Posted on 01/12/2005 5:27:14 PM PST by quidnunc
This past week, the Undergraduate Council presented an advance screening of the first three episodes of Fox’s popular television show, “24.” In doing so, the council insensitively aired an offensive portrayal of Middle Eastern Americans. Given the simplistic depiction of Middle Eastern Americans in Fox’s “24,” the show was inconsistent with the values of cultural awareness and diversity that the Undergraduate Council and the University seek to promote.
The show portrays a Turkish-American Muslim family in Los Angeles, Western in appearance and lifestyle, as a terrorist sleeper cell. In a news story that appeared in the Edmonton Times, a Fox spokesman refused comment when asked about the questionable content of the show. But the fact remains that 24’s facile and harmful representation of this “model” terrorist cell exceeds what is realistic and what is necessary for the show’s entertainment value. The show makes sure to convey how long this family lived in the United States, participated in its commerce and even utilized its public schools. Over the breakfast table, a familiar setting to us all, the father tells the family: “What we will accomplish today will change the world. We are fortunate that our family has been chosen to do this.” “24” has essentially turned the kitchen table of an average Muslim family into the center of all the evil that has gripped our nation. The implication of the episode is that one can never be certain that the Muslim or Arab family next door are not terrorists. Harvard should be the last place such a mentality is accepted.
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And this is supposed to be inaccurate?
When I hear arabic organizations loudly, publicly, vigorously arguing against Jihad, against the Iraqi terrorists, against the human rights abuses in arabic countries, then I'll start to give a damn about their objections to realistic portrayals of their culture.
Last sentence. "The implication of the episode is that one can never be certain that the Muslim or Arab family next door are not terrorists"
Very accurate depiction of terrorists. They lay in wait.
We could fall on our faces watching the so called "reality shows" and be lulled into a sense of stupidity. but we are better off with intellectual stimulation such a series provides.
As is with any tv series, the disclaimer says the scenes and persons depicted in this episode are fictitous and in no way are ment to represent similaritys to real people.
CAIR wants to distract us from factual awareness of the threat Islam is to America with diversional rhetoric about profiling Arabs is unfair. If I recall, they have been threatening Americans for years. They attacked us first.
They haven't denounced the threats or identified those Muslims who threaten their reputation. It is what Muslims in America HAVE NOT DONE that should enlighten us to the real threat Islam is to America and freedom.
By the end of the series, there will be evil white men pulling the strings. Its Keifer Sutherland after all.
Racism and xenephobia does exist in this world and it can be practiced by your next door neighbor. Just because someone has lived here all his life does not mean that he is going to accept everyone in this country.
Sleeper cells DO assimilate.
Funny how CAIR thinks it is racist to portray muslims as racists working in an underground terrorist movement. I cannot remember the last time I saw Turks even portrayed in a tv or movie (it would have to be something from the late 1960s). If we can all be heroes then we can also all be portrayed as villians. The family in 24 appears to be well off and the son is chased by a pretty blonde girlfriend.
Well I guess we know who the next infidels to be murdered are. (Cast, crew, producers of "24")They signed their death warrants by being part of a pretend show. It as good a reason for these psychpaths.
Islam is the "Smallpox" of the 21st Century.
Everywhere it spreads, it brings horror, death, pain and destitution.
I lost track of the plot when I missed a couple episodes of season 2. It started out with muslim terrorists then went to American militia men, and then seemingly back to muslim terrorists. I never did understand how the two got linked together in the plot (apart from red herrings and "duped" agents).
"The implication of the episode is that one can never be certain that the Muslim or Arab family next door are not terrorists"
Why is this season of 24 such big news? It is not like it is the first time that they have shown muslim terrorists trying to strike against this country.
If I were a Muslim American, I would be doing everything I could to root out those bad apples. I would sell out my brother If I knew he was a terrorist. That's after I kicked his butt really really badly.
CAIR should be exposing radical clerics and mosques and denouncing those who would celebrate the 9/11 attacks (as recently happened in England).
With us or against us.
Weren't some upper people at CAIR caught sponsoring terrorism?
That's what the Unabomber's brother did.
He said it hurt, and it would. But the life of a brother who is a terrorist is nothing compared to the greatness of this nation.
Oh, heaven forbid they might try and portray next some middle-eastern guys with student visas entering America to get pilot training so they can slam jumbo jets into the World Trade Center towers. That's just too far fetched and improbable!
Idiots at Harvard. I think I have more brains then all of them put together.
Many a family has seen their name dragged through the mud over the horrible deeds of one.
It helps to show that just because two people are related does not mean that they share the same views.
This was lost on the left when discussing Osama bin Laden's 20+ siblings and countless cousins etc.
You also missed the Mexican drug lord, and his brother.
You will hear that right after the Media admits it is the Democrat party's public relations arm.
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