Hollywood, Islam and Political Correctness
by Oliver Williams
• July 10, 2014 at 4:30 am
In the politically correct
attempt to avoid "stereotyping" and be safe from discomfort, have
we been blocking out reality?
Hollywood has been indulging in a
sort of reverse racial profiling: cinematic terrorists could be anybody other
than Muslims.
Muslim terrorists? As in the
movie Non-Stop, Hollywood would rather cast the family members
of 9/11 victims as terrorists rather than reflect that such a thing
exists.
An
Indonesian maid is beheaded in Saudi Arabia, in 2011. (Image source:
PressTV/YouTube video screenshot)
In March, the TV network ABC Family cancelled the show Alice in
Arabia after a campaign by the Council on American-Islamic Relations
[CAIR], a controversial group with links to extremism, and accusations of
racism in the liberal media. The show was to be about a Muslim American teen
that is taken to Saudi Arabia by her extended family after the death of her
parents and never allowed to return. ABC Family were apparently taken aback
by the opposition to the show. "The current conversation surrounding our
pilot was not what we had envisioned," they said. They had seemingly set
out to make an inoffensive program. Its writer, Brooke Elkmeier, said the
show was pro-Arab and pro-tolerance and "meant to give Arabs and Muslims
a voice on American TV." The protagonist was an Arab Muslim.
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