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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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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.
1 posted on 01/13/2005 4:41:59 PM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: 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.


2 posted on 01/13/2005 4:43:39 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: FormerACLUmember

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...


3 posted on 01/13/2005 4:45:06 PM PST by eureka! (It will not be safe to vote Democrat for a long, long, time...)
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To: FormerACLUmember

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.


4 posted on 01/13/2005 4:45:38 PM PST by AQGeiger (RKBA Royal Enumerator of the Leguminous Stockpile, Wielder of the Enchanted Endoscope of Justice.)
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To: nutmeg

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

(24 ping!)


5 posted on 01/13/2005 4:45:58 PM PST by KJC1 (overused DUmmie words: fascist, hubris, disenfranchisement)
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To: FormerACLUmember

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


6 posted on 01/13/2005 4:46:44 PM PST by mewzilla (Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
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To: AQGeiger

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


7 posted on 01/13/2005 4:48:56 PM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: FormerACLUmember

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


8 posted on 01/13/2005 4:49:01 PM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: FormerACLUmember

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.


9 posted on 01/13/2005 4:49:04 PM PST by mlbford2 ("Never wrestle with a pig; you can't win, you just get filthy, and the pig loves it...")
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To: FormerACLUmember
"True Lies," you can actually take it seriously now!
10 posted on 01/13/2005 4:49:09 PM PST by DTogo (U.S. out of the U.N. & U.N out of the U.S.)
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To: FormerACLUmember
""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...

11 posted on 01/13/2005 4:49:34 PM PST by Tempest (Click on my name for a long list of press contacts)
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To: FormerACLUmember

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


12 posted on 01/13/2005 4:50:04 PM PST by mystery-ak (Jack's Back)
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To: eureka!

Must see arab TV.


13 posted on 01/13/2005 4:50:09 PM PST by bananarepublican23
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To: FormerACLUmember

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.


14 posted on 01/13/2005 4:50:32 PM PST by rdl6989
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To: FormerACLUmember
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.

15 posted on 01/13/2005 4:51:20 PM PST by peyton randolph (CAIR supports TROP terrorists)
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To: FormerACLUmember

This is breaking my heart.


16 posted on 01/13/2005 4:51:26 PM PST by Poser (Joining Belly Girl in the Pajamahadeen)
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To: FormerACLUmember

"Welcome to freedom of expression, peckerwood!"


17 posted on 01/13/2005 4:51:29 PM PST by weenie
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To: rdl6989

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?


18 posted on 01/13/2005 4:51:53 PM PST by mewzilla (Has CBS retracted the story yet?)
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To: FormerACLUmember
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!!!!
19 posted on 01/13/2005 4:52:12 PM PST by MindBender26 (Having your own XM177 E2 means never having to say you are sorry......)
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To: NorCalRepub
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.
20 posted on 01/13/2005 4:52:23 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (I'm fresh out of tags. I'll pick some up tomorrow.)
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