I’m watching “True Lies” with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis, a really fun movie. I watch it every time it’s one because we vacationed in Key West the year they blew up the portion of the old bridge near Marathon that parallels the new Seven-Mile Bridge.

Anyway, if you don’t know the movie, it’s about members of “Crimson Jihad,” a Muslim terrorist group, that steals a nuclear weapon and plans to detonate it in Miami. There seems to be no political correctness involved in the depiction of the terrorists. The leader makes no bones about wanting to kill Americans for bombing Iraq during the Gulf War. They’re Arabs and they want to kill Americans. Simple as that.

Now, keep in mind that this movie was made in 1994, a full seven years before 9/11, when Arab terrorists actually did kill 3,000 Americans. But after that atrocity it somehow became verboten to depict terrorists as Muslims or Arabs. This was taken to absurd lengths when a movie of Tom Clancy’s book “The Sum of All Fears,” about Muslim terrorists smuggling a nuclear weapon into the United States, suddenly became a movied about neo-Nazi terrorists wanting to explode a nuclear weapon in the U.S.

We can thank the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for browbeating Hollywood into this ridiculous decision. But where was CAIR in 1994? Why weren’t they upset about the buffoonish depiction of Arabs in “True Lies”? And why do we, not only here but in Europe, play this silly game?

UPDATE: Speaking of CAIR…