Courtesy of brutallyhonest.org
Green Day’s hit song “American Idiot” makes a powerful (and catchy!) statement about how ignorance and fear really can make a person…well, a bit of an idiot.
Television network TLC seemed to get the message Green Day was trying to get across, and it tried to share it with other Americans through the reality show All-American Muslim.
The show offered a glimpse into the everyday lives of Muslim-American families. And as it turns out, they really aren’t very different from most other typical American families.
Yet oddly enough, this aspect of the show seems to be what upset some people the most.
“All-American Muslim” didn’t last all that long–one season, to be exact. But in that brief span of time, the show stirred up quite a bit of controversy, particularly from the religiously-affiliated Florida Family Association (FFA), which was adamantly opposed to the dangerously inoffensive nature of show.
The Christian organization led an email campaign to encourage sponsors of the show to boycott it. Lowes was one of the major advertisers that caved to the pressure, withdrawing its sponsorship of the show.
According to the FFA’s website, the television program:
Since the FFA has yet to make a similar argument for shows like Jersey Shore or The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which profile Americans that appear to be superficial and dim-witted folks, it appears that the FFA simply isn’t a big fan of relatively mild-mannered human beings.
Why exactly “All-American Muslim” has been cancelled has not been formally revealed. Some speculate that the culprit was low ratings. But this, according to one cast member, seems unlikely since a number of other shows on TLC reflect similar ratings numbers.
Whatever the reason for the cancellation may be, it seems that some Americans just feel a bit more at home watching reality TV centered on all-American idiots, rather than “All-American Muslims.”
