Disappointingly xenophobic

The movie was very culturally inaccurate, there's no arguing against that. But if you use the word "racist" on IMDB you're going to have a bad time, too many emotional people on both sides of the discussion.

But yeah, they didn't try very hard to portray Turkey as anything more than Ubiquitous War-torn Arab Country #14.

You're correct. I concur. Amerikans... they just want to brainwash their own citizens so they recruit easily more soldiers.

You're not too sensitive - you've just missed the target (IMO).

This is as much of a racism and anti-Muslim - as presenting Nazi soldiers and connecting it with anti-German and anti-Catholic sentiment.

The sad fact is that Albanians run a huge white slavery deal. And that kidnapping is a part of it. Hell - their leader in Kosovo has his own harem of kidnapped girls from Eastern Europe.

There's nothing racist - it's just as bad when anybody else does it.
This movie series used one chain of white slavery for villains.

There's nothing inherent about crime in a nation, nor religion.
It's not even the way it was presented.

You have a gang of thugs, using numbers, violence and cunning.
Dead set on having a vendetta because somebody pushed back.

You are right - Hollywood is making their own people the protagonist and heroes in every story.

In this case - it's a nice change that somebody is rising the awareness about cartels such as this one.
In my city - I've learned about dozens of kidnappings done in this way. Worse - the girls weren't even abroad. They got taken while going grocery shopping. And then owned as slaves.

Si - there's no truth hurt, here.
There is a very ugly practice, out there.

You complaining about this is like going to the Godfather page and complaining it's xenophobic to Catholics and Italians.

Here's a fun fact. People can be nice, people can be horrible, and some people, albeit thankfully a small number...can be extremely disgusting excuses for human beings REGARDLESS of what they believe.

All you can seriously complain about is factual errors, which isn't going to cause an uproar anytime soon.

Yes, you are oversensitive.

And now I'm off to the Simpsons page and complain it's xenophobia about the British.

Turkey is changing & rapidly at that. Once the most reliable Muslim country around they are now aligning themselves with other more radical Muslim states.

So the Turkey you are describing might be true of say 5- 15 years ago but it has changed a LOT in the past 3- 4 years.

Given how xenophobic the original Taken was, I doubt the sequel was going to be any less. We have a plot where after a Muslim funeral, the father of one of the victims who made a living from kidnapping young women and selling them to sex slavery talking about gaining revenge on the person who killed them all with a straight face.

Its that man again!!

Your uninformed sanctimony is as repugnant now as it was in February. Have you ever read a history book?

Islam was founded by a mass-murdering child rapist. Since then it has unleashed untold suffering and misery on the peoples it has conquered by its "submit or die" ethos. Don't believe me? EVERY Muslim majority society today is marked by violence, oppression, slavery (as in the movie), bigotry and rampant corruption. EVERY ONE!

It's no more "xenophobic" to depict such a crede as evil than it is to depict Nazism or Stalinism as evil. I suggest you educate yourself before parading your ignorance.

Xenophobic? It's the truth! The West has become far too soft due to its welfare state and many from the third world take advantage of its system and the situation is getting worse day by day. Nobody is saying all nations are like that. Nobody is saying all Turkey is like that, but a lot of criminals who are hardened by the brutal police culture of these countries have a free run in the West. That is what the movie depicted. And yes, you are crazy.