Good!
The writers, producers/directors of 24 must have gotten a lot emails telling them that they jumped the Shark by making evil rich white Americans the terrorists in the last couple of sessions of 24.
Hmm...that's interesting for them to say. It happens.
I watched the first season of 24 and thought it was excellent.
I didn't watch anymore because:
A)They refused to address the 9-11 Muslim terrorist issue, which to me was the most relevant topic (as previous posts noted, rich evil white european types are always the terrorists on 24 to maintain political correctness)
B)After you saw the first season, it seemed like every episode was a repeat.....dumb Kim gets taken hostage, Bauer screams "Open the door!.....Open the door!!!" with his gun pointed....it got a bit humorous and redundant.
But, if the real world sleeper cell is this seasons plot, I will give it a go....
Daniel Pipes
Weblog
CAIR's Legal Tribulations
June 27, 2003
CAIR's Legal Tribulations. For several years, one of my severest and most persistent critics has been one Randall ("Ismail") Royer, an American convert to Islam. Here's a typical comment of his from his weblog dated Sept. 17, 2002: after calling me a "pop bigot" he comments on my "War on Campus" article with the following elevated and elegant commentary: "[Pipes] has served up another steaming shovelful of fertilizer. What a joy it is to read this guy. His stuff requires no real effort to deconstruct, no deliberate propaganda analysis to realize how he intends to deceive the reader."
I mention this unsavory person because today he was indicted and arrested for his association with terrorism, specifically his having joined the Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba, traveled to Pakistan, done propaganda work for it, and "fired at Indian positions in Kashmir." In addition, the indictment also states that Royer "possessed in his automobile an AK-47-style rifle and 219 rounds of ammunition" in September 2001. The grand jury charges that Royer "did unlawfully and knowingly begin, provide for, prepare a means for, and take part in a military expedition and enterprise to be carried on from the United States against the territory and dominion of India, a foreign state with whom the United States was at peace."
It's also worth noting that Royer was working for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), militant Islam's most aggressive political organization in North America, when he began training with Lashkar-e-Taiba. (He served there variously as a communications specialist and a civil rights coordinator; see an IslamOnline "Live Dialogue" for him sharing a by-line with CAIR's executive director, Nihad Awad.) This means that CAIR now has a record of at least two former employees indicted and arrested in 2003 on terrorism charges; the other was Bassem Khafagi, CAIR's director of community relations before his arrest this January. Oh, and one must not forget that a member of CAIR's advisory board, Siraj Wahhaj, was named as one of the "unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators" in the attempt to blow up New York City monuments nearly a decade ago. So, CAIR not only apologizes for terrorism but is now implicitly accused of having more direct links to it. (June 27, 2003)