Islamophobia and history

Eh. Perhaps I’m not sensitive enough. I enjoy “Homeland.” It’s compelling television (at least it was when it wasn’t focused on the romantic angle between Carrie and Brody.) It’s not realistic = same as the medical scenes on “House” or “E.R.” or the IT capabilities in “24” or the fire scenes in “Chicago Fire”, etc. There are bad Muslims and good Muslims, there are also bad and good people in the CIA and US government.

***But if you’re going to make the bad guy a Muslim–and Brody is a bad guy in the first season, right, and every time he goes off to pray in his garage in secret, there’s this eerie music, like, as if the very practice of Islam is something bad. And when his wife first discovers he’s converted, she has a fit. You know, she can’t believe. It’s like it’s a betrayal of everything that the West stands for.****

No. At that point in S1 you don’t know if Brody has been turned or not. That was the central question in the show. Is it possible he could have been a Muslim AND not a terrorist? Of course. Yes, the wife had a fit because she couldn’t understand why he turned to the religion of the men who captured and tortured him for years. Reasonable I’d think. They neglect to mention his daughter was completely supportive of his conversion.

I think they may be taking it a bit too far here.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 2 months ago by LadyRamFan. Reason: Hit reply too soon!!

I have to agree with LadyRamFan on this. I don’t see this show as an Islamaphobic show at all. I think it shows a lot of sympathy for Muslims and shows why some of them might turn to terrorism. Sure there are bad guys on both sides because that’s the way it is.

Gripping show.