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."
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.
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...
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.
Everybody else has been and is portrayed as the bad guys in shows, movies, etc. Why should Muslims be exempt?
(24 ping!)
CAIR. The same people who think that the crescents on outhouses are racist symbols. Snort.
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
I don't think German Americans complained about the movies showing the Nazis as the bad guys during World War II.
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.
I don't know, that television show Monk is pretty light-hearted and entertaining...
Oh contraire, my hubby had personal interactions with Muslims in Iraq for 15mos.....
Must see arab TV.
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.
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.
This is breaking my heart.
"Welcome to freedom of expression, peckerwood!"
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?
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