'Towelhead' movie offensive to Muslims (1 Viewer)

[chicky_pie]

MUSLIM leaders are urging Hollywood movie executives to retitle a new movie Towelhead starring Aussie actress Toni Collette because the word is "offensive and exploitative".

Los Angeles members of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) insist the derogatory term is offensive to American Muslims and Arab-Americans.

They go so far as to state the term 'towelhead' as "a racial and religious slur".

In a letter sent to Warner Bros. studio executives, the Islamic civil rights and advocacy group has asked that the film, directed by Alan Ball, be called Nothing is Private - a title previously used in some markets.

CAIR-LA Executive Director Hussam Ayloush writes, "The word is commonly used in a derogatory manner against people of the Muslim faith or Arab origin... We have no desire to inhibit the creative process or your right to produce any film you wish.

"However, I ask you to take the above concerns into consideration and examine the social implications of releasing the film under its current title.

"It is unfortunate that a major film studio would choose to exploit an ethnic slur as a sensational promotion for a movie. Mainstreaming a bigoted term in this manner will only serve to legitimize and normalize anti-Muslim prejudice in our society."

The film, starring Aaron Eckhart, Summer Bishil and Collette, is adapted from Alicia Erian's novel about a young Arab-American girl's struggles with life and sexual obsession.

The heroine of Erian's story is dubbed 'Towelhead' by some ignorant and bigoted Americans.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24243731-5001021,00.html

I wash my hair and there's a towel on my hair

 

[TacoTerrorist]

Wow what a crock of shit. This is just unnecessarily offensive. There are alot of dipshits in America and this movie is going to legitimise their hatred.

 

[bigboyjames]

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[HNAKXR]

don't know which annoys me more, theists bitching or atheists capitalizing on theist bitching.

 

[bigboyjames]

don't know which annoys me more, theists bitching or atheists capitalizing on theist bitching.

both equally piss me off.

 

[Zingy]

Just like the word nigger. It used to mean "black person" but now, NOW?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mengele#Auschwitz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_human_experimentation

 

[HNAKXR]

Goddamn raghead moon-coon fucking assholes. SHUT UP.

peoples right to bestiality before free speech?
:rofl:

 

[HNAKXR]

You're a complete retard. They have as much of a right to speak out as I have to criticise them for speaking out kpl0x.

dude harsh.

And paradoxical.