Pamela Geller: Thank You, Larry David

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A fatwa on Larry David’s head serves as the theme of this season’s Curb Your Enthusiasm.

This is the first time I have seen any mainstream entertainment property address, albeit comically, this scourge on free societies in such a forthright fashion.

The Hollywood Reporter says:

After a six-year hiatus, the HBO comedy returned with its ninth-season premiere Sunday. To fill in the missing time, Curb revealed that TV Larry David (the creator plays an exaggerated version of himself) has spent the last few years writing a musical based on Salman Rushdie’s life titled Fatwa! In 1988, the author’s novel The Satanic Verses became so controversial in the Muslim community that death threats were issued against Rushdie, including a fatwa calling for his assassination from the then-leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

Hollywood Reporter adds that “on Curb, Larry goes onto Jimmy Kimmel Live! to promote the musical. … The repercussions of Larry’s broadcast appearance will continue to play out as the rest of the 10-episode season unfolds. ‘It permeates the entire season, but not in ways you’d expect,’ executive producer Jeff Schaffer told The Hollywood Reporter of the fatwa being more than just a one-episode gag.’”

David takes more than just the idea for this plotline from the real fatwa that the Islamic Republic of Iran put on Rushdie’s head.

Hollywood Reporter explains: “For Curb viewers who are looking for clues as to what’s in store for Larry, they can take a look back at what Rushdie went through in the years following. Now, the author says he is enjoying that people are finally reading his book without the controversy looming over its pages, and that they are finding the comedy that was intended within the story.”

David does not mention the fatwa that ISIS put out on me or the multiple Muslim assassination attempts on me, of course; I’m a less attractive figure to the Left than the liberal Rushdie is. Even so, the show is delicious. The depictions of the maniacal mullah, the ayatollah, is authentic and hysterical. His rhetoric is spot-on, using the bloodthirsty, Islamic denunciations we are long familiar with but that no one in Hollywood ever writes or talks about.

I have never seen this, ever, from the Left Coast, and that is saying something, considering that it has been 16 years since 9/11, and that there have been 30,000-plus jihad terror attacks around the world since then. It’s the war that dare not speak its name. When Hollywood does terrorism, it is “Russian,” “Serb,” or “skinhead” — devoid of reality. So, Larry David’s Fatwa! is divine.

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