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Article: New movie drops "Muslim" villans: Muslim group worked for two years on potential stereotyping in "The Sum of all Fears"
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- Arab American News
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- February 16, 2001
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Arab American News
02-16-2001
New movie drops "Muslim" villans: Muslim group worked for two years on
potential stereotyping in "The Sum of all Fears"
WASHINGTON, DC - Last week CAIR announced the end of a two-year campaign to
have Paramount Pictures drop "Muslim" villains in the new film "The Sum of
All Fears" currently beginning production in Montreal, Canada. (See:
http://www.upcomingmovies.com/sumofallfears.html)
Director Phil Alden Robinson told CAIR that unlike the Tom Clancy novel on
which the movie is based, "The Sum of All Fears" will not have Muslims as
the villains. (According to the book, terrorists detonate a nuclear device
at the Super Bowl in Denver. The bomb comes from an unexploded ...