The show was apparently about an American girl who is kidnapped by Saudi relatives and has to learn to live in Saudi Arabia. Alice in Arabia was described as a high-stakes drama series about a rebellious American teenage girl who, after tragedy befalls her parents, is unknowingly kidnapped by her extended family, who are Saudi Arabian. Alice finds herself a stranger in a new world but is intrigued by its offerings and people, whom she finds surprisingly diverse in their views on the world and her situation. Now a virtual prisoner in her grandfathers royal compound, Alice must count on her independent spirit and wit to find a way to return home while surviving life behind the veil. BuzzFeed reported that the script describes veiled Muslim women as completely formless, anonymous. One sympathetic female character, in describing her lavish Riyadh home, lauds it as worth having to wear a silly veil while outside. What is wrong or offensive or untrue about that? BuzzFeed also noted that the show has some departures from the standard template. The heroine is half Saudi, and sees herself as a good Muslim girl — not the blonde Christian victim more typical of the genre. But it broadly plays on a familiar narrative of a beautiful girl kidnapped from the United States by sinister Arabs, held against her will in the desert, and threatened with early marriage. Clearly they are in apologist mode. Nonetheless, CAIR wrote to ABC Family that it was concerned about the negative impact this program could have on the lives of ordinary Arab-American and American Muslims and claimed that Alice in Arabia may engage in stereotyping that can lead to things like bullying of Muslim students. CAIR wrote to ABC Family that it was concerned about the negative impact this program could have on the lives of ordinary Arab-American and American Muslims. What gives folks a negative impact are the daily acts of jihad across the world and the daily news reports of American Muslims caught plotting to wage jihad here or abroad. There is nothing in the media or the culture, or on ABC or NBC that would give Americans a negative impact. ABC is not responsible for the violence against the Copts in Egypt, the Christians in Nigeria, the Buddhists in Thailand, the Jews in Israel, the marathoners in Boston, etc. Reality provides the negative.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 23:35:41 +0000
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