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Daily Comment: The Attack on All-American Muslim
The Jaafars and their children form one of five Dearborn families featured on “All-American Muslim,” a reality show, on TLC, created by some of the same team behind “Real Housewives of New York.” The show has become the target of an ugly campaign by a group called the Florida Family Association, which calls it “propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values.” That someone, somewhere, would yell at the television when presented with images of Arab-Americans getting married or ready for school or running a football practice is sad, but might not be surprising. What is more remarkable, and even alarming, is that the group’s campaign persuaded Lowe’s, the home-improvement chain, to pull its advertising from “All-American Muslim.”
- In today’s Daily Comment, Amy Davidson writes about the controversy surrounding TLC’s “All-American Muslim”: http://nyr.kr/tq7xIZ. Above, Jon Stewart’s hysterical coverage on last night’s episode of “The Daily Show.”
