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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
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To: FormerACLUmember
I hate stereotypes in television...especially the stereotype in practically every law&order, cops&bad guys type shows that portrays 99% of the criminals as white, middle-class males.
The only reason I watch 24 (aside from it being an excellent show), is that it puts forth the effort to balance the good characters with the bad. There are plenty of good white men and women, and bad, good Latinos and bad, good African-Americans and bad, good Republican types and bad, good Democrat types and bad...and now good Muslims and bad.
Why should they suddenly destroy their balance to portray all Muslims as only good? Not to mention the FACT that there are plenty of terrorist, sleeper cells living in our country (just as the 19 Saudi Arabian Muslims were doing before they came out of their hiding on 9/11). The show is only making use of this fact.
CAIR...you can go to hell.
To: AQGeiger
Hey man, haven't you heard? Islam is the official Religion of Peace! And atrocities committed in the name of Christ during the Crusades are more relevant today than any non-peaceful acts perpetrated by contemporary practitioners of the Religion of Peace.
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posted on
01/13/2005 4:58:13 PM PST
by
Aetius
To: FormerACLUmember
Addressed to CAIR...not you...good post.
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posted on
01/13/2005 4:58:55 PM PST
by
weenie
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
haha......i was saying that tongue in cheek......I am aware of the industrial changes especially after the first World War but I know we were there way before that......thanks for the info though....my comedy gene must not be kicking in today
To: skimbell
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posted on
01/13/2005 4:59:16 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
To: crazyhorse691
Seriously!
If you're really concerned about bad PR-putting the brakes on the beheading videos could be a good start!
To: mlbford2
Bingo.........Post #9 ........we have a winner
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posted on
01/13/2005 4:59:47 PM PST
by
jeremiah
(Either take the gloves off of our troops, or let them come home NOW)
To: FormerACLUmember
Just wait; the true villains will probably turn out to be some white supremacist group or some officially sanctioned villain that fits the PC archetype.
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posted on
01/13/2005 5:00:15 PM PST
by
Aetius
To: 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. What is also surprising is that we haven't yet seen a feature film about the 9/11 attacks per se.
How long was it before they made a film specifically about Pearl Harbor? The first one I can recall was From Here to Eternity. And that was 1953.
Of course, I'm sure that the Hollywood version of a 9/11 feature film would portray in great detail why, exactly, we had it coming.
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posted on
01/13/2005 5:00:20 PM PST
by
Euro-American Scum
(A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
To: rdl6989
When Muslims focus on personal hygiene. That pic is perfect diet material. Look at Arafat and lose your appetite.
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posted on
01/13/2005 5:00:35 PM PST
by
peyton randolph
(CAIR supports TROP terrorists)
To: weenie
Thanks. BTW, The CAIR website is extremely well done and is highly seductive to young muslim minds full of mush, hiding its true intentions.
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posted on
01/13/2005 5:01:05 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
To: mewzilla
I guess the crescent on the outhouse is there to symbolize what goes on inside it.
So, why should we consider the crescent of Islime any different?
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posted on
01/13/2005 5:01:06 PM PST
by
Neever
To: nutmeg
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posted on
01/13/2005 5:01:13 PM PST
by
nutmeg
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
To: FormerACLUmember
Good for them. A job well done, I'd say.
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posted on
01/13/2005 5:01:39 PM PST
by
Oreo Kookey
(How, indeed, do we click our tongues at beheadings and look the other way from abortion? I weep.)
To: All
QUESTION: When is the last time that you saw a portrayal of a "Christian" in a positive light on television?
But that is probably because we are all simply a bunch of Southern, uneducated, homophobic, red staters. Right?!
Soooo I just can't wait until we see all of the FREE TV spots that will be run on all of the networks that portray Christians in a positive light!
To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
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posted on
01/13/2005 5:03:01 PM PST
by
FormerACLUmember
(Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
To: FormerACLUmember
Same goes for other groups like Nazis --- most of us have seen them portrayed negatively, and the Japanese during WWII were portrayed negatively. There are reasons that happens.
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posted on
01/13/2005 5:03:40 PM PST
by
FITZ
Comment #58 Removed by Moderator
To: skimbell
You left out the shooter of the Pope.
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posted on
01/13/2005 5:04:59 PM PST
by
FITZ
To: mlbford2
That's why I have never quite bought the line that this brand of Islam is quite so extreme, or on the fringe among Muslims. You see the polls about how many in the Arab/Palestinian community want to see Israel destroyed, or who support Bin Laden and you come away with quite a different picture than what we are constantly told.
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posted on
01/13/2005 5:05:53 PM PST
by
Aetius
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