http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/ TO PARAMOUNT PICTURES, KHALED HOSSEINI, & MARC FORSTER: Save Zekeria Ebrahimi, 12, Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada and Ali Dinesh, both 11, and their families. Please give us 105(c)3 fiscal sponsorship to raise money to get them into a safe city before the release of your film. <a href=&quot;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243630,00.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;>&#39;Kite Runner&#39; Boys Fear Afghan Backlash</a> <small>[opens in new window]</small> Zekeria, Ahmad and Ali have been plucked from their home in war-ravaged Kabul to star in &quot;The Kite Runner,&quot; the long-awaited Hollywood film of Khaled Hosseini&#39;s bestselling novel. Two were paid over $17,500 each while the other got around $13,700, their parents lost their jobs and they now fear they will be kidnapped or hounded out of Afghanistan because of a rape scene in the film. &quot;I want to continue making films and be an actor but the rape scene upset me because my friends will watch it and I won’t be able to go outside any more. They will think I was raped,” said Ahmad. His careworn father, Ahmad Jan, fears his family will be shunned by fellow members of the Hazara population. The Hazaras have been persecuted for more than a century in Afghanistan, most brutally under the Taliban who massacred them for their Shi’ite Muslim faith. &quot;People will come and arrest us and put us in jail. They will think we’ve made the Hazara look bad,&quot; he said. According to the boys and their parents, they loved acting in the film. Their three months spent filming in China were the first time they had felt truly safe and free to enjoy the things most western children take for granted, such as fairground rides. Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:0:40 CST en-us 3 http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig5066190 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig4685630 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig4455321 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig4173528 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I do not support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig4031694 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3997783 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3995157 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST I support this petition. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3995151 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Paramount If you can pay actors millions of dollars you can bring a few kids who made a great movie for you and their families to the U.S. http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3993569 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Shame on Paramount! I, for one, will boycott this movie. I cannot believe that Paramount would endanger these children, pay them such a meagre sum of money when Paramount stands to make millions, and appear to refuse to help them relocate to a safe place. Again, SHAME on Paramount! It pains me to think that they can't spare some of the money they stand to make to help safely relocate these children off whom they stand to make millions. Just sad.... http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3972261 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3940115 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3938987 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3930082 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3907845 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3906912 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3902293 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST Please help these boys! http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3877257 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3864180 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3864159 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/kiterunner/#sig3861688 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:0:00 CST