Fox TV Accused of Stereotyping American Muslims

Reuters ^ | 1/13/04 | Reuters staff

[FormerACLUmember]

What is amazing is that 3 and 1/2 years after the 9/11 attack, that this is the first major program showing the IslamoFascists are our enemy.

[FormerACLUmember]

Oh, and I have had quite enough of that evil CAIR and its army of vermin shysters, that al Queda front group dedicated to destroying the US by misusing our own laws.

[eureka!]

Good point. Fox should do a reality show translating some of the PLO programs (like the one about a Jewish boy wanting the eyes of a little Palestinian girl for a transplant) and other Islamist fare. See how that goes over...

[AQGeiger]

Well, Muslims and Arabs don't portray themselves very well in general, now do they? If they didn't constantly behave in such an uncivilized way, then maybe they wouldn't be portrayed that way.

[KJC1]

Everybody else has been and is portrayed as the bad guys in shows, movies, etc. Why should Muslims be exempt?

(24 ping!)

[mewzilla]

CAIR. The same people who think that the crescents on outhouses are racist symbols. Snort.

[NorCalRepub]

well let's have a show depicting the wealth of innovative things and inventions they have brought to the world in the last 100 years......showing a can of Penzoil of 1/2 hour may not make the ratings

[mainepatsfan]

I don't think German Americans complained about the movies showing the Nazis as the bad guys during World War II.

[mlbford2]

The response (of lack of) from the islamic world(here and abroad) after 911 has convinced me that this is not a war against 'islamofacists' but actually against islam. For gawd sakes, these fools were dancing in the streets worldwide. Even the ones who were not as vocal believe that it might have been wrong but we (US) deserved it. They come right out and say it. How many islamic protests against this movement have you seen. 0, that's how many. All I hear from islamic folks hear in the US is how our foreign policy has created the problem. That's bs. Sorry folks, but this is a religious war and don't let the MSM pc you into thinking anything different.

[DTogo]

"True Lies," you can actually take it seriously now!

[Tempest]

""There aren't any positive or even neutral portrayals of Muslims on TV; whenever Muslims or Arabs are portrayed it is always in a stereotypical way," she said."

I don't know, that television show Monk is pretty light-hearted and entertaining...

[mystery-ak]

Oh contraire, my hubby had personal interactions with Muslims in Iraq for 15mos.....

[bananarepublican23]

Must see arab TV.

[rdl6989]

Oh, but if hollywood portrays Americans in a negative light, the media praises the show as a work of art. The libs are scared to death that terrorists might be shown as bad, America shown as good.

[peyton randolph]

Some stereotypes are grounded in truth.

When Muslims focus on personal hygiene, equality for women, and the sanctity of life in general, I'll stop considering them the missing link in the evolutionary chain.

[Poser]

This is breaking my heart.

[weenie]

"Welcome to freedom of expression, peckerwood!"

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile, Arab TV is reporting that the US and Israel caused the tsunami. Gee, wonder why CAIR doesn't have its shorts in a knot over that?

[MindBender26]

Every Islamic terrorist attack in the last 33 years, from the 1972 Olympics until today, 53 events in total, was carried out by Muslim men, age 17 to 42.

Targeting them is not profileing.

Were talking about a description of the suspects!!!!

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Unfortunately, that show can never be aired, because it was Western interests (American and British) that went to the Mideast, set up the means of extracting the crude and the refineries to process it, then taught them how to do it. We did so because we already had a strong need of the fuel. They didn't even have the machinery that required petrol let alone the means of extracting and refining it.