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"JPG" |
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27 Jan 2005 06:03:31 AM |
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Muslim group attacks TV drama 24 |
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4210299.stm
From the article:
"A British Muslim group has criticised the new series of US drama 24, which is
about to be aired on Sky One, claiming it portrays Islam unfairly."
JPG
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| User: "jwk" |
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| Title: Re: Muslim group attacks TV drama 24 |
27 Jan 2005 10:50:43 AM |
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JPG wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4210299.stm
From the article:
"A British Muslim group has criticised the new series of US drama 24,
which is
about to be aired on Sky One, claiming it portrays Islam unfairly."
JPG
It is actually very generous to Muslims. It portrays them as a hell of
a lot smarter than almost anyone I've ever met, and anyone in the TV
show, *except the one single American. The hero figure. The portrayal
of the terrorist as cold-blooded is probably what these guys are mad
about, but I could find examples of worse behavior from Muslim
terrorist from real-world news reports.
For instance, the TV-terrorist father orders his teenage son murdered
because he (the son) seems sympathetic to his American girlfriend, whom
they killed. I've seen Muslim fathers bragging about how they were
training their sons to be suicide bombers in the news. How is the show
worse?
The show makes it very plain that these Muslim terrorists do not
represent *all Muslims in the US. So these guys need to just shut up.
jwk
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| User: "Andrew Lias" |
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| Title: Re: Muslim group attacks TV drama 24 |
27 Jan 2005 11:46:35 AM |
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jwk wrote:
The show makes it very plain that these Muslim terrorists do not
represent *all Muslims in the US. So these guys need to just shut
up.
I suspect that it's much the same as the way that atheists are almost
invariably portrayed as either confused or bitter people who will,
invariably, find God before the end of the episode. It gets old.
It's not that any specific show has a negative portrayal, it's that
*every* show that bothers to include Islamic characters has a negative
portrayal.
It would be like having a situation where it was impossible to be a
black actor without having to play a pimp or a murderer.
--
Andrew Lias
http://andrewlias.blogspot.com
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| User: "jwk" |
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| Title: Re: Muslim group attacks TV drama 24 |
28 Jan 2005 05:43:14 PM |
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Andrew Lias wrote:
jwk wrote:
The show makes it very plain that these Muslim terrorists do not
represent *all Muslims in the US. So these guys need to just shut
up.
I suspect that it's much the same as the way that atheists are almost
invariably portrayed as either confused or bitter people who will,
invariably, find God before the end of the episode. It gets old.
It's not that any specific show has a negative portrayal, it's that
*every* show that bothers to include Islamic characters has a
negative
portrayal.
OK, but why target 24 in particular then?
jwk
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| User: "Andrew Lias" |
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| Title: Re: Muslim group attacks TV drama 24 |
28 Jan 2005 08:42:20 PM |
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jwk wrote:
Andrew Lias wrote:
jwk wrote:
The show makes it very plain that these Muslim terrorists do not
represent *all Muslims in the US. So these guys need to just
shut
up.
I suspect that it's much the same as the way that atheists are
almost
invariably portrayed as either confused or bitter people who will,
invariably, find God before the end of the episode. It gets old.
It's not that any specific show has a negative portrayal, it's that
*every* show that bothers to include Islamic characters has a
negative
portrayal.
OK, but why target 24 in particular then?
Mostly likely because it is a particularly popular show and the one
that is most prominently portraying Muslims as terrorists.
/shrug
--
Andrew Lias
http://andrewlias.blogspot.com
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Muslim group attacks TV drama 24 |
27 Jan 2005 01:24:29 PM |
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:03:31 +0000, JPG <me@privacy.net> said in
alt.atheism:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4210299.stm
From the article:
"A British Muslim group has criticised the new series of US drama 24, which is
about to be aired on Sky One, claiming it portrays Islam unfairly."
Are they complaining because it portrays them inaccurately? Or
because it portrays them accurately?
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"I have never imputed to Nature a purpose or a goal, or anything that could be under-
stood as anthropomorphic. What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can
comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of
humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism."
- 1954 or 1955; quoted in Dukas and Hoffman _Albert Einstein the Human Side_, p. 39
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| User: "JPG" |
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| Title: Re: Muslim group attacks TV drama 24 |
27 Jan 2005 06:46:38 AM |
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On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:03:31 +0000, JPG <me@privacy.net> wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4210299.stm
From the article:
"A British Muslim group has criticised the new series of US drama 24, which is
about to be aired on Sky One, claiming it portrays Islam unfairly."
JPG
Like a drama about the crusades or the inquisition would portray Christianity
unfairly?
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