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."
Not in TV shows or in commercials. I guess they don’t want me watching TV. That’s okay. I have other things to do that are much more important, like watching paint peal.
How about, The Bel-Arabs!
Come and listen to the story ‘bout a man named Abdul,
A poor Bedouin, barely kept his family full,
And then one day, he was shootin’ at some Jews,
And up thru the ground come a bubblin’ crude....
Oil that is,
Persian Perrier, Kuwaiti Kool-Aid——Saudi Soda....
A, well the first thing y’know, Abdul’s a billionaire,
His kin folk say, “You gotta move away from there.
They said “Californie is the place without a care,”
So he loaded up the Rolls, and they moved to Bel-Aire.
Next to Beverly Hills, that is...
Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars....Jews!
There is 1 tonite on SciFi’s “Resident Alien”.
The Spanish channel has started showing a lot of Turkish TV shows dubbed into Spanish.
and maybe there’s a good reason for that?
One of the best episodes.
With all the decadence on Tv and in the media, they have no desire to be a part of it.
muslims(SPIT!)
How many moslems are in popular televisions series in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, etc? Let me take a wild ass guess here — hmmm...I’ll go with 100%.
How many of the popular tv series in those countries have Christian actors and stars? Hmmm...I’ll go with 0%.
Screw ‘em!
Does this mean that when we watch historical drama’s based on factual events, that instead of having a black woman playing Queen Elizabeth I, that we’ll need to watch a Muslim woman playing Queen Liz the first?
Bridgerton... Let’s pretend black people ran England in the 18th century.
Put one on bachelorette. That should be a hoot. Or Naked and Afraid with a hijab.
There aren’t many Eskimos on popular TV programs either. Or badgers. Or pedophiles.
Muslims cause a fraction of the damage that atheists/leftists do.
No one cares NPR
Simple. Let’s remove the few white people who are still allowed to play in TV series, and replace them with Muslims. Or course, all the white actors usually play the part of the idiot or the gay person(or both), so I’m not sure how the Muslim actors will respond to being cast in those positions. They may have to kick a few Asians off the casting couch to find a spot for them.
Lebanese-American actors have had some representation in TV history (mostly they weren't Muslims) going back to Danny and Marlo Thomas, as have Sephardic Jews. And of course there's always Al Jazeera.
But all of this talk is just cover for the networks recycling old sitcoms, jokes, and scripts with casts representing new ethnic groups. If we get a US Little Mosque on the Prairie, it will just be Hollywood reusing the same old material.
Hell, there are barely any Christians on “popular” TV!
Suicide bomber roles are so rare.
… with good reason.
I was gonna say! How did they come up with those numbers?
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