Muzzies in TV Commercials

Ad features Arab man in back seat, speaking of his daughters wedding. Auto next to a light house on a jutting piece of land.

that first one is not one I had seen before- but doesn’t it seem clear that woman can not be related to those dark skinned men? Same with the second commercial- his ‘son’ looks middle eastern. I have just been noticing a lot of that lately- muslim-looking men in commercials.

I challenge you to tell us the difference between a Sikh and an Arabic Muslim based on a scant few seconds of a TV commercial. A proper Sikh would be wearing a headdress but that is not an absolute.

This guy doesn't seem very Muslim to me. Can you please tell me what I missed? How did you know this person is Muslim?

As to the Volvo commercial, I didn’t see the man as being an Arab or even a Muslim. For one thing in the 1st spot in the post (or the 2nd in the series of commercial spots) the wife is driving the car and the husband is seated in the back seat. What sort of devout Muslim would allow that? LOL! And in the spot where the father speaks, he doesn’t sound particularly Muslim to me.

Also in the link provided by coop71, the actor playing the father of the bride is credited as being Ron Jack Foley (Actor/Actress - Plays father of bride) – that doesn’t sound like a Muslim guy to me.

From the “father” in the TV spot’s appearance - he and the “son” seated in the front seat look a bit more Greek to me or possibly Indian American (dot not feather - and FWIW there are Indians who are Christians) or he could even be Jewish or a man of Spanish heritage or of Armenian or of other Eastern European heritage. But what difference does it make? Are blonde haired blue eyed women only allowed to marry blonde haired blue eyed men and visa versa? Do we really want to go there?

And if you saw this man on the street without his Yarmulke or “kippah”, would you think him to be an Arab?

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/hasidic-nypd-recruit-fired-beard-article-1.1092499

I am half Norwegian (my dad’s birthplace) and my mother’s ancestry is half German, ¼ Welsh and ¼ English. My brother and I both have fair skin but I have red hair and green eyes and my older brother has blonde hair and blue eyes. I have lots of freckles and can sunburn even if I stand too close to a light bulb, while my brother, like my father can get very tanned and very “brown” if working a lot outside in the sun. FWIW my Norwegian born grandmother was a sun worshipper and would get so dark from sun tanning at the beaches of the New Jersey shore, that by the end of the summer her skin looked more like a black person’s than many of the black people I’ve been friends with over the years. (And to further FWIW, I was a friends with a “light skinned” black girl in HS who proved the false idea that “blacks” can’t get sunburned or ever get sun poisoning”.)

My brother married a gal whose ancestry is part Irish and part Welsh (a lot like my mother’s paternal ancestry and of many of the people who immigrated to PA in the mid 1800’s and settled in PA coal country and worked in the coal mines) and about ½ to ¼ on her dad’s side - American Indian. My SIL has dark, almost jet black hair, brown eyes and a darker, rather “olive complexion”.

Example of dark skinned brown eyed Irish and Welsh:

Irish actor Colin Farrell:

Welsh born actress Catherine Zeta-Jones:

My brother and his wife had/have three, now adult children with families of their own. My eldest niece looks a lot like her mom – very dark hair, brown eyes and her mother’s complexion but looks more like an Irish or Welsh type, their second child however has blonde hair and blue eyes (something that my mother thought would be impossible as dark hair and brown eyes are a dominant traits) and except for not having the thin straight “nordic” nose, she looks a lot like my father’s side of the family, and their youngest, my nephew – well he looks a lot like his grandfather on his mother’s side, as what some might see as having American Indian looks or traits but he’s often been mistaken as having Italian or Greek or even Jewish ancestry. And FWIW, he has a neat, well trimmed and short beard. He is not in any way a Muslim nor is he a “hipster” – he just likes having a beard.

I would add that a few years ago I reconnected through FB with a gal who I was friends with many years ago who I knew from years ago when she lived in Baltimore. She was originally from New Orleans, from a rather “old South” and very politically well-connected family and was a blonde with green eyes. She remarried some years later after moving back to Louisiana after a very short and difficult and FWIW abusive marriage here in Baltimore and relocated with her new husband to the Chicago area where he was originally from.

When I first saw the pictures of her husband on FB, with his rather dark complexion and his dark wavy hair, I at first thought he was a light skinned “black” or was part black or perhaps of an Arabic ancestry, but no - as I later learned, her husband is Jewish.

I have just been noticing a lot of that lately- muslim-looking men in commercials.

I think, at least in part of what you are actually seeing is that 1) beards are very popular now, and not just with the Hispters, but in general – it’s a fashion trend and FWIW I think a nicely trimmed beard can be a very sexy look on some men; and 2) you are looking to seeing any man in a commercial who is not a blue eyed blonde and who also has a beard as being some sort of Arab or as being a subliminal message promoting Islam. That’s not the case, at least to the 3 commercials posted above.

I do agree that some commercials do push an “agenda” but as the commercials you are concerned about that coop71 posted? Those commercial are IMO, are not the hill to die on. I think you are reading way too much into it.

FWIW one of my favorites commercials of late (and FWIW the guy reminds me a lot of my nephew and even looks a bit like him):

State Farm® commercial - "Never"

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