How Hollywood Whitewashes Islam and Muslims

Have you noticed that movies, TV shows and documentaries whitewash Islam and Muslims? It may not be obvious at first. I first noticed it when the 2002 movie “Sum Of all Fears” based upon the Tom Clancy novel. I read “The Sum Of All Fears” written in 1991 before seeing the movie. I was shocked how far off it was from the book.

In the book a small group of Islamic terrorists from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (a Marxist-Leninist organization founded on December 11, 1967, six months after the end of the Six Day War with Israel), enraged at the looming failure of their crusade against Israel, come across a lost Israeli bomb and use it to construct their own weapon, using the bomb’s plutonium as fissile material. The terrorists enhance the weapon and turn it into a thermonuclear device, smuggle it into the United States and put at a Super Bowl game attended by the President of the United States.

The movie was scrubbed of any reference to Israel, Muslims, Islam or the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The Islamic terrorists in the book were replaced with white neo-Nazis. Get the picture?

I recently watch Ridley Scott’s the movie “Kingdom of Heaven.” In the film the evil doers are the Christian Crusaders with the oppressed being the Muslim ummah (community). If you wonder why this happens it is not by chance or trying to be politically correct. It is because of a Hollywood industry panel.

An article titled “Industry Panel Suggests Ways to Better Whitewash Islam and Muslims in Film and TV” reports:

Muslim Public Affairs Council president Salam Al-Marayati

An industry panel convened by a jihad-approving Muslim group that has infiltrated Hollywood to ensure that anything but the reality of Islam makes it to your viewing screen. via Industry Panel Suggests Ways to Better Represent Muslims in Film and TV | Hollywood Reporter

An industry panel discussed ways to avoid Muslim stereotypes in film and TV while also offering suggestions to ensure more authentic representations of Islam and Muslims in Hollywood at a recent event presented by the Writers Guild Foundation and the Hollywood Bureau of the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

The MPAC’s Hollywood Bureau consults with production companies on authentic portrayals of Muslims and connects companies with Muslim creatives in writers rooms to tell their own stories to ensure that the stories told on the screen are accurate.

Here is Muslim Public Affairs Council president Salam Al-Marayati talking about President Trump on CNN before his first trip to the Middle East:

So who are Muslim stereotypes?

Just as Christians pattern themselves after the life and example of Jesus, Muslims pattern themselves after the life and example of Mohammed. The followers of Mohammed have committed greater atrocities in the past 1400 years than any other political/religious group.

So why does Hollywood portray Christian Crusaders as evil doers?

Because of the Muslim Public Affairs Council not only wants Muslims presented in a positive light, it wants the enemies of Islam, i.e. Jews and Christians, presented as evil, oppressors and Islamophobes.

As Creeping Shariah notes:

“It’s no secret that the industry has a knack for vilifying marginalized communities,” said Sue Obeidi, director of the MPAC’s Hollywood Bureau told The Hollywood Reporter. “However, we did notice that before Trump got into the White House, before he was even elected, representatives of the entertainment industry, television executives and creatives, reached out to us about creating Muslim characters, not your traditional ‘bad-guy Arab villain Muslim,’ but more authentic narratives.”

The Hollywood Bureau is currently consulting for Disney’s Aladdin (the upcoming live-action version), ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy,  Hulu’s The Looming Tower, NatGeo’s The State, Paramount/Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan and Nickelodeon’s Glitch Techs.

The MPAC’s ultimate goal is to get more Muslim creatives involved in the corporate structure.

You see it doesn’t matter what the truth is about “marginalized communities” whether black, Muslim, Hispanic or gay. The truth about these communities must be presented as positive and those playing roles as black men, Muslims, Hispanics or gays be whitewashed. After watching the 2016 film “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back” on Netflix I noticed that all drug dealing the bad guys were white collar businessmen, not Mexican drug cartel members. The protagonist assassin is a former special forces soldier and the company bringing in heroin from Afghanistan are neither Hispanic nor Muslim but a  white retired general officer.

What message is Hollywood sending to us? Not a pro-American good guy defeating a foreign bad guy. We Americans are the enemy.

If you really want to see a good film about the drug trade watch the 2015 film “Sicario.” In this film the FBI and CIA are the good guys and the Mexican drug cartels are the really bad guys. Here’s the trailer:

EDITORS NOTE: PFLP was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the State Department in 1997, and it has retained that designation ever since.

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