Towelhead (2007)

Peter Macdissi: Rifat Maroun

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• Rifat Maroun : Just so you know, we've decide not to exchange gifts this year. We are protesting the fact that Bush is waiting until after the holiday to wage war.

  Gail Monahan : Whatever you you want.

  [to Jasira] 

  Gail Monahan : So glad to see you.

  Rifat Maroun : [bitterly in Arabic]  Sharmoota...

• Rifat Maroun : [exasperated by visit]  This guy is something else. He's an Army Reservist; he thinks I love Saddam. It's an insult, I'm an American citizen.

• Rifat Maroun : [after finding out the names that Zach called Jasira]  You know, her red neck of a husband will soon get called up, and then Saddam will gas him. And that will serve all of them right.

• Gail Monahan : Hey, what's with the flag?

  Rifat Maroun : Oh, I'm supporting the war.

  Gail Monahan : I thought you were protesting it.

  Rifat Maroun : I'm protesting one aspect of the war and supporting another aspect. See, the mark of intelligence, Gail, is having the capacity of holding two conflicting ideas in your head at one time.

• Rifat Maroun : [to Jasira upon arriving home from work]  First your idiot of a president declares a ceasefire, even though Saddam isn't dead yet, or even captured. And then I ran over a cat, about a block way.

• Rifat Maroun : [reading the mail]  Wow. Your mother's dating Colin Powell now. Good. I hope he marries her. What a hypocrite. How are you supposed to learn anything anyhow?

  Rifat Maroun : I have to go to Thena's...