Posted on 09/07/2022 3:57:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Muslims make up 25% of the global population and Islam is the fastest-growing religion in the world — but Muslims only comprise 1% of characters shown on popular televisions series in the U.S., the U.K., Australia and New Zealand.
Those are just two of the findings in a new report issued Wednesday by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. Researchers investigated 200 top-rated television shows from 2018 and 2019 that aired in these four countries, and surveyed 8,885 characters with speaking roles.
Apart from the numbers deficit, the majority of the Muslim characters were depicted as adult Middle Eastern or North African [MENA] men, despite the fact that Muslims are the most racially and ethnically diverse religious group in the world. These characters were also linked to violent acts and behavior. Over 30% of the 98 Muslim characters were perpetrators of violence, while nearly 40% were targets of such attacks. Less than one-third were portrayed as native English speakers, underscoring depictions of Muslims as "foreigners."
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"The findings in this study reveal how rarely content creators think about including Muslims in popular storytelling– particularly girls and women," said Stacy L. Smith, founder of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative in a press release issued alongside the study. "As a result, viewers would have to watch hours and hours of content before seeing even a single portrayal of a Muslim character– with even more time required to find a portrayal that is not linked to violence or extremism."
Two lies in the first sentence.
The muslims are such a peaceful group killing people....
ISGAS
I Scarcely Give A S.....
So what??????
Aren’t to many white people these days either
“” Pew Research Center estimates that there were about 3.45 million Muslims of all ages living in the U.S. in 2017, and that Muslims made up about 1.1% of the total U.S. population.””
So once again NPR is full of it.
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we obviously need to make a TON more desert storm movies and 9-11 movies to please these idiots!
So Muslims get poofter levels of representation and the poofters get theirs?
A really great idea would be for a TV series ‘JIHAD’, which follows a number of young Islamacists as the move from madrassas in Pakistan to join a Taliban/ ISIS type organization. Bombings, assassinations, beheadings, sex slaves, drone strikes, inter muzzard fighting, all this and more as we see who is left alive at the end of the first season and wait to greet the next class of jihadis. It would be great, complete with Bill Cosby as the mysterious and sinister Mullah Abdulla.
So what?
There were on September 11, 2001.
They are 1% of the us population. How many Christian’s are on TV in majority Muslim counties?!?
Talk about a study of nothing and invented outrage
OTOH there are no muslims in Star Trek.
Know why? Star Trek is set in the future.
Not sure I have seen a Christian in any Hollywood production. (unless they are a villain of some kind.)
Troubleshooter was unable to detect any problems with your portrayal of Reality...
Are you sure? If I were a muzzard I would firmly believe the victory of the Faith , in the west, is pretty well assured. Just takes time.
Plenty of Muslims actors on NCIS. Of course most were villians.
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