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In "Hollywood Discovers Radical Islam" in FrontPage today, Daniel Pipes defends Fox's 24 on grounds that I have often pointed out here: every Muslim arrested on terror-related charges in the U.S. is always portrayed in media reports as kind, cuddly, gentle, etc. Others, like Mike Hawash, have seemed thoroughly secularized and moderate. So Fox's portrayal of a family that has only in appearance assimilated into American society, and is in reality plotting against it in the name of Islamic jihad, is not at all wide of the mark.
But there is another reason to stick with the plot as it is. Nearly every terrorist suspect in the West is said to be a regular guy or a wonderful gal, as I have previously shown. The adjectives applied to Sajid Mohammed Badat, a Briton, are typical: “a walking angel,” “the bright star of our mosque,” “a friendly, warm, fun-loving character,” “a friendly, sociable, normal young lad, who had lots of friends and did not hold extreme views in any way.” Despite those raves, he has been indicted for helping shoe-bomber Richard C Reid to blow up an airliner and will face trial on conspiracy charges (he was found with parts for more shoe bombs like those Reid used).Just last week, the Seattle Times reported on a Saudi now being deported from the United States:
To his co-workers at the University of Washington School of Nursing, Majid al-Massari was a happy guy who bounced down the halls and seemed like a "big teddy bear." What his friends didn't know about the burly, bearded 34-year-old computer-security specialist was that he had helped set up a Web site for a group linked to al-Qaida, quoted Osama bin Laden in his own Internet postings, lashed out against American policies on his father's London-based radio show and had landed in the sights of U.S. terrorism investigators.This sort of surprise happens with such consistency that I am tempted to generalize: On arrest, every single Islamist in the West is initially hailed as a delightful person, and never as a hate-filled brooding loner.
So, hooray for Fox for portraying reality; and may it not cave to the Islamists.
Posted by Robert at January 6, 2005 6:23 AM
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Good, you have it up!
I will be curious to see what politicians / actors / groups speak up against this show. I'm sure that St. michael moore is already agitating somewhere about it...
Posted by: Gary
at January 6, 2005 6:37 AM
Films which Mr Pipes (obviously not a film buff!) doesn't mention include 'The Siege' (prescient pre-9/11 thriller about Islamic terrorists in the US); 'Dirty War', a BBC TV movie about Islamists detonating a dirty bomb in the heart of London, and 'Fatima', a British 'social realism' drama from the Ken Loach school of LLL filmmaking which portrays UK Muslims as innocent victims goaded into terrorist acts by western racism (free pass, anybody?) I'm glad to say this film has had trouble finding a distributor (outside of France, of course.)
Hollywood seems to have chosen to cautiously approach the WoT symbolically through history-based dramas. So Ridley Scott has just made 'Kingdom of Heaven', a Saladin versus Crusaders epic about the Siege of Jerusalem. Two rival movies about US marines attacking Barbary pirates in Tripoli have been announced. And there are also rival versions planned of the Siege of Malta, in which a huge Islamic army besieged a small number of Christian knights (kind of like 'Zulu', only with knights and Turks.)
The best thriller about Islamic terrorists in the US is probably 'Black Sunday', a 70's John Frankenheimer film in which Mossad agents help the FBI to track down Palestinians planning to blow up the SuperBowl. When it was originally released it got panned as 'too unbelieveable'. How times have changed...
Posted by: Benelux
at January 6, 2005 8:46 AM
Aw rats! I thought from the headline that Pipes had gone in for acting, or at least be given a cameo.
Posted by: Miss Moneypenney
at January 6, 2005 9:09 AM
The Canadian songwriter Leonard Cohen once wrote a poem about the Nazi engineer of the death camps, Adolf Eichmann, which makes the same point:
the devil never comes wearing horns and a red suit.
He arrives looking like a businessman.
Or a 'happy teddy bear'.
The Muslim fanatics aren't stupid.
They know how to deceive their hosts. (It is called 'protective coloration'.) And, even more cunningly, know how to use the secular world's own laws against their legal system itself, to tangle up the naive with endless knots of irrelevant jurisprudence and cries of 'racism', etc., as they continue (like the 'blind sheik' in his NY state prison cell) plotting the downfall of the West (with the help of 'useful idiot' lawyers).
The Koran is a handbook for unearthly mind doom.
Anyone following its guidelines should be considered suspect -as fatally credulous, at best-for believing the book's hateful irrationalism (larded with some phony calls for 'compassion' to make it seem less nuts and easier to swallow).
But that's not a 'P.C.' thing to say (which, to me, always means: 'Psycholgically Corrupt').
Posted by: profitsbeard
at January 6, 2005 9:59 AM
Just in case you missed my post yesterday, here it is again:
I’ve read the posts asking for Jihadwatch readers to provide ideas for what we might do to help spread the word. From what I’ve seen so far, there are some great ideas and you have my complete support. I would suggest though that we’d be remiss in our efforts if first we didn’t recognize and show our tangible support and appreciation to Robert and Hugh for running the Jihadwatch site. They’re providing a great service and doing outstanding work--I think we should do what we can to help them continue that work.
With that said, I’m challenging all Jihadwatch readers to donate $100.00 (or whatever you can) to jihadwatch.org AND to send at least one of Robert’s books to someone (friend, foe, family, politician, etc.).
There’s a donation link in the left column on the home page and a link at the top of the page for purchasing books.
Please do what you can.
at January 6, 2005 9:59 AM
But that's not a 'P.C.' thing to say (which, to me, always means: 'Psycholgically Corrupt'). ~Profitsbeard
*lol* that's perfect. I've also heard 'politically convenient,' which explains a lot of what kerry and co. do and say. It's the vote, not the beliefs of the voter, which is why they court the muslim vote.
http://islam.about.com/od/us2004election/
Posted by: Gary
at January 6, 2005 10:19 AM
In any case, I hope to watch and tape this show. Like 'Witness' does at one Pennsylvania Dutch hotel, it ought to be aired 24 hours a day.
Posted by: Gary
at January 6, 2005 10:20 AM
I love FOX broadcasting,The Simpsons,FOX news.I haven't watched that 24 show but I'll keep my eye out for that episode.
I've been in retail for about 25 years and have met and known people from just about every middle eastern country there is.
I was at a friends warehouse the other night.This guy is as western as me.He swears,he smokes,he wears western clothes and he's always happy and joking.
His cell phone rang and he looked at the number and turned his phone off.I looked at him and said laughingly "Well,I guess it wasn't too important,eh?" to which he replied "I know who it is,it's my wife.She wan't me to come home so she can eat."
I just stood there stunned for a moment.I didn't pry any further.The way he said it it didn't sound like some loving thing she did just for him.I lost a lot of respect and trust that I had for him that evening.
Is that a common practice among Arab born muslims?
JLP
at January 6, 2005 12:36 PM
The difference between the way Moslem men treat women and the way they treat cattle is that cattle are able to go outside the home unsupervised, they aren't sexually mutilated, and Moslem men don't eat the women they kill.
I can't put that across to a television audience. I'm one man in the middle of nowhere, and the best I can do is type. But i can type this message to you: Together we can combine our talents and make a force that will rival and eventually destroy Islam itself.
We meet daily on past pages of Jiohadwatch to form groups of like-minded people who are willing to work actively to promote spencer and this site. This is propagando of the deed. We are forming groups who will become leaders in their commuinities and who will take our message to the people themsleves as we meet them. I'm not a movie star, but I can reach the people next door and give them a leaflet and talk to them till they ask for a copy to give that leaflet to their neighbors. We can all do something concrete. For you it might not be right to hand out leaflets, but you probably have some other talent you can put to good use in this struggle.
If you care to join our discussion, please join us today at Jan 4, "Asked if he...." We meet below the day's earleir comments, under the stars. We bagan on Jan. 2, ""At large in U.S...." if you care to follow the course of our discussion from the beginning. Yesterday we met at Jan. 3, "Lasers...." This isn't for everyone, unfortunately. but if you care to become involved in some practical manner, please join us and let others know who you are and what you can do so they can join you until we become the sane consensus of opinion in this world.
Posted by: sonofwalker
at January 6, 2005 1:30 PM
24 (season 4) airing on Sunday JANUARY 9 (first and second hours) and on Monday JANUARY 10 (third and fourth hours)on FOX.Check your local listings.
Posted by: RED
at January 6, 2005 2:07 PM
Well this Hollywood epic should shake the tree, assuming of course that the director, Ridley Scott, is faithful to the historical facts: Kingdom of Heaven. As a minimum we can hope that artistic expressions like this stimulate a critical examination of the cause and true history of the Crusades to bubble up in the public discourse. The scourge of jihad is compelling us to remember our own history. I just hope that it is not too late to avoid a global conflagration.
Posted by: Hulegu Khan
at January 6, 2005 2:30 PM
Another film involving Islamic terrorists was True Lies starring none other than California's own Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggar. Let's hope he is as effective in his current job as his character was in the movie!
Posted by: Patrick
at January 6, 2005 2:34 PM
"Wrong Is Right": An interesting and much overlooked film made in 1982 is definitely worth watching. Stars Sean Connery.
Here is the plot summary from Amazon.com:
A buffoonish US President from Texas (with a token
black woman on his White House staff) finds out
(during an election year) that an Arab terrorist
group is planting two bombs in the World Trade
Center in NYC.
His critics say there is no evidence of these
WMDs. In the end, he "finds" the bombs and uses it
as justification to invade the Arab country he
suspects of planting them. The Arab country, it
turns out, had nothing to do with the planned WTC
attack. Actually, the CIA planted the bombs as
part of the president's re-election strategy.
(This fact remains a secret from the public).
Even though the president has the lowest approval
ratings ever, he gets a boost from the
unjustified war in the Middle East and wins
re-election (and his cronies in Texas get control
of the Arab oil fields).
at January 6, 2005 2:51 PM
Dear CAIR, I just wanted you to know that the woman who played the mother in the "24" episode all the radical Muslims are angry about (well, they aren't happy unless they're bitchin' about something)was on Fox News this morning. She's from Iran, and she's a true blue hottie. A sex symbol. She wore nice jewelery, and was dressed to the nines. She's gorgeous.....No Hijab either.....
I'm sure many red-blooded American males will see her and praise her for her sexuality and beauty.......Hope this bothers you, it was meant to, tools.
Posted by: Prickzilla
at January 6, 2005 3:03 PM
I love 24, and I'm glad to see that they won't be caving in to political correctness. These days, Islamlic terrorists are a real threat. You can't argue about it. Did people complain about movies made in the 1940s that made Germans and Japanese the bad guys? For the movie version of Sum of All Fears, the villain was changed to an Austrian neo-Nazi so Muslims wouldn't be offended. If anyone's making Muslims look bad, it's other Muslims. But CAIR and others like them just blames infidels.
Posted by: Megan
at January 6, 2005 3:25 PM
The majority of people watch shows like this one for entertainment purposes, likely most wouldnt have even drawn a line between "regular" muslim families and "all of them being terrorists"...but thanks to the bitching of CAIR, now they will...thanks CAIR we need an organization like you on our side to point out the less obvious messages in our regular entertainment pertaining to muslims and muslim activity and making the regular folk aware.
Posted by: USAgirl
at January 6, 2005 4:05 PM
OT:
CAIR-CANADA Sued for $1 Trillion
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/
Posted by: Mike
at January 6, 2005 4:38 PM
'CAIR-CANADA Sued for $1 Trillion'
If I was a bigshot movie producer, I would be charging ahead with a movie based on John P. O'Neill, whose family is suing CAIR for zillions.
I read a long article about him and it was an amazing story that read like thriller fiction. As an FBI agent he spent years warning about UBL and Al-Queda, warnings which were mostly ignored. Frustrated, he quit the FBI and took a job as head of security for the WTC. Just a couple of weeks later, he was killed when he re-entered his burning building to rescue survivors.
Let's hope his family puts CAIR out of the taquiyya business. Permanently.
at January 6, 2005 5:04 PM
24 is a great show; I watched last season... very realistic. Muslims deserve to squirm.... after all, they want us to squirm all the time with their threats and their jihad Bullshiite. Screw em.
Posted by: Just_Linda
at January 6, 2005 5:24 PM
ATTENTION: Does anyone here know the meaning of the word "fiction" ?
Does anyone out there know that the show '24' is a work of FICTION?
Does anyone out there realize that '24' is intended to be ENTERTAINMENT and that means that this show does not and IS NOT saying that actually ANY ISLAMIC families are similar to the one portayed on the show in any way. Most villains on TV and in feature films are caucasian actors (and they fight over such 'juicy' roles). Yet somehow everyone is aware that most caucasian people do NOT look or act anything like such characters--in this context 'fiction' and all it implies. Do most American wives resemble Joan Collins' character 'Alexis Carrington' on DYNASTY? So why would the fact that a Muslim family portrayed on a television show be regarded as anything as the character it is written as?
The more Muslims object to this show's portrayal of a family as one which seems to be secular and adhering to American laws and culture but in actuality isn't the more these Muslims betray themselves as people in denial that this depiction is probably true to life. The adage "it takes on to know one" seems to apply in this case. That Americans can see through this veneer and find Islam's black heart and show it on the screen is likely the source of these Muslims' discomfort--Americans weren't supposed to know.
Posted by: pythagoras
at January 6, 2005 5:53 PM
Sounds like it will generate a lot of publicity which is a good thing as it will intrigue people enough to verify for themselves some of the effects and then Man-o-man will they be surprised when they actually see it for themselves.
Kinda O.T. but I have been hearing that are friends to the North (Canada) have just started to receive fox news.
What a great channel for "fair and balanced news" hope you enjoy.
Posted by: Chuck
at January 6, 2005 6:24 PM
Chuck~ I see Fox took All the top ratings earlier this week (posted on Drudge).
People like keithjoy must think the US really is getting stupid. Too bad it is his side's thinking that dumbs down the schools......
Go FOX!
These episodes of '24' should be played 24/7/365.
Posted by: Gary
at January 7, 2005 6:44 AM
What is this website? The Jewish version of Jewwatch? Too funny, what a bunch of hypocrites.
Fox's 24 - Another Racist Show by Jews
I like this sentence in the next paragraph, I didnt see the premier, cause its probably more than preditable but i bet this middle class muslim family looks like my relatives and I'm a Hindu, but no matter to the Jews in hollywood, they want some group in America attacked and if Hindus and Sikhs are dragged in there it alright by them:
"Middle Eastern terrorists are part of a conspiracy, though past experience has proven that the worst enemy is the one within and almost inevitably Americans will also be involved in the plot. Islamic fanatics have set up sleeper cells in Los Angeles, terrorists who pass as a nice, middle-class Muslim family but are in fact plotting a major attack."
In other words, don't trust your middle class brown skinned neighbor! They are sleeper cells! I guess this is how the Jewish media got the Cornell poll numbers that they were seeking in regards to muslims.
It didnt take long to see a Jewish name here as a creator of the show: Jewish run media???? Thats a canard of course!
Joel Surnow - Sound like a nice Jewish Boy, there is another Jewish guy heading 24 and perhaps one token goy.
Anyway, I thought it was a bunch of Jews from the Jewish Defense League that wanted to blow up Los Angeles. I guess media ownership has it's priviledges, namely the ability to turn white black and black to white.
When's Jack going to fight Jewish terrorists in America? LOL, we'll never see that from hollywood! Imagine that! Seeing a bunch of white people with beanies on their heads plotting to blow up the offices of a congressmen or a bunch of mosques. That would be the all time best rated show on TV, something we have never seen before in Television! But of course hollywood aint all about money as they claim, its about furthering Jewish public relations and furthering the cause for Israel at the expense of brown skinned Americans (muslims or not).
Looks like January is headed for quite a start for the Nazi Jewish media moghuls in America. 2 documentary films on HBO with brown boogiemen and a series on Fox. Who knows what is on the horizon for us.
My faith in America not turning on us brown skin people fades every month. I can't believe that Jews would sacrifice FELLOW Americans to win support for Israel. I wonder if that middle class family will give reasons why they want to attack America - will Israel be mentioned? I doubt it.
We are constantly dehumanized in the media, especially all across the media. There are newspapers in this country run by Israeli extremists that do not allow a day to go by without brown skin bashing, the shelves of Barnes and Noble are all lined with books with evil brown skin niggers on the front covers and lately beginning with the Lord of the Rings, Jews are now employing sophisticated imagry for dehumanization purposes.
Oh, well. I give up for the most part. I'll just keep the blog up and note every media outlet that is bashing brown skin people in this nation. So that when they burn our Hindu temples down and when they get America to start harming us, there will be a record available of who incited all this violence against us.
Because a wake up call is what they really want here in America. Jewish Americans must have it. They control the only access to assimilation in America, the media and they will make sure that brown people are never accepted in America. Never. And they dont care one shit whether you are muslim or not.
If the extremist mullahs and ayatollahs run the arab countries, the extremist Jews in America run our country. Politically correct to say that? No, but this is supposedly not a politically correct website, we'll see if this gets posted. I am sure the regular viewers will try and hunt me down.....save you time, I am already on the Jewish blacklist. You know the one where you Nazis seek retribution on critics of Israel?
Update: Daniel Pipes just lent his endorsement to this show, since he is the Jewish David Duke, just confirms that this show is racist. Too many Jewish names involved in this show with the exception of the actors.
Posted by: Too many Nazis
at January 9, 2005 12:44 PM
My faith in America not turning on us brown skin people fades every month. I can't believe that Jews would sacrifice FELLOW Americans to win support for Israel. I wonder if that middle class family will give reasons why they want to attack America - will Israel be mentioned? I doubt it.
Posted by: Too many Nazis
Dear Mr. Too Many Nazis;
I'm not exactly sure what it is you have against Jews, or against this site, but I'm hoping that you're not credulous enough to believe that we Americans can't tell the difference between Hindus and Muslims, or Arabs and Mexicans, or Indians and French Canadians. We respect all races and cultures, so long as they don't threaten everyone's well-being.
I wasn't aware that Americans had any problem at all with Hindus, probably because they don't. I work with a Hindu, his last name is Patel, and he's a good friend of mine. And how about this? He and I work for Jewish physicians. Oh no, what will the phony race card players do when they learn that we all get along just fine?
Your words make you sound more like the radical type. In fact, they make you sound uninformed as well. It's alright, I welcome you to this site, and the sites linked to it. Pay attention, and you'll learn (hopefully the easy way), that there is no war with skin color, and for you to make that accusation in itself is racist.
Might I suggest that you read Dr. Pipes a bit more in detail, and not fall for the propoganda spewed out by those who use race and religion as a crutch to further their agendas? We don't carry dislike for those of different races or religions. We carry dislike and the intent to do away with those who wish our freedom harm.
Speaking of freedom, isn't it nice to know that you can make the remarks that you make without having your tongue sliced off with a razor? And, isn't it nice to know that if you don't like what you see on television, that you can grab the clicker and change the channel? 24 is on tonight, no matter what the people at CAIR think about it. Freedom rings, and it sounds beautiful.
Welcome to Jihad Watch.
D.C.
Posted by: DCWatson
at January 9, 2005 4:12 PM
Note, as a follow up to my post: The United States population includes approximately 26 million African-Americans, and approximately 25 million Latin-Americans. We hear very little complaining from either of these communities, because we are not at war with them. We love them as Americans and as people.
Here's some food for thought Mr. Too Many Nazis;
People that come to live in America for the most part, want to live like Americans. Some, however, come to live in America with the expectations of living their life the same way they did in the land that they left. The nations of the West, and their citizens should never, ever be expected to conform to the culture of migrants. We have our own culture here, and it should be respected by anyone that lives here.
Lastly, we have posters here from all over the world, so I should say, and do say that we, not just Americans, but all of us, are able to tell the difference between Hindus and Muslims, or Arabs and Mexicans, or Indians and French Canadians, etc.
Posted by: DCWatson
at January 9, 2005 4:25 PM


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