La télé réalité peut-elle contribuer à modifier les perceptions face aux aux américains musulmans? Une nouvelle série s'intéresse à la plus grande communauté musulmane des États-Unis, celle de Dearborn au Michigan. L'auteure est une musulmane.
Je vous laisse un extrait de l'article dans le NY Times, mais il mérite une lecture complète!
"Enter the Midwest’s Little Mideast: Dearborn, “America’s Muslim Capital,” is over 30 percent Arab. It’s also home to the Islamic Center of America, the largest mosque in the country.
The show focuses on five families in this enclave. You have the newlyweds Nawal and Nader, on the verge of having a baby; Mike, the deputy police chief; Foaud, the head coach of the high school football team; Nina, the platinum-blond businesswoman; and the heavily tattooed and pierced Shadia, who marries an Irish-Catholic.
The most maxi-Muslim predicaments in the first few episodes? Foaud switching the nearly all-Muslim football team’s practice to nocturnal hours because of Ramadan fasting; Shadia’s groom-to-be’s conversion to Islam (it involves the uttering of a single holy phrase before Shadia’s relaxed, wisecracking family); and Shadia’s sister Samira’s donning of the hijab in order to enhance her fertility by appearing pious in God’s eyes. And that’s about it.
The ground is breaking, as Mr. Aslan implies, but ever so demurely. In a January article in The Chicago Tribune in which I was quoted, the columnist Clarence Page examined Katie Couric’s answer to Islamophobia: “ ‘The Cosby Show’ did so much to change attitudes about African-Americans in this country, and I think sometimes people are afraid of things they don’t understand,” he quoted her as saying. Mr. Page, in calling Muslims the “new ‘Negroes,’ ” also felt the Cosby characters served a great purpose in showing “the American Dream is not for whites only.” But if patiently viewed by the gladiatorial-combat-hungry masses, “All-American Muslim” might achieve much more at first by taking on less: showing people that Arab Muslims are Americans. Then maybe we can move on to American Dreaming."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/arts/television/all-american-muslim-on-tlc-life-in-dearborn-michigan.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28
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