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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We’ll never watch this show. This channel can cram it up their rosey dark camera because these people need to move to the part of the world where their lifestyle is accepted. This country is not for you.
I watched this last night and thought the same thing.
Jeff seem to me like a total p-whipped girlieman.
TLC should be TTC, “The Taqqiya Channel”
Any Hindu in India, any Jew from an Islamic country, too.
Any Hindu in India, any Jew from an Islamic country, too.
It's a smart technique not to target the real biggies like Wal-Mart....they're too big to care.
The lion always picks out the weakest in the herd to attack. I suggest we concentrate on two companies that are in the medium category....Amway and K-Mart (Sears) which is reeling economically right now.
If someone could post a customer relations email link to each it would be appreciated....I just moved and the movers are coming tomorrow, ugh.
Let's go!
Leni
Good point re picking the weakest in the herd.
However, local Walmart Manager is not going to
be happy with my not-so-soft reminding him that
the brand new Target is a couple of block away and
they really want my business. Maybe he will discuss
this issue in his next manager’s meeting.
I’ve printed out the list of sponsors and handed
them out to friends at an AM meeting and they
were anxious to get the info!
Done!
All American Muslim sponsors:
SWEET & LOW
CLINIQUE
JOHN FRIEDA HAIR CARE
WAL-MART
K-MART
PET SMART
DYSON VACUUMS
AMWAY
STOP & STOP
CHASE BANK
T-MOBILE
HTC RADAR PHONE
CENTRUM
HOME DEPOT
SONIC
TIME WARNER CABLE
NBC NEWS
PRO-ACTIV
AIRBORNE SUPPLEMENTS
LION KING
KETTLE CHIPS
TRUE BLUE TEST
KAYAK.COM
KAHLUA
TRUMOO
KINECT
BOB’S FURNITURE
FREE COUNTRY CLOTHING
NORTH SHORE/LIJ HOSPITAL
LEAP FROG
BM
The Ministry of Truth is not happy with us.
One word for it (besides "propaganda")....is.....PHONEY!
The Islam gal's bridal veil hides the big blotch of tattoos on her shoulder blade. How "All-American" this makes her.
The Muzzie football coach yells a cuss word.....how "All-American" this makes him.
On and on goes the good-time, rock 'n roll, phoney-baloney efforts to portray the protagonists as "All-American" Mickey Rooneys and Judy Garlands.
The least phoney of them all was the Catholic mother of the Catholic groom. She broke down when voicing her concerns and despair over his conversion to Islam....which she and dad had to sit in on later in the show when the conversion service was "sanctified" by some Imam type guy.
Mom un-phonied pretty fast as the conversion/wedding/reception rites unfolded during the evening, joining afterwards in the dancing and applauding the sexy, gyrating belly dancer entertainer.
Now, the beguiling belly dancer at the wedding reception showed how "All-American" everything was. Just for more phoniness, a couple of Irish clog dancers performed just to give the Catholic guests equal time.
Well, I could go on....but you get my drift. Deep and emotional things going on but papered over and ignored for the sake of portraying Islam as tolerant, fun, cool, mod, respectful of women......salted with a dash of implied advocation of "blending" religions and cultures radically opposed to each other.
The characters in the show are not at all compelling, the "All-American" propaganda line will get old as well as obvious.....and, despite assuming the show will get rave reviews from liberal Roger Ebert-types, I predict an early demise for a show which eventually only the most ardent PCers and self-flagellators will bother to watch.
Leni
The other word is "Taqqiya."
Leni
Taqiyya (alternate spellings taqiya, taqiyah, tuqyah), meaning religious dissimulation,[1] is a practice emphasized in Shi’a Islam whereby adherents may conceal their religion when they are under threat, persecution, or compulsion.[2] This means a legal dispensation whereby a believing individual can deny his faith or commit otherwise illegal or blasphemous acts while they are under those risks.[3]
Musafah or Simba?
It ties right in with my review of the new Islam propaganda show in # 54 above, doesn't it!
I'm convinced the show is more "taqiyya" than truth....and more phoney show-biz pathos and weak drama than reality,
Leni
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