When my local paper ran this article about Arab-American actors typcast as terrorists, they put the headline “Do these men look like terrorists” over the pictures of three American actors of middle eastern descent. So I thought to myself, they don’t look like IRA terrorists, or ETA terrorists, or LTTE terrorists, or FARC terrorists, but oddly enough, they do look like Arab terrorists (Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas spring to mind). Really, what does a terrorist look like?
I suppose fewer movies should be made about current events? Or should TV and movies employ blue-eyed blondes to protray arabs?
Left unsaid is that the complaint used to be that blacks were always pimps and hustlers, asians were martial artists or brainiacs, italians always mobsters, etc.
As far as I can tell, the claim is that Hollywood, that liberal bastion, is stereotyping Arab-Americans. Must be the Jews fault.
