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2008-05-01 Home Front: Culture Wars

Critic accuses Hollywood of vilifying Arabs - Booo Hooo!

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-05-01 12:45|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Another insulted Muslim.
Next...

Posted by tu3031 2008-05-01 13:56|| 2008-05-01 13:56|| Front Page Top

#2 If anything, the bastards get a free ride. For example, the movie version of Tom Clancy's "The Sum of All Fears" transmuted the Islamic terrorists detonating a nuclear weapon in the US into revanchist Nazi industrialists. It would have been "culturally insensitive" to have shown arabs...

Posted by RWV 2008-05-01 14:19|| 2008-05-01 14:19|| Front Page Top

#3 They are vilified less than all other groups in Hollywood. I think we should show Islam and its clerics how they really are. There would be enough villains then for decades of movies.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-05-01 14:37|| 2008-05-01 14:37|| Front Page Top

#4 It's terrible just terrible. I think he should go back to his Arab country where he can be sure he won't be exposed to images of any particular group being vilified or stereotyped in a negative manner.

Posted by Sninert Black9312 2008-05-01 16:23|| 2008-05-01 16:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe he could watch Pioneers of Tomorrow on the Hamas channel.
Might make him feel better...

Posted by tu3031 2008-05-01 16:31|| 2008-05-01 16:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Evil is as evil does. Why not tell the story? If the story is true it needs to be told. That is not demonizing Muslims. If they cut off innocent people's heads, kill innocent women, engage in terrorism and torture, mutilate and then kill our soldiers when captured, violate all rules of combat, etc. the story needs to be told. Not only should the story be told, the people who engage in these activities must be destroyed.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-05-01 16:58|| 2008-05-01 16:58|| Front Page Top

#7 I agree with Mr. Shaheen. I think Hollywood should also villainize the other religions and enthnic groups that fly airplanes into buildings and blow up subways.

Posted by DoDo 2008-05-01 17:35|| 2008-05-01 17:35|| Front Page Top

#8 I wonder what Jack's fate would be in his native Lebanon?

Posted by ed 2008-05-01 17:55|| 2008-05-01 17:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Or should I say "Jaques".

Hit enter too soon.

Posted by ed 2008-05-01 17:57|| 2008-05-01 17:57|| Front Page Top

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