Guantanamo Bay Film Actors Detained, Their Movie Roles Prepared Them

What’s a Middle Eastern actor to do? One minute you’re in front of a camera acting on cue whenever the guy in the black beret and the french moustache tells you to. The next you’re winning a Silver Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival. The minute after that goes straight downhill. 

That’s when you get detained in a UK airport for several long, tedious minutes. All for no other reason than sharing the approximate age, race, gender, basic skull structure and possibly passport as last summer’s Londoner slaughtering bombers.

If the would-be celebrities think UK police are bad, wait till they get a load of UK paparazzi.

Several actors who recently filmed a movie called The Road to Guantanamo were recently detained at Luton airport.  They were returning from the Berlin Film Festival when it happened, and they’re none too happy about it.

And understandably so, no one likes being picked on or singled out
due to their appearance, especially when they’re dandy actors likely
bound for the mediocre lights of a Bollywood typecasting.

Two of those detained actually did time in Guantanamo, and
reportedly accidentally. They are said to have been in Afghanistan for
a wedding when they were mistakenly identified as Taliban storm
troopers. If this is actually true, then maybe one can understand
their being upset about the unspoken threat of a second stint.

None of them were too happy about their inspections. One of them
complained about a police officer asking him if he intended to make
anymore ‘political’ films; the officer was probably a Tom Clancy (Books)
fan. This was rebutted by a spokeswoman who said:

"Six people were
stopped under the Terrorism Act. This is something that happens all the
time and obviously at airports and train stations. There is a
heightened state of security since the London bombings. Public safety
is paramount."

Done and done, then. The guys were released after about an hour -
and since only four were actually inspected, that puts it at about 15
minutes a piece. That’s not so bad is it? We’ve been kept longer for trying to take an apple into Australia. The fact is - right or wrong - that airport security stopped a group of young Middle Eastern men. Which means the airport staff were either being slightly paranoid, or doing their jobs perfectly well for being suspicious of passengers who fit a certain profile of theirs.

Now before large groups of our former readers gather at
hecklerspray’s many embassies across the globe with the direct intent
of burning our stuff and getting shot into, know this: We know Islam is
a good religion that does its best to teach good moral fibre and the
path to a happy life. It’s unfortunate that so few crazies claiming to
serve the Muslim flag scarred Islam in the eyes of so many, but it
happened, and someone should attempt to fix that. 

A lesson has to be learned, one that most of the western world
learned with the advent of changeable type: *Screw the media. Don’t
let them work you into a tizzy, let them stir their stupid pot. Their
over exposure of idiocy doesn’t change your stance before God. Even
Christians can still get carried away with the rage, what, with the
whole hullabaloo over South Park’s recent depiction of the Virgin
Mary. When you think your faith is getting raked over the coals, it
can hurt. Once you stop taking the media’s gossip mongering to heart,
all will be better for you. 

That goes for everybody except atheists, their hate is constitutional.

*hecklerspray never has, nor ever will include itself here. Nobody screw us.

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‘Guantanamo’ actors questioned at airport - DigitalSpy 

[story by Shawn Lindseth]