HispanicVista Columnists
24, Smash Hit is real, not Fiction
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By
Raoul Lowery Contreras/HispanicVista.com - January 28, 2007
"After watching that show (24), I was afraid to go to the grocery store, because I wasn’t sure the person next to me would be able to differentiate between fiction and reality." --- Ms Rabiah Ahmed Council on Islamic-American Relations
Fiction: All Islamic people are peace loving religious,
tolerant and kind people.
Fact: As portrayed on the smash television hit "24," there are
many Muslims who believe in mass murder, assassinations, mob rule and the
total wipe out of Jews and Christians. They call it Jihad.
Fiction: Americans of Muslim faith are persecuted by government and the
American people and are not allowed to practice their faith as in the case
of the Florida woman (an American convert) who was not permitted to wear a
veil for a state driver’s license picture.
Fact: In many Muslim countries (Saudi Arabia comes to mind) Christians and
Jews are not permitted to practice their religions. The Bible is not
permitted into many of these countries. Christian missionaries are arrested
and persecuted if they even think of spreading their "Word."
Fiction: All Muslims are innocent of perpetrating terror here or around the
world.
Fact: Muslims were behind and implemented the 9/11 catastrophe in New York,
Washington and in the air over Pennsylvania. Each and every one of the 9/11
terrorists were Muslims. Muslims strap on bombs and mingle with innocent
men, women and children in Israel and Iraq, on buses, in coffee shops, in
market places and on the street while they detonate the bombs in an effort
to kill as many people as they can, including themselves.
Muslims killed hundreds of school children in Russia. Muslims bombed the
Madrid and London subways killing commuters on the way to work. Muslims
killed vacationing Australians in Bali in a world famous resort. Muslims
bombed the Indian Parliament. Muslims capture any foreigner they can in Iraq
and kill them by beheading. Sunni Muslim Saddam Hussein murdered more
Moslems than anyone in history.
Muslims bombed American embassies in Africa killing hundreds of innocent
Africans. Muslims are systematically killing thousands of Sudanese who are
Christians or other non-Moslem faiths in the Sudan, one of the largest
countries in the world.
Despite these incontrovertible facts, Muslim Ms Abdelkader Engy is trying to
organize American Muslims to protest "24" to the Fox Network.
She says, "I found the portrayal of American Muslims to be pretty
horrendous (on "24"); It was denigrating from beginning to end."
We must point out to this lady that in fact, the Muslims portrayed in the
first episodes of the current season featured Arab Muslims from outside the
country. Although one terrorist spoke with a San Fernando Valley accent, he
and his family were foreigners as were the actual nuclear bomb making
terrorists. So how can American Muslims protest "24" and how
Jihad terrorists are portrayed?
The answer lies in the American Muslim philosophical foundation.
First, it should be pointed out that the Baath political philosophies in
Syria and Iraq were formulated by one man who was in fact a great admirer
and student of Nazi Germany. Secondly, it is a fact that in countries like
Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran, small minorities usually control the
masses with smothering police, armies and rigged elections. Thirdly, during
World War II, the Grand Mufti of Moslems spent the war in Germany as a guest
of Adolph Hitler.
Former Iraq dictator Saddam, for example, was reelected with 99-percent of
the vote. In Iran, any opposition candidates were kicked off the ballots
because they weren’t qualified.
When Muslims first protested "24" the Fox Network had
"24" star Kiefer Sutherland cut an announcement in which he stated
that the portrayal of Muslim terrorists was not a true portrayal of all
Muslims.
I feel for Sutherland for when I was doing talk radio I once pointed out
that an Orange County group, California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR),
was fronting for a national anti-immigration group (FAIR) in fundraising and
spending money to advertise for the illegal Proposition 187.
The CCIR’s Barbara Coe (who acknowledged on ABC television that she was a
racist) complained to my boss, KOGO-AM 600 Program Director Peter Weissbach,
a minor league former Canadian talk show host that I was wrong. He made me
record an announcement that my statement about CCIR was not true and that I
apologized for making the statement.
After Weissbach was fired, research showed that CCIR had violated state and
federal election advertising and fundraising laws. I informed the world of
these facts. The fascists convinced only their own, most Californians
rejected them at the ballot box (Ask Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist who
with CCIR’s support managed to convince less than 6-pecent of eligible
Orange County voters to vote for him in a special Congressional election).
Are anti-immigrant fanatics and these complaining Muslims coming from the
same base? Are they philosophically linked together? Yes, they are.
Both groups are fascists who do not believe in freedom of speech or of the
free vote or of the free practice of religion. They both believe in
government from the top down, not from the bottom up. One only has to notice
that most American anti-illegal alien groups are also anti-Catholic to make
the philosophical connection.
Fact: Muslim terrorists as portrayed on "24" are real and are
active everywhere, including this country. We need many, many real life
24-type hero "Jack Bauers" to hunt down and to kill these animals
on the spot before they can kill more Americans here in the USA.
Contreras' books, THE ILLEGAL ALIEN: A DAGGER INTO THE HEART OF AMERICA and A HISPANIC VIEW OF AMERICAN POLITICS AND THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRATION are available at www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com