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Home Front: Culture Wars
Muslims Upset About Their Portrayal in '24'
2005-03-14
Posted by:tipper

#13  We develop vaccines against diseases. We kill Jihadis...only the cell count differs
Posted by: Frank G   2005-03-14 11:13:04 PM  

#12  # 10, where did you get that idea?

The show was about terrs (for some reasons jihadis are adherents of Islam, just making sure you are aware of it). And yea, jihadis are only good when dead.

Not sure why I would be tolerant of jihadis. Yes they are worse than most of other groups of people. If that is not apparent to you, then you may have underdeveloped your discernment faculties.

To be tolerant of evil means being intolerant of good. It is as simple as that.
Posted by: Sobiesky   2005-03-14 10:54:21 PM  

#11  Just a little persepctive.... When someone says that all of (any particular group) is not better than (any particular thing or group that comes to mind) - I think that puts them right up there with the Islamofascists!

C'mom folks! How about a little tolerance?
Posted by: Bobby   2005-03-14 10:24:33 PM  

#10  So ALL Muslims, incluing the ten or twelve I knew, once upon a time, are ONLY good for ... um, killing?
Posted by: Bobby   2005-03-14 10:21:51 PM  

#9  ..the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations met with Fox executives to complain about the show.

Cry me a phuquing river.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-03-14 2:45:47 PM  

#8  I remember when the Gray Panthers went after one of the networks because on one of the cop dramas old people were featured one week as gullible dupes for con men. Obviously TRUE and you'd think these old geezers would want old people to realize that scams that sound too good to be true probably are - so don't give them your life savings! But NOOOOOO - they were offended by the image. True as the sky is blue - but they hounded the network and the show theme was never repeated and that episode dropped from the re-run schedule. That was many years ago - and producers are still gimpy about tangling with such SIGs. Stupid, beyond words.

Meg Greenfield, who occasionally wrote a killer column for NewsWeek, IIRC, way back when, called it The Age of Organized Touchiness. Lol! Meg shoots, Scores!
Posted by: .com   2005-03-14 1:45:03 PM  

#7  I don't think 24 has expounded anything more than what most Americans already think of Arabs in general.
Posted by: Bill Nelson   2005-03-14 1:38:37 PM  

#6  
Posted by: BigEd   2005-03-14 12:20:31 PM  

#5  24 is the only recent fiction that depicts Moslem terrorists.

I wish there were more.

As for the Moslem complaints. It's fiction! ever notice that fiction has all sorts of imaginary characters, some based on real facts, others not? or is your false god against fiction too?

What's next? communists complaining about their general portrayal as evil bad guys? businessmen complaining about their general portrayal as crooks? Italians complaining about their general portrayal as maffia criminals? Cry me a river.
Posted by: Kalle (kafir forever)   2005-03-14 12:07:27 PM  

#4  Do you think, just perhaps, that if CAIR and some other of these benighted islamic groups in America had condemned the terrorists associated with 9-11 or quit supporting terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah Americans would have a more positive image of moslems. I haven't heard of any fatwas from muslim clerics in America supporting the US. These people take advantage of the American legal system to support America's enemies and undermine our way of life. There may be good individual moslems in America, but they are being drowned out by the deafening silence of their organizations.
Posted by: RWV   2005-03-14 11:50:02 AM  

#3  Maybe the terrs on 24 aren't brutal enough?
Posted by: eLarson   2005-03-14 10:25:30 AM  

#2  But they weren't upset by Beslan where the 'holy muslim warrors' raped children and bayonetted babies - and this is in real life not some show.

That is ok with them.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2005-03-14 10:08:53 AM  

#1  Stop your whiney pissing and moaning already. "Woe is me to be a persecuted muslim in America", STFU already. If you would reign in your lunatics and perhaps just label them as such than maybe someone would give a shit.
What really pisses me of is 24 prefacing the show with this nonsense; American Muslim community stands firmly beside their fellow Americans in denouncing and resisting all forms of terrorism
That is complete and utter bullshit - your silence damns you.
Try driving through certain sections of Paterson after Friday prayers, and you tell me by the nasty cold looks I get that the average American doesn't understand you. Bullshit. I understand what the wolf at my door looks like.
SHUT UP!

Posted by: JerseyMike   2005-03-14 10:03:58 AM  

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