Posted on 01/09/2005 9:19:30 PM PST by CHARLITE
Despite their objections to Christianity, it looks like several Muslim groups have joined liberals in the Christmas spirit of being offended by stupid things.
Apparently, they are upset because the new season of the Fox drama "24" depicts a Muslim character as (gasp!) a terrorist.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations plans to bring their concerns about the program to Fox. According to spokeswoman Rabiah Ahmed, "They are taking everyday American Muslim families and making them suspects. They're making it seem like families are co-conspirators in this terrorist plot."
One of the villains is described as a "Walkman-toting, bubble-gum-chewing teenager who fights with his conservative Dad about dating an American girl and talking on the phone." The young man also helps his parents mastermind a plot to kill Americans.
God forbid a television show would present a handful of young Muslims—say, 19 of them boarding airplanes—as terrorists. How ridiculous! As opposed to those lame movie re-makes of Tom Clancy novels, where instead of letting the bad guys be who they are in Clancy's eerily realistic books, white, fascist, Nazis are constantly substituted by Hollywood filmmakers as the only "acceptable" PC-villains.
Airport security must have missed those "Hey! I'm a terrorist,” signs hanging around the necks of the 9/11 hijackers to identify them as murderers. Ironically, the hijackers were also described as "professional, nice looking, young, and Americanized."
Just think, if Mohammed Atta could've walked, chewed gum, and crashed planes into buildings at the same time, he might have won a supporting role next to Kiefer Sutherland. Author's Note: If anything, the American Right should be offended that the terrorist's Dad was described as being a conservative.
In another scene, Ahmed says, a terrorist is shown coming out of a mosque. "The way the episode depicts Muslims creates an atmosphere in which many Americans look at all Muslims as suspects in the war on terror, she adds. It's very dangerous and very disturbing."
I guess if "24" was a true reality show, the only thing that would be coming out of the mosque would be bullets and rocket propelled grenades.
Leave it to a liberal Muslim group on American-Islamic relations to blame the "American" half of the equation for the stereotyping of Muslims. I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that if these same people formed a Council on Israeli-German Relations, the Jews probably get blamed for the Holocaust.
I wonder if the Council on American-Islamic Relations watched the second season of "24."
That season, there was also a main character that was a young Muslim male. If you recall, he was also suspected of being a terrorist mastermind—that is, until his blonde, pale-skinned, anorexic looking fiancé, turned out to be the real Great Satan.
That must have seemed perfectly logical to Muslim groups now complaining about "24," after the rash of hijackings and homicide bombings by skinny, young, blonde women.
Maybe we should start profiling sexy blondes at airports. Ann Coulter, beware!
Amazingly, you never heard any complaints during season two from Victoria's Secret models about being stereotyped as terrorists, although somewhere, Norman Mineta could be heard saying, "If only we'd been strip searching supermodels on 9/11!
The only thing that prevented liberals from being happy with the second season of "24" was that the blonde terrorist's father was not the president of Halliburton.
If Islamic advocacy groups are that upset about Muslims being stereotyped as terrorists, I've got an idea.
Either start talking to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Moqtada al Sadr, and the scores of real terrorists that walk amongst us—or start recruiting those white, fascist, Nazis from the movies.
Until then, it sounds to me like they've got their numbers mixed up.
"24" is fake. 9/11 was real.
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Ping-a-ling!
24 had the line of the year so far: "Spare me your sixth grade Michael Moore logic." Yup, that's a tagline!
jack bauer power hour.
Have we ever seen a terrorist that wasn't a muslim or associated with them? There is the answer, Of course we suspect them of being a terrorist. Especially when they don't help us root them out.
"In a very real sense, the reason September eleven of '01 happened is because right behind me about five blocks the Frank Church committee hearings in the early 1970's and the Carter administration later in the 1970's largely destroyed the CIA's operations directorate." -- Tom Clancy on Kudlow and Cramer, 9/2/03
Ok but i meant the ones the commit the terror for "Allah", sorry i wasn't specific. McVae and those guys are a different kind of terrorist .
True i agree with you too, and i'm not sure how to spell mcveys name either LOL
Check out "The Third Terrorist: The Possible Middle Eastern Connection to the OKC Bombing" by Jayna Davis. Very interesting read. I still think John Doe #2 looks a lot like Jose Padilla (dirty bomb plot detainee)
I happened to think that the "24" programming was very realistic in portraying that our common American enemy hs been granted an ability to operate because of the LACK of enemy profiling.
If these people do not wish to be suspected then their web site needs to denounce the spoken, implied or inferred threats from the terrorists of their similar origin. What would they be trying to hide by changing the subject to unfair profiling, instead of denouncing terrorism and working for the common goal of identifying the perpetrators?
Keep on Keeping on Fox! As a first time viewer to the program "24" I will now be a regular viewer to the real reality of television programming.
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