Friday, March 14, 2008

Burqa Sting

You see, we work with very young people, and sometimes they kind of create their own truth. You hope something like this never happens.


Dutch TV station 101tv had an actress wearing Western clothing drop some packages on a sidewalk, then filmed as lots of people rushed to her aid and helped her pick up the groceries.

Then they put the same actress in a burqa, and had her drop the groceries again. This time nobody helped her. "Islamophobia! Bigotry!"

Uh... except that, unfortunately for 101tv, another crew from a different TV station happened to be there at the same time—and they filmed as person after person did approach the burqa-clad woman to help, but were chased away by the 101tv crew, who shouted things like, "Keep walking! We're filming!" and "Guys, stop that!"
Translation: here, scroll down.

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