All American Muslims TV Show?

What Did Lowe's Really Say?
Why Did They Back Off?

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Do you ever think about what the corporate corporate version of a babbling idiot sounds like, read the statement issued by Lowe’s explaining the home improvement giant’s decision to pull its advertising from the TLC reality show “All-American Muslim.”

Hearing that thought framed in Lowe’s corporate-speak would be brilliant comedy, except that the pullout itself is one of those small, sad moments that make America a little more divided, a little more suspicious, a little colder.

The whole drama started when the Florida Family Association asked sympathizers to send a prewritten email asking companies that advertise on “AllAmerican Muslim” to withdraw.

The show, which follows five Muslim families in Dearborn, Michigan is really “propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and present danger to American liberties and traditional values,” says the Association.

This assertion is utter nonsense, as anyone who watches the show knows. But the campaign isn’t aimed at people who watch the show. It’s aimed at people who are afraid and tells them it’s okay, just keep being afraid.

An essay on the Association’s website, by Robert Spencer, admits most subjects of this show don’t seem subversive. And that’s the problem, he argues. Because the show features no one who’s out to get “us,” it’s not showing the real Muslim community.

It’s an interesting argument. You wonder whether, if he’s going to define a group by its extremists, any profile of Muslim critics must include Anders Brievik, the Norwegian mass murderer who hated Muslims.

(makes you wonder if Robert Spencer could be the next - Andres Brievik?)

In any case, the Association claims it persuaded 65 advertisers to leave the show.

TLC says only that “We stand behind the show and we’re happy it has strong advertising support.” So the “65” figure might be soft. But we do know Lowe’s is gone.

It’s also a good bet Lowe’s saw this less as an ideological declaration than the easiest way to keep a pressure group from buzzing around its ear.

Trouble is, once Lowe’s became the Association’s featured trophy, it also moved into the crosshairs of those who think a show portraying a Muslim community as a normal piece of the American mosaic is a good thing, not a bad thing.

By Sunday, then, Lowe’s was trying to explain, and it came out like this:

“Individuals and groups have strong political and societal views on this topic, and this program became a lightning rod for many of those views. As a result, we did pull our advertising. We believe it is best to respectfully defer to communities, individuals and groups to discuss and consider such issues of importance.”

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