Reply #34: I'm always finding anomalies in films, tv, etc. [View All]

and pointing them out. Remember the brouhaha a few years ago over Ken Burns' PBS series on Baseball, and all the errors (pun intended) he had? I remember one in particular related to a photo of a building, a courthouse I think it was, that he cited as the place where the Black Sox trial was held. But I had just researched a paper on Chicago and I knew that courthouse building had been torn down years before the Black Sox scandal! I mentioned it to my husband while we were watching the program and he pooh-poohed me. The next day, of course, it was all over the papers.

The thing is, with this headscarf issue, we do have plenty of Arab/Muslim press, and we certainly have the Internet. If this wer a major issue, if the "fake" Arabs in the video had really blundered that bad in their costumes, it seems reasonable to expect that someone would have noticed it and posted it somewhere.

Am I suggesting that the lack of such a report is proof of anything? No, only proof that no one has yet said anything for any major print media. AFter all, there are Arab scholars out there. . . . . .

Tansy Gold, waiting and seeing