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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:05:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Subject: Looking for Muslim Males to participate in NBC Dateline Segment
[Forwarded]
Salam,
I hope everyone is doing well.
I have been talking with a producer of the NBC Dateline show and he is in the process of filming a piece on anti-Muslim and anti-Arab discrimination in the USA. They are looking for some Muslim male candidates for their show who would be willing to go to non-Muslim gatherings and see if they attract any discriminatory comments or actions while being filmed.
[Excerpt. Entire email available here]
Salam,
Tarek El-Messidi
Think your source is unbiased? Think again. But it hardly matters now days anyways does it?
Originally posted by Jamuhn
Guy, you are using Michelle Malkin as your source. Do you understand the hypocrisy of your statement?
Her book, which purports to defend the wartime treatment of Japanese Americans, did not go through peer review before publication. This work presents a version of history that is contradicted by several decades of scholarly research, including works by the official historian of the United States Army and an official U.S. government commission. In fact, the author's presentation of events is so distorted and historically inaccurate that, when challenged by reputable historians, she has herself conceded that her main thesis in incorrect, namely that the MAGIC intercepts of prewar Japanese diplomatic cable traffic, explain and justify the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans.
Originally posted by Jamuhn
Your source is as biased, nay, most likely, as lying as they come. Seeing as she writes entire books based on lies, I don't see why there is any reason to believe this e-mail arising from nowhere is true.
[edit on 4-4-2006 by Jamuhn]
Originally posted by forestlady
One would think if this was a legitimate e-mail, that a Muslim guy would know that Muslims don't wear turbans, but that Sikhs do.
-Forestlady
Originally posted by LazarusTheLong
It isn't making up the news...
it is setting up a good shot... (in a way)
If you are testing the effects of discrimination on Muslims (which are usually only identified by look) you wouldn't want non muslim looking people to be your subjects... Duh
Originally posted by LazarusTheLong
Where is the conspiracy? leaning the news, maybe... constructing it?
If you are doing a news photo shoot, you would aim the camera at the subject- yes?
same thing, but in a literary and visual sense...
Originally posted by LazarusTheLong
BTW: happens all the time... and every news service does it when they are doing this kind of piece...
Unethical? -only to those that didn't realize that its business as usual...