Posted on 12/09/2016 6:58:51 AM PST by Kaslin
On Dec. 4, the second Sunday of Advent on the Christian calendar, Fox's "Family Guy" mocked two-thirds of the Holy Trinity as only Fox can. In atheist Seth MacFarlane's gag, Jesus Christ had a human son who he mocked for being bullied at school, comparing that to the horror of the Crucifixion. When his son called him a "dick," he suggested that God the Father was a bigger "dick" for sending him to his death.
On that same day, The New York Times ran an enormous article that sprawled over three pages of the Arts & Leisure section with the headline "Can TV Be Fair to Muslims?"
Just try to imagine Muslims being mocked on American television as Christians are on "Family Guy" or "South Park." ABC's "The Real O'Neals" is organized entirely around bigotry against the Catholic Church, as is HBO's forthcoming "The Young Pope." But Hollywood's treatment of the Christian majority never bothers The New York Times, which only obsesses over religious minorities, like the 0.9 percent of Americans who identify as Muslim and have never suffered a fraction of the insults aimed at Christians on television.
Times correspondent Melena Ryzik began by complaining about the absence of Muslim characters on shows other than those focused on terrorism or "terrorist-adjacent" storylines. She said: "Could that change now, after a divisive presidential campaign that included vows by Donald J. Trump to stop Islamic immigration? Or will it be more difficult than ever?"
Did we mention that Muslims comprise less than 1 percent of the American population? Exactly what is the market for a Muslim show? And while we're at it, where is there a market for an anti-Catholic comedy series (other than the staff at ABC, of course).
To The New York Times, radical Islamic terrorism is a smaller problem than Islamic representation on entertainment TV. Ryzik assembled a gaggle of exquisitely Islamosensitive TV writers and showrunners to ponder how to create better pro-Muslim TV shows in the Trump era.
Ryzik asked: "The FBI has said that attacks against Muslims were up 67 percent last year. Do you have any anxiety about your shows being fodder for that?" Howard Gordon, who's running a reboot of "24" for Fox, said, "Absolutely, yes." He reported that Muslim Americans trashed his show the first time around. They said, "Hey, I like your show, but you have to understand that you're contributing to this xenophobia by trafficking in this worst fear, this sort of basest fears." Gordon says he wants to create an atmosphere of -- get this -- "vigilant empathy."
Joshua Safran, the creator of ABC's "Quantico," told of crying for hours in the writing room over Trump getting elected. He added: "For me, it was important to not ever put a Muslim terrorist on our show. There hasn't been one. This year we have the appearance of one -- which is a spoiler. But it's not true."
But slander Catholics? ABC does that regularly.
What the Hollywood left wants to make is propaganda that apologizes for America. Aasif Mandvi, a former "Daily Show" correspondent and Muslim activist, explained at one point that "As an artist, you want to stay true to the narrative, and sometimes that goes against your activist agenda, which is to promote this positive image of Muslims."
The entire panel assembled by the Times agrees that the Trump presidency means the stakes are "higher than ever" to make pro-Muslim shows to fight the new administration's alleged Islamophobia. They don't find any cognitive dissonance in seeing it go side by side with shows that stereotype Christians as psychotic power-crazed hypocrites or mock the Christian God as a trinity of dicks.
Hollywood should oughta ponder Americans’ hatred of Hollywood.
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Hey Brent - where were you on 09/11/2001?
That’s a fact!
The whole Quota thing needs to be exploded.
On any given sicom, how many characters need to be gay? 1.8%? No way! How about 30%?
On any given medical show, how many of the top surgeons need to be black? 13%? No way! How about 50%?
On any given office show, how many powerful business executives need to be women? At least 50%!!!
On any given thriller, how many terrorists need to be Muslims? None! Obviously! How could you even consider that??
It’s really quite simple. There is no room in civilized countries for inbred seventh century savages who hate us and want to overthrow us.
And they wonder why we despise them.
If they stay in their own back yard (which does *not* include the United States) and refrain from bothering anyone else they're free to bark at the moon five times a day if they wish.But if they don't behave themselves we'll deliver a couple of rounds to their foreheads...or worse.
A grown man actually admitted this in public?
How about pondering how Muslims hate everybody else?
Someone tell me what’s to love? Muslims are a death cult from centuries back. Their ‘religion’ had oppressed and destroyed everything it touched since then. Even today they not only prefer the dark ages, they want to plunge humanity back into them! What other ‘religion’ is beheading, honor-killing,terrorizing the planet, screaming in the streets wild-eyed, hates progress and freedom and openly ADMITS wanting to dominate or destroy everything else? What’s NOT to hate???
We don’t hate Muslims.
We were just minding our own business on 9/11/01.
Too ignorant of Islam to even have an opinion about them.
They are the ones who declared war on US.
And what we are doing now is not driven by hatred.
It’s common sense self-preservation.
Amen..
Per Fox this morning: students at OSU are decrying the shooting of the Somali who was killed by a cop during a stabbing spree. The students want to charge the cop with murder. Their stated reason: the cop should have waited until the murderer was so exhausted from stabbing people that he could have just been handcuffed. I am not making this up. $240,000 and this is what you get in return.
Of course, neither will be produced by Hollywood because Islam would not be shown in a glorious light and, to put it mildly, people are physically scared of ticking Muslims off.
which is to promote this positive image of Muslims.”
Mr Trump, do you see this? Hollywood wants to officially reach out to muslims. Please relocate ALL Syrian Refugees to Los Angeles so they can help.
Half of America has renounced and rejected hollyweird. And for good cause.
F ‘em.
Hollywood's looking for a reason to hate middle class white people living in flyover...
Why?
Because they're narrow minded bigots who think 'choice of victim' is the ethical divide.
The difference between hating 'Muslims in Detroit' or 'blacks in the Jim Crow South or 'Whites in flover' is not as great as liberal elites would like to think...
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