The Heroic Villainy!
A scene from an American film about their war in Vietnam has remained stuck in my mind, which I saw clips of before stopping watching these films. An American soldier was captured, and the Vietnamese treated him harshly, except for one Vietnamese who treated the American humanely, secretly bringing him food and drink away from his comrades, and longing for him. Suddenly, the Americans attacked the Vietnamese camp, killing them and freeing their American comrade, giving him a machine gun to help them against the "enemy". The sympathetic Vietnamese fell into a pool of water...and the freed soldier stood at the edge of the pool with his machine gun...their eyes met for a long time...a long silence in which the Vietnamese's eyes seemed to say: (I did you a favor, I did not agree with what my comrades did to you, you will repay me with kindness...right?) But...suddenly, the American made up his mind, breaking the silence with bullets from his machine gun that he lodged in the chest of the Vietnamese who had been kind to him just moments before! And the Vietnamese drowned in the water mixed with his blood. The "hero" soldier then went to his "lover" who came with the "liberators", and walked with her to the music that ended the film! The shocking part: why do the Americans show this ugly side of their soldiers' villainy in their film? Why do they boast about it and consider it a heroic ending to the story?! I don't think there's any explanation other than an attempt to erase the natural instincts of their people, especially in dealing with the "enemy" or those their media portrays as enemies... Who said you have to show mercy to someone who hasn't wronged you? Look at this hero who resisted the urge to be merciful and repaid the one who was kind to him with bullets that drowned him! Who said loyalty is required? Why can't betrayal be heroism and the traitor a role model?! Erasing natural instincts makes it easier to rally their people to crush the peoples of the earth. Media deception alone is not enough...slogans of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism across continents and saving peoples reveal their falsehood every time...so, fearing the awakening of the "conscience" that may stir public opinion and shake their ranks from continuing the aggression...so, let's kill this "conscience"! Don't be surprised afterward by their publishing pictures of Abu Ghraib of Muslim men being stripped and chains around their necks and dragged from them, and pictures of urinating on Muslim corpses in Afghanistan and burning others, and taking pictures next to Muslim corpses with wide smiles!! And dealing with all of this with extreme frivolity...they are erasing the natural instincts of their people and turning cowardly crime into heroism, or -at the very least- a mistake that is punished lightly! And don't be surprised afterward by what their soldiers do to the peoples of the earth who are afflicted by them. How different this erasure and distortion is from our religion, which is based on purifying natural instincts and developing values of mercy, loyalty, and kindness, even to those non-Muslims who do not fight us.