CAIRing about 24
January 03, 2005 | Aussie Dave | Comments
My favourite show has apparently trodden on some toes.
The first new episode this season of Fox’s “24″ has yet to hit the screen and already the network has offended a Muslim group.After viewing a portion of the first episode included on a DVD in Entertainment Weekly, officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations expressed dismay at the depiction of a Muslim family.“At first I was shocked,” organization spokeswoman Rabiah Ahmed told the Daily News. “In this particular case, they show an American-Muslim family and they portray them as terrorists.”
Unheard of!
At issue is a scene in which a teenager helps his parents plot to kill Americans.“What we will accomplish today will change the world,” the father tells the son over breakfast. “We are fortunate that our family has been chosen to do this.”Ahmed said the scene “casts a cloud of suspicion over every American-Muslim family out there.”
CAIR would be better advised to complain against the Muslim terrorists who cast far more suspicion on their co-religionists than any fictional TV show ever could.
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About the Author: An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.
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