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I do think many people who are so fervently against something like a Muslim sitcom (or any positive 'publicity' about Muslims) are not so much afraid of it for themselves (they won't watch it), but they are afraid that the negative views many have against Muslims will erode as the people sit in their living rooms and laugh and cry along with this sitcom family and get to know them.
I watched a little of "Little Mosque on the Prairie" and it seems totally benign. I simply can't understand anyone is resistance to something like that, when there's so much crap coming on TV every day. Why would this show raise such a stink, as opposed to some of the other shows that came out this fall to 'educate' and entertain us?
Originally posted by tiger5
reply to post by Honor93
Please do not reply to any more of my posts if you are incapable of reading what I wrote as opposed to what your agenda (in your mind) thought I wrote. Let me repeat and expand the key aspect of the post you thought that you read.
What would give the proposed comedy programme and edge and make it different from the usual is that the pro-integration moslems (yes they exist) are set up against the fundies ( Xtian) and the jihadists ( a small section of the community).
It could be done and it could be new and cutting edge. Tell you what. Let the brits do it first and we can do a second rate version as we have done the to "The Office" and "Life on Mars".
Nlot all moslems are the same!
Originally posted by ProfEmeritus
Leave it to Katie Couric to come up with such a lame brain idea.
First of all, she should explain how a comedy show depicting a Muslim family would help. What are people to take away from such a show, that Muslims can be clowns like everyone else. Oh, I'm sure they would love that.
If she were SERIOUS about increasing understanding, why not have a SERIOUS show, where Muslims could come on, and explain their beliefs and culture, FIRST HAND, rather than through the eyes of a comedy writer? Maybe then, people COULD get to know real Muslims, not some Hollywood myth.
Originally posted by tiger5
Nlot all moslems are the same!
Originally posted by Honor93
why would you support a sitcom depiction, which is seldom representative of reality?
Are you familiar with the Cosby show? It exposed the people of the US to the idea of a 'normal' black family. We were able to see black people portrayed as something other than thugs, drug dealers, criminals and deadbeat dads, which was the image the media had given us previously.
Islam is not new to the USA nor the west. Programmes of a serious nature has been done already. Kindly read the thread to ascertain what discussion has been done before before commenting. Also please note that the BBC chanel in America has also done programes on Islam that are of a serious and explanatory nature. In short get with it!
I am glad that you put the greys into some kind of timeline. I believe that the abduction entities have their own agenda which is not human so we will invariably be the one swho suffer.
Originally posted by ProfEmeritus
I would love to see an Islamic scholar explain their beliefs to the American public, because they are keeping with God's commandments. However, liberals would never allow that to happen, because it would attack their "anything goes" beliefs prevalent in American society today.
Originally posted by tiger5
reply to post by Sinnthia
OK Well perhaps there is need for another OP and thread. I just don't want Katie's comments to be derailed. I will contribute if you write it.
Originally posted by Sherlock Holmes
I believe that ''All in the family'' was the American spin-off of the 1960s British comedy, ''Till death do us part'', which also apparently had a similarly positive effect on British society in the 1960s.
In ''Till death do us part'', the anti-hero was Alf Garnett, who held racist, sexist and homophobic views. Ironically, the actor who played Alf Garnett ( Warren Mitchell ) is actually Jewish !