Los Angeles Times article on the show “Sleeper Cell”
The Los Angeles Times has run a story on the Showtime series Sleeper Cell.
There are people who have already begun to criticize the show sight-unseen as unrealistic or “politically correct” based on its plot summary and casting. In the LA Times article, Sleeper Cell’s executive producer defends the fact that this fictional terrorist cell’s members are mostly non-Arab from such criticism:
The recruitment and training of guys like that happens to be quite high on our enemy’s ‘to do’ list
This quote has its origins in a longer rebuttal he posted to the end of a discussion critical of the show on a rabidly anti-islamic online forum. It’s a good thing when show creators engage in a dialogue with the public, and apparently that particular segment of the public is the one that’s the most concerned about the show’s depiction of terrorists.
