RG09... Do not let Islamophobes defeat 'The 99' everyday heroes

 

Name a positive Arab or Islamic character from a Hollywood film. Not easy, is it?

But don't worry, there is nothing wrong with your knowledge of popular culture. Those characters, for the most part, simply don't exist.

From Rudolph Valentino's The Sheik in the 1920s, through Peter O'Toole's Lawrence of Arabia in the 1960s, to Arnold Schwarzenegger's True Lies, Arabs have been portrayed by a rogue's gallery of cartoonish, blood-thirsty criminals and harem-dwelling belly dancers.

Those stereotypes quickly come to mind when an Osama bin Laden arrives on the scene. Post September 11, things have hardly improved, with Hollywood's Arab caricatures reaffirmed in television's 24 and the risible Sex and the City 2.

One person who has tried to stem this relentless tide of bad publicity is Dr Naif al Mutawa, the Kuwaiti creator of The 99, a comic book series whose 99 Islamic superheroes are named after the names of Allah.

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