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Posted on 04/04/2006 7:18:31 AM PDT by Uncledave
A source who monitors political e-mail lists sent me an intriguing message disseminated last week, which involved an apparent Dateline NBC solicitation to Muslim groups. Check this out:
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:05:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Subject: Looking for Muslim Males to participate in NBC Dateline Segment
[Forwarded]
Salam,
I hope everyone is doing well.
I have been talking with a producer of the NBC Dateline show and he is in the process of filming a piece on anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discrimination in the USA. They are looking for some Muslim male candidates for their show who would be willing to go to non-Muslim gatherings and see if they attract any
discriminatory comments or actions while being filmed.
They recently taped two turbaned Sikh men attending a football game in Arizona to see how people would treat them. They set them up with hidden microphones and cameras, etc.
They want to do the same thing 2 or 3 other times (in various parts of the USA) with one or two Muslim men in each setting. They are looking for men who actually "look Muslim". They want a guy with no foreign accent whatsoever, a good thick beard, an outgoing personality, and someone willing to wear a kufi/skullcap during the filming.
They also want someone who is fairly well accomplished and has contributed to American society at large in some meaningful way.
That said, I'm urgently looking for someone who can be filmed this April 1st weekend at a Nascar event (and other smaller events) in Virginia. NBC is willing to fly in someone and cover their weekend expenses. The filming would take place all day on Saturday and Sunday.
We already have a hijabi sister who will be filmed there but a Muslim is also needed to join her. I also need candidates for the other filming segments which will take place in the following weeks.
A few weeks later, NBC will fly all the filmed participants to New York City to interview them as a group about their experience and thoughts on discrimination they've faced in America, especially in light of the times we live in (war on terror, 9-11, etc.). The show, if approved by NBC (highly likely), is expected to air sometime this summer.
What I need from interested candidates is an email with an attached clear photograph, a resume, and contact information. I also need basic information such as age, ethnic background, accomplishments, etc.
The sooner I can get this the better and please don't make emails too long. I will then submit a group of candidates to NBC so they can choose the people for the show.
Please forward this to all Muslim lists you can. Because of the upcoming filming in Virginia, this is pretty time-sensitive. My contact information is below.
Salam,
Tarek El-Messidi
Catch that? The apparent "sting" involves targeting Nascar and other sporting events. 'Cause that's presumably where the fair and balanced NBC news staff thinks all the bigots are.
Keep an eye on Dateline NBC here.
Send your questions to dateline-at-nbc.com
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This is despicable and they should be charged with inciting hate crimes.
Something very similar was done after 9/11. I forget which news agency did it, but it showed muslims complaining about being yelled at in NYC after the attacks. They got one trucker yelling at them as they were crossing the street, which is customary to anyone crossing the street in NYC. They also showed them at the fence at Ground Zero. Funny thing was at Ground Zero, a white woman came up to them, thanked them for coming, showing concern and offering prayers. She also asked them if they were being bothered by anyone and made sure THEY were alright!
The first thing that came to my mind when reading this:
Fools seeking fools to fool fools on April fools.
Ping
I guess I don't understand. If the guy is just walking around and isn't provoking anyone, how is that baiting or manufacturing news if someone harrasses him? Are we saying Muslims or people who look like Muslims shouldn't go to NASCAR because the simple fact that they show up is baiting?
If the MSM thinks they have become unpopular and insignificant before, and believe that such a bold act of demagoguery will improve their ratings, it will merely increase the strength and scope of the NASCAR phenomenon. The MSM will be driven off the road and into the infield swamp.
Here's an idea.
Why be so negative? We can help NBC, and let's make some real entertainment out of this. Just make sure they hire a guy who is a male between the ages of 18 and 45, and we tell him we are going to hire him as a water bottle vendor for the NASCAR event.
To make his job easier, we can make a special vest to hold all the water bottles so he doesn't have to carry them around.
And we should also specify the brand that has the caps on the bottles colored red, and that they also have that little wire that keeps the cap from getting lost.
We can also suggest that, to make the effect more ethnic, he can shout at the top of his lungs in Arabic "GET YOUR WATER HERE!" We just tell him NASCAR fans are people of the world, and will appreciate his ethnicity.
Concealed carry is permissible at NASCAR, right?
Why doesn't NBC just take a redneck in a Nascar jacket, let him walk around a mosque somewhere in Pakistan or Iraq, see what happens? See if he's treated as an equal anywhere in a Muslim country. Or in NYC, for that matter.
Of course, we'll never see that...
ROFL!!!
Just in case anyone else is curious about the numbers.
Yeah but they're onto something good here. Let a bunch of muslims loose at a NASCAR event?
Pass the popcorn, this is going to be must see tv here.
Hopefully they'll have a Las Vegas gambling line established......Abdullah won't make it out alive past lap 10.
They won't need hidden microphones then.
They don't have to go trolling, where can I sign up to be biggot #1?
That's not a "sting", it's entrapment.
I like the idea of notifying NASCAR that Dateline is intending to sting them this way, so perhaps they could make an announcement before the race.
What else could we do? Any ideas for a T-shirt slogan that someone could wear, hanging around any obvious Muslims and somehow spoiling all their filming? "NBC Dateline Drums Up Hatred" or something like that?
--ccm
Actually I think WE are saying that NBC is saying that.
Better yet how about a Christian with a Bible walking in a market in Mecca.
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