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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Abigail R. Esman</title>
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		<title>“Kate and Allah”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 04:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abigail R. Esman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Katie Couric’s proposed solution to the “Clash Of Civilizations” – a sit-com for Muslims.]]></description>
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<p>Call it Katie Couric’s “Sarah Palin Moment.”</p>
<p>As pretty much everyone knows by now, during a wrap-up of the events of 2010, CBS anchorwoman Katie Couric expressed concern about what she felt was “seething hatred” she claims faces Muslims in America.“ Her solution? “Maybe we need a Muslim version of  ’The Cosby Show,’” Couric suggested. “I know that sounds crazy. But ‘The Cosby Show’ did so much to change attitudes about African Americans in this country, and I think sometimes people are afraid of what they don’t understand.” That will change, proposed Couric, “if they [Muslims] became part of the popular culture.”</p>
<p>Popular culture? Like Kareem Abdul-Jabaar? Like Mohammed Ali? Like Ahmad Rashad? Memet Oz, perhaps, named among both <em>Esquire’s</em> and  <em>Time’s </em> “Most Influential” lists? How about  Ice Cube, perhaps, or Mike Tyson, or Jermaine Jackson, or Snoop Dogg – all Muslims?</p>
<p>I also wonder what, exactly, “The Cosby Show” did to “change attitudes” in America.  Were blacks not part of the popular culture before the “Cosby Show”? Was “The Jeffersons” meaningless?  Were Diana Ross and the Jackson 5 and Stevie Wonder white? For that matter – wasn’t Bill Cosby part of the popular culture long before the show that bore his name?</p>
<p>The irony, of course, is that the so-called “Muslim hate” in America is itself a fiction.  FBI <a href="http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/hc2009/data/table_01.html">reports</a> show that while there are twice as many Jews as Muslims in the US, nearly ten times as many Jews as Muslims were the targets of hate crimes in 2009.  Ten times.  Where is Ms. Couric on this? Why isn’t she suggesting a Jewish Cosby show?</p>
<p>Moreover, the idea that the Cosby Show itself made a real difference is questionable, at best. While New Yorkers have embraced blacks, America has not – and as a journalist, she should know that. Or has she forgotten the thousands of people who revolted against the idea of a black president? Has she forgotten the cries of those who outwardly stated they “will never vote for a black man”?</p>
<p>But okay. Let’s say that there’s a relationship here: create a fictional sit-com about a fictitious Muslim family living in America, and presumably it will change the way people think about Muslims – even as, in reality, Muslims like the American Faisal Shahzad attempt to bomb Times Square;  or like  the Pakistani-American Farooque Ahmed, plan  mass bombings of Washington Metrorail stations; or like Nidal Malik Hasan, massacre their colleagues and friends in a mass jihadist shootout.</p>
<p>But okay: let’s just say that fiction can override these facts.  How do you put such a show together?</p>
<p>It’s one thing, of course, when you’re dealing with race.  Blacks have continually attacked Cosby – and his eponymous TV show – contending that he is really a white man in a black man’s skin. But suppose you create a show about a Muslim American family in which the 15-year-old daughter dates a non-Muslim boy, and the family has no complaints.  There are indeed many such Muslim families in the USA.  But how would Muslim extremists – in America and abroad – approach that? Answer: they would say “these aren’t Muslims.”  (And then threaten to kill the show’s producers. Remember “South Park”?)</p>
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		<title>New Target for Genocide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 04:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Abigail R. Esman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the latest spate of attacks against Christians, Islam continues Its crusade.]]></description>
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<p>While billions of Christians around the world dreamed festively of candy canes and sugar plums, unwrapped gifts, and laughed along with family this past Christmas, millions of others, largely in the Middle East and North Africa, continued to confront what some are now calling “the next great genocide.”</p>
<p>In response – and hoping to stem the violence – Pope Benedict has designed a summit of world religious leaders to take place in Assisi this coming fall, in order to address the problem.</p>
<p>And it <em>is</em> a problem – one nearing crisis proportions. The Pope’s announcement came only hours after the latest attack, this time on a Coptic church in Egypt, killing 21  worshipers on New Years day.</p>
<p>Having successfully rid itself of Jews, the region is now diligently purging itself of the rest of its non-Muslim population, with frightening success.  Attacks on Christians in the Middle East are now becoming a near-daily occurrence, from the bombings of churches in Iraq to the drive-by massacres of Coptic churchgoers in Egypt like the one that took place the past weekend.</p>
<p>The October bombing of an Assyrian Catholic cathedral in Baghdad that left 58 dead and 100 wounded led to a mass exodus of the country’s Christians; by some <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/17/iraq-christians-flee-baghdad-cathedral">counts</a>, half the country’s Christian population has fled since the fall of Saddam Hussein, leaving around 500,000 – and that number is decreasing by the day.  Where once 100,000 Christians made their home in Mosul, a largely-Kurdish city in Northern Iraq, one resident <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/world/middleeast/13iraq.html">told</a> <em>The New York Times</em> earlier this month, “I expect that a month from now not a single Christian will be left in Mosul.” As the <em><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/25/world/la-fg-iraq-christians-20101225">LA Times</a></em> notes, this Christmas may have been the last in Iraq for most of the Christians who remain there.</p>
<p>That situation is not limited to Iraq.  On Christmas Eve, homemade explosives killed 38 and injured 74 worshipers at several churches in the Nigerian city of Jos; attacks at three other Nigerian churches killed another six.  That same day, Christmas shoppers were targeted in attacks in Pakistan.   Describing the situation in <em>Asharq Alawsat</em>, an English-language Arab daily, Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid, the general manager of Al-Arabiya news, <a href="http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&amp;id=23564">observed</a>, “The Christians in Iraq today celebrate Christmas under armed protection that has been imposed on their churches after the latest massacre carried out by Al-Qaeda. The Christian Copts in Egypt recently went through a bloody confrontation, the Christians in Lebanon are in a continuous state of shrinking that increases with the rise in sectarian tension, and in Palestine; the numerical shrinking of the Christians is even more acute.”</p>
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