en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1963682 Comments by nks123 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/12/06/disney-teaching-prejudice-against-arabs/#IDComment114830682 I think i understand Jasons overall point. These minor points and empty examples in between, i just dont agree with. In response to this video, I think its just a video. Its a movie made for children, when we watched it did it make us think that arabs looked scary? i know when i watched the movie i was not bothered by it. I do not believe that this movie or this scene was made to make arabs look bad. I think it was just made to suite the scene of the movie and jafar or whoever the scary guy is in the movie. In the olden days arabs did cut someones hand off and do those things so if it was said in the song then why get mad? it did happen. There are many disney movies that show the weird side of countries. The movie also showed jasmine. A beautiful arab lady who is not fully covered like many people imagine an arab woman to look like. I think that there are way more obvious ways in which people are trying to give arabs a bad name and we can focus on them before we start looking at disney. I can understand that if children at a small age saw arabs in a bad light that this could effect their opinions on arabs in the future. The only thing that I think children got about arabs from this movie is that we are in the desert and I really do not believe that they looked at it in the way adults are analyzing it now, trying to find things that prove their point. Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:07:00 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/12/06/disney-teaching-prejudice-against-arabs/#IDComment114830682 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/11/30/failed-bomb-plot-leaves-muslim-community-in-fear/#IDComment113478426 When flicking through the channels on TV, i crossed fox news and right before i was about to swear at it change the channel i saw a picture of a this guy. I hate it when this happens, one stupid person makes an action in the name of islam, a religion representing over a billon people. When people see this, it just confirms everything they have in their minds because the religion of the person is what is the most talked about. People see this and as usual, they dont get more curious and research the middle east or the muslim religion. They just hear about this or watch it on news and add to the stockpile of other things they have in their mind. One guy does something so stupid and it effects a lot of people. It’s a shame that the arab people in that community will feel uncomfortable because the whole community associates them all with one person. The problem is, the United States bring in young arab males to study all the time and if people like this keep giving young muslim men a bad reputation then this effects them when applying for visas to come here. I wish there was a way to prevent these things from happening because these few people who represent muslims in a bad way do nothing but further damage the image of muslims in America. Many people above talked about hoping that the person wasn’t an arab when something comes up in the news and I feel the same because it really is bothering when people associate you and your people with danger and harm because individuals like this kid. Fri, 3 Dec 2010 05:00:54 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/11/30/failed-bomb-plot-leaves-muslim-community-in-fear/#IDComment113478426 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/11/08/bill-maher-alarmed-by-islam-in-england/#IDComment110579457 I've always hated this guy and im not surprised to hear this from him. The fact that he said that and then said im not sorry to say it is just rude and vulgar. I do find it weird, however that people are trying to enforce islamic laws in england. Its not alarming, just abnormal to me. The number of muslims in England are growing due to the number of people coming from muslim countries and starting new lives there, England was never a muslim country and therefore i do not believe that shoria law should be built into the english way of life. Bill Maher is just a child in a mans body because he makes comments that only children would make. There are many ways to state that you do not agree with it, however he decided to state the he was frightened and that he is not sorry for it. Even the person next to him made a comment about how in another place he would get fired for saying that, however that just showed the HUGE bias on that network. It bothers me to hear someone speak like that because these are people that americans listen to and from opinions out of. People will watch this and then this will become their opinion because they wont take the initative to look into it further. It is shocking how this network is so biased and they flaunt their ignorant remarks happily. Fri, 19 Nov 2010 05:57:41 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/11/08/bill-maher-alarmed-by-islam-in-england/#IDComment110579457 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/10/30/what-would-you-do-how-muslims-are-treated-in-us/#IDComment107912224 I have watched this video before and i was obsessed with it for a while showing all my family members and friends. I was attracted to this video because i did not expect to see those reactions from the people and it was very comforting to see it. Not many people would expect random people to get involved when a store clerk is being rude to a muslim woman, but many did and did it with emotion. Very few people would expect to see a man whose father served in the war screaming at the person for insulting a muslim woman, or another man so bothered by how the woman was treated that he teared on camera. I was in Sam Richards class last semester when we all watched this video and being one of the only arabs in a lecture hall of 7 hundred students i felt pretty uncomfortable. During the video i saw many people becoming emotionally attached to the video and it really pleased me to see so many americans feeling for a muslim woman in the united states as many people would not imagine that happening much. I think that it sad to see such grown men act like such idiots, however. I was puzzled to see men see this happen to a helpless woman and encourage it. This is something that i think is very obvious between the arab world and america. In the arab world no matter what, no matter where the lady is from, no man would ever sit there and watch a man shout at a stranger woman. He would be instantly asked to stop. In the middle east there are people who have a strong hatred towards americans, however i do not come across them much in my day to day routine, however i found it weird to see so that many anti muslim people in one occasion. I feel like if something similar in Qatar was happening with an american there would be less people approving it because although there are extremists they are not exposed to us much. Fri, 5 Nov 2010 02:51:23 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/10/30/what-would-you-do-how-muslims-are-treated-in-us/#IDComment107912224 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/09/24/can-you-call-it-racism/#IDComment106659483 I think what the person above wrote is very interesting and that he has some good points that i havent thought of before, however we come here as students not to work for americans. We do face random people who are racist towards arabs, however we do not have to work for those people. I dont think that many people treat foreign workers badly but there are still people who do. I agree with what akf5056 said about them choosing to come here. They come hear because they want to work or because a friend or family member told them about a job opportunity. I have mixed feelings on this issue because i do think that they are in worse conditions than they should be and that not all foreign workers in the gulf are treated this way. Some foreign workes have 6 figure salaries but some of the ones that work for very little money do not get the rights that they deserve are not treated as well a they should be. Not all people treat them unfairly and I think that more people treat them well than bad, however they should not have to deal with those who treat them badly. akf5056 missed a point when saying that he was putting himself in their shoes because i am sure that he came to america with money in his pocket, the people that came to Qatar to work for little moey came because they needed to support their families who are in bad conditions. Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:19:35 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/09/24/can-you-call-it-racism/#IDComment106659483 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/10/04/why-so-touchy-feely/#IDComment105364165 In the arab culture we greet each other with kisses and hugs to show our emotion to the person we are greeting. You do not greet a random person that you have not met before this way, you kiss a friend or a family member. I think that arabs are less tolerant to gays because in our culture we are taught a very specific way in which things should happen. We are taught the norms and we are taught what not to do. In lebanon, there is a lot more exposure to gay people so people are less homophobic than the gulf, however because of our culture and the way we were raised, homosexuality is not of the norm and many do not know how to react gays. It seems that more people are coming out in the arab world and people are being more exposed to the gay community. There are many homophobic people in every country in the world, however in the arab world, we are less tolerant than some countries because the gay community has not fully come out and therefore there is not enough of to make a whole country get used to it and accept it. In Qatar i do not see many gay people around in my day-to-day routine, however I am starting to see more than I saw a couple years ago. I think arabs could be less effected by crossing paths with a gay person, however I do not know if being gay could be a norm in the arab culture for a while. Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:47:11 +0000 http://www.worldinconversation.org/2010/10/04/why-so-touchy-feely/#IDComment105364165