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All-American Muslim: A Programmed Deception
FrontPage Magazine ^ | November 14, 2011 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 11/14/2011 5:05:09 AM PST by SJackson

Ten years after the worst terrorist attack in American history, the Muslim terrorist is almost entirely absent from movies and television shows. He will show up on the evening news, when there’s no way around it, but when it comes to entertainment, the American TV viewer is fed a steady diet of movies and shows featuring positive depictions of Muslims. And that’s not just liberal bias at work.

I have written about Unity Productions in the past and its pernicious PBS propaganda machine, and another UPF project is MOST (Muslims on Screen and Television) which partners with a number of American useful idiot groups to promote positive depictions of Muslims on television. Another force working toward promoting Muslim propaganda on television is the Muslim Public Affairs Council’s Hollywood bureau, which helped reshape 24 from a show concentrating on the War on Terror into Muslim propaganda. MPAC began life as a Muslim Brotherhood project. Its attempts to control American television programming are in line with the Brotherhood’s mission.

Seen against that backdrop, All-American Muslim, the new unreality show meant to promote the myth that Muslims are just another minority fully integrated into America with the same goals and dreams as the rest of us, is part of a larger agenda. The one that gave us Aliens in America and HBO’s Koran by Heart.

All-American Muslim cuts to the chase pretty quickly with an American undergoing conversion to Islam. While the show tries to present members of its Dearborn Muslim families as individuals and non-conformists, in the final analysis Jeff, an Irish-American who wants to marry in, must conform and submit to Islam. When Jeff pronounces the Shahada, proclaiming that there is no god but Allah and turning his back on his Catholic faith, viewers are supposed to celebrate.

“I am surprised how easy it is to convert to Islam,” Jeff says. What the show neglects to mention is that while it is very easy to convert to Islam, it is quite difficult to leave. Having converted in a nationally televised event, should Jeff leave when the marriage goes south it will be considered apostasy which carries a death sentence. It’s easy to play So You Want to be a Muslim, so long as you don’t mind choosing between losing your freedom of choice… or your life.

The theme of All-American Muslim is that Muslims are just like us. It’s the same message that Hollywood has been blasting at us for ten years as if anyone were under the impression that Muslims are aliens from another planet.

Muslims are like us; that’s the problem. The Nazis were like us too. So were the Communists. They were and are what we are capable of becoming if we fall under the sway of a totalitarian ideology that insists it has the right and duty to enslave the human race. And so we’re treated to endless scenes of normalization. Muslim women care about their looks. Muslim men like sports. Muslims hold down jobs and deal with the same issues that we do.

If reality shows like Jersey Shore and Real Housewives regale us with freaks and orchestrated drama, All-American Muslim goes in the other direction to assure us once again that there’s absolutely nothing freakish about Islam. Just good ordinary people who submit to Allah and wear Hijabs in order to be closer to Allah.

But the effect isn’t really what Shed Media, responsible for such great entertainment as My Transsexual Summer and Basketball Wives, had in mind. The more All-American Muslim tries to reassure us how normal and ordinary it is, the more surreal it becomes. Like the pod people, All-American Muslim only highlights the unnaturalness of the core ideology of Islam by dressing it up in the ordinary everyday minutia of American life.

The more All-American Muslim tries to “defuse stereotypes” with Muslim businesswomen and a tattooed self-proclaimed hillbilly, the more we’re reminded of the true status of women under Islam. Every time All-American Muslim insists on how free and liberated Muslim women are, it’s a lie that takes place under the shadow of a Muslim world where women have few rights.

The Muslim families in All-American Muslim are being allowed to make choices that don’t exist in the Muslim world, and rather than embracing their new freedom, the show defaults to promoting a submission to Islam through the Hijab and the Shahada. And there’s nothing American about that.

Behind the scenes, All-American Muslim is a programmed deception, like most Reality TV, but the motivation is different. The show presents Shadia Amen, who marries Jeff, as more liberated because she doesn’t wear a Hijab, unlike her more devout sister, but in an interview she admitted that “I wore a scarf for 13 years. I took it off because if I’m going to represent my religion, I want people to get the right image.”

All-American Muslim pretends that Shadia and her sister represent two approaches to Islam, but in reality they represent the same approach: deception. Both sisters wear their badge of slavery, but one takes it off when it’s time to present “the right image.”

The “right image” is what All-American Muslim is about. It’s not a reality show, it’s a compulsive exercise in spin and branding. Like a corporation that most people only know for dumping toxic waste in the ocean and poisoning the elderly, Islam constantly needs rebranding and makeovers. But the spin is just the opening to promoting it and its abusive practices.

All-American Muslim finds numerous ways to promote the Hijab, even connecting the practice in a positive way to the brutal Islamic takeover of Iran. It emphasizes how easy it is to convert to Islam without telling you the consequences of leaving. But its worst deception is lying to Americans about the consequences of Islam in their community.

When Fouad Zaban, a local high school football coach, switches the team to night practice in order to accommodate the Ramadan fast, there’s no discussion about the separation of mosque and state, or how far this species of accommodation will go. In all its scenes of Muslims running businesses, working out or shopping for clothes, the lesson we are supposed to take away is that we have nothing to worry about because they are ordinary people just like us. But the issue is not about Muslims. It is about Islam.

There was a time when Discovery Communications broadcast educational programming. Today TLC features Sister Wives, Kate Plus 8 and Toddlers and Tiaras– and among all their shows that try to make Americans seem as freaky as possible, there is All-American Muslims, a show that tries to make a religion which believes in world domination and the inferiority of women, seem normal.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; War on Terror
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21 posted on 11/14/2011 5:27:16 AM PST by SJackson (Haven't changed the environment, just take a bath. Eat a piece of chocolate. You need one. Michelle)
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To: SJackson
Like the LGBT's, this is another attempt to try to convince us that something is perfectly fine when it isn't.

The new normal.....

22 posted on 11/14/2011 5:28:52 AM PST by CAluvdubya (Herman Cain Can!)
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To: bigdirty
This show and this network if possible should be boycotted.

Between conservatives boycotting it for "Muslims in America" and liberals boycotting it for "Sarah Palin's Alaska" then pretty soon The Learning Channel should have no viewers at all.

23 posted on 11/14/2011 5:30:18 AM PST by SoJoCo
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To: luvbach1
The promo for the show, featuring the snide Muslim woman, was all I needed to hear.

I saw that. If her method of 'educating people like you' is to tell them to get their ass off of something then I doubt she's very effective at it.

24 posted on 11/14/2011 5:32:54 AM PST by SoJoCo
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To: SJackson
In other news...

Iranian officials are at the moment trying to convince jailed 34-year-old pastor, Youcef Nadarkhani, who converted to Christianity at age 19, to return to Islam.

Nadarkhani is currently being held in prison in Rasht, awaiting Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s decision on whether he should be executed for converting to Christianity

25 posted on 11/14/2011 5:35:10 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: SJackson

The new rules for media success:

1-Every freak, pervert or enemy of America must be celebrated.

2-Every normal, patriotic, religious, hard working successful American must be vilified or ridiculed.


26 posted on 11/14/2011 5:35:52 AM PST by Hacklehead (The goal of political correctness is to hide the truth.)
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To: PGalt
Relax said the Muslim, we are programmed to deceive...

You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave..
27 posted on 11/14/2011 5:39:15 AM PST by slumber1 (Don't taze me bro!)
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To: SJackson

HOMELAND on Showtime is a must see! 10:00 pm on Sundays.


28 posted on 11/14/2011 5:48:58 AM PST by Toespi
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To: Hacklehead

1-Every freak, pervert or enemy of America must be celebrated.

2-Every normal, patriotic, religious, hard working successful American must be vilified or ridiculed.


I simply can wait for their new TLC OWS show.

No seriously, I can wait a long long long time.

But I suspect it won’t be long and they too will have their own faketv show.


29 posted on 11/14/2011 5:50:19 AM PST by cableguymn
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To: SJackson; mickie; seenenuf; seekthetruth; magnum force 1; Bushbacker1; flaglady47; Chigirl 26
What does the photo on top of this thread tell the suckers?

Take another look.

An almond-eyed beauty in a seductive pose, right?

Historically, propagandists, intelligence agencies and spy rings have used women as bait for nefarious reasons. Mata Hari comes to mind. This practice has been going on since biblical times right up to today.

Here, the Islam propagandist is consistent in the sect's practice of demeaning women by photographically using one of the "stars" of the show as attractive bait to watch the series......a bait shrewdly targeted to both men (sexually) and to women (cosmetically).

Not to mention the cynical use of the American flag to further the attempt at mind-control.

Educated freepers and those perpetually enrolled in the Limbaugh Institute of Higher Conservative Studies see through this ploy immediately. The great unwashed masses viewing the show will certainly not.

Boycott the Discovery Channel for the length of this deadly propaganda show. But you have to notify them why you're not watching anymore or it does no good.

Why be willing, mute participants in this unabashed dissemination and outright promotion of the Religion of Body Pieces being sold to us as "genuine "Americanism"!

Leni

30 posted on 11/14/2011 5:50:58 AM PST by MinuteGal
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To: SJackson

Everytime I see the advertisement for that show where the muslim woman claims she tells a lady on an airplane to “get her @ss off becuase she has a seminar to go to teach people how not to be idiots” or whatever, I want to reach through the screen and slap her.


31 posted on 11/14/2011 5:54:46 AM PST by Pessimist
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To: SJackson

I deleted the Learning Channel off my TV. I will never watch it again. That is my personal protest.


32 posted on 11/14/2011 5:59:17 AM PST by RetiredArmy (We Christians should look at this world as being a filthy restroom at a roadside gas station.)
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To: slumber1

You’re not sleeping, slumber1. Nice catch.


33 posted on 11/14/2011 6:00:41 AM PST by PGalt
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To: SJackson
. . .the American TV viewer is fed a steady diet of movies and shows featuring positive depictions of Muslims

There are some shows that aren't afraid to remind us of the dangers of radical Islam, i.e. NCIS and NCIS Los Angeles.

34 posted on 11/14/2011 6:01:20 AM PST by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: PGalt

You can check out any time you want.

But you can never leave.


35 posted on 11/14/2011 6:09:52 AM PST by left that other site (Psalm 122:6)
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To: SJackson
When Jeff pronounces the Shahada, proclaiming that there is no god but Allah and turning his back on his Catholic faith, viewers are supposed to celebrate.

One wonders if the actor who spoke those words is now bound by Islamic standards of apostasy. I'd bet he is.

36 posted on 11/14/2011 6:11:24 AM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser: Fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: SJackson

Entering a mosque to convert is EXACTLY like entering a roach hotel. You can enter but never leave unless dead.

Mo-Ham-Mud (may pig urine be upon him) gave the world a death cult which gives nothing back to society but vile cockroaches known as muslimes.

Just like the head (no pun intended) of Bridges TV in Western New York, who beheaded his wife all while trying to “bridge” the gulf between his vile hate cult and real human beings, TLC will regret their actions.

In spite of TLC’s attempt to normalize these excretions of maggots, they told all of us which side of the civilization fence they resided when, after 9/11, they were all so silent except for those who openly danced in the streets.

As offended seems to be the most powerful word in the LMSM today, I am highly offended that I have to share this planet with these maggot feces and that I may breath air molecules which at some time passed through their pedophile lungs.

I am offended down to the atomic level (even to the Higgs boson) that such sub-humans are allowed to live in this country.


37 posted on 11/14/2011 6:20:24 AM PST by Wurlitzer (Welcome to the new USSA (United Socialist States of Amerika))
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To: SJackson
Is this show going to be a musical?

Every time there is a terrorist attack we can watch the muslims breakout into song and dance.

38 posted on 11/14/2011 6:24:15 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: SJackson
Here is a book that reveals what is really going on...


39 posted on 11/14/2011 6:41:39 AM PST by Gritty (When Islam interfaces with other faiths they kill them or oppress them - Doug Giles)
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To: SJackson

I saw the promo for this crap last night and began screaming at the television.

This is all part of the MSM’s plan to brainwash and indoctrinate. Keep the masses stupid and entertained, and they will submit easier than those who retain the ability to think.


40 posted on 11/14/2011 7:02:20 AM PST by NoKoolAidforMe (I'm clinging to my God and my guns. You can keep the change.)
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