Payne: All-American Muslim family values ( The Michigan View 12.13.11)

Posted by hpayne on December 13, 2011

Last week, the Left’s Green religious nuts were at an international global warming confab in South Africa trying to give Mother Earth legal rights. Not to be outdone, the Right’s religious crazies decided to attack The Learning Channel and its advertisers for airing a positive show about five American Muslim families in Dearborn.

We’re not making this up.

“The Learning Channel’s new show ‘All-American Muslim’ is propaganda clearly designed to counter legitimate and present-day concerns about many Muslims who are advancing Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law,” said the evangelical Christian group, the Florida Family Association, as it celebrated Lowe’s buckling to pressure to pull its ads. “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 liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish.”

Oh, please. By this obtuse standard, the Cosby Show was propaganda because it showcased middle-class blacks while ignoring the carnage of inner city gangs.

In fact, Christian groups should applaud “Muslim” precisely because it is a celebration of liberty and traditional family values. Were these values embraced in next-door, inner city Detroit, there would be a lot less pain in the world. “All-American Muslim” is a window into what makes America great – an immigrant culture (in this case, Middle eastern) that celebrates family, education, and hard work to afford the next generation a better opportunity.

Says one Muslim police officer in the show: “I really am American. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.” You bet.

Spend time on Muslim Dearborn’s Warren main street and you’ll see American pride worn on every sleeve. These are people who came to America by choice. When Saddam Hussein’s statue fell in 2003 there was more American flag-waving in this Metro Detroit enclave than at a Michael Phelps gold medal ceremony.

But TLC’s Dearborn is hardly a Mideast ghetto – its is the American melting pot at full boil as young Muslim women parade in miniskirts while others cover themselves in hijabs. Indeed, if TLC really wants to stir things up, it should follow around Dearborn’s Rima Fakih, the curvy, hard-drinking, pole-dancing beauty who was the first Muslim women crowned Miss USA.

In Dearborn, Muslim comes in a red, white and blue bikini.

 

 

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