Friday, September 14, 2012

Dehumanized: Will Arabs Forgive Them?
He lives in a tent. He rides a camel. He carries a sword on his back.She’s a seductive belly dancer.
She lives in a harem. She only exists for male pleasure.They are Arabs.
The negative images of Arabs had long been emblazoned into our minds. Where do these images come from?“Oh I come from a land, from a faraway place Where the caravan camels roam Where they cut off your ear If they don’t like your face It’s barbaric, but hey, it’s home”
As Sam Keen puts it in his book Faces of the Enemy: “In the beginning we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the battle-axe or the ballistic missiles with which to actually kill them. Propaganda precedes technology.” (1986, p. 10). Dr. Jack Shaheen, Professor Emeritus of Mass Communication at Southern Illinois University, studied portrayals of Arabs in Western Media by examining 900 U.S. films. He writes “Arabs are the most maligned group in the history of Hollywood. They are portrayed, basically, as sub-human untermenschen, a term used by Nazis to vilify Gypsies and Jews. These images have been with us for more than a century.”Governments use the process of creating enemy images as a method of social control. They rely on negative stereotypes in an attempt to create a common enemy. They vilify and dehumanize the enemy as merely being thief, murderer, rapist, monster, criminal, kidnapper and terrorist. Once the enemy is depicted as evil, inferior and not human, it becomes psychologically acceptable by people to persecute him. The psychological process of dehumanization is very dangerous for it often paves the way for violence

Hollywood has internalized the negative stereotypes of Arabs before 9/11 in order to serve the U.S imperial objectives. The Department of Defense and CIA have always been cooperating with Hollywood. Former Hollywood Reporter staffer Robb exposes In his book“Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies” how Hollywood producers ask the Pentagon for help in making films. The department of Defense provides filmmakers with a crowd of Marines, or a Navy aircraft carrier and Blackhawk helicopters and the CIA provides filmmakers with a pile of script ideas. After all, the producers want to make money and the Defense Department wants to make propaganda (David L. Robb).[ED NOTES:ALSO WATCH...Reel Bad Arabs - How Hollywood Vilifies a People - YouTube 
THEN ALSO WATCH ...

Its not the "filmits the occupations stupid - YouTube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSF-WmuDncUNEW20 hours ago - 10 min - Uploaded by Rys2sense
does this really even need explaining? Blowback in Libya? This has nothing to do with that silly movie.

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