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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From True Lies to American Sniper, from 24 to Call
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Duty: Modern Warfare, Western media is full of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,images of evil brown people who need to be wiped
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the earth by noble, righteous white men
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heroically fighting for freedom and justice. And
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sure, it’s so commonplace by this point that maybe
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you don’t even bat an eye at old-fashioned American
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Islamophobia in our media.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whoa! Even Back to the Future? that beloved comedy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,classic, takes a moment to toss in a few scary
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brown men to menace and terrorize our white heroes!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unfortunately, we can’t hop in Doc Brown’s DeLorean
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and undo all the harmful representations of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslims, Arabs and Middle-Easterners that have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,haunted our stories since...well, basically the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Crusades. But we can try to make sure history
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn’t keep repeating itself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okay, maybe that’s not entirely fair. In some ways,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things have changed. Once upon a time, non-white
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actors could hardly get any work in Hollywood at
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all. These days, shows like Homeland and movies
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Executive Decision are providing some brown
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actors with ample opportunity to portray scary
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,terrorists who get gunned down while screaming
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something absurd like “Death to America”. It
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doesn’t even matter if you’re not actually of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Middle-Eastern descent! If you’re vaguely brown,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can stick around (to play bad guys).
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, sure, not every Middle-Eastern character in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,films is a villain. In the 1921 box-office smash
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Sheik, the dashing hero gets the girl in the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,end. But the Arab world of the film is presented as
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exotic and dangerous, and the sheik himself, the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one good, heroic Arab, is played by Italian-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American heartthrob Rudolph Valentino! You see,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since he’s not really Arab, he’s allowed to get the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,girl in the end.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you think this kind of racist coding to signify
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the difference between “good Arabs” and “bad Arabs”
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,went away with the advent of talkies, think again.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Have you ever noticed how, in Disney’s Aladdin, the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,good guy might as well be a tanned American surfer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dude...
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,...but the bad guys look and sound a little
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more…”Arab”?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,While Hollywood historically has sometimes given
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“good Arab” roles to non-Arab actors, it has also
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes given not-so-good Arab and South Asian
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,roles to white actors, too, denying brown people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,work and decent on-screen representation in one
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fell swoop. It’s the world’s worst Catch 22! For
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,example, take “Mr. Habib,” the scheming Middle-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eastern villain in Father of the Bride Part 2 who
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is played by Eugene Levy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those aren’t even real words he says to his wife!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s just vaguely Middle-Eastern sounding
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gibberish! [PAUSE-RESET] And the written equivalent
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of this is very common as well: video games and TV
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shows constantly just toss up some squiggly text
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and try to pass it off as actual Arabic!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, this one is Arabic, but it sure doesn’t say
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what the Homeland producers wanted it to!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As insidious as it is to flatten entire cultures
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and populations into The Land of Squiggly Writing,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is nothing so pervasive and damaging as
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hollywood’s tendency to constantly portray vaguely
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Middle-Eastern people as generic terrorists. It’s
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so common that on screen, brown skin has
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,practically become synonymous with bad guys who
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have little or no character development beyond
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hating America and freedom fries. One of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,biggest problems with this is that it erases the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actual lives and cultures of Middle-Eastern people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and leads many Western viewers to lump all of them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the same group.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let’s start by clarifying a few terms whose
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meaning has been obscured by media that paints the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,entire Middle East with the same broad, shallow,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ignorant brush.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First of all, we’ve done a lot of research on this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as it turns out, words actually have meanings!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Weird, right? You can’t just lump Arabs and Muslims
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,together because they are not the same thing! Arabs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are a specific ethnic group, united by culture and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,language, and who primarily originate from middle
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eastern countries. Arab is not, repeat NOT, a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,racial category. Got that? You can be white, black,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,brown and still be Arab. But not all people from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Middle East are Arab and vice versa -- like,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oh say, ethnic Persians in Iran.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Muslim is someone who practices Islam, a religion
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with over 1.7 billion members spanning a vast
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,number of ethnic and cultural identities. The
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“Muslim world” actually comprises a multitude of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,groups that folks often forget, including:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iranians, South Asians, North Africans,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Indonesians, black Americans. Islam is not confined
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Middle East, to olive-skinned people, or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just people who speak Arabic.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But despite the fact that Islam is a religion, not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a race, it’s vital for us to understand that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Islamophobia is racism. [SHIFT] If you’ve been
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,paying attention thus far, then you might be asking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yourself, “If Islam isn’t a race, then how can
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Islamophobia be racism?” The answer lies in another
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,“-ism,” one many Westerners aren’t particularly
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,familiar with: Orientalism.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In short, the term Orientalism refers to how, for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundreds of years, Western artistic and academic
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,history has perpetuated an ignorant and prejudiced
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,view of the East. A view rooted in the idea of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Western culture as inherently more advanced and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enlightened, and Eastern culture as inherently more
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ignorant, irrational, primitive, and often, highly-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sexualized. Again, Muslims come from many different
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,races and span a myriad of cultural identities. In
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fact, the former president of the Islamic Society
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of North America is a white woman, Dr. Ingrid
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mattson. But let’s be real: nobody who spreads the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hate of Islam is talking about white ladies.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Western media has contributed to a level of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ignorance so great that for many people it has
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resulted in equating Islam with scary brown people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,particularly scary brown men, from the Middle East.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It’s been so effective that most of you probably
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,didn’t even know that this man isn’t Muslim, he’s
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sikh!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sikhism and Islam are two completely different
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,religions! The fact that Sikhs are so often the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,targets of anti-Muslim hate crimes makes it crystal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clear that Islamophobia is all about race. The only
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reason some Sikhs--those with brown skin--are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes the targets of Islamophobic violence is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they are also perceived as Middle-Eastern, and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Middle-Eastern is perceived as Muslim, and Muslim
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is perceived as scary!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whew! Thanks, Jack Bauer, what would we do without
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you It isn’t just film and television that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perpetuates this kind of ignorance. Here’s comedian
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kumail Nanjiani on how video games often don’t put
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in even the absolute bare minimum of effort or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,research when representing the Middle East.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Modern films, TV shows and games definitely
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perpetuate Islamophobia, but it’s no exaggeration
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to say that ignorant representations of people from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Middle-East in Western media date back for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,centuries. Orientalist paintings of the 1800s were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often characterized by overly sexualized depictions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of daily life, and Romantic Orientalist literature
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the late 1700s and early 1800s served to justify
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,European imperialism by presenting Middle-Eastern
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people and cultures as inherently exotic and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strange.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So there’s a conflation of Arab with Muslim, and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because our ideas about Islam are so deeply linked
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to stereotypes about terrorism and violence, both
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of those categories are associated with masculinity
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and men. While many male Muslim actors in Hollywood
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can only find work playing bit parts as evil
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,terrorists, [SAD] Muslim women are often erased
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,altogether. The very real advances that Arab women
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have made in many parts of the world are ignored
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because depicting them would complicate the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,simplistic racist narrative about Arabs and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslims, that Hollywood continues trying to cash in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on. [SARCASM] It’s *almost as if* we don’t know how
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to contend with women as real people.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Filmmakers and TV producers know how to objectify
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women, how to prize them for their physical
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attributes and their appearance. The stories we
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,allow ourselves to tell about the Middle East, with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,its different cultural mores, don’t allow for the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,same kind of easy objectification of these brown
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,women’s bodies -- and so we resist including them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at all.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when Arab or Muslim women do appear, they’re
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,either offered as mysterious, sexually wanton
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,creatures who offer temptations for white male
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heroes -- think belly dancing seductresses if the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,story is set in the past -- or niqab-clad secret
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,purveyors of violence, if the story is set in the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,present.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At least we can thank 24 again for casting the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,great Iranian actor Shohreh Aghdashloo show-RAY ag-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,DASH-loo in season four as a Muslim terrorist who
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is also a wife and mother! [PAUSE] But there are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,artists, critics, and writers who are out there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaking about what it means to be the target of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all-this anti-brown racism, and a lot of the most
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interesting critiques are coming from Muslim women
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,themselves. Oh crap, I think we just missed a call
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from Muslim comedian, Zahra Noorbakhsh … let’s see
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if she left a message, cause I know she has
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feelings about all this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh crap, I think we missed a call, I wonder who it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be. To the feminist answering machine.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There’s tremendous harm in centuries of images that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reduce entire nations, cultures and religions to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the status of subhuman savages. As Jack Shaheen,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the author of Reel Bad Arabs, has said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the wake of the September 11th attacks [PAUSE]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,former “Worst President Ever” George W. Bush used
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the term “axis of evil” to describe nations
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,including Iran and Iraq, in an effort to drum up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,support for the “War on Terror”. And it worked.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,More recently, during the 2016 presidential
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,campaign Republican candidates tossed around the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” as if it were
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some kind of magic spell they could use to make
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,votes appear out of thin air.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And again, it worked! The only reason tactics like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these have any effect is that, to so many
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Americans, people in the Middle East have never
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,been established as human beings, with real lives,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hopes, dreams, and struggles. [SERIOUS] When almost
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every story you’ve ever seen about a particular
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,part of the world paints the people who live there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,AS monolithic, evil, and scary, you’re a lot more
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,likely to believe that it’s actually true.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When people believe it's true, they aren't just
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more likely to support politicians or policies that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,appeal to fear and ignorance about the Middle East.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They're also more likely to act on that fear and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ignorance themselves. The Southern Poverty Law
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Center notes that the number of anti-Muslim hate
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,groups tripled in the United States in 2016. The
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee noted
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the same increase after the release of patriotic
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fever dream, American Sniper. 2016 also saw a 67%
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,increase in anti-Muslim hate crimes, and there's no
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,question that Trump's racist, fear-mongering
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rhetoric has played a part in this surge of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,xenophobia and violence. Of course, Trump doesn’t
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stop with rhetoric himself. Within the first 100
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,days of his presidency:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He has repeatedly tried to push through bans
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,preventing the citizens of several Muslim-majority
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,countries from entering the United States.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He dropped the US military’s most powerful non-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nuclear bomb on Afghanistan.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he fired 59 Tomahawk missiles at, I don’t know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some Middle-Eastern country while eating the most
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beautiful piece of chocolate cake!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iraq, Syria, what’s the difference?! It was one of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those countries the evil, scary brown people live
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, I can already hear the army of Richard
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dawkins-parroting, anti-feminist Twitter users typing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up their responses about how Islam is a religion
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dedicated to oppressing women. It’s amazing how
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suddenly everybody’s a feminist when it lets them
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perpetuate hate against brown people or dismiss
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,concerns about how women are oppressed in their own
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,culture. So let’s be clear, misogyny is not a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,problem with Islam; misogyny is a problem that some \Ncultures which happen to be Muslim use the religion
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to perpetuate and justify. Christianity has been
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,used as a tool to oppress women around the world
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for millennia! It’s specifically because our media \Nperpetually equates Islam -- a religion followed by
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nearly ¼ of the world’s population -- with evil,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,terrorism, and oppression, that so many people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,believe that’s what Islam actually is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And make no mistake: Islamophobia is big business –
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- and not just for Hollywood. Hundreds of millions
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of dollars each year go into feeding what activist
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Taz Ahmed calls “the fear industrial
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,complex that perpetuates racism.” Devious Russian
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,generals and Nazi scientists from the Cold War
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,won’t prop up our defense industry anymore, so we
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,needed some new bad guys. Come on it’s not like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we’re just going to stop making bombs, right?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our entertainment media's insistence on constantly
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,portraying people from the Middle East as scheming
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oil sheiks, slavers, snake charmers and suicide
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bombers--but never as real people--has real
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consequences. Muslims here in the U.S., and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everyone who is or looks like they could be Middle
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Eastern, constantly face ignorance and racism. They
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,live in fear of the very real possibility of being
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,accosted or attacked because someone takes a look
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at them and associates them with everything they've
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seen in the movies and everything the president has
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,said about people from the Middle East. What we
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,need now are more stories that dispel the deeply
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,harmful stereotypes and encourage us to see people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the Middle East--whether they're Arab or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Muslim or neither or both--as what they REALLY are:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human beings.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,
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