Quite the opposite

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Quite the opposite

Laurie Street — 1/22/2007 5:04:57 PM (archived)

I think the show is intended to, and quite possilbly will, promote better understading between Muslims and non-Muslims, by showing Muslims as people - a little like Cosby did for African Americans.

Since this is a CBC (Canada) program, you probably won't even have to go to the trouble of turning yout TV off.

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Little Mosque on the Prairie - Laurie Street - 1/18/2007 8:24:36 PM
- re: Little Mosques Everywhere is what they aim for. - SDF - 1/19/2007 3:14:41 AM
  - re: Little Mosques Everywhere is what they aim for. - Laurie Street - 1/19/2007 6:41:57 PM
    - I don't get the joke. Maybe you could explain it to me. (n/t) - SDF - 1/19/2007 11:22:21 PM
      - No, sorry. (n/t) - Laurie Street - 1/19/2007 11:33:24 PM
        
        You knew the question was a set-up, didn't you? - Mary Anne - 1/20/2007 10:30:11 PM
        
        re: You knew the question was a set-up, didn't you? - Laurie Street - 1/21/2007 12:37:28 AM
        
        No need... - Mary Anne - 1/21/2007 7:11:32 PM
        
        Is their clever juxtaposition too easily interpreted as negative? - SDF - 1/20/2007 2:27:27 AM
        
        Let me take a shot at it. - Mary Anne - 1/20/2007 3:34:28 AM
        
        I think their joke is more juvenile than you suggest. - SDF - 1/20/2007 1:46:35 PM
        
        re: I think their joke is more juvenile than you suggest. - Martha - 1/22/2007 1:37:17 PM
        
        Quite the opposite - Laurie Street - 1/22/2007 5:04:57 PM
        
        re: Quite the opposite - Martha - 1/22/2007 6:15:52 PM
        
        re: Quite the opposite - Laurie Street - 1/22/2007 6:22:41 PM
        
        THANK GOD WE dont start wars.... (n/t) - R.L. - 1/21/2007 10:00:58 AM
        
        There's war mongers everywhere.... however few have support - SDF - 1/21/2007 2:31:42 PM
        
        re: There's war mongers everywhere.... however few have support - Martha - 1/22/2007 1:41:04 PM
        
        All insult humor is name-calling. - Mary Anne - 1/20/2007 7:39:05 PM
        
        No, just read the news. - Lee - 1/20/2007 8:15:41 PM
        
        Naturally. If one white man shoots someone, does that make white men murderers? - Mary Anne - 1/20/2007 10:28:04 PM
        
        If one white man shoots someone, it is usually for isolated and unique reasons. - SDF - 1/21/2007 1:39:59 AM
        
        Ah. You must have missed Ireland (Christian on Christian) & the ethnic cleansing in Sarajevo (Christian on Muslim). - Mary Anne - 1/21/2007 2:52:10 AM
        
        Numbers - TB - 1/24/2007 8:08:25 PM
        
        Proportions - Mary Anne - 1/25/2007 10:42:00 PM
        
        re: Proportions - TB - 1/26/2007 8:02:24 AM
        
        Ping-pong ball - Mary Anne - 1/26/2007 1:30:49 PM
        
        Numbers. Again. - TB - 1/27/2007 3:40:35 AM
        
        The Romans were not religious fanatics. - Mary Anne - 1/27/2007 10:03:41 PM
        
        re: Ping-pong ball - Laurie Street - 1/26/2007 4:59:32 PM
        
        Yes, let's talk about racial violence. - Lee - 1/21/2007 7:53:35 AM
        
        Give me numbers not gathered from Aryan Nation and its friends, and we'll talk. - Mary Anne - 1/21/2007 3:09:02 PM
        
        Well, religion is as religion does, eh? - SDF - 1/21/2007 4:27:56 AM
        
        Soviet atheism preserved Bosnia? That's a new one. (n/t) - alcaray - 1/23/2007 7:31:21 PM
        
        Muslims in the news. - Mary Anne - 1/21/2007 4:49:35 AM
        
        I would suggest that religious belief should be frowned upon - SDF - 1/21/2007 12:04:57 PM
        
        Frown all you like - Fox - 1/23/2007 2:46:49 AM
        
        re: Frown all you like....exactly (n/t) - Martha - 1/23/2007 5:29:07 PM
        
        And you hate them. This doesn't make you better than haters on the other side. - Mary Anne - 1/21/2007 3:12:46 PM
        
        It does make me better than them, because I'm honest - SDF - 1/21/2007 7:07:11 PM
        
        re: It does make me better than them, because I'm honest - Martha - 1/22/2007 1:30:25 PM
        
        LOLOL - Mary Anne - 1/21/2007 7:22:38 PM
        
        I think belief does imply lying if it fails to acknowledge contradictions. - SDF - 1/21/2007 10:58:42 PM
        
        Ah, yes: the Literalist Fallacy - Fox - 1/23/2007 3:13:30 AM
        
        re: Ah, yes: the Literalist Fallacy - Martha - 1/23/2007 5:31:19 PM
        
        I also think religious-oriented tv programs have no place in an educated society - SDF - 1/20/2007 5:44:12 PM
        
        re: I also think religious-oriented tv programs have no place in an educated society - Martha - 1/24/2007 3:05:22 PM
        
        There is only one true religion - alcaray - 1/24/2007 11:24:37 PM
        
        Is that the god, planet or band thou speaketh off?..... (n/t) - Martha - 1/25/2007 2:21:06 AM
        
        Assyrian and Babylonian god. - alcaray - 1/25/2007 4:51:05 PM
        
        None of the above. - Mary Anne - 1/25/2007 2:56:47 AM
        
        THAT was great!!!!!!! (n/t) - Martha - 1/25/2007 4:04:21 AM
        
        What the hell is a Marduk??:) (n/t) - Martha - 1/25/2007 2:11:20 AM
        
        BTW....May The Force be with You;) (n/t) - Martha - 1/25/2007 2:13:44 AM
        
        You obviously have never watched "What Not To Wear". - Mary Anne - 1/20/2007 7:31:04 PM
  - Were the prieviews really religious? The clip I heard on the radio was not. (n/t) - alcaray - 1/19/2007 5:31:23 PM
    - Was Seinfeld a Jewish show? Or The Sopranos a Catholic show? (n/t) - Laurie Street - 1/19/2007 6:32:45 PM
      - I know. - alcaray - 1/19/2007 6:53:33 PM
        
        re: I know. - Laurie Street - 1/19/2007 8:54:21 PM
- re: Little Mosque on the Prairie - TB - 1/18/2007 9:04:57 PM
  - re: Little Mosque on the Prairie - Laurie Street - 1/19/2007 6:35:02 PM
  - Really? - Robert - 1/19/2007 4:32:55 PM
    - re: Really. - TB - 1/19/2007 8:44:17 PM
      - re: Really. - Robert - 1/19/2007 11:39:22 PM
        
        Figured it wouldn't be worth the trouble. (n/t) - TB - 1/19/2007 11:49:02 PM
        
        Some additional thoughts - Robert - 1/20/2007 7:40:16 PM
        
        re: Some additional thoughts - TB - 1/20/2007 9:09:21 PM
- I heard excerpts of this show on Fresh Air - alcaray - 1/18/2007 9:00:46 PM

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