CAIR Speaking out Against ‘24′
The Council of Islamic Relations (CAIR) is speaking out about 24 portraying Muslims as the enemy.
I understand that this can be a sensitive issue with a lot of people. Here’s a video with Bill O’Reilly interviewing Arsalan Iftikar of CAIR, about the subject, take a look:
My problem with this argument the guy is making is this. First off it doesn’t seem like he’s even watched an episode of this season. He mentions that they have put 7 million Muslims in detention camps, which they HAVE not done. Tom Lennox, the man who actually wants to do it, is seen as a bad guy, not good by any means.
Another thing is, season 4 had a very strong Muslim influence in it, and it didn’t seem like there was as much uproar over it as there is now. I have a feeling that them actually detonating the nuke is what threw people into this frenzy.
Finally in today’s world there are groups of people, that happen to be Muslim, that want to hurt and kill Americans. That’s a fact and we saw that take place during 9/11. A show like 24 is trying to recreate a drama, that is fiction, but has a basis of fact to it to make it more dramatic and believable.
I think that the 24 writers have handled this season very well. I don’t think that all the Muslim’s it depicts are bad guys. I think that it also shows how a group of people can be unfairly racially profiled, because of what another group has done.
The test is if you can spot the deeper meanings of what the show is trying to get across. There’s no way 24 is saying it’s a good thing that we should intern all the Muslims. That’s not what it’s saying at all, and I don’t think that’s what people are taking away from it.
January 20th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
It’s too bad CAIR is more vocal in speaking out against 24 than they are in speaking out against islamic fundamentalism. If they spent an equal amount of energy condemning those who carry out terrorism in the name of Islam as they do in condemning Fox for potraying it on TV in all its ugliness, perhaps we’d be in a better world.
Just another example of some group not taking responsibility for the actions of their own members, and blaming others for reacting to it.
January 21st, 2007 at 4:07 pm
“He mentions that they have put 7 million Muslims in detention camps, which they HAVE not done. Tom Lennox, the man who actually wants to do it, is seen as a bad guy, not good by any means.”
Exactly!
January 21st, 2007 at 5:20 pm
It’s fiction, it’s fiction, it’s fiction! come on… how can people be gettting so mad about a fictional show and how it protrays reality? If so Rusians, Europians, and even the president of the united states should all be making similar complaints… but they’re not. It’s just this one group. and they’re getting mad before the season is even over… the whole story is yet to be told.
January 22nd, 2007 at 12:17 pm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2558373,00.html
Here’s an interesting article about how the Brits are racial profiling Muslims. Sucks that this stuff is happening. I think the producers/writers of 24 are just bringing it to the attention of the public.
January 22nd, 2007 at 2:54 pm
I really don’t think this is as big a deal as people are making it out to be. And frankly, I would be dissapointed with CAIR as a lobby group if they didn’t try to push their angle whenever they get a chance. Even if you don’t agree with them, you got to admit that it is stirring up debate, which is really all one can ask for.
But seriously, folks, it’s just a TV show. I am probably one of the most liberal people out there (as a Canadian too, which makes me a hardcore socialist to Americans?
) and I am addicted to the show. Anyone reading anything more into the show has got to get some perspective.