ANOTHER REASON TO AVOID THE MOVIES

Osama bin Ladin Productions presents..... Peggy Noonan pretty well lays it out. Not a foot of film rolls in Hollywood without Muslim approval. Period. Her WSJ piece is here.

With production costs exceeding $130 million, "Kingdom of Heaven" took in under $20 million domestically on its opening weekend earlier this year. However, its take in more than 100 markets outside the U.S. on the same weekend was $56 million. Variety reported that the movie opened on 45 screens in the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Kuwait, Qatar, Jordan, Bahrain, Oman and Syria. Considering that more than three-quarters of the film's lifetime gross has come from overseas, according to tracking firm Box Office Mojo, principals in the making of the film might have considered appeasement of potential critics necessary for success. Arab critics received the film well.

And these are the people who go around the country telling us how to vote, who is moral and who is immoral, and what charities we must donate to. Just one more reason to stay away from the movies.