From Arab sheikhs and Muslim terrorists to belly dancers and mysterious women wrapped in burqas, Hollywood depictions of Muslims aren't generally true and it is no secret that the movies' portrayal of Arabs and Muslims over the years has not been good. Muslims in the movies have suffered insults ranging from "camel jockeys" to "towel heads" to "sand niggers" and have consistently been villains on the wrong end of Western heroes' guns. I have observed …
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…super-nerds and/or oversexed, Native-Americans are always shown to be savage, and Italians are usually shown as criminals; and in no way does it mean that they are all true. Or maybe things are really changing; the image of Arab Muslims was quite rightly depicted in the movie 'Kingdom Of Heaven' and the bad guys in the latest season of the TV series '24' aren't Middle Eastern - it's the "Russian Mafia" this time!