Traitor (2008)
Don Cheadle: Samir Horn
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Quotes
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Samir Horn : You know that the Qu'ran says that if you kill an innocent person it's as if you've killed all mankind?
Roy Clayton : It also says that if you save a life its like you've saved all mankind... You're a hero Samir.
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Samir Horn : Oh I'm a terrorist ?
Roy Clayton : I don't know you tell me , you've been selling them explosives.
Samir Horn : Oh I sell to who can afford to buy it... like the US Government.
Max Archer : Only ours don't kill innocent people
Samir Horn : Oh yeah they do genius, people just usually have darker skin
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Samir Horn : I've been in a lot of battles. And it may have seemed like a suicide mission at the time, but we always had a plan to come home.
Omar : You must be willing to sacrifice some of your pawns if you want to win the game.
Samir Horn : I don't know.
Omar : I think you do. You risked your life to share your food with a stranger.
Samir Horn : That's not the same thing. I was just doing my duty. If I had known...
Omar : Jihadi is also your duty. Ahmed has told me what you have done in Afghanistan.
Samir Horn : Tactics have changed my friend.
Omar : Tactics have always changed. You don't defeat an empire fighting by their rules. Once upon a time it was the Americans who were terrorists to the British. They forgetting their history already.
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Samir Horn : If a man hasn't found something he's willing to die for, he isn't fit to live.
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Roy Clayton : [last lines - peace greeting] Al-Salamu Alaykum.
Samir Horn : Alaykum Al-Salaam. And you should *start* the conversation with that.
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Samir Horn : The truth is complicated.
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Samir Horn : [Regretting killing 2 innocent people] Allahom Eghferly... Allahom Eghferly ! (Oh Allah, Please forgive me!)
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Samir Horn : [defying FBI agents] The only difference between you and him is he *knows* he's an asshole.
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Omar : It's true what they say. War is the lesser Jihad. To overcome temptation, to live rightly, that is the great Jihad.
Samir Horn : And is that what we've been doing? Did you ever ask yourself that?