BBC: Is America Ready for 'Little Mosque on the Prairie'?
The BBC’s entire approach to this subject is wildly dishonest. There are no problems between Muslims and non-Muslims in America. We got along just fine pre-9/11, got along just fine the day after 9/11, and get along just fine today.
Influential American broadcaster Katie Couric has suggested a way to change attitudes to Muslims in the US.
Pointing to the success in the 1980s and 90s of TV sitcom The Cosby Show in improving relations between African-Americans and whites, she argues that a Muslim version of the show may counter some Americans’ negative perceptions of the community.
But just across the border, in Canada, this “Muslim Cosby Show” already exists. Little Mosque on the Prairie, made in Toronto, is recording its sixth and final series.
...Of course the show has not escaped controversy, but not always from the most obvious places.
Last year Wikileaks published a diplomatic cable from the US embassy in Ottawa to Washington warning that the programme was guilty of what it called "insidious negative popular stereotyping" of Americans in Canada.
This was thanks to satirical depictions of an over-zealous US border official on the show.
On hearing about this minor diplomatic spat, American/Canadian executive producer Mary Darling immediately sent a package to the White House - the "offending" episode of Little Mosque wrapped up in a bow.
To her surprise a reply came back from US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton herself, thanking the show's makers for "everything you're doing to foster cross-cultural unity and understanding through comedy".
However…
Judging by the Left’s “eliminationist” rhetoric when it comes to we “sons of bitches” and their obvious need to fulfill violent fantasies through video games, what this country might need is something more along the lines of ”Little Tea Party On the Prairie.”
It broke on NewsBusters: Katie Couric Calls for Muslim 'Cosby Show' to Educate Americans
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This is a joke, right?
Submitted by Red Jeep on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 2:37pm.
If it is not I hope whoever owns copyright on The House on the Prairie sues for infringement.
O, brother...
I don't know...seems too pre-911
Submitted by c5then on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 2:39pm.
How about these instead...
Burkkahs of San Francisco
The Burkkah girls
Boston Sharia
All in the Clan
The Martyrs of Hazzard
Hill Street Jihad
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
also . . .
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 2:58pm.
Very Mad Men
Everybody Loves Akmehd
Caliph of Queens
What's My Jihad?
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
I'm in!
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 3:25pm.
Not Dancing With The Imams
That 600's Show
Sharia Law & Order
Honey, I Shrunk Your Clitoris
Real Blasphemers of Orange County
Muhammed The Menace
Married With Goats
The Fresh Prince of Mecca
S*L*A*S*H
Unhappy Days
I Married An Infant
Seinfeld Must Die
Sand Trek
Beheaded
Twelve's Company
Cleave It To Beaver
Bombnanza
Extreme Makeover: Tent Edition
How I Beheaded Your Mother
Have Scimitar Will Travel
Muzzie The Infidel Slayer
Six Million Barrel Man
Apostate Squarepants
ROFL
Submitted by Free Stinker on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 3:41pm.
I stand in awe of your list SoL!
A few more;
Code Behead
Akmehd & Hutch
Charlie's Concubines
Grizley Dessert
/// Sarah Palin Fan since July 11, 2007 /// خال
Roflmao
Submitted by shawn. on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 3:50pm.
OMB that was funny. Honey I shrunk your clitoris was the best one :-)
ROFL - You guys are cracking me up
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 6:25pm.
Those are so un-PC they're perfect. :-)
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Excellent list, Sickof
Submitted by JJoujan on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 9:02pm.
If the episodes were as clever and funny as your titles, they would probably have some viewers. Little Mosque on the Prairie is aired on CBC, the Canadian state-owned network, therefore the show doesn't have to have viewer support. And it doesn't. Because it is really, really stupid.
Highway to Shariastan.
Submitted by upcountrywater on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 2:41pm.
The Cosby Show showed a family with 2 WORKING parents. Maybe I missed the show where they dug into OBAMAS STASH.
"Small town Canada with a little moslem twist."
Geez Hillary..."everything you're doing to foster cross-cultural unity and understanding through comedy".
You Didn't Build That.
It was just a typical black family...
Submitted by c5then on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 2:46pm.
The husband was a Ob/GYN and the wife was a lawyer.
Madison and Jefferson and Franklin built a Republic - Roberts killed it!
This is why I'm glad we all
Submitted by mustango on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 2:44pm.
This is why I'm glad we all have hundreds of channels these days. Just another show I can pretend doesn't exist.
double
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 3:24pm.
double
I don't think the question
Submitted by HelenS on Fri, 09/09/2011 - 5:31pm.
I don't think the question should be, "Is America ready...?" but rather, "Does anyone in America care...?"
I know I don't. If they want to spend their time and money to make such a lame show, fine, but they only position themselves to whine at how racist we are because we don't just LOVE the idea.
I really do enjoy shows that are just entertaining and sometimes disrespectful or downright un-PC. Kind of like "Burn Notice" but these preachy ones, like so many of the movies coming out, just get so nauseatingly tiresome.
Me - "The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years - the cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil."
oh please
Submitted by michiganruth on Sat, 09/10/2011 - 6:43pm.
those of us who live in the Detroit area get CBC television, and we've been able to tune in "Little Mosque..." for years--and we're all still alive and ok! imagine.
the show is about as inoffensive as you could possibly get. it's Canadian: issn't that pretty much the clue that it's boring?
the whole thing is silly, though, because Americans don't generally have problems with the Muslims we know. it's the ones running planes into buildings we don't care for. and guess what? we're smart enough to know the difference between the two.