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Muslim beauty queen to play role of Anne Frank
Eldad Beck
Published: 17.01.08, 12:17
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1. Makes more sense than having...
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (01.17.08)
... a total WASP portray her like in the American movie.
2. Makes as much sense as a German Anne Frank
Tuvia ,   CA, USA   (01.17.08)
3. Are there no JEWISH actresses left?
Petra ,   usa   (01.17.08)
4. irrelavent
(01.17.08)
who cares if shes muslim, if she can act. 26 sounds old though for 13 yr old Frank . i would worry more about that then the religion. like dorothy in the wizard of oz, when they tied her breasts down. to play a little girl-(though she could sing etc.) besides many jews play christians or christians play jews etc. blah blah blah. its called acting for a reason.
5. If it helps spread tolerance...
Micha   (01.17.08)
then that's always a good thing. Religion and culture are irrelevant inasmuch as she will portray her to the best of her ability. In the end, it helps spread tolerance and disrupts the hate that overflows from the arab/moslem world.
6. Anne Frank was not a Zionist
Shulamit   (01.17.08)
Anne Frank was not a Zionist. She would have opposed the Zionist agenda including the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. The way to honor Anne Frank is for Jews to turn their backs on Zionism and give Palestine back to the Palestinians
7. Why not?!
Peter ,   Bonn, Germany   (01.17.08)
And remember that Jews are semites, like the arabs. So who is closest to a Jew ethnicaly than an arab? (Forget about those Polish-mixed blonde blue-eyed askenazim)
8. Her anscestors must be turning in their grave!
Jack ,   San Diego, USA   (01.18.08)
9. Peter the ignorant history-repeater
Jake   (01.18.08)
Asli Bayram was Miss Germany 2005, and she is Turkish, not Arab. And remember, it was jealous German Jew-haters that invented the term 'Semite', to be applied to the Jewish people, and the Arabs were more than happy to jump on that hate bandwagon back in the day. Today, they jump on the other bandwagon, that they are the "true Semites" and Jews are occupiers. Well, too bad, because DNA blew that argument to smithereens, showing that Jews are closer in DNA to Kurds, Anatolians, and other Mediterraneans than to the 'fellow Semitic' Arabs. Jews do not have to live with labels that Germans created for them. You wouldn't want to be referred to as "Transalpine Barbarians", "Huns" and "Vandals", now would you?
10. To #3 Petra
Simon ,   USA   (01.17.08)
Maybe you would be a good candidate for the film because you are Jewish (it isnot about being a good actor after all, I guess...) Please be sure to show your proof of Jewishness during the film so that we all know!!!
11. Why those Germans don't do any play about Palestinians?
Yaakov Sullivan ,   NYC   (01.18.08)
12. good for her
Simon ,   TA Israel   (01.18.08)
Good for her, im sure the religious bigots will have what to say about this. What a shame that they are blind to the fact that maybe this could help to bring understanding between the two conflicting sides.
13. Reply to Shulamit #6-how do you know Anne wasantiZionist?
Mike ,   Somewhere Over Here   (01.18.08)
Your assertion is baseless and ridiculous. Anne died at 15. She dreamed, like many teenage girls, of Hollywood movies and stardom,and her diary shows she wasn't very interested in political questions. But she lived what should have been her best years hiding in an attic. Had she survived it is quite likely that she may have become a fervent Zionist,like many other teen Shoah survivors who made aliyah and helped build Israel in its early years. Or maybe not. But where do you come off projecting your pet political cause, which seems to be anti-Zionism and pro-Palestinian cultism on this innocent?
14. I googled Asli Bayram's pictures
Mike ,   Somewhere Over Here   (01.18.08)
and leaving aside her ethnicity (and in my opinion ther is nothing wrong with a Turkish Muslim from Germany playing a German-Jewish girl)-the problem I would have with her playing Anne Frank is she is a 26 year old beauty queen playing a teenaged girl who was probably half starved in an attic and died at 15. I looked at Ms. Bayram's pics (do a google image search on her name) and VA VA VOOM! -what a sultry beauty--especially the one where they show her in a bikini.Now, obviously I am aware that Anne was a pretty and tragic young girl, and there has been stuff recently written about the censored part of her diary (by her father Otto Frank) describing her burgeoning sexual awakening and longings that occured in the Secret Annex-but still, how could a more mature adult like Ms Bayram capture Anne Frank's teenage innocence-(leaving aside the fact that she was probably malnourished in reality)
15. 6...you should be ashamed of yourself...G-d Bless Israel
truth strikes again   (01.18.08)
16. 11...because if they told the truth they'd be murdered...
truth strikes again   (01.18.08)
17. She is Turkish, not Arab. So what's the big deal?
Antonio ,   Haifa   (01.19.08)
18. Natalie Portman
Mark ,   Los Angeles   (01.20.08)
did a version of Anne Frank on Broadway a few years ago, this for those who wondered if a Jewish girl ever played the part
19. #11, I don't think banging camels on stage
Antonio ,   Haifa   (01.20.08)
would make the cut.
20. good job #2
(01.21.08)
Perhaps a German Anne Frank would make sense, given that she was in fact German. Idiot.
21. admire
John. S why u S. ,   Toronto,CA   (11.25.08)
i really admire this woman. she just cme to cnada and did a great work, She also talked to young students and encouraged them tostand up against rasicm. What I read here from the people is prue racism. jealoy!!
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