CBC to air comedy "Little Mosque On The Prairie"

[mikedavid00]

"The Canadian Broadcasting Company has commissioned eight episodes of “Little Mosque on the Prairie,” a television comedy about a fictional Muslim family struggling to find its place in Canada’s Western prairies."

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I saw some previews for this and basically they show Canadians and dumb racist ignorate idiots and potray the Muslims as these educated, under employed, perfect people that we should learn something from.

The producer is an immigrant Pakistani muslim in Canada with an agenda that only the CBC will cator to.

Now, her and her staff are living off my tax dollars which I really don't appreciate. I feel that the CBC has far, far overstepped it's bounds and needs to become a 'news only' network or seomthing along those lines.

This tax spending is of interest to a minority group, not in the interest of Canadians as a whole.

I feel less and less of a citizen of Canada.

[Ricki Bobbi]

I saw some previews for this and basically they show Canadians and dumb racist ignorate idiots and potray the Muslims as these educated, under employed, perfect people that we should learn something from.

It's offensive.

They actually have a scene where a dumb, hick white farmer says to the hardworking under employed muslim woman:

"Would it kill you Muslim gals to show a little cleavage now and then?"

wtf is up with that?

Yet another attack on the stupid ignorant white christian male.

Any bets on this offensive piece of crap lasting past the original run of eight episodes?

[leonardcohen]

"The Canadian Broadcasting Company has commissioned eight episodes of “Little Mosque on the Prairie,” a television comedy about a fictional Muslim family struggling to find its place in Canada’s Western prairies."

link

I saw some previews for this and basically they show Canadians and dumb racist ignorate idiots and potray the Muslims as these educated, under employed, perfect people that we should learn something from.

The producer is an immigrant Pakistani muslim in Canada with an agenda that only the CBC will cator to.

Now, her and her staff are living off my tax dollars which I really don't appreciate. I feel that the CBC has far, far overstepped it's bounds and needs to become a 'news only' network or seomthing along those lines.

This tax spending is of interest to a minority group, not in the interest of Canadians as a whole.

I feel less and less of a citizen of Canada.

Damn,you beat me to the punch,i was just watching some promos and thought i would start a thread about it,make some witty comments and make fun of it,but you beat me to it.

Lighten up,from what i saw it looked funny,we could use some muslims with a sense of humor,don't you think?

[Ricki Bobbi]

Damn,you beat me to the punch,i was just watching some promos and thought i would start a thread about it,make some witty comments and make fun of it,but you beat me to it.

Lighten up, from what i saw it looked funny, we could use some muslims with a sense of humor, don't you think?

Ignorant attacks on a given racial/cultural group are funny to you?

As much as it will kill me I will probably watch one episode. But if the ads are any sort of indication I'm sure it will be truly offensive.

[madmax]

I saw some previews for this and basically they show Canadians and dumb racist ignorate idiots .....

I feel less and less of a citizen of Canada.

hmmm.

[Saturn]

I feel less and less of a citizen of Canada.

I figure that an anti-Canadian like you doesn't deserve a Canadian citizenship in the first place. You ought to leave.

[Ricki Bobbi]

I figure that an anti-Canadian like you doesn't deserve a Canadian citizenship in the first place. You ought to leave.

He's anti-Canadian because he doesn't buy into your view of what a real Canadian should be?

Any comment on the thread or are you just here to stalk MD00?

[geoffrey]

This show will do great. All the Ontario and Quebec people will have some fictional grounds for their stereotyping of Western Canadians.

All I have to say is I hope they come out with Little Mosque in Montreal where we exploit numberous falicies about the French in this country as well. That'd be fantastically funny, and more culturally interesting since they are a distinct nation and all. I somehow don't believe CBC has the balls to attack Quebecois culture though.

I wonder if they'll talk about oppression of women in Muslim culture or the 90%+ of their religion back home that love riots at every opportunity and kill nuns when the Pope speaks out about the growing threat of Muslim expansionism. Or about polygamy and how it's firmly rooted in Islamic culture.

I wonder...

Instead they'd rather make fun of Western Canadians to sell commerical spots to Toronto and Montreal viewers who love watching their token Arabs take on those crazy farmers.

[Ricki Bobbi]

Instead they'd rather make fun of Western Canadians to sell commerical spots to Toronto and Montreal viewers who love watching their token Arabs take on those crazy farmers.

Of course. All Westerners are hicks. And ungrateful whiners for resenting the fact that our tax dollars go to paying for this program that confirms this universal truth in the eyes of *real Canadians* i.e. 'civilized' silver spoon socialists in Toronto.

[Slavik44]

If this was simply a private Television company airing it, I don't think it would be that big of a deal, the response would be very simple...don't watch it. However, given that this is being shown by a billion dollar leech on the Canadian tax payer's back, I think it is more than fair for some to raise objections to the programming content of that leech.

[Ricki Bobbi]

If this was simply a private Television company airing it, I don't think it would be that big of a deal, the response would be very simple...don't watch it. However, given that this is being shown by a billion dollar leech on the Canadian tax payer's back, I think it is more than fair for some to raise objections to the programming content of that leech.

There is the rub. Crap like this would *never* be aired by a private television company. Private broadcasters are worried about making money, not alienating western viewers.

But the CBC is all about pushing their agenda...

[BC_chick]

This show will do great. All the Ontario and Quebec people will have some fictional grounds for their stereotyping of Western Canadians.

All I have to say is I hope they come out with Little Mosque in Montreal where we exploit numberous falicies about the French in this country as well. That'd be fantastically funny, and more culturally interesting since they are a distinct nation and all. I somehow don't believe CBC has the balls to attack Quebecois culture though.

I wonder if they'll talk about oppression of women in Muslim culture or the 90%+ of their religion back home that love riots at every opportunity and kill nuns when the Pope speaks out about the growing threat of Muslim expansionism. Or about polygamy and how it's firmly rooted in Islamic culture.

I wonder...

Instead they'd rather make fun of Western Canadians to sell commerical spots to Toronto and Montreal viewers who love watching their token Arabs take on those crazy farmers.

The woman who wrote the show lives in Regina with her husband, that's where the idea of the location came from. And from my understanding they do play into their own stereotypes. An author who starts a fatwa against himself so stir controversy for his book... amongst other such themes.

Looked pretty funny to me actually.

[Catchme]

There is the rub. Crap like this would *never* be aired by a private television company. Private broadcasters are worried about making money, not alienating western viewers.

But the CBC is all about pushing their agenda...

There is the rub, you see CBC's mandate is to fill the niche that private television won't or does not do, it is their actual mandate. There is no agenda they are pushing, it is their mandate to fill in the minority needs that populist TV won't.

The trails that I have previewed were equally as mocking of Muslems, and Canadians. I saw no uneven ethnic or cultural bias in portrayals, just a mocking of stereo types. And that is the point I think of the show, to mock, or satarize, the stereo types that are part of societal perceptions.

[sharkman]

I wonder if they will accurately portray muslim women, doing all of the women's work, serving the males hand and foot, and getting a good slap when they step out of line. Probably not...propaganda suits Mother Corp's world view much better.

[geoffrey]

There is the rub, you see CBC's mandate is to fill the niche that private television won't or does not do, it is their actual mandate.

How is it filling this niche with a ridiculous comedy program? I think Comedy television does a good job of providing laughs, what is CBC doing that isn't done in the private sector?

[Ricki Bobbi]

The woman who wrote the show lives in Regina with her husband, that's where the idea of the location came from.

And the CBC ran with it and produced the show to harp on the stereotype of Western Canadians being uneducated hicks.

And from my understanding they do play into their own stereotypes. An author who starts a fatwa against himself so stir controversy for his book... amongst other such themes.

So the death sentence that was pronounced against Salman Rushdie has become a stereotype? The man has spent 17 years under a death sentence ... and this is now a stereotype?

What are the other halalarious themes they explore?

Looked pretty funny to me actually.

Why am I not surprised that you would think a show that confirms all the CBCs left-leaning, bias against white, Christian Canadians from the Prairies funny?

[Curtis Smith]

I honestly think it may be a show worth watching. CBC needs to lighten up a little bit, for years it has only aired the news, sports and other lame movies paid by the Canadian Tax Payer. But now it has totally changed its out look, just to name one, the show "Intelligence" It is very interesting and some what of an eye opener, that Canada does not only rely on foreign intelligence services for its Intel gathering, but collects it's own.

If you open your eyes an inch as well, their are many shows that mock Christianity and Judaism, and you don't hear anyone crying a tear for that, why is it just when a minority group is singled out, it is considered an atrocity? So un-doubtfully it will not be the first TV program to mock religion.

Little Mosque on the Parries is just another one of those funny shows, but really has no plot to them but stupidity, just like Trailer Park Boys.

[geoffrey]

No Curtis, you've got this all wrong.

CBC doesn't need to make better, more competitive programing. That's the problem. They compete with Global and CTV and the such, yet get an additional $1b payment every year to do it.

How can anyone compete? CBC undercuts the commerical market because they can afford to... the government pays their bills.

CBC, if it should exist at all, must be limited to only commerical unviable programming with fully national scope and interest.

[Curtis Smith]

No Curtis, you've got this all wrong.

CBC doesn't need to make better, more competitive programing. That's the problem. They compete with Global and CTV and the such, yet get an additional $1b payment every year to do it.

How can anyone compete? CBC undercuts the commerical market because they can afford to... the government pays their bills.

CBC, if it should exist at all, must be limited to only commerical unviable programming with fully national scope and interest.

I agree, and I think in a few years CBC will have no government funding and move in to mainstream television and marketing. But if they have bored all its viewers to death by than, how can they possibly make profits through advertisements to keep they're programs running?

They need to gain an audience now before they go from Government funded program, to a public corporation.

[Canadian Blue]

I thought it looked kind of funny, personally I'd love to see a show making fun of Toronto as well.

[Catchme]

There is the rub, you see CBC's mandate is to fill the niche that private television won't or does not do, it is their actual mandate.

How is it filling this niche with a ridiculous comedy program? I think Comedy television does a good job of providing laughs, what is CBC doing that isn't done in the private sector?

It is a niche because it deals with minority issues and stereotypes, as well as cultural norm ones. It's content is that which main stream TV stations and/or productions companies do not want to do. They are doing a show that is a satirical depiction of: cross cultural stereotypes, misinformations, misunderstandings and cultural gaps.

Getting upset about this really means one is taking oneself too seriously. People can chuck around Newfie jokes, blonde jokes, women jokes, lawyer jokes, but goodness make satiral comments about white anglo saxon males and their priviledge, the world is falling apart.

[Saturn]

No Curtis, you've got this all wrong.

CBC doesn't need to make better, more competitive programing. That's the problem. They compete with Global and CTV and the such, yet get an additional $1b payment every year to do it.

How can anyone compete? CBC undercuts the commerical market because they can afford to... the government pays their bills.

CBC, if it should exist at all, must be limited to only commerical unviable programming with fully national scope and interest.

Oh, nice. CBC undercuts the private networks, so we should shut it down and watch bullshit reality shows instead. Of course less choice and more reality shows from the other two media outlets is much better for everyone. After all we all live to make sure that the other two get as much advertising revenue as possible. Oh, and we live to watch the damned commercials cause they are soooooo much fun. Yes, just get rid of the CBC with their Canadian comedy and force everyone to watch Global because the Aspers need more viewers and more advertising revenue.

I hardly watch TV at all but I will gladly watch Little Mosque on the Prairie. And I'll be even happier watching it without the commercials. How about we just give more funding to the CBC so that we don't have to watch commercials? The other two outlets should be thrilled - they'll get all the advertising revenue - and the problem will be solved.

[bk59]

From what I've seen of and read about this show it would appear that they poke fun at everyone involved. Muslims, non Muslims, caucasians, etc. So how is that a CBC left leaning bias whose sole purpose is to mock people from western Canada? To characterize the show as that (especially without seeing it) seems an overreaction.

As for the niche that CBC is filling... do private networks show comedies? Yes. But how many of them are showing comedies that in any way mix comedy and satire with a Muslim community? Please let me know if there are any. This show looks like something that a private network wouldn't touch with a 10 ft pole. At least not until they see that it can be done without causing a huge controversy and damaging the network.

[myata]

Er... shouldn't we wait with our valuable comments until at least the first episode is out?

(The trailers didn't hit me as being extremely funny, rather as trying to be funny in a politically correct manner, but I'll reserve my opinion till having viewed at least one episode - which may or may not happen).

[Einar the Dagger]

This is how the Canadian Government chooses to support minorities over the majority. Its the same deal with all the minorities in Canada, including quebec. We are supposedly a multi-cultural, non racist, equal oppertunity country yet immigrints get tax breaks, and help finding education and jobs.

"Little Mosque on the Prarie" is just another example of blatent rasism in an attempt to remove rasicim from our country. This would never be something shown on a private station or even legal several years ago.