-Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs After 9/11
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
"Guilty"
"The defamation of Islam, Arabs, and Muslims has even compromised justice in some courtrooms. Explains California attorney Stephen B. Mashney: Jurors' judgements cannot help but be influenced by a "media portrayal that Arab Muslims are [our] enemies and culturally backward." The facts of the vast majority of Arab and Muslim Americans' lives, however, could not be more diametrically opposite."
-Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs After 9/11
by Jack G. Shaheen, p. 8-9
-Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs After 9/11
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