Posted on 01/17/2005 3:11:22 PM PST by dennisw
Fox Cuts Out Anti-Muslim Scenes from “24”
“We thank Fox for the opportunity to address the Muslim community's concerns,” a CAIR spokeswoman said.
WASHINGTON, January 16 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The Fox television network has decided to remove some stereotypical aspects about American Muslims from its action drama “24” thanks to immediate action from community leaders.
“We thank Fox for the opportunity to address the Muslim community's concerns and for the willingness of network officials to take those concerns seriously in an atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation,” Rabiah Ahmed, Communications Coordinator of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), said in a press release e-mailed to IslamOnline.net Saturday, January 15.
Following a January 12 meeting with representatives from CAIR, the largest US Muslim civil liberties advocacy group in the country, Fox officials promised that the popular series will be balanced in its portrayal of Muslims.
“There aren't any positive or even neutral portrayals of Muslims on TV,” the BBC quoting Ms Ahmed as regretting.
“When Muslims or Arabs are portrayed, it is always in a stereotypical way.”
Premiered on January 10, the drama portrays a Muslim family as a terrorist “sleeper cell,” who are plotting attacks inside the US.
A young man is seen helping his parents mastermind a plot to kill as many Americans by launching an attack on a commuter train.
The drama showed the mother poisoning her son's non-Muslim girlfriend because she poses a threat to their plans.
The US secretary of state is also seen taken hostage by the “Muslim terrorists.”
It climaxes with the defense secretary shown on an Internet video tape like those coming out of US-occupied Iraq.
Pro-Muslims Ad
Fox further decided to distribute a CAIR public service announcement (PSA) to network affiliates to be aired in proximity to “24.”
CAIR's 30 and 60-second PSA feature American Muslims of European, African-American, Hispanic, and Native American heritage.
Each person in the spots states how he/she and his/her family have served America and ends by saying, “I am an American Muslim.”
“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,” Ms Ahmed 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.”
CAIR urged State Department officials in a meeting on January 13 to issue a report on Islamophobia across the world.
CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad presented in the meeting -- attended by Assistant Secretary Patricia de Stacy Harrison, Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher and Ambassador William Burns -- a proposal for cooperative efforts to challenge both Islamophobia and anti-Americanism.
A recent nation-wide poll, conducted by the Cornell University, showed that at least 44 percent of the Americans backs curbing Muslims’ civil rights and monitoring their places of worship.
A May 2004 report released by the US Senate Office Of Research concluded that Arab Americans and the Muslim community in the US have taken the brunt of the Patriot Act and other federal powers applied in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
That's because the idea of Arab terrorists is too farfetched to be believed.
What Arab terrorists?
I agree. Probably just some window dressing to make the kooks satisfied.
Well, the one guy they were trailing uttered "Allahu Akhbar" moments before driving his car head-on into a fuel truck. So they made it pretty clear that these guys are islamic at least.
There will be a Muslim hero.
You may be right. I'm suspecting it will be the son turning in his parents, which is fine by me.
The first 2 hour episode was fantastic on that first Sunday night. The second 2 hour episode (really two episodes I know) the following night was pretty good but I began to notice that the action was slowing down.
The third showing, last night's one hour episode also lacked the action of the first 2 hour show/premiere. The whole one hour was spent on continuing to follow the guy from the train station to the other terrorists. Basically the whole show was about a few miles on the road.
The pace is slowing. If it continues to slow they'll lose my interest I'm afraid.
Followed the link, read a few. Felt better until I remembered that it is the Muslim's DUTY to lie to the Infidel to advance the cause of Islam. No Muslim can be believed.
They stopped showing a lot of the most anti-Japanese war movies years ago because it "offended" some Japanese to hear John Wayne and other actors bad mouth the "little yella monkeys". They don't seem to worry about offending the Germans, but then they're white, so they have no rights.
You can fool some of the people some of the time,
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Freepers know the truth and the truth will be heard.
OPs4 God BLess America!
I had a bit of trouble getting through Red Rabbit. His latest in PB is "teeth of the tiger" and I am about 2/3 finished. Clancy certainly is not sucking up to Islam so far in this effort.
The mastermind will probably be another eastern European mad at Jack once again.
I would love it if the big baddie turns out to be a thinly-veiled version of Ibrahim Hooper. Wouldn't it be great if it were a Frenchman?
Yep. It will turn out that the SecDef was planning to cut defense programs and the white guy in the warehouse is a lobbyist for Lockheed Martin, who wants to engineer a massive attack so the U.S. increases defense spending further.
I disagree with the "no Muslim rhetoric part" though...it was refreshing to see the suicidal terrorist say "Allah Akbar" before crashing his car, and the boss jihadist say he "martyred himself".
The "big villain" will not be Muslim.
It will be a WHITE bubba from some southern RED state...
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