A media critic accuses Hollywood of beating up on Arabs and Muslims. Seriously.

This is, of course, the stinkiest load of hokum you will find outside of a very expensive college. Anybody remember that awful adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Sum of All Fears, in which the novel’s Islamist terrorists were replaced by the film’s coven of evil aristocratic European guys? Because everywhere you go in the world, there’s a Swiss guy with a monocle and a tophat waiting to blow you up. That film came out just after 9/11.

But don’t tell that to Jack Shaheen, who’s flogging his book on how mean Hollywood is to Muslims:

BEIRUT (Reuters) – American films and TV dramas shot since the September 11 attacks have reinforced screen images of Arabs and Muslims as fanatics and villains, ingraining harmful stereotypes, argues an author on the subject.
In his book “Guilty — Hollywood’s Verdict on Arabs after 9/11″, Jack Shaheen praises some post-September 11 films for offering a more sympathetic image of Arabs and Muslims, who he argues have been castigated for decades by Hollywood.
… He describes last year’s “The Kingdom” — an action movie about FBI agents hunting terrorists in Saudi Arabia — as one of the most damaging depictions of Arabs of recent times in which “even Arab children cannot be trusted”.

Children? Where would they get crazy ideas about the children?