Star Wars Actor Says Putting Muslims on TV Will Prevent Them From Being Terrorists

Ahmed’s speech came during Channel 4’s annual diversity lecture in Parliament. He urged television and film producers to “embrace diversity” and have more Muslim people in films so they don’t feel alienated from the world.

During a Thursday speech to Channel 4’s annual diversity lecture in Parliament, Ahmed urged television producers to embrace diversity and have more Muslim representation, or young people will feel alienated and will be more vulnerable to joining extremist groups.

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

“In the mind of the Isis recruit, he’s the next James Bond right? Have you seen some of those Isis propaganda videos, they are cut like action movies,” he continued. “Where is the counter narrative? Where are we telling these kids they can be heroes in our stories, that they valued?”

Ahmed recently starred in Rouge One: A Star Wars Story as the defected imperial pilot Bodhi Rook. He has appeared on HBO’s “The Night Of” and “Girls.”

As mentioned above, there is a tiny golden nugget in the philosophical dungpile of that speech. Just like everybody, it makes sense that young people from that part of the world need role models and good things to strive for other than religious extremism, which isn’t good at all. Perhaps there’s some truth to his statement, but his suggestions for ways to go about it couldn’t be more wrong.

Source: freebeacon.com