The episode aired less than two weeks after President Obama called for “some Muslim characters that are unrelated to national security” during his first visit as president to an American mosque.
Using tropes like "Death to infidels" and "72 virgins" show that TV networks don't bother hiring Muslims on their writing staffs.
Well, X-Files was racist and tone-deaf this week. Just…did we need another depiction of radical Islam? What about the white terrorists? What about the anti-vaxxers? #TheXFiles #Babylon “(T)he only time we see Muslims on television or film, whether they’re performing the ordinary daily prayers practiced by 1.6 billion Muslims around the world or just behaving in otherwise ‘Muslim-y’ ways, is when they’re about to blow people up.” “In this universe, the world’s vastly diverse population of Muslims is reduced to a monolithic symbol,” Ismat Sarah Mangla wrote in the International Business Times. The episode cuts frequently to images of bearded men building bombs in preparation for another attack, and includes a recitation of a Quranic prayer and uses Arabic as the default language for all the Muslim suspects and their families. Within minutes, he and a conspirator have stepped into the gallery and lit the streets on fire.
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Written and directed by series creator Chris Carter, the episode opens with Shiraz, a young Muslim man, praying his afternoon salat in a dark room. David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in the “Babylon” episode of “The X-Files,” which aired Monday, Feb.
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