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Movies since 9/11 in which the bad guys are not Islamists
Movies since 9/11 in which the bad guys are Islamists

The bad guys are never Islamists: List of movie "bad guys" since 9/11

Since 9/11, and the declaration by Islamic terrorists of a war on the world, Hollywood is desperate never to show us a single film in which the bad guys are Islamic terrorists.

Warning: This page contains spoilers.

Terrorists attack a western city with a nuclear weapon, in The Sum Of All Fears.

Terrorists? What sort of terrorists?
Why, some kind of European "neo-Nazis" of course! But of course.
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Movies since 9/11 in which the bad guys are not Islamists

Warning: This contains spoilers.

The Sum Of All Fears (2002) - The bad guys are ... European neo-Nazis! [1]
Collateral Damage (2002) - The bad guys are ... Colombian drug lords!
The Bourne Identity (2002) - The bad guys are ... the CIA! [2]
S.W.A.T. (2003) - The bad guys are ... S.W.A.T. officers gone bad!
Terminator 3 (2003) - The bad guys are ... robots from the future!
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) - The bad guys are ... Bush and his government!
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) - The bad guy is ... the weather!
The Power of Nightmares (2004) - The bad guys are ... the neo-conservatives!
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) - The bad guys are ... a big corporation!
The Bourne Supremacy (2004) - The bad guys are ... the CIA again!
District 13 (2004) - The people who want to set off a nuke in Paris are not Islamists but rather the French security forces.
The Interpreter (2005) - The bad guys are ... people from the "Republic of Matobo"! [3]
War of the Worlds (2005) - The bad guys are ... aliens!
Stealth (2005) - The bad guy is ... the plane!
Flightplan (2005) - The bad guys are ... the air marshal and a flight attendant!
Red Eye (2005) - The bad guy is ... an American terrorist!
King Kong (2005) - The threat to New York City is from ... a giant gorilla!
Syriana (2005) - The bad guys are ... the US government and big oil companies!
Why We Fight (2005) - The bad guys are ... the "military-industrial complex"!
Homecoming (2005) - The bad guys are ... the US government and US military leaders!
The War Within (2005) - The bad guys are ... the CIA!
Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) - The bad guys are ... anti-communists!
Paradise Now (2005) - The bad guys are ... the Israelis!
Loose Change (2005) - The bad guys are ... the US government! 9/11 never happened! It was all a conspiracy, man! New York City never even existed, dude!
Sorry, Haters (2005) - The bad guys are ... the American government!
XXX: State of the Union (2005) - The bad guy is ... the US Secretary of Defense!
Valley of the Wolves Iraq (2006) - The bad guys are ... the Americans and the Jews!
V for Vendetta (2006) - The bad guys are ... a British fascist government!
The Road to Guantanamo (2006) - The bad guys are ... the Americans!
The Sentinel (2006) - The bad guys are ... some random post-Soviet terrorists that don't make a pick of sense.
Children of Men (2006) - The bad guys are ... a British fascist government again! Couldn't Islamists take over the government for once? Wouldn't that be something different?
Death of a President (2006) - The bad guy is .. President Bush of course! And he gets shot!
Casino Royale (James Bond movie, 2006) - The bad guys are ... some kind of international "terrorists". Not Islamists. You know, um, the other kind.
Déjà Vu (2006) - The terrorist bomber is ... American. Of course.
The Good Shepherd (2006) - The CIA are morally dubious - yet again. Couldn't Hollywood have made just one pro-CIA film after 9/11, before getting back to business as usual? Just one? If Hollywood has made a single pro-CIA film since 9/11, tell me about it here.
A Few Days in September (2006) - The bad guys are ... the CIA! They knew 9/11 was coming, man!
Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006) - The bad guys are ... Blackwater, Halliburton, etc, etc.
Shooter (2007) - The bad guys are .. corrupt American politicians, corrupt American law enforcement, corrupt American businessmen, etc.
The Trial of Tony Blair (2007) - The bad guy is .. Tony Blair! And he goes on trial!
The Mark of Cain (2007) - The bad guys are .. the British soldiers in Iraq! Like The Road to Guantanamo, this is the kind of film an enemy propaganda department would make. We had to wait 6 years after 2003 for the first film that was positive about the British troops in Iraq, and that was an American film.
Die Hard 4.0 (2007) - The bad guys are .. "Internet terrorists"!
Transformers (2007) - The bad guys are .. alien robots! (Though it is wonderfully pro-military.)
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) - The bad guys are ... the CIA again!
Lions for Lambs (2007) - The bad guys are .. sleazy US politicians and neo-cons!
No End in Sight (2007) - The bad guys are .. the Bush administration!
Rendition (2007) - The bad guys are .. the CIA and the Americans!
In the Valley of Elah (2007) - The bad guys are .. the American soldiers in Iraq!
Redacted (2007) - The bad guys are .. the American soldiers in Iraq!
Meeting Resistance (2007) - The bad guys are .. the American soldiers in Iraq!
Taxi to the Dark Side (2007) - The bad guys are .. the American soldiers in Afghanistan!
Cloverfield (2008) - The threat to New York is from .. a giant monster!
Battle For Haditha (2008) - The bad guys are .. the American soldiers in Iraq!
Standard Operating Procedure (2008) - The bad guys are .. the American soldiers in Iraq!
Torture is US! (2008) - The bad guys are .. the Americans!
War, Inc. (2008) - The bad guys are .. the stupid Americans in Iraq!
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) - The bad guys are .. genocidal alien eco-nutcases!
Eagle Eye (2008) - The bad guy is .. a top secret super computer at the Pentagon!
Quantum of Solace (James Bond movie, 2008) - The bad guys are .. some kind of international "terrorists" again! And the Americans are in league with the bad guys!
The International (2009) - The bad guys are .. murderous bankers! Yes, bankers. Like in Monty Python's The Crimson Permanent Assurance.
State of Play (2009) - The bad guys are .. corrupt American politicians and business interests.
G.I. Joe (2009) - The bad guys are ... the "Cobra" organisation! Some scary group of international "terrorists" / arms dealers / corporate villains.
12 Rounds (2009) - The bad guy is ... a white, European, "international terrorist". Of course.
Terminator Salvation (2009) - The bad guys are ... robots in the future!
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) - The bad guys are .. alien robots! (Though it is wonderfully pro-military.)
True Stories: The Shock Doctrine (2009) - The bad guys are .. the Americans in Iraq! (And everywhere else.)
District 13 Ultimatum (2009) - The bad guys are ... the French security forces again!
Avatar (2009) - The bad guys are ... US corporations, the US military, science, civilization, etc. etc.
Waiting For Armageddon (2009) - The really dangerous people in the Middle East are ... the Christians!
Edge of Darkness (2010) - The bad guys are ... murderous nuclear industry types and their government allies!
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010) - The bad guys are ... the capitalists!
Smokin' Aces 2: Assassins' Ball (2010) - The bad guys are ... the CIA! They carry out terror attacks around the world! They did the Madrid bombings!
Green Zone (2010) - The bad guys are .. the Bush administration for invading Iraq for WMD lies!
The Crazies (see here) (2010) - The bad guys are .. the US military, who infect people with a biological weapon, and then lock down everyone, infected or not.
The Ghost Writer (2010) - The bad guy is .. a British Prime Minister who cooperated with the Americans in abducting jihadis! The bastard!
Fair Game (2010) - The bad guys are .. the Bush administration and its lies about Iraq!
The A-Team (2010) - The bad guys are .. US military contractors!
Route Irish (2010) - The bad guys are .. the allies in Iraq!
The Losers (2010) - The bad guy threatening the world with a "sonic nuclear bomb" is ... a rogue U.S. military commander called "Max"!
The 28th Amendment (2011) - The bad guys are .. a secret cabal that runs the U.S. government!

Notes:

[1] In the book, they were Islamists. Good book. Crap film. European neo-Nazis me arse!
[2] In the book, the Islamist terrorist Carlos the Jackal was one of the bad guys. But this was cut from the film.
[3] In the original screenplay, they were Islamists.
The deeply stupid and asinine disaster movie 2012 (2009) planned to feature the destruction of Mecca, but this was scrapped because of fear of Islamic violence. Instead it featured the destruction of the Vatican, the Christ statue in Rio, and the White House. Not knowing about this, an Irish Times profile, 6 Nov 2009, amusingly says: "You do have to hand it to Roland Emmerich. .. he does exhibit a certain kind of stubborn integrity. Nobody tells him what to blow up and what not to blow up."

From here.

Movies since 9/11 in which the bad guys are Islamists

Munich (2005) - The first movie since 9/11 in which the bad guys are Islamists (from the past).
Flight 93 (TV movie, 2006) - The first movie since 9/11 in which the bad guys are the modern Islamists.
United 93 (2006) - The first cinema-released movie since 9/11 in which the bad guys are the modern Islamists.
The Kingdom (2007) - The first movie since 9/11 with a fictional story in which the bad guys are the modern Islamists.
The Hurt Locker (2009) - The first real movie about the Iraq War. The first film supporting the American troops in Iraq. The first film supporting the British troops in Iraq.
The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009) - The first movie since 9/11 to really show the reality of Islamism.

Notes:

Black Hawk Down (2001) was made before 9/11 (filming ended in July 2001).

Still waiting for ..

Still waiting for the first film properly showing the WTC attacks.
Still waiting for the first film supporting the American troops in Afghanistan.
Still waiting for the first film supporting the British troops in Afghanistan.
Still waiting for the first film supporting the CIA's fight against Islamism.
Still waiting for the first film supporting Israel's fight against modern Islamism.
Still waiting for the first film about the Islamist killing of film-maker Theo van Gogh for speech.
Still waiting for the first film about the escape to freedom of Ayaan Hirsi Ali.
Still waiting for the first film showing the aftermath of an Islamist nuclear attack.
Still waiting for the first film showing the destruction of Israel.
Still waiting for the first film showing the Islamisation of Europe.
Still waiting for the first film where westerners (and liberal Muslims) have to fight for their freedom against Islamists in the West.
Still waiting for the first film showing total, fantasy victory - the utter defeat, humiliation and destruction of jihadism, the rapid and unpredicted collapse of Islamism like communism, waves of freedom and change washing over the Middle East, and the start of a wonderful new world. Such a film would make hundreds of millions of dollars.

Terrorists bomb civilians on a public bus in a western city, in The Interpreter.

Terrorists? What sort of terrorists?
Why, ones from the fictional central African country of "Matobo" of course! But of course.

"The book is awesome. Maybe someday someone will make it into a film."
Cracking comment on the useless movie of The Sum Of All Fears.

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