Oregon Teen Short Fiction Film "Sharia" of Life in America Under Islamic Supremacism

http://www.realcourage.org/2009/10/oregon-teen-short-fiction-film-sharia-of-life-in-america-under-islamic-supremacism/

Oregonian: "Through a teen's lens: the Taliban in Portland"
-- The Oregonian reports on a teen amateur fictional video ("Sharia" by Cypress Chvatal-Jones) that portrays an Islamic supremacist future America, where Taliban "religious police" amputate a child's hand, a masked man in a kaffiyeh murders a man for his "travesty against Islamic rule and way of life," and children go to an underground "dealer" to try to obtain music cassettes. During the short film, it describes a realistic scenario supported by the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan today that "All music-listening devices such as records, tapes, and CDs are highly illegal. Violators may be punished by the amputation of a finger or hand." (Note the short fictional film has scenes of simulated violence, with one child choosing to pursue terrorist action. Responsible for Equality And Liberty condemns all terrorist activity.)

--- Oregonian reports:
--- "That summer, Chvatal-Jones shot a couple of funny movies about his family's beach vacations. But he got the kernel of a much larger project as a freshman at Lincoln High, in Steve Lancaster's global studies class."
--- "They discussed the churning complexities that are the Middle East, and Chvatal-Jones was perplexed by it. Through lunch periods and after school, he talked with Lancaster about the violence and the struggles, trying to understand."
--- "Then the class examined Afghanistan under the Taliban and sharia, the strict Islamic code that for 21st-century American teenagers can seem mind-boggling: Theft is punished by the amputation of a hand. Women cannot leave home without a male relative. Possession of Western music is forbidden. Boys and girls having a party together is a crime."
--- "On a test, Lancaster posed a hypothetical that struck Chvatal-Jones hard: Describe what would happen if the Taliban took over an American city. Long after he turned in his paper, Chvatal-Jones was galvanized by the what-ifs."
--- " 'And the more I thought about it,' he said, 'the more I wanted to try to make a movie about it.' "
--- "As soon as the academy ended, Chvatal-Jones pounded out a screenplay called 'Sharia,' a story about a group of teenagers in an American city -- nameless, but clearly Portland -- that has been taken over by the Taliban."
--- "The plot centers on three boys trying to buy music cassettes from an underground dealer. They get caught and punished by the religious police. A young woman, also named Sharia, becomes so distraught at the consequences that she makes a desperate choice."