Muslims Complain of Hollywood 'Bad Guy' Image (Muslims-Complain-yet-again ALERT)

NewsMax ^ | Thursday, Jan. 25, 2007 11:57 a.m. EST | NewsMax.com Staff

[kromike]

Muslims Complain of Hollywood 'Bad Guy' Image

Western movies from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to "Aladdin" promote negative stereotypes of Muslims by casting them all too often as villains, a British Muslim pressure group said on Thursday.

"There is no such thing as a Muslim good guy," said Arzu Merali, co-author of a report by the Islamic Human Rights Commission that argued that movies played a crucial role in fostering a crude and exaggerated image. The commission's study, based on soundings taken from almost 1,250 British Muslims, also found that 62 percent felt the media was "Islamophobic" and 14 percent called it racist.

"Cinema, both in Hollywood and Britain, has helped to demonise Muslims. They are portrayed as violent and backward. That reinforces prejudices," Merali told Reuters.

"This stretches back before the 9/11 attacks in the United States", said Merali, head of research at the campaigning body.

Prime Minister Tony Blair's government has commissioned studies into attitudes towards racial and religious minorities following bombings in London in 2005 when four British Islamists killed 52 people in suicide attacks on the transport network.

The government has cracked down on radical extremist preachers who, it says, inspire suicide bombers.

But critics say the government's focus on Islam could backfire if Britain's 1.8 million Muslims feel under attack.

The report pointed the finger of blame as far back as the 1981 blockbuster "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in which "the cultural stereotypes and scenarios are patently obvious" as veiled women hurry through the bazaar to snake-charming music.

The 1998 film "The Siege" starring Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington was accused of reinforcing "the monolithic stereotype of the Arab/Palestinian/Muslim being violent and ready to be martyred for their cause."

Disney's cartoon was criticised for describing Aladdin's homeland as "barbaric."

The report called for British film censors to be given greater power to cut out "objectionable material" and said media watchdogs in Britain should be more effective in ensuring "responsible coverage" of Muslims.

© Reuters 2007.

[kromike]

"There is no such thing as a Muslim good guy," said Arzu Merali...

That's because it's like a Law of Physics. The Earth has never been flat and there never WILL be a Muslim good-guy. Not in this century, at least....

[Tzimisce]

I guess they missed "Syriana", "Kingdom of God"...

[Slings and Arrows]

I think they're very clever. They've decided to whine us to death. < /douglas_adams>

[Caipirabob]

I guess they missed "Syriana", "Kingdom of God"...

That just proves they aren't completely stupid.

[Long Island Pete]

muslims complain of violence to non believers...Oh wait that hasnt happened. Never mind.

[Red Badger]

Sounds like the GEICO Cavemen............looks like 'em, too.......

[weegee]

Can we examine portayals of Jews, Christians, Buddists, Hindus, Wiccan, atheists, and outcasts such as Salman Rushdie in muslim produced films?

[theDentist]

"There is no such thing as a Muslim good guy," said Arzu Merali

Maybe when we start reading of Muslims turning in extremists among them, plotting, supporting terrorist factions, then we'll have some... but until then...

[Melinda]

Another fine example of how Hollywood is taken much more seriously than it deserves.

[eyespysomething]

In Alladin, aren't all the characters Arab (presumably Muslim)? Good and bad?

[KellyAdmirer]

They should be complaining every single day about Muslim terrorists killing women and children, using them as hostages and human shields, and wreaking chaos on the Middle East. Instead, they worry about 20-year-old movies, which as I recall had some positive Muslim characters, too, along with evil non-Muslims. Shows their priorities.

[Boogieman]

Actually if they had actually watched the movie, there is a "Muslim good guy" in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Sallah, played by Edgar Rhys-Davies.

[Shots]

"Disney's cartoon was criticized for describing Aladdin's homeland as "barbaric." "

They do have a fobia about cartoons don't they?

[Diogenesis]

THE REAL DEAL:

================= EXHIBIT 1 ================

Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay attacked by Islamic terrorists.

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================= EXHIBIT 2 ================

London attacked by Islamic terrorists.

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================= EXHIBIT 3 ================

Madrid attacked by Islamic terrorists.

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================= EXHIBIT 4 ================

AMERICANS MURDERED ON A BRIDGE IN FALLUJA BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMAN TERRORISTS

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The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED

================= EXHIBIT 5 ================

TORTURE OF AMERICANS BY ISLAMIC SUBHUMAN TERRORISTS.

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The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED

================= EXHIBIT 6 ================

VERY PARTIAL LIST OF ISLAMIC TERRORIST ACTIVITIES
Full list is pages and pages and pages and pages.

1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated
1972 Munich Olympics Sep-5,1972 (Black September)
1976 Entebbe Hostage Crisis, June 27, 1976
1979 Iran Hostage Crisis, Nov. 4, 1979 444 days
1979 Grand Mosque Seizure, Nov 20,1979
1981 Assassination of Egyptian President, Oct 6,1981
1982 Assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister, Sept 14, 1982
1983 Bombing of US Embassy in Beirut6, April 18,1983
1983 Bombing of Maring Barricks, Beruit, Oct 23,1983
1984 Hizballah Restaurant Bombing, April 12,1984
1985 Egyptian Airliner Hijacking, Nov 23,1985
1985 Rome Airport murders
1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacked, U.S. Navy diver murdered
1985 Achille Lauro hijacking, Homacidal maniac lived in saddams Iraq
1986 Aircraft Bombing in Greece, March 30, 1986
1988 Pan Am 747 Flight 103 Bombing, Lockerbie, 100's murdered
1988 Berlin Discoteque Bombing, Dec 21,1988
1992 Bombing in Israeli Embassy in Argentina, March 17,1992
1993 Attempted Assassination of Pres. Bush Sr., April 14,1993
1993 First World Trade Center bombing, February 26th, 7 Killed, Hundreds injured, Billions
1994 Air France Hijacking, Dec 24,1994
1995 Attack on US Diplomats in Pakistan, Mar 8,1995
1995 Military Installation Attack, Nov 13, 1995
1995 Kashmiri Hostage taking, July 4,1995
1996 Khobar Towers attack
1996 Sudanese Missionarys Kidnapping, Aug 17,1996
1996 Paris Subway Explosion, Dec 3,1996
1997 Israeli Shopping Mall Bombing, Sept 4, 1997
1997 Yemeni Kidnappings, Oct 30,1997
1998 Somali Hostage taking crisis, April 15,1998
1998 U.S. Embassy Bombing in Peru, Jan 15, 1998
1998 U.S. Kenya Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1998 U.S. Tanzania Embassy blown up, 100's murdered
1999 Plot to blow up Space Needle (thwarted)
2000 USS Cole attacked, many U.S. Navy sailors murdered
2000-2003 Intifada against Israel - 100's dead and injured
2000 Manila Bombing, Dec 30,2000
2001 4 Commercial airliners hijacked, 250+ murdered
2001 World Trade Center attacked, 2800+ murdered
2001 Flight 93 murders
2001 Pentagon attacked, 180+ murdered
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl, kidnapped and murdered
2002 Philippines American missionary, Filipino nurse killed
2002 July 4, El Al attack Los Angeles LAX, several murdered
2002 Bali bombing - 200 dead, 300 injured
2002 Yemen, French Oil Tanker attacked
2002 Marines attacked / murdered in Kuwait
2002 Washington D.C. sniper
2002 Russian Theater attacked, 100+ dead
2002 Nigerian riots against Miss World Pageant, 200 dead, dozens injured
2002 Mombasa Hotel Attacked, 12 dead, dozens injured
2002 Israeli Boeing 757 attacked by missiles, fortunately no one injured
2002 August Hotel bombing in Jakarta, Indonesia. 12 dead, dozens injured.
2003 Rusian concert bombing
2003 Phillipines airport and market bombing
2003 Foiled SAM plot in the USA
2003 UN Baghdad HQ Bombing
on and on and on and on their terrorism has gone .........

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The War for Infinite Justice MUST BE ESCALATED

================= EXHIBIT 7 ================

Islamic Terrorists (mainly from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan) attack America
murdering 3000 Americans per hour [pictures censored by the MSM]

The War for Infinite Justice SHOULD HAVE BEEN ESCALATED IN 2001

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================= EXHIBIT 8 ================

Russia, at Beslan, with children murdered by Islamic terrorists.

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================= EXHIBIT 9 ================

=========== Documents linking Atta, Saddam, Nidal, bin Ladin ===========

Handwritten letter dated Feb. 19, 1998 linking bin Laden and Saddam Hussein
discussing arrival of a secret envoy sent by bin Laden to Iraq.
The signature beneath the letter is a codename, "MDA" - the Mukhabarat.

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================= EXHIBIT 10================

=========== Islamic terrorists promising to conquer America prior to murdering all Christians and Jews therein.

"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith,
but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America,
and Islam the only accepted religion on earth"

--Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations), San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998

Qur’an 8:12 “I shall terrorize the infidels.
So wound their bodies and incapacitate them
because they oppose Allah and His Apostle.”

Qur’an 8:57 “If you gain mastery over them in battle,
inflict such a defeat as would terrorize them,
so that they would learn a lesson and be warned.”

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LIBERALISM IS A RETROVIRUS

[Spok]

"The 1998 film "The Siege" starring Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington was accused of reinforcing "the monolithic stereotype of the Arab/Palestinian/Muslim being violent and ready to be martyred for their cause."

Sounds prophetic.
Why don't these guys ever comment on what 9/11, or televised beheadings does for their image? The real stuff doesn't bother them, I guess, but the fiction does.

[darkwing104]

Muslims Complain of Hollywood 'Bad Guy' Image

Well Duh, your group haven't done much to help improve that image either. Until then "deal with it".

[Ieatfrijoles]

There will we be a time in the not-so-distant future that they look back on this as the good ole days. Maybe from their new digs in the stable area at Aqueduct.

[TOWER]

Western movies from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" to "Aladdin" promote negative stereotypes of Muslims by casting them all too often as villains, a British Muslim pressure group said on Thursday.


I thought Aladdin and company were muslim, which would make this statement somewhat Orwellian.

[Shots]

do not know what happened to my last but I said it should have read phobia My bad sorry