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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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To: bananarepublican23

Bump to that. Maybe Fox should come out with a show with Muslims reading Bibles and leading quiet peaceful God-fearing Jesus-loving lives, that would be unsterotypical.


81 posted on 01/13/2005 5:13:51 PM PST by FITZ
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To: FormerACLUmember

We really need more programs dealing with the problem of Buddhist, Hindu, and Christian terrorists blowing themselves and innocent people up, flying planes into skyscrapers, mutilating their daughters, etc.

/sarcasm


82 posted on 01/13/2005 5:14:11 PM PST by thompsonsjkc
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To: bluejean
Where can we write to Fox and protest this Arab terrorist Butt Kissing Fest?

The person to write would be Gail Berman at Fox but I need to find an addy.

83 posted on 01/13/2005 5:14:14 PM PST by DJ MacWoW ("Don't give me any of your 6th grade Michael Moore logic" Sec'y Defense Heller on 24)
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To: FormerACLUmember
"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."

Hmmmmm...whenever I turn on the tube to watch the news, I'm always seeing Muslims either trying to blow-up innocent Israeli and/or American civilians, attacking our servicemen, or waging ruthless 'jihad' against their non-Islamic neighbors. That's enough for me, but I wish Hollywood would grow some cahonas and start getting real... I'm just tired of seeing the same old neo-Nazis and Russians in politically correct flicks (a la 'The Sum of All Fears--a grave atrocity of a film, especially in how it's plot was fundamentally changed from Clancy's original book), and as far as The Council on American-Islamic Relations is concerned, it can go straight to the infernal region, along with all the rest of the Islamo-fascists out there.
84 posted on 01/13/2005 5:15:20 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner ("Si vis pacem para bellum")
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To: FormerACLUmember
I have more. Those are the tame ones. IMO Islam is a bigger threat to freedom than any previous. How do you fight it? It has no borders. It is a cancer. Cut it...it comes back. Maybe radiation is the answer.
85 posted on 01/13/2005 5:17:30 PM PST by Dallas59 ("A weak peace is worse than war" - Tacitcus)
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To: KJC1
Everybody else has been and is portrayed as the bad guys in shows, movies, etc. Why should Muslims be exempt?

Exactly! Thanks for the ping.

86 posted on 01/13/2005 5:19:30 PM PST by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: SALChamps03

Well --- I think it would anger them even far more if we changed the stereotypes --- started showing Muslims as they should be instead of as they are. Show Muslims embracing Jews, proclaiming that Israel should exist. Muslims trying out Christian churches, drinking, dancing and having fun. Maybe show a Muslim family acting like the Bundy family from the 80s. Then they'd probably whine that we were trying to remold them.


87 posted on 01/13/2005 5:19:34 PM PST by FITZ
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To: Dallas59

Thanks for the grim reminder. I just showed it to my 16 year old son who was made to do a paper in school promoting islam. It is a Catholic school but they must follow government guidelines. Undoubtedly they fear some backlash may be coming against the gazillion muslims living in this country.


88 posted on 01/13/2005 5:21:12 PM PST by JudyinCanada (Five-fingered Canadian)
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To: FITZ

You are so right.


89 posted on 01/13/2005 5:22:06 PM PST by bananarepublican23
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To: bluejean
Gail Bermans address:

Ms. Gail Berman
President of Entertainment
Fox Broadcasting Company
10201 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA, 90035

I'll see if I can find an email. Don't forget to praise what you've seen of 24 to date. Encouragement counts.

90 posted on 01/13/2005 5:25:15 PM PST by DJ MacWoW ("Don't give me any of your 6th grade Michael Moore logic" Sec'y Defense Heller on 24)
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To: JudyinCanada

PROMOTE ISLAM?? In a Catholic school?!

My God.


91 posted on 01/13/2005 5:25:57 PM PST by fo0hzy
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To: fo0hzy

Yes, Catholic school. Needless to say, I called the teacher and asked him if my son could do his paper on another subject. He said this was required, so I said he would do the paper, but he certainly would not be promoting it. I told him as a Christian neither my son nor I would go along with this. He tried to tell me about the "positive" aspects of Islam. I started quoting the writings of their unholy book and talked about what they preach and he quickly realized that I was a little more informed about this death cult than was he.


92 posted on 01/13/2005 5:35:22 PM PST by JudyinCanada (Five-fingered Canadian)
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To: FITZ

LOL...Yeah you're probably right.


93 posted on 01/13/2005 5:37:15 PM PST by SALChamps03
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To: DJ MacWoW

You may want to send him the following:
"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth."

"One of the challenges is understanding the totality of Islam. Don't come up with an opinion and find out the things that support it in Islam. Everything we need to know is in the Koran. We don't need to look somewhere else."
Omar M. Ahmad, chairman of the board of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), San Ramon Valley Herald July 4, 1998

Since 9-11, CAIR, a spin-off of the Islamic Association For Palestine, has seen three of its former employees indicted on federal terrorism charges.

Randall Todd "Ismail" Royer was sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges he trained in Virginia for holy war against the United States and sent several members to Pakistan to join Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Kashmiri terrorist group with reported ties to al-Qaida.

In a plea bargain, Royer claimed he never intended to hurt anyone but admitted he organized the holy warriors after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the U.S.

After his arrest, Royer sought legal counsel from Hamas lawyer Stanley Cohen, who said after 9-11 he would consider serving as a defense lawyer for Osama bin Laden if the al-Qaida leader were captured.

Another CAIR figure, Bassem Khafagi, was arrested in January 2003 while serving as the group's director of community relations. The previous December, Ghassan Elashi, the founder of CAIR's Texas chapter, was indicted for financial ties to Hamas leader Musa Abu Marzook.

Current CAIR leaders also have made statements in support of Hamas and the domination of the U.S. by Islam.


94 posted on 01/13/2005 5:50:36 PM PST by A Navy Vet (CARE PACKAGES for our TROOPS: www.opgratitude.com - www.anysoldier.com - www.uso.org)
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To: FormerACLUmember

"There aren't any positive or even neutral portrayals of Muslims on TV

Duh, well show women in burkas then, that will help.


95 posted on 01/13/2005 5:57:05 PM PST by chewydog
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To: FormerACLUmember
Fox is caving to arab pressure, they should have more guts.
I saw all four hours and it was excellent programming "nothing" at all,IMHO to apologize for.
96 posted on 01/13/2005 6:13:06 PM PST by rodguy911 (rodguy911:First let's get rid of the UN and then the ACLU, or vice versa..)
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To: rodguy911

CAIR is the new race hustler. The networks don't understand however how evil CAIR is, or what its true objectives are.


97 posted on 01/13/2005 6:14:32 PM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: FormerACLUmember

I think they kind of copped out using Turks instead of Palestinians.


98 posted on 01/13/2005 6:14:49 PM PST by Chi-townChief
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To: mlbford2
You definitely have their number.
99 posted on 01/13/2005 6:14:53 PM PST by rodguy911 (rodguy911:First let's get rid of the UN and then the ACLU, or vice versa..)
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To: peyton randolph

new poll says fox watchers more likely to support torture than other americans

http://swiftreport.blogs.com/news/2005/01/good_news_for_g.html


100 posted on 01/13/2005 6:22:55 PM PST by kevter
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