Pamela Geller, WND Column: "All American Muslim" TV Show, "Struggling to Balance Faith and Nationality" Why struggle?

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'All-American Muslim' hides the truth about Islam

Sunday evening, The Learning Channel premiered its new "All-American Muslim" program, which it described as a "powerful series" taking viewers "inside the rarely seen world of American Muslims." And it uncovers a "unique community struggling to balance faith and nationality." Balancing faith and nationality? Why is that a struggle? Because they conflict.

The premise behind the creation of the show is the fictional construct "Islamophobia." "All-American Muslim" is designed to counter "Islamophobia" by showing Muslims who aren't terrorist monsters, but ordinary people living ordinary lives, balancing tradition and modern life, dealing with their families, their jobs, etc.

Yet based on the most recent FBI statistics, hate crimes against Muslims are at record lows – the lowest since 9/11. Contrast that to the record highs in anti-Semitic attacks against the Jewish people; so where's TLC's Jewish family series?

Left-wing sites are shamelessly pushing, promoting and propagandizing the new "All-American Muslim" show. The dhimmi Jew Alyssa Rosenberg urged viewers to watch the show, writing at Think Progress: "Normally, I would never tell you to watch something just because it would make someone mad. But noted Islamophobe Pamela Geller is apparently vexed that TLC's 'All-American Muslim,' a new reality show about a group of Muslim families in Dearborn, Mich., doesn't achieve what she thinks of as balance, by which she means including story lines where Muslims commit crimes based on their faith."

Rosenberg complains that "so much of the conversation about Islam in America in the aftermath of September 11 has been dominated and misdirected by conspiracy theorists like Geller rather than rational attempts at dialogue and understanding." Devout Muslims attacked this country and killed 3,000 Americans in the name of Islam; how does that make me a conspiracy theorist?

Rosenberg's bootlicking is embarrassing. She derides me for calling for balance and truth. She also says that you should watch "All-American Muslim" "because it's a very good show: warm, funny, with great characters, high-stakes story lines, and the some of the most thoughtful discussions of faith I've ever seen on mainstream television, or in mainstream popular culture at all. … In an era of increasingly vile reality television characters, and in a fall television season that's stumbled in part by relying heavily on abrasive main and supporting characters, it's a nice to have people to get invested in and to root for."

But Rosenberg neglects to address the racist remarks that one character made against "white people" or the deriding of Catholics for consuming vast quantities of alcohol. I found those statements to be particularly offensive. Once again, the left shows itself to be indifferent to racism when it is committed by one of their own, and to the denigration of any religion other than Islam.

Read it all.

Comments

[Isabellathecrusader]

Why don't you provide it here for us, dg.

[When*Pigs8Fly]

"The show presents Shadia Amen, who marries Jeff, as more liberated because she doesn’t wear a Hijab, unlike her more devout sister, but in an interview she admitted that “I wore a scarf for 13 years. I took it off because if I’m going to represent my religion, I want people to get the right image.”
All-American Muslim pretends that Shadia and her sister represent two approaches to Islam, but in reality they represent the same approach: deception. Both sisters wear their badge of slavery, but one takes it off when it’s time to present “the right image.”

".....there is All-American Muslims, a show that tries to make a religion which believes in world domination and the inferiority of women, seem normal."-Daniel Greenfield

[When*Pigs8Fly]

Here's the rest of it :

"The main danger of "All-American Muslim" is that it's misleading. The Muslims portrayed in the show are free to choose their path. That is the beauty of living in a free society. But so many aren't – not only in Muslim countries, but here in America. Who speaks for Jessica Mokdad, who lived not far from where this show is taping, in Dearborn, Mich.? Mokdad was honor murdered by her stepfather, Rahim Alfetlawi, for "not following Islam" in the same city that refuses to run my freedom bus ads that offer help for those who wish to leave Islam but are threatened by their families. The ads were designed to help girls like Jessica. Despite our free-speech victories in the Detroit court, which ordered the ads to run, Detroit's SMART Transit refused to run them – and Mokdad was honor murdered the week my ads were supposed to run.

The danger is in the deception and obfuscation of the truth, which results in the intellectual disarming of the American people. "All-American Muslim" is trying to show nominal Muslims as the norm, as if their existence takes away the threat from devout Muslims. It is mentioned once but never explained: The man has to convert to Islam because a Muslim woman cannot marry a non-Muslim man. This is a supremacist measure designed to make the Muslim community always expand at the expense of the non-Muslim one. But there is no hint of that in this show.

Clearly this program is an attempt to manipulate Americans into ignoring the threat of jihad and to bully them into thinking that being concerned about the jihad threat would somehow victimize these nice people in this show.


The problem is not people, it's ideology. The show doesn't address that."

[When*Pigs8Fly]

Please explain:

What was the remark about "white people"?
And who was deriding Catholics for consuming vast amounts of alcohol?

[When*Pigs8Fly]

It's nice that WND is having Pam's article on their site but I am loathe to support them because the only way you are allowed to comment is to log in through a Facebook account. I refuse to patronize Facebook so I guess I;ll just have to do the same with WND.

[Human Ape]

If American Muslims had any sense of decency they would have thrown out their terrorist organization on 9/11/2001.

http://darwinkilledgod.blogspot.com/

[ApolloSpeaks]

Assimilated, Americanized Moslems (more American than Moslem) are exactly the kind we want to see more of; and exactly the kind that organizations like CAIR, and many (too many) US mosques, want to save from us evil, ungodly infidels with their supremacist ideology of intolerance and hate.

[damon whitsell]

*******BREAKING NEWS******* All-American Muslim Imam (Husham Al- Husainy) was on Sean Hannity's radio show in 2007 saying U.S.A. an "oppressor nation" and will not condemn Hezbola and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Part 1 of the video is here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxTcRzARLZk

Part 2 of the video is here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMRUSAS4MPw

[Isabellathecrusader]

I watched the entire episode and made notes Sunday night. The Muslims unintentionally made their supremacist thoughts known. Shadia tries to present herself as some sort of groovin' modern chick with all her piercings, her tattoos (on her bare back in her strapless wedding gown,) and her strappy tops showing way to much flesh for such a big girl. She chats about how her dad wants her to be more reserved and acts like he's so old fashioned but she's going to do things her way. But she's actually doing them according to Islam. She says, "I have to marry a Muslim, for my son, for my family, for me." That she wore that strapless gown in a room full of long sleeved, up-to-the-neck, down-to-the-floor and be-hijabbed women must have been a fairy tale indeed. I call B.S. on her parents thinking that was A-OK. More like taqiyyah to fool the American masses.

Her hapless fiance, Jeff, the "Irish Catholic", appears to be very timid around Shadia and her family. Indeed, we see from the first fifteen minutes of the show who will wear the pants in the family, hijab or no hijab. Jeff is obviously uncomfortable with the conversion but not because he's a practicing Catholic. He's obviously not or he wouldn't give up his faith to marry into a political ideology. He couldn't possibly have a strong relationship with Jesus Christ as was exposed when he said converting to Islam "was not like it was when [he] was baptized and confirmed". Having been baptized and confirmed he obviously has no clue what it really means. From the looks of him, I don't think he has a clue as to what he's letting himself in for in converting to Islam.

When Jeff talks to his mom about the conversion she says a classic stupid line: "Society evolves". She looked less convinced when she started crying later regarding Jeff's conversion. But Shadia's family wasn't concerned at all. They were merely insistent that Jeff change to join their family. Shadia's dad said, "If he wants to marry my daughter, he has to convert." He also said to Jeff regarding his conversion, "You're not denouncing anything; you're adding more," unless of course you used to believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of the Living God and now you are demoting Him to a mere prophet. I don't believe Jeff had any kind of strong relationship with Jesus but to the Muslims in Shadia's family it wouldn't matter if he did. It's the Muslim way or the highway.

[Isabellathecrusader]

In a panel discussion Shadia's mom, who looks to be and American born blonde haired convert said it would "depress her immensely" if one of her kids wanted to convert. She said she would feel like a failure. Curiously no one asked Mary McDermott, Jeff's mom, if she was immensely depressed or if she felt like a failure that Jeff converted from his family's Roman Catholic faith to Islam. But then, it wouldn't matter if you're an All American Muslim supremacist.

I found Shadia's bitchy hijab wearing sister to be particularly annoying. When Jeff's side of the family entered the banquet hall she said she thought it would be funny if Jeff's family walked in looking for alcohol and there wasn't any. That's hilarious! Just think of how funny it would be if the Muslims walked in expecting tea and there wasn't any! Oh my gosh, my sides are splitting. But that was just another example of the condescending, inconsiderate mentality of an average subscriber to Islam.

Some of the program made no sense at all. Shadia's family's women were all hijab compliant. Even Shadia wore one for the "wedding ceremony" in her parents' living room. (And they made Jeff's mom wear one too.) Not so when she showed up to the banquet hall in that strapless gown with a whispy veil that caused her to complain that it didn't let the tattoos on her back show. If her dad is insistent that her new husband be a Muslim I find it hard to believe that he was fine with her wearing nothing on her shoulders. Sorry, the contrast between her and her modest mom, sister and Muslim women guests was just too far off to buy into that one.

We were all supposed to believe that Jeff's cousin's hard shoe Irish folk dance was counter balanced by Shadia's family's belly dancer. Huh? At least the pregnant Muslim gal was honest enough to say she didn't like that sort of thing because she didn't like women flaunting themselves. That is the correct Muslim belief.

This show will go on and spew propaganda for the next few weeks or months. But they will also reveal some of the more unsavory attitudes held by Muslims. For instance, next week we will find out that a Muslim majority football team at a local high school decides to flip the practice schedule from afternoons, nights and weekends to a 10:00pm to 5:00am schedule to make it easier for Muslims to fast during the daylight hours of Ramadan. If this was a private Muslim school, hey, knock yourselves out. But it isn't. This is a taxpayer funded public school accomodating one religion to the exclusion of all the others. I can just imagine the howls that would ensue if Catholics got the school cafeteria to close between meals and serve only fish on Fridays. We'd never hear the end of it.

[Vlad the Jihadi Impaler]

Episode 1 glossed over islam's prohibition against marriages of non-muslim males with female slaves of allah. How does that perversion line up with constitutional equality? I auspect that the fact of Dearborn muslim derision for the US army won't make it to broadcast. That jihad-ummah is really a forward base for domination. A supremacist ideology hardly accepts others as their equals. Islam is the worst mind disease to ever inflict mankind.

[Lady-Light]

Hi, Pamela. Linked your post and wrote about this--you're on target.

[Kufar Dawg]

Why should anyone be polite to anyone who subscribes to an ideology that revolves around hatred, xenophobia, anti-Christian bigotry and rabid antisemitism? Why should
I ever be polite to a muslime ape? I'd never extend that courtesy to a nazi pig or white supremacist so why should I extend it to muslime apes?

[Redwine]

"Why struggle?"
Because jihad ("Kampf" - as in "Mein Kampf") means "struggle".

[dan]

We can spoof this show to include visits to Egypt to enjoy killing Christians, attend stonings, and child marriages.

Also we can see men beating women on the street, and regular jihads burning cars, and buildings. Also the finest hate sessions at the Mosques.

Also trips to Erik Holder to sue our employers for prayer time in school, (only for us) and watch somalis in Minnesota beat up on older people.

It will be fun!

[dg]

Right now. I am loling. since my intial comment was deleted. although there was nothing offensive in it, but merely pointing out that Pam was using an old report; the new FBI hate crimes report came out two days ago.

source: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr

2009
70.1 percent were anti-Jewish.
9.3 percent were anti-Islamic.
8.6 percent were anti-other religion.
4.4 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
4.0 percent were anti-Catholic.
2.9 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.7 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.(Based on Table 1.)

2010
65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc. (Based on Table 1.)

[Isabellathecrusader]

So that's 5 to 1 with five times as many Jews having crimes committed against them as Muslims. Did the Muslims report include the crimes that they commit against themselves or are you saying these are crimes committed by non-Muslims against them? The information is a little murky.

[Roy Parker]

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[Joe U.S. Citizen]

Unreal, you people are actually watching this propaganda.
You better wake up real quick. Islam is not, i repeat not, a religion.
They are told to kill the infidels. That is any white Christian.
We just keep letting these terrorists into the country. Get ready.
That's all i'm going to say.

[dg]

@Isabella,

the numbers are what they are; I work in a law enforcement capacity; so it is my belief that the crimes being labeled as "hate crimes" would have had some sort of investigation conducted, if the perpetrator was found to be of the same faith group, it would be written off as a "regular" crime and not as a "hate" crime.

I did mention that the number of crimes perpetuated on the Jewish people was still in fact larger; but being a man of numbers and statistics, I just found the information (in regards to statistics)in the article to not be exactly true, that was my issue.

[Justin Brill]

What you say about Muslims in this country is exactly what the nazis were saying about the Jews before the holocaust. Congrats on being on the wrong side of history.

[Matt]

"a religion which believes in world domination and the inferiority of women, seem normal."-Daniel Greenfield"

You mean, like Christianity?

[Joel Meyerson]

@Joe U.S. Citizen:

How many muslims do you actually know? I think if you took the time to actually understand the religion and the people based on something other than the xenophobic narrative this country's propagated for the last decade, your opinion would change.

...and really, that's what this show is about. There are fundamentalists of every political persuasion, every religion, and every nation on earth. People, no matter what creed they ascribe to, can become misled and drawn to violence.

What's important is being able to understand that you can't demonize an entire group (especially one that encompasses 1.5 billion people) for the actions of a fringe demographic--because there's a fringe in every group.

The value in a show like this is that it's a break from the (unfortunately dominant) narrative that most people see. It's a chance for people like Joe who (I suspect, forgive me if I'm being presumptuous) haven't had the chance to interact with Muslims on a personal level.

The fact that people like Pam Geller would rage against this show SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE it portrays a normal American Muslim family just shows how sadly pervasive the hate and descrimination has become.