[phoenix0468]

"...exceeds what is realistic and what is necessary for the show’s entertainment value.

Uh, last I checked about 100% of the terrorists that want to kill us and attack our country are MIDDLE EASTERN. Gees, I wish these liberal dimwitted half baked idiots would all be sent to Iraq or Afghanistan for one week. Then they would get a better understanding of who wants us dead. And it's not the Irish family down the street.

[No Longer Free State]

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.

[evolved_rage]

By the end of the series, there will be evil white men pulling the strings. Its Keifer Sutherland after all.

[weegee]

The American born Lebanese brothers I knew in Catholic high school had a domineering mother was was rabidly antisemetic (and the sons were too, I later learned).

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.

[vpintheak]

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.

[SE Mom]

"The implication of the episode is that one can never be certain that the Muslim or Arab family next door are not terrorists"

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Hmmm...and the implication of an education at Harvard is that one can never be certain that one has learned critical thinking skills.

[Stringfellow Hawke]

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.

[phoenix0468]

I wanted to post this somewhere else, and may do that later. Anyway, I have a theory on terrorism in general. Although at the present time it seems to just be Islamists who are attacking us, I have to believe their is more involved. There are more groups than just Middle East Muslims who hate our way of life. There are Latin American Drug Cartels, Right Wing Militias, Communist organizations in just about every country including ours, and also organizations such as Black Panthers and such. The gamut runs through every race, religion, creed, you name it. What I am trying to say is this, profiling may catch the ones who are outwardly attacking us, but it won't catch those either in our country or outside of it who are willing to collaborate with other groups that hate us. I.E. there is a theory that ties exist between McVeigh and Terry Nichols and Al Queda. Some may think this is far fetched, but a terrorist is a terrorist, and he will get help from where ever he can get it. One interesting thing is Nichols trip to the Philippines. He said it was business, but there are some in the government who surveyed him in training with know terrorists.

This is the scenario. As has been suggested in 24, the many groups that hate our government and our way of life may have already, and could very well in the near future collaborate to launch a massive attack on our country. I am not saying to be paranoid, but if you have a valid reason to believe someone is being subversive, do not hesitate to call the FBI. The worst they can do is survey the suspect until they find out right from wrong. I know this may sound McCarthyist, but we live in a very dangerous time, and our enemy may not just have brown skin, dark eyes, and bow to the east five times a day. He may live in Elohim City, Ok. have blue eyes and blonde hair and profess the name of Christ. Or he may be of east asian decent, smile at you when he hands you your order of moo goo gai pan while laughing inside because he and his communist brothers have found ways to subvert our nation.

We have always been and will continue to be a welcoming nation. We could have closed our shores as tight as a drum on 9/11 but we didn't. We have continued to accept refugees, immigrants, and dissidents. And we are a better and stronger nation for it. But in the midst of those aforementioned is the few bad apples that will and have the fortitude to do harm on us. Be alert, don't be paranoid, but be attentive to what is going on in your neighborhood and town. Get to know your neighbors, and your children's friends. Get to know the dry cleaner and the butcher and the baker. Don't put yourself in a shell and hide away. That is what they want us to do. They want us to be afraid, afraid of the Turkish family across the street, the Latin couple who just moved in next door. They will use this to infiltrate and destroy us. The better we know these people, the better the chance of catching something out of the ordinary.

I love my country and the diversity it thrives on. I want the rest of the world to see us as the "light on the hill" that RWR talked about. We have as many allies as friends out there in the cruel cruel world. I would like to make more.

[backhoe]

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