s.e. smith at Tiger Beatdown: All-American Muslim: Too Dangerous for TV Advertising, Apparently

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This is yet another example of anti-Muslim sentiment in the United States, a country where even building a mosque has to be accompanied by high drama because of hate groups like this. The organisation’s press releases spew scaremongering and hate, acting like TLC is out to destroy ‘our values’ (once again placing Muslims in the position of the other because of course ‘they’ can’t share ‘American values,’ apparently) simply by showing people living in the United States who happen to be Muslim. And showing those people’s lives. This, my friends, is ‘propaganda.’

At least one advertiser, Lowe’s, apparently bought this hook line and sinker. It not only pulled ads but made a public statement about it. The AFA also claims that other advertisers pulled, although it’s harder to verify this claim due to the fact that some may have had limited orders, so the absence of their ads on future episodes doesn’t necessarily mean they actively made a choice to pull them. Lowe’s felt that All-American Muslim didn’t meet its ‘advertising guidelines,’ which apparently prohibit neutral-to-positive depictions of targets of hate living in the United States.