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Originally Posted by Kane Knight
I mean, garrotting a wrestler is so close to bombing a subway.
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I don't think anyone was suggesting that it was.
However it IS reminiscent of, for example, Americans being kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq.
I think it was deeply tasteless to use the "war on turrism" as an angle on a day when large numbers of people died in a terrorist attack. I think they could and should have cut the show short.
Part of the reason I feel this is that is stirs up anti-muslim feeling. Part of the reason is that it cheapens a tragedy.
Screening "the pope must die" on the day John Paul II snuffed would have been in bad taste.
Screening a wrestling show where an "Arab-American" gets a group of men in desert camoflage pants, black tops and black balaclavas (intended obviously to be dastardly Arabs) to beat up the crowd favorite on a day when a Muslim group is suspected of planting bombs in the London Underground was poor taste.