TLC’s “All-American Muslim” must be doing something right

One of the most remarkable things about any nation is often times, its history and not its people.  What makes the history remarkable does however depend on nothing less that its people.  The people who refuse to learn from the past and repeat it as often as they can ignore that times and situations changes.  Nothing proves this more than the uproar coming from the TLC show All American Muslim and the advertisers running for cover.

According to Dylan Stableford’s article titled “Another company pulls advertising from TLC’s ‘All-American Muslim’  “On the heels of a controversial decision by Lowe's Home Improvement to pull its advertising from TLC's "All-American Muslim" following protests from a conservative group, another company has decided to do the same--though it claims it was not because of the backlash.  In a letter of apology to customers, an executive at Kayak.com, the online travel site, explained the decision to stop advertising on the new reality show.  The decision of Kayak to pull its advertisement should not come as a major surprise to anyone considering the reasoning behind it.  "The amount of vitriol in the emails was saddening, but I didn't exactly feel pressured," Robert Birge, Kayak's chief marketing officer wrote, "not to mention we wouldn't bend to such pressure” while also admitting that the "decision comes across as bending to bigotry," and "it also appears that we did not support people who deserve support as people and as Americans."  "For that," he wrote, "I am profoundly sorry."  Birge added: "Mostly, I just thought the show sucked.  Birge thought the show sucked which makes good sense if you just fall into line behind something without first doing your “due diligence”.  It may appear to some of us that a business would have first taken a sneak peak at the program before jumping on the bandwagon and if the emails had not began would Birge have withdrawn Kayak’s support?

The group being credited with this is the “Florida Family Association, which last month launched an online campaign to pressure marketers, like Lowes, to pull their advertising from the program writing "TLC's 'All-American Muslim' is propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda's clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values," the group wrote. "The show profiles only Muslims that appear to be ordinary folks while excluding many Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to the liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish."  Sounds like another Terry Jones Group from Florida but worst sounds like a group who know the Islamic agenda, who knows that the families depicted are not “ordinary” folks and feel as though his precious image of their world will be brought to an end by this show.

First of all where are these same values when it comes to parents parading their 3, 4, or 5 year old daughters up and down a runway like some slave auction, dressed in expensive gowns with tons of makeup on but this must not violate their values.  Funny how those who do not fit our idea of what this nation is about are always deemed a threat while the real threat is the refusal to learn from our past, thereby doom us to repeat it. 

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