Hollywood’s Crusade against Muslims, Film Portrayal of Arabs
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Hollywood’s Crusade against Muslims, Film Portrayal of Arabs. The Writings of Media Critic Jack Shaheen.
By Barbara Nimri Aziz
Featured image: Jack Shaheen (Source: NPR)
The event of 9/11 is unparalleled in history, in drama, in audacity, in the terrorific images, in deaths, in its live transmission, in its ongoing controversies. It remains a traumatizing American experience with continually unfolding consequences. One result is the rise and persistence of hostility by Americans not only towards the [alleged] perpetrators, Arab agents purportedly motivated by a religious ideologue, but also entire Arab nations and Arab and Muslim peoples worldwide.
This everlasting bitterness exaggerates the tragedy in the minds of Americans. At the same time, it interrupts and dist...