ThePoliticallyIncorrect Guide to Islam(and theCrusadesfrom a Halliburton-like conglomerate. And, most famously, 24 featured
Musl im terr orist s—or at leas t terr orist s with a vague ly Midd le
East ern aspect. But while no Bosnians. Germans, South Americans, or
Halliburton execs contacted the network to complain about the way they
wereportrayed on the show, when FOX ventured into Islamic terror
territor ythe network immediately aroused CAIR's ire.
Sabiha Khan of CAIR's Anaheim chapter worried that24'sMuslim
terrorists would ".contribute to an atmosphere that it's okay to harm and
discrimi nate agai nst Musl ims. This coul d actu ally hurt real-life
peop le.CAIR scheduled a meeting with FOX executives in Los Angeles
to air itsconcerns.
Mea nwh ile , Isl amO nli ne, a pop ula r Mus lim new s por talrun fro m
Qatar, had its own ideas of who was behind 24'sintroduction of Muslim
terr oris ts: FOX Ente rtai nment Grou p, itsai d,was "par t of Jewi sh
bill iona ireRupert Murdoch's News Corporation." It asserted that24'snew
plot direction was "hailed by Jewish groups and lobbyists as a bid to
reveal, Muslims' `true nature,'" and noted that "Jewish writer Daniel Pipes
wrotein the lsr ael i Jer usal emPo stand the Amer ica nNe w Yor k Po st
hopi ngFOX would not bow to Muslim objections on the series."'
I s l a m O n l i n e d r op p e d " J e w i s h " f r o m i n f r o n t o f R u p e r t
Murdoch" when informed that Murdoch is not, in fact. Jewish, but the
implicati on of the article is still clear, 24's introduct ion of Muslim
terroristcharacters was yet another in a long line of Jewish conspiracies, It
fre quen tly a bitof knee-jerkpar anoi a on the par t of the def ende rs of
Islamic jihad that anyone who opposes them must be Jewish. This
parano iaabout the Jews is nourished by the Qur'an's portrayal of them as
cra fty , unt rus two rth y, and acc urs ed. And , of cour se, jih adi sts tod ay
wo ul d ha ve us bel ie ve th at th e tr ou bl e bet we en Mu sl ims an d no ]
Muslims is all because of Israel.
But the shad owy "Jew ish grou ps and lobb yist s" evid entl y dro pped
F0X's puppet strings, because even before network execs met with CAIR