[ April 18, 2024 ]
Your moral superiors know you need it, and so you shall have it: the celebrated cannibal Reza Aslan, says LA Weekly, is “an E.P. on a new Chuck Lorre CBS comedy called The United States of Al, which aims to ‘de-exotify’ a Muslim character for a mainstream audience.” Meanwhile, in Australia (for now): Australia’s ABC iView has unveiled what it proudly calls the “World’s First Hijabi Comedy Series,” Halal Gurls.
Aslan has wanted to do this for a long time. “I’m waiting for a Muslim ‘All in the Family,’” he said in 2016. “Muslims are never going to feel like a part of the American family until people start to make fun of them on TV. That’s how minds have always been changed in this country.” Really? After all, we all know how much Muslims love being made fun of. And can Reza Aslan give us a single other example of a group that started “to feel like a part of the American family” when people started “to make fun of them on TV”?
This is just another spurious claim of Muslim victimhood from someone who has made a tidy living in the Muslims-Are-Victims industry, Reza Aslan. And it is more muddled thinking from a spectacularly muddled thinker. Which marginalized group began to “feel like a part of the American family” because they were made fun of “All in the Family”? Right-wing racist bigots? Polish hippies who were dubbed “Meathead” by their fathers-in-law?
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Aslan here probably meant not “All in the Family,” but something like “The Cosby Show,” which has been invoked before in the same way: Katie Couric said a few years ago that we needed a Muslim “Cosby Show,” i.e., a TV show that shows Muslims as just ordinary folks, and this will supposedly melt away the alleged prejudice that Americans have toward them.
The fallacy of that reasoning lies in the fact that when “The Cosby Show” aired, there were no international black terror groups mounting terror attacks in the U.S. and around the world, and boasting of their imminent conquest of the U.S. The suspicion that Americans have of Islam comes from jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, not from racism and bigotry, and Americans know this distinction, despite the best efforts of people like Reza Aslan to obscure it and make people feel guilty for opposing jihad terror. Some slick TV show depicting funny, warm, attractive, cuddly Muslims would not end jihad terror, or blunt concern about it — it would only serve to further the idea that resisting jihad violence was somehow “bigoted.”
Meanwhile, this effort is already underway in Australia. According to ABC iView, Halal Gurls, which was “Created and Directed by Award-winning Australian filmmaker Vonne Patiag,” intends to celebrate “Muslim women and the cultural diversity in Western Sydney. The show follows workaholic hijabi Mouna, played by Aanisa Vylet, as she navigates a cross-cultural balancing act between her structured career-driven life and the chaotic mess of her personal life.”
Aanisa Vylet explains how much we need this: “How often do we get to see a show about Muslim women where their religion, sexuality, and form of expression are not brought into question? The intelligence, inclusivity, lightness, and the very apparent respect towards the culture and community is what drew me towards the team and the webseries that is HALAL GURLS.”
Patiag agrees, this is just what our Islamophobia-laden world needs now: “It’s definitely time for a groundbreaking series like this to exist. Some of my closest friends are Muslim, and I’ve grown up and worked with Hijabis in the past – they have always been some of the most funniest and fiercest women out there, full of resilience and sass, but unfortunately society likes to paint them a different way. HALAL GURLS is an opportunity to reclaim the representation of modern Muslim women in a humanised and nuanced light, and to spark discussion about diversity on-screen and behind the camera.”
Pushing all the right contemporary buttons, not only does Halal Gurls celebrate diversity; it’s also inclusive. ABC iView assures us that Halal Gurls “was created via inclusive practice,” and really, how could it not have been? One of its producers, Petra Lovrencic, explained: “We wanted to show Muslim women in their best and most authentic light, and we couldn’t have done that without engaging with and listening to the community.” Of course. “We’ve collaborated with the community every step of the way, from writing through to the amazing soundtrack we produced. It all comes out of Western Sydney talent.”
One of the show’s scriptwriters, Sara Mansour, finds the whole thing exciting. “I love that the show is exactly about my lived experience as a veiled Muslim woman living in Sydney. The show draws on shared values and experiences and examines them through the lens of Muslim women in Australia – a group that have been subjected to a lot of scrutiny.”
I am not a veiled Muslim woman living in Sydney, Australia, and I’ve never written a sitcom script, but I’m just as excited as Sara Mansour. I feel a change of career coming on. I could write ten scripts for Halal Gurls right now, and pronto. I could finish them by this afternoon. In show number one, a plucky, attractive hijabi struggles — humorously and good-naturedly — to make her way in a world filled with clueless “Islamophobes,” well-meaning dunces who are ignorant of Islam. A subplot which becomes the main plot of show number two depicts her loving but comically conservative Muslim family pressuring her – humorously and good-naturedly — to get married and live a traditional Muslim life. In the give-and-take about that, there is not, of course, the faintest whiff of a threat if our hijabi doesn’t get married and settle down right away.
In show number three, we see firsthand how our plucky, attractive, humorous and good-natured hijabi heroine is constantly the recipient of rude and/or stupid remarks, to which she responds – humorously and good-naturedly — with sharp wisecracks that put the haters and/or idiots in their place. In show number four, and recurring now and then thereafter, a wise, kindly, avuncular imam offers our heroine sage advice – humorously and good-naturedly.
I could crank some out for The United States of Al as well. You know: Muslim struggles humorously and good-naturedly against casual Islamophobia at work. And ten variations on that.
Will these shows make Americans and Australians forget about jihad terrorism? Sure, at least until the next jihad massacre.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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53 Comments
4 years ago
“Muslims are never going to feel like a part of the American family until people start to make fun of them on TV.”
Sounds like a guaranteed trip to paradise for this guy! We all know about the muzzies sense of humor, don’t we?
4 years ago
Reply to
Sideshowjoe
yea typical. muslime housewives of new York (or wherever these sods live). pretty much typical of south east Asians with their “british” movies involving the beatles, bruce springsteen pride and prejudice about a soccer player?! weird. i’m soo over th p.o.s.
4 years ago
here is a rock-solid character trait of all muslims….like all fanatics, they have no sense of humor. they will never allow the world to laugh at them, their pedophile slave-owning murderous mohammed, or the stupid rock they worship in saudi arabia. this attempt to force them on us via a TV show is just DIA (democrats in action), or DIA Denver Int’l Airport (given to us by democrats, completed 2 years late at twice the promised cost, and shut down due to weather more often than the old airport which worked just fine until the democrats needed to raid the federal treasury and buy worthless land on the great plains from one of the richest democrats in denver). DIA also hires muslim women in hijabs to check your id before the TSA monkeys grope your genitals.
4 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
or the stupid rock they worship in saudi arabia.
I do not believe Moslems worship the Kaaba. They consider it a holy place- the holiest of holies, I suppose- but they do not worship it. It might be a rough equivalent to the Western Wall has in Judaism.
Perhaps you could get your facts straight, or articulate more precisely, before commenting.
4 years ago
Reply to
tituspullo
…all you said and more….is why I haven’t been on a plane since 9/11….and never will again.
4 years ago
Meanwhile, in Australia (for now): Australia’s ABC iView has unveiled
what it proudly calls the “World’s First Hijabi Comedy Series,”
Well I certainly hope the ABC downunder will show a live acid attack on some unfortunate young woman who ends up being horribly disfigured by an observant Moslem because she declined to wear the hijab. That should be a real thigh slapper for the intended audience.
4 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Observant muslum, like observant nazi is ludicrous. A good person wouldn’t be a f’ing muslum or a nazi worm. How “observant” does a muslum have to be before their evil and fascist? Do they need to sympathize w/muslum terrorists? Support muslum terrorists (financially or otherwise)?
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Omar Rallies Support for Bill Banning Gay Conversion Therapy …
Mar 21, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar has rallied LGBTQ youth in support of a Minnesota bill to ban gay conversion therapy for minors or vulnerable adults.
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https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/minnesota/articles/2019-03-21/omar-rallies-support-for-bill-banning-gay-conversion-therapy
She campaigns for LBGTQ+ rights here. LBGTQ+ thinks Omar is their friend.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The f’ing muslums will be pushing the LBGTQ+ community right back into their closets once they take power — and they’ll use truncheons and fists to do it.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
More like pushing them off roof tops and you know the rest.
How in God’s name is this despicable person (Omar) not in prison?
4 years ago
“Halal Gurls celebrate diversity; it’s also inclusive:…..Let me know when they have an openly Gay character on the Show and a “Zionist Jew”…..Ill be waiting patiently……
4 years ago
Reply to
Eli F.
…and also let me know when they have on the show a script that attacks and rejects the promotion in the Quran that vilifies all of us others and preaches intolerance, especially towards the Jews, who are referred to as ‘Apes and pigs,’ and should be killed when found hiding behind the talking tree; and when their script rejects their claim that they are the only acceptable belief system, and rejects domination of all us others by so stating in the script, then I might give some credence to their so-called attempt to turn us rational Islamophobes into accepting some of those believers. If that unlikely writing happens, I expect a Fatwa to be the order of the day. I truly believe that the violence that has become so prominent today is directly related to the obscene belief system that is Islam. That belief system is the likely cause of what is triggering the violence that we hear about daily both here and elsewhere.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dennis
…..that started pretty much with GW Bush….”Islam means peace”. The biggest propaganda lie by a US President. The Bush and Clinton Cabals have been all in with the MEs for many decades….the Bushs mainly through generations of oil.
GW’s college roommate was a SAudi Prince…..
And Papa Bush wanted a “NEW WORLD ORDER.” Sound familiar?
4 years ago
Reply to
Eli F.
They’ll have a story line where a visibly-identifiable religious Jew is attacked by a MAGA hat-wearing white supremacist and a hijab-clad Muslima comes to his rescue and chases off the white dude and saves the day.
4 years ago
Reply to
caliroxanne
They’ll have it happen in NY City and ole Billy boy, with Linda in tow, will give her the key to the city.
4 years ago
Chuck Lorre! A vile kapo whose father escaped murdering Nazis to come to America!!
4 years ago
Reply to
Cassandra
R U thinking he’s the son of the great Peter Lorre? I don’t think he is, Peter Lorre only had a daughter and she died years ago.
4 years ago
Reply to
Cassandra
…he is truly what the Jews call a Gonif!
Now he’s moving into the traitor category of “entertainment.”
4 years ago
I await: FGM, ‘honor killings’, suicide attacks, pedophile attacks and of course, death to infidels.
4 years ago
I doubt that even Muslims will want to be laughed at. They are usually hyper sensitive.
Then again, it will DECEIVE many. Humor can reduce fear.
4 years ago
I stopped watching tv a long time ago.
It’s all awful.
4 years ago
Reply to
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
You’re not kidding, it really is. I tend to watch older programmes — programmes that predate when television began foisting islamic propaganda as fact. Lou Dobbs, though, he seems to get it, which is probably why the Crescent News Network fired him and he’s on Fox now.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
I went to streaming so I get to pick what “propaganda” I want to watch….zero. I also have an extensive DVD library that I can entertain myself with…..
I gave up on Fox News when Shepard Smith looked into the camera and told all of us that we were ridiculous for investigating the fact Obama wasn’t an America.
The only shows I watch on that station is Tucker and Hannity….the rest of the time I’m on Fox Business with Dobs, Payne, and Maria…..
I largely get my news from Rush Limbaugh. Truth I can count on.
4 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
I sometimes watch the 700 Club too. At least Pat Robertson isn’t a liar and shill for islam and muslums.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
I’ll tell you about a preacher you would really like….Alistar Begg…out of of Cleveland….on the TRUTH FOR LIFE CHRISTIAN program… first started hearing him on American Family Radio…
I believe he is from Ireland. He has a short daily program around noon on AFR and then when you go to his church site you can stream his sermons….and he also has special programs for series that you can listen to at your leisure.
He is a brilliant Biblical historian, also very funny, best sermons I’ve ever heard and this is coming from the niece of a Minister …. and reared on Billy Graham.
My lifelong church -Disciples of Christ Christian- abandoned me like the Methodist and others by going full libtard. No good old hymns, rainbow robes, and so many other changes…it ain’t that ol’ time religion anymore.
Check Begg out…he did a series of HOW GOD TAKES ORDINARY PEOPLE AND TURNS THEM INTO EXTRAORDINARY.
4 years ago
Nope, I’m not watching.
4 years ago
The “moderate”, “secular”, “decent”, “honorable” muslum is nothing more than the thin edge of the islamic wedge.
4 years ago
Reply to
oceanfloor1
…actually, the MEs call them Dhimmis…..the only good news in that is if and when they take over a country or people….the first thing they do is kill the Dhimmis….because they rightly surmise that if they would help them conquer their own people…it’s only a matter of time before they try to do it to them.
4 years ago
I hate it when the ignorant among us make up propaganda to stuff down our throats, believing they have the moral high ground when in fact they are deceived fools. Like a herd of sheep falling off a cliff. And half the population will fall for it. The wrong people have the media megaphone.
4 years ago
Very good Robert 🙂
4 years ago
Can’t wait for the episode where her Imam tells her to get rid of her dog or else face the fires of hell.
4 years ago
You can’t co-exist with savages who want you dead. Know islam, no peace. No islam, know peace.
4 years ago
CBC in Canada has all these Johnnie-come-latelys beat. They had their Islam pandering/apologist piece-of-crap TV series called Little Mosque On The Prairie way back in 2007.
4 years ago
What Morons.
4 years ago
Mozzlem “All in the Family” or “Cosby Show”. Hmmmmm. Meathead would be mo-hamm-head, and would your typical, lay-around-the-house son-in-law, although he stabs and murders neighbors he does not like. And Cosby/Huxtable’s character would the father-figure who FGM’s his daughter, while ra ping his son and other boys in the neighborhood. I think I’ll pass, see enough of that stuff right here on the Geller Report…..
4 years ago
HEY! SOME TITLES FOR MOVIES ABOUT ISLAMICS’ SENSE OF TOLERANCE AND DIVERSITY! “BEHIND THE CURTAIN”, ” TO KILL A JEW”, “ISLAM’S PLANET OF THE KOSHER APES”, “JIHAD OR FATWA?” WOW! SO MANY FABULOUS CHOICES!
ALSO, HIBJAB AL, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A JIHADI SHOWS UP AND DECIDES TO KILL SOMEONE ON THE SET FOR MISREPRESENTING THE PROPHET? WELL, THEY WILL LISTEN TO THE COMMUNITY TO MAKE SURE THE SHOW IS SHARIA COMPLIANT! ONLY HALAL MEAT BASED MEALS! WOW! MAYBE THE INSPECTING IMMAM WILL BE FROM HAMAS! IMAGINE THE MONEY LAUNDERING POSSIBILITIES! PERHAPS THEY CAN HIRE HUNTER BRIBE’M I MEAN BIDEN AS A TECHNICAL ADVISOR FOR $30,000 PER MONTH WHICH FOR HIM IS A STEAL OF A DEAL! HAPPY 2020!
4 years ago
Reply to
Cauc-Asian Patriot
…it will probably go the way of that weird movie where “conservatives” are hunted and killed by Dimms…..
4 years ago
Peaceful meek and mild muslims are “Potemkin villages” and most dangerous traps for the unbelievers.
4 years ago
I didn’t see when this shithole show was supposed to air. Does anyone know? I wonder if the rag head ladies will be marrying their daughters off at the age of eight on the show? There would surely be a ton of terror dudes trying out for the part of the groom(s). Sick Fucks!!!
4 years ago
New TV Shows Want You to Relax and Stop Worrying About Jihad
Hey, Aslan…..so when you can wipe out all news from around the Globe of what the “MEs” are doing to those who don’t follow their religion…..and when you can make people accept that because they are not Muslim, they deserve to die….you might have a chance with this propaganda.
Read the Qu’ran…..their “god” says they must either enslave or kill non-believers. That’s pretty clear….and putting “lipstick on a pig” does not make it more attractive…..I also recall that Hitler used propaganda to control the Germans…..
4 years ago
This is how propaganda and brainwashing works. The ruse being perpetrated with these shows is that because some adherents of a totalitarian ideology are supposedly nice people and just ordinary folks just like us, we are supposed to accept the further encroachment of that ideology into our society. That’s the desired result. It’s nasty and insidious, but unfortunately it will likely work on far too many.
4 years ago
Watch how these shows will have dreadful ratings but never go away.
4 years ago
I believe they tried a muslim reality show a few years back, but it didn’t do well and was cancelled.
4 years ago
Normalizing Hate is the goal of Leftist and their puppets like the Democrat Congressional Squad.
The BDS movement celebrates the destruction of Israel, while portraying Islamic terrorist as ‘Freedom Fighters’ !!
Wake up America,…. wake up !!
4 years ago
Stuff it sharmutas!
4 years ago
Nazism might have been funny too — as long as you weren’t Jewish or a gypsy.
4 years ago
If you have not yet canceled cable/sat TV and only stream shows which do not promote every sexual perversion known to mankind or the insanity of thinking any muslim is safe to be around then you are funding your enemies every month with your cable/sat TV payment.
We have to STARVE this cancer from the “entertainment” industry which seems to be unsatisfied with being very pro communist but now pushing a pro muslim terrorist agenda.
Every mosque is nothing but a WMD factory hiding in plain sight. The weapons being produced only look like peaceful humans until they receive their launch codes from their imam.
4 years ago
The shows that need to air nationally are David Wood’s Islamacise Me and Mohammad’s Boom Boom Room. LOL!
