Welcome- Start Here- نرحب تبدأ هنا

Welcome to Muslims- The New Red Scare? , a blog ran by students dedicated to the truth. In media, some of the most powerful tools are images and editorial cartoons. Because of framing, sometimes it can be hard to interpret exactly what editorial cartoonist have to say. We’re here to help.

Please begin your experience by watching our Dream Team Productions MTV’s “Cribs” themed  segment  on the post below for an entertaining and satirical approach to how the misconceptions pervade the common knowledge of Muslims.

See behind the scenes  photos of the making of the “Cribs” movie, as well as meet the Dream Team.

To see why we named our site what we did, visit The Red Scare post.

Then please travel through our top line pages –The First Red Scare,  Islamophobia, Muslims in America, and Terrorism– in any order to learn about all things pertaining to Muslims and Arabs. Our editorial cartoons are organized and coded through out our topics so make sure to check out all the sub-pages!

Make sure to review the Theories/Media Smarts page to see the tools we use  when interpreting our editorial cartoons. These include Journalism Ethics, Media Effects Theory, and Dominant Ideologies and Concepts. Another tool for understanding the content is the Vocabulary page.

Also please be aware that all the words highlighted in RED and most of the pictures are links for you to follow to our sources. Be sure to explore them.

Spend as much time as you’d like unearthing all the different elements to our blog. We hope you enjoy your experience, and by end answer the question- Are Muslims the new red scare?

-Dream Team

Dream Team Productions Presents

Brenda,

We thought you might not know what Cribs is because you are seasoned, and MTV is a youth channel.  To give you a quick pop culture lesson; Cribs is a show produced by MTV where they tour houses of celebrities in an effort to illustrate how much nicer the 1% live than the rest of the silent majority. It gives a skewed image of what America is really like to other countries because this show is often the only look people get at how Americans live.  Because of this we thought we could satirize both the show, and the way American’s view Muslims. We are able to highlight many of the stereotypes people here in the U.S. believe in a comical way.

-Love,
Dave

Meet The Dream Team- يلتقي فريق الأحلام

Here’s a short synopsis about each member of the DREAM TEAM as well as what we’ve learned and will take away from working on this project:

David Thomas- ‎ديف توماس

Favorite Muslim – Obama
Celebrity look alike – Shawn William Scott 
Halloween Costume – Sexy Fire Fighter
Religion interested in learning about – Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.  
Learned – That political correctness only goes so far, and that there is still racism and hate out there in the U.S. 

 

Josh Distad- ‎حي جوش

Favorite Muslim – Lupe Fiasco
Celebrity look alike – Seth Rogan
Halloween Costume – Train Conductor
Religion interested in learning about – Hindu
Learned – To look past what stands out in an image because the things happening in the back tell a lot of what the cartoon says

Nate Sorensen- ‎نيت سورنسن

Favorite Muslim – Cat Stevens
Celebrity look alike – Jack Black
Halloween Costume – Ghost
Religion interested in learning about – Judaism
Learned – There are many layers that can be analyzed in a cartoon.

Rachel Hudson- ‎راشيل هدسون

From – Mehmet Okur, Turkish player for Utah Jazz
Celebrity look alike – Heath Ledger… really my eyes do look like him
Halloween Costume – A jazzerciser
Religion interested in learning about – I think I would like to learn about the Japanese Shinto religion
Learned – The power of pictures and cartoons in effective media

Why We Chose “The New Red Scare?” – لماذا اخترنا ان “الخوف الأحمر الجديد؟”

It did not take much time in our research for us to start noticing that much of what we were reading about: ignorance and hate and fear of the Muslim religion sounded very familiar. But, we couldn’t quite put our finger on it.  Then we started to read about the current Peter King hearings and started to think, “Man, this sounds a whole lot like the McCarthy hearings.” It occurred to us that the current climate of Muslim perception has the same fears, and wide spread misinformation as the Red Scare. The similarities are obvious: political leaders are already aligning themselves with the issue of Muslim terror in order to produce fear, which aids for re-election campaigns. the first Red Scare dealt with Russians, and was taken too far when McCarthy began making up names, and accusing anyone who crossed him of being a communist. People are much more willing to stand up to Peter King than they were to stand up to McCarthy; however if he had his way it would be the end of liberty and freedom to all Muslim Americans. He has been cited as saying that political correctness is blinding us to what is happening with Muslims in the U.S.; however, critics say it is his distaste for Muslims that is blinding him to the homegrown terrorists we have here in the US.

Behind the Scenes : Cribs- وراء الكواليس : كريبس

The Dream Team Productions filmed another fantastic movie. On location in Green Canyon, we created an upbeat spoof on the popular MTV series “Cribs.” Here are some behind the scenes pictures.

Team Work Blog- فريق العمل المدونة

 

 

This is our team work blog, where all the magic happens behind the scenes.  Click [HERE] or the photo to view.