzer, former US marine and retired university professor, who helped found a coalition of academics called Scholars for 9/11 Truth repeats the Sherlock Holmes quotation “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

According to the publication when it was first released on 14^th February 2007, “the US State Department has a website to debunk conspiracy theories – not just about 9/11 but a whole range of stories circulating on the internet.

But we found that simple requests, such as asking to see the plane wreckage of flight United 93 at Shanksville, or flight American Airlines 77 at the Pentagon, were refused after months of delay by the authorities.

Yet if we had been able to film the wreckage from flight AA77 we would have had extremely strong evidence that a Boeing 757 hit the Pentagon.”

Through the internet and the media generally, allegations of complicity by the US government in the 9/11 attacks are intensifying.

A number of pro America debaters try to create the notion that only Muslims slap away 9/11 as an inside job. Happenings within America itself always burst their bubble. 

In 2004, John Buchanan ran for president on a 9/11 Truth platform. Jeff Boss ran in the 2008, 2012, and 2016 US presidential elections, and is currently running in the 2020 election on a 9/11 Truth platform.

A Truth Movement sticker

Several organizations have been create to push the American government into conducting a deep investigation of 9/11. Some of them are:

• Hispanic Victims Group
• 9/11 Citizens Watch formed in 2002
• 9/11 Truth  launched in June 2004
• Scholars for 9/11 Truth launched in December 2005
• Scholars for 9/11 Truth & Justice (STJ) formed in January 2007
• 9/11 Commission Campaign founded in 2011

Our hearts go out to all those who have innocently lost their lives to all the ensuing wars.