Posted on 09/07/2022 3:57:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Muslims make up 25% of the global population and Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world — but Muslims only comprise 1% of characters shown on popular televisions series in the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.
Those are just two of the findings in a new report issued Wednesday by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. Researchers investigated 200 top-rated television shows from 2018 and 2019 that aired in these four countries, and surveyed 8,885 characters with speaking roles.
Apart from the numbers deficit, the majority of the Muslim characters were depicted as adult Middle Eastern or North African [MENA] men, despite the fact that Muslims are the most racially and ethnically diverse religious group in the world. These characters were also linked to violent acts and behavior. Over 30% of the 98 Muslim characters were perpetrators of violence, while nearly 40% were targets of such attacks. Less than one-third were portrayed as native English speakers, underscoring depictions of Muslims as "foreigners."
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"The findings in this study reveal how rarely content creators think about including Muslims in popular storytelling– particularly girls and women," said Stacy L. Smith, founder of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative in a press release issued alongside the study. "As a result, viewers would have to watch hours and hours of content before seeing even a single portrayal of a Muslim character– with even more time required to find a portrayal that is not linked to violence or extremism."
More of, we are the world, not a nation of our own.
What does the world population have to do with various countries’ TV fare, are we going to have to start making oriental characters in relation to their numbers on the planet?
I can’t wait for the remake series of The Andy Griffith Show.
How are these lies?
There's 1.8 billion Muslims in the world out of 7.8 billion people total and Islam is without a doubt the fastest-growing religion.
There are barely any Christians on popular TV series but NPR couldn’t give a damn even though Christians outnumber Muslims 20-1 in this country,
Hollyweird is working on a sitcom about ragheads blowing stuff up, honor killings and pedophilia
Libtards will give a standing ovation
Good.
This is America.
If they want to see muslims on TV, they should move to a muslim country.
They tried....but their shows all bombed.
Hector Elizondo, Sal Mineo, and Barry Robins were sure believable A-rabs.
If they’re so damned popular then let them make their own movies, nobody is stopping them.
Oddly enough, that would actually be Christianity.
So as I said, two lies in the first sentence.
Zuckerberg has got your back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT-UkhEP-1g
Do you understand now what open borders, diversity, and multiculturalism were designed to do?
To bad they didn’t have a Barbary Pirates subplot where, as the muzzy ambassador, told John Adams that for Islam not to conduct piratical, slave raiding operations would be a betrayal of the ‘Word of G-d’. Adams and Jefferson were stunned. Jefferson had bought a Koran while studying law (Sale’s translation I expect) and thought it a nutty farrago and never looked at it again. Both he and Adams couldn’t credit that a nation would make piracy and slave raiding a core activity due to super natural dictates. It took many years for the US to deal with this problem.
NPR doesn’t seem to count suicide bombings, beheadings, murders for insults and bomb planting.
Muslim A team would be a hoot
Reruns of Johny Quest have them on often.
Maybe they don’t want to be on TV.
They saw what happened with the playing card thing.
Probably cuz the possible episode names are problematic
S1 E1
My 9 year old bride Fatima’s honeymoon night
S1 E2 Fatimas Clitoral surgery saga
S1 E3 Honour Killing my sister
S1 E4 Bauchi Boys Thursday night out
S1 E5 Who let the goats out !?
S1 E6 Wahabbi Shia Sunni free for all
S1 E7 My fatwa is above your Koran
S1 E8 Where have all the Infidels gone ?
S1 E9 Mohamed loses his beheading knife in the kitchen
S1 E 10 Who’s the kafir now ?
S1 E 11 Jizyah time for the neighborhood.
They have been on Lifetime. Usually beating up and honor killing errant daughters or kidnapping their kids from America and taking them to some Islamic country.
Hard to make nice shows about Muslims because of the way they treat women. Burying some woman up to her neck and throwing rocks at her is hardly sit com fodder.
My apologies to all those Muslims who love peace .
Baywatch... with burkinis
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