everyone considers this a dumb move:

An Iraqi actor who plays a hijacker in a new film about the September 11 attacks on the United States has been denied entry into the country for the movie’s premiere, he told a newspaper on Friday.

Lewis Alsamari, who has lived in Britain since 1995, stars in “United 93″, which premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York next week. […] Alsamari, 30, said he may have been denied entry by the U.S. embassy in London because he served in the Iraqi army in the early 1990s. “I think this was because I am still an Iraqi citizen and fought in the army — but that was only because I was forced to,” he told London’s Evening Standard newspaper.

Seriously, am I reading The Onion? Wouldn’t it be kind of, um, difficult for someone to commit terrorist acts after they’ve played a f**king terrorist in a movie?!?!?. Everyone would know who he was, any suspicious moves would be amplified, what reason do they have to deny this guy entry?

Oh yeah, I forgot: he’s an arab, & for us arabs are equivalent to the Boogeyman, that’s why…

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