Muslim Sit-Com Coming Soon!
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I was having a really hard time finding anything to snipe at today. My usual targets were silent or monumentally dull. I even added tons of new feeds to my aggregator, specifically looking for radical thinking from every possible angle. Nothing, zilch, nada. I’ve come to the conclusion that 95% of all blogging, whether religious, conservative, or liberal, looks something like this: “Check this out!” followed by a random link elsewhere, with no other explanation or commentary.
I despaired, until I finally came across this nugget: Opinion: The Book of Daniel by Jay Adkins. Among the jucier quotes:
“Ok, I’m positive that there are indeed priest’s kids and pastor’s kids out there who are on drugs, rebellious and/or gay, because I’ve personally known a few, but does that mean they need to make a show with those types of characters being portrayed?”
Well, yeah! Because it’s funny and interesting. A show about a “normal” priest’s family would probably be quite dull. (Then again, if you focused on the wacko congregations they have to deal with, it might be pretty entertaining.) You may not have noticed this, but most fiction is based on exaggerated reality. This trend started around, oh, the dawn of time. (See: Greek mythology.) Sometimes reality is thought-provoking and entertaining enough, but mostly it isn’t. (See: Any reality show ever made.)
“Why don’t they just create a television show portraying a Muslim family as a family of terrorists, it would essentially be the same thing right?”
Actually, now that you mention it, a sit-com like that would be pretty funny. I’m thinking a Muslim extremist All In The Family, only with a lot of expendable kids. (“Ooooooh, Omaaaarrrrrr…” [tick, tick, tick, boom!])
Seriously, why not? I don’t really buy into the whole political correctness thing, myself, which seems to be the real core of this issue. Just because terrorism is “taboo” doesn’t mean we shouldn’t examine it. In fact, we should examine it more because it is taboo. But again, you couldn’t make a show about regular Muslims because it would be boring as fook. Now, if they were regular Muslims being persecuted by all their Christian neighbors, and one of the sons wanted to join Osama in Afghanistan (or wherever he’s hiding in mortal fear for his miserable cowardly life), and one of the daughters wanted to be a fashion designer, then you’ve got a thought-provoking show with pizazz. See? Subtle exaggeration and you’ve got something interesting.
“I see this as widespread mockery of Christianity in general.”
Sheesh. If you’re worried about widespread mockery, you should be ranting about Pat Robertson. That guy does more to undermine and mock Christianity than any made-up television show ever could. He’s really quite embarrassing. It’s like watching somone’s elderly grandfather with advanced Alzheimer’s.
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