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Fox TV Accused of Stereotyping American Muslims
Reuters ^ | 1/13/04 | Reuters staff

Posted on 01/13/2005 4:41:58 PM PST by FormerACLUmember

The Fox television network said on Thursday it will provide its stations with TV spots that portray Muslims in a favorable way after it received complaints for featuring followers of Islam as terrorists on its hit television show "24."

On Monday, Fox premiered the fourth season of "24." The drama featured an upper-middle class Muslim family operating as a sleeper terrorist cell. The Muslim mother poisons her son's non-Muslim girlfriend because it was feared the girl could jeopardize the terrorists' plan.

A Fox spokesman said it would provide public service announcements sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations to its affiliate stations. Local television executives can decide if and when to use the spots.

The move was in response to the Islamic council's complaints about the show.

"What we are hoping to do is to try and mitigate the damages of the stereotypes because it can bring real-life consequences on American Muslims and their lives here," said Rabiah Ahmed, spokeswoman for the Islamic group.

Citing a public opinion survey conducted by Cornell University last year, Ahmed said television influences viewers' perceptions of Muslims.

"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.

"When average Americans don't have any personal interaction with Muslims, whether it be at work or at school, they base their perception of Islam and Muslims from what they see on TV," she added. "We did bring that to Fox's attention."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 24; cair; foxtv; islam; islamofascism; liberalbrownshirts
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To: Darksheare

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x97844

I just posted this thread over at DU. Come on over and lets start some trouble!


121 posted on 01/14/2005 2:52:52 AM PST by bad company (a conservative bases his politics on his morals,a lib bases his morals on his politics)
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To: skimbell
Two more questions to add to your History Test, please:

1. Who threw a grenade into a camp of "fellow" US Soldiers
and killed 7 of them during the first days of the War in Iraq?

2. Who were members of the Itaska 7?

oh, one more

3. Who deserted the US Marines and fled to Lebanon and currently is on leave in Utah?
122 posted on 01/14/2005 3:02:57 AM PST by not2worry (What goes around comes around!)
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To: bad company
Freeper = racists! Proof from their own website!
123 posted on 01/14/2005 6:00:25 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: thompsonsjkc
We really need more programs dealing with the problem of Buddhist, Hindu, and Christian terrorists blowing themselves and innocent people up, flying planes into skyscrapers, mutilating their daughters, etc.

LOL

124 posted on 01/14/2005 6:08:12 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: festus
Can't GW declare CAIR a terrorist support agency and shut em down?

They are sneaky, deceitful fiends, skilled at hiding their true intentions. Let us hope that they can be shut down ASAP. They are EXTREMELY dangerous to the success of the War on Terror.

125 posted on 01/14/2005 6:11:14 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: bad company
I just posted this thread over at DU.

Is Skinner allowing you to do this?

Come on over and lets start some trouble!

I like to think we're above that sort of thing. Of course, I LIKE to think that.

126 posted on 01/14/2005 6:11:34 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: Prime Choice
Gee...what will the CAIR droids say when the next 9/11 documentary airs? That it "unfairly portrays Muslims as terrorists" too? Here's a little suggestion to America's Muslims: don't lie down with dogs and you won't get up with fleas. If you don't like being portrayed as terrorists and terrorist sympathizers, then kick the rotten bastards out of your damned mosques and quitcherbitchen.

It won't matter to CAIR, since they are merely a front for IslamoFascism. They use an army of corrupt lawyers (essentially paid assassins in $3000 suits) to further their evil agenda to sabotage the War on Terror.

127 posted on 01/14/2005 6:15:12 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Walks like duck, quacks like a duck...

Sterotypes are not invented from thin air. They are visual/verbal charicatures of reality slightly embelished to communicate a point.

Had fanatical muslims not terrozied the planet and killed innocent people since - what - about 550AD, I wouldn't think of them as godless killers. Call me a fool, 1400+ years of history is a trend in my book.


128 posted on 01/14/2005 6:15:28 AM PST by IamConservative (To worry is to misuse your imagination.)
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To: IamConservative
Walks like duck, quacks like a duck... Sterotypes are not invented from thin air. They are visual/verbal charicatures of reality slightly embelished to communicate a point. Had fanatical muslims not terrozied the planet and killed innocent people since - what - about 550AD, I wouldn't think of them as godless killers. Call me a fool, 1400+ years of history is a trend in my book.

You are NOT a fool. You are dead on correct.

Islam has only spread by terror, mass murder, and intimidation since its founding. What we are experiencing is nothing new. CAIR is simply bringing the terrorists into the courthouses of the USA, attempting to use our own laws to kill and enslave us.

129 posted on 01/14/2005 6:29:21 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: FormerACLUmember

"The Fox television network said on Thursday it will provide its stations with TV spots that portray Muslims in a favorable way after it received complaints for featuring followers of Islam as terrorists on its hit television show "24."


"NBC, CBS, and ABC today promised to portray NAZIs, Fascists and Japanese Imperialists in a more positive light due to criticisms of their portrayals of Auschwitz, Buchenwald, the Rape of Nanking and the Bataan Death March as representative of all NAZIs, Fascists, and Japanese Imperialists."

Maybe they should have done this back in the 1940's.


130 posted on 01/14/2005 6:35:57 AM PST by ZULU (Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: FormerACLUmember

ER had three black hoods kidnap a doctor last night. What did NBC do?


131 posted on 01/14/2005 6:39:24 AM PST by bmwcyle (Washington DC RINO Hunting Guide)
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To: AQGeiger

"For what reason would you conclude that I favor abortion?"

I did not conclude that; I rather supposed you didn't. Nor do most Muslims or Arabs support terrorism. However, since you were slamming Muslims and Arabs in general for "uncivilized behavior," I thought it proper to point out that there are other demographic groups which, collectively, are guilty of far worse. Perhaps it would appropriate to save the pejorative rhetoric for individuals who actually support murderous behavior rather than applying it to entire ethnic groups.


132 posted on 01/14/2005 7:12:45 AM PST by SausageDog
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To: FormerACLUmember

Until we quit pretending the war on terror is different than a war with Islam we are doomed to failure.

Oddly Islam has no problem declaring war with us. We simply have a hard time believing it and want to pretend it isn't so.


133 posted on 01/14/2005 5:50:19 PM PST by festus (The constitution may be flawed but its a whole lot better than what we have now.)
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To: lowbridge
Is Skinner allowing you to do this?

What skinner don't know won't get me tombstoned!

134 posted on 01/14/2005 10:39:40 PM PST by bad company (a conservative bases his politics on his morals,a lib bases his morals on his politics)
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To: FormerACLUmember
Untrue. Season 2 had Arab terrorists trying to explode a nuke. However, it turned out that evil oil interests within the government knew about the attack and attempted to frame middle eastern regimes in order to get guess what? A war for oil.

Trust Hollywood to turn the enemy into us. I am willing to bet it will happen again this season.
135 posted on 01/14/2005 10:41:50 PM PST by radicalamericannationalist (The Senate is our new goal: 60 in '06.)
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