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."
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.
Addressed to CAIR...not you...good post.
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
Post #29: sweet!
Seriously!
If you're really concerned about bad PR-putting the brakes on the beheading videos could be a good start!
Bingo.........Post #9 ........we have a winner
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.
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.
That pic is perfect diet material. Look at Arafat and lose your appetite.
Thanks. BTW, The CAIR website is extremely well done and is highly seductive to young muslim minds full of mush, hiding its true intentions.
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?
bump
Good for them. A job well done, I'd say.
mega dittos to post 41.
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.
You left out the shooter of the Pope.
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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