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Watch '24' Tonight on Fox

January 10, 2005

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Watch the program, and then send polite comments to: askfox@foxinc.com COPY TO: cair@cair-net.org

MUSLIM GROUP DECRIES TERROR DEPICTION Richard Huff
Edmonton Journal

http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/
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The first new episode this season of Fox's 24 has yet to hit the screen and already the network has offended a Muslim group.

After viewing a portion of the first episode included on a DVD in Entertainment Weekly, officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations expressed dismay at the depiction of a Muslim family.

"At first I was shocked," organization spokeswoman Rabiah Ahmed told the New York Daily News. "In this particular case, they show an American-Muslim family and they portray them as terrorists..."

"What we will accomplish today will change the world," the father tells the son over breakfast. "We are fortunate that our family has been chosen to do this."

Ahmed said the scene "casts a cloud of suspicion over every American-Muslim family out there."

A Fox spokesman said the company had no comment.

Ahmed acknowledged the possibility that in the remaining half of the first episode -- which was not on the promotional DVD -- the storyline could have indicated this was not a typical family show.

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