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."
They're just pi$$ed about one of the lines that the SecDef character said in the first episode. In speaking to his lib activist son, he said "Spare me your 6th grade Michael Moore logic".
Wusses!
Good point. I don't see National Muslim organizations condemming that. I guess they don't CAIR.
Nooooo! FOX caved to terrorist supporters and cretins who make no bones about wanting to replace the US Constitution with a savage, barbaric, 7th Century Sharia (Islamic laws) that heavily favors Muslims over non-Muslims and was manifested in all its gory by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
These people make me sick with their "humiliation" and "race-baiting" caterwaling. These CAIR types don't want to admit that most forms of terrorism and Islamofascism exist and are carried out by (gasp) nutcase Muslims against non-Muslims for the gory of allah.
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,"
Now what was on TV on 9/11?????
In the past 100 years? You'd be watching those colorful bars for 30 minutes.
The IslamoFascists ARE the Nazis of the 21st Century. They are the enemies of all humanity, busy mass murdering across the globe: innocent Buddhist Thais, Filipino Catholics, Sudanese Christians, Israeli Jews, Indian Hindus, Iranian Bahais, and about anyone else they can get their evil hands on.
This is a little long and it's been around for a while but it does speak to the assumptions that some people jump to when thinking about our little mooslim buddies...
HISTORY TEST
> Please pause a moment, reflect back, and take the following multiple
> choice test. The events are actual cuts from past history. They actually
> happened!!!
>
> Do you remember?
>
> In 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:
> a. Superman
> b. Jay Lenno
> c. Harry Potter
> d. Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40
>
> 1. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred
> by:
> a. Olga Corbett
> b. Sitting Bull
> c. Arnold Schwarzenegger
> d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
>
> 2. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:
> a. Lost Norwegians
> b. Elvis
> c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women
> d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
>
> 3.During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:
> a. John Dillinger
> b. The King of Sweden
> c. The Boy Scouts
> d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
>
> 4. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:
> a. A pizza delivery boy
> b. Pee Wee Herman
> c. Geraldo Rivera
> d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
>
> 5. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old
> American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair
> by:
> a. The Smurfs
> b. Davy Jones
> c. The Little Mermaid
> d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
>
> 6.In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver
> trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:
> a. Captain Kidd
> b. Charles Lindberg
> c. Mother Teresa
> d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
>
> 7.In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:
> a. Scooby Doo
> b. The Tooth Fairy
> c. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
> d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
>
> 8. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:
> a. Richard Simmons
> b. Grandma Moses
> c. Michael Jordan
> d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
>
> 9.In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:
> a. Mr. Rogers
> b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill' s women
> problems
> c. The World Wrestling Federation
> d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
>
> 10.On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles
> to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one
> crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by
> the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:
> a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd
> b. The Supreme Court of Florida
> c. Mr. Bean
> d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
>
> 11.In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:
> a. Enron
> b. The Lutheran Church
> c. The N FL
> d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
>
> 12. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:
> a. Bonnie and Clyde
> b. Captain Kangaroo
> c. Billy Graham
> d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
>
> Nope, .....I really don't see a pattern here to justify profiling, do
> you?
>
> So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics
> intent on killing us, airport security screeners will no longer be
> allowed to profile certain people. They must conduct random searches of
> 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper
> identification, secret agents
> who are members of the President's security detail, 85-year old
> Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winning and former
> Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40
> alone because of profiling.
Doesn't Fox realize that CBS recently got in a world of trouble for broadcasting material known to be false, made up and untrue?
Sure sounds like these proposed TV spots qualify...
Where can we write to Fox and protest this Arab terrorist Butt Kissing Fest?
Jamie Lee Curtis.....
What was the show about?
LVM
"True Lies" was an amazingly prescient movie, a decade ahead of 9-11 and dead on accurate of the Islamist mind set.
?????
Ah. A fantasy show.
I'm sure there are indeed good muslims but they are curiously silent throughout all of this.
The war I mean, not the TV show.
I'm afraid that islam can't change reality, not in the U.S.
The news has to be shown the way it happens. That reality forms the perception. The producers can't cancel what the killer savages do daily.
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