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Laura Durkay The Washington Post October 2, 2014 A blonde, white Red Riding Hood lost in a forest of faceless Muslim wolves: This is how "Homeland's" creators have chosen to represent their show as it begins its fourth season, which sees CIA officer Carrie Mathison stationed in Pakistan. It is also the perfect encapsulation of everything that's wrong with this show.
Since its first episode, "Homeland," which returns Sunday, has churned out Islamophobic stereotypes as if its writers were getting paid by the cliché. Yet the show, created by "24" veterans Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa and former Israeli paratrooper Gideon Raff, continues to rack up awards, critical praise and millions of viewers...
The entire structure of "Homeland" is built on mashing together every manifestation of political Islam, Arabs, Muslims and the whole Middle East into a Frankenstein-monster global terrorist threat that simply doesn't exist...
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I had a hard time with 24, too. I started watching it when it first came out but then realized it was basically a bunch of right-wing wish fulfillment.
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Tell me about it, PIA. Those Muslims are just lovable peaceful pussy cats. Now those Southern Baptists are a different story entirely. It's terrible what they did on 9/11. 
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Mostly it wa terrible what they did before and after 9/11. Do you forget Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson (and others) blaming Katrina and 9/11 for being god's retribution for the sinfulness of tolerance and acceptance? The litany was extensive - abortion, feminism, homosexuality, even the ACLU? Numerically, there are more "christian terrorist" organizations than Muslim, carrying out bombings, assassinations, arson and just plain murder and rape. Did the KKK come up with the burning cross coincidentally?
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Not to mention the key role they (the collective ministry of the Deep South, predominantly Baptist) played in holding together they oppression of the not-white-skinned population.
"The white men were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to." Dee Brown
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You used the past tense, "played," rather than "plays" and "will play." Just a grammatical crticism. 
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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Those Muslims are just lovable peaceful pussy cats You are doing exactly what 24 did: You used one word to refer to all Muslims everywhere as if they were some sort of uniform group. There are about 1.6 billion good Muslims who want world peace and disavow terrorism, just like there are lots of good Christians. There are also very bad Muslims (like ISIL) who we should wipe from the face of the Earth. Not because they are Muslims, but because they are murderous sociopaths. The problem I had with 24 was that they never portrayed any Muslims as anything but terrorists and terrorist sympathizers.
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I watched both "24" and "Homeland". I found them to get boring very quickly. "Blacklist" is so much better!
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"Blacklist" is so much better! Even more so because the main character is "helping the government catch bad guys" but is doing that for his own agenda. So much more realistic than some other shows black hat/white hat characters.
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