CAIR Tries To Pull An AFA Trick
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I agree with Squeaky Wheel’s thoughts about CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim lobbyist group with suspected ties to terrorism) being upset about the new season of 24: Islamic PC Police Attack ‘24’ While Continuing To Ignore The Cause and Focus On The Symptoms. CAIR should get over it. Offended Muslims should watch something else.
That being said, this story reminds me of the ill-fated television show The Book of Daniel, which the AFA (American Family Association) successfully lobbied to pull from the air last January, because they felt the show attacked Christians and Christianity. Same principle as CAIR and 24. I thought the AFA should get over it, and offended Christians should watch something else. Unfortunately, a whole heaping bunch of fundamentalist Christians thought it was okay to force their views on me, so they killed the show before it even had a chance. (I never bought the smokescreen defense that it was cancelled just because it wasn’t a good show-there’s a whole lot of crappy shows that are still on TV.)
Yes, I’m still bitter about it. So part of me can’t help but think, “Ha Ha, suck on that, you un-American, minority-squashing, AFA-donating conservative Christian fundamentalists! Now it’s your turn to have someone else’s views forced on you!*”
Not that 24 could actually get cancelled at this point, but it’s still fun to think about.
- By the way, I’m not singling out Bearing Drift as un-American, minority-squashing, AFA-donating, conservative Christian fundamentalists. I have no idea who they squash, donate to, or pray to, actually. My petty, spiteful vengeance is directed only at the general stereotype.
Thomas Krehbiel writes The Krehbiel Strikes Back, a generally centrist commentary on news, media, politics, and culture.
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