arabs + hollywood productions
Professor Jack Shaheen has spent 20 years cataloguing Tinseltown's portrayal of Arabs in over 900 movies. He's found that, with very few exceptions, Arabs are presented in the movies as "subhuman" and destable to a degree that the studios would no longer dare with any other ethnic group.
"The tragedy" he admits, "is that we've begun to unlearn other stereotypes" - about Blacks, Jews, Native Americans. "But we haven't with this one. And 9/11 took it to another level."
By contrast, there is rage in abundance within the Arab world itself. "Arabs to whom I've spoken love American movies. But one fellow I spoke to in the United Arab Emirates told me that some of these films make him feel like he's been physically hit in the stomach, that he wants to go out and throw up."
Terror and Liberalism lays bare the dynamics of these movements. Though left-wing (Bolshevik) and right-wing (fascist), they shared "a single ur-myth," which goes back at least as far as the Book of Revelation (also known as Apocalypse) in the New Testament. In this myth, the people of God, dwelling in peace and simplicity, are attacked from within by the wealthy and corrupt denizens of Babylon, aided by evil foreign allies. In a great battle at Armageddon, the people, under a quasi-divine Leader, destroy the satanic forces and inaugurate a thousand-year reign of purity and virtue.
hahahaha haahahaha! Babylon? harharharharHARHARHAR! jesus h., Berman, you're fucking killing me!
re: below- let's get vicious.. it only takes one to kick it off.. moral responsibility
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