Some things are funny, when you look back at it : american TV and cinema actually managed to make out of a boring everyday occurence something suspicious at best, and terrifying mostof the time. That is, after having watched "The siege" or TV series like Sleeper Cell, or any fiction to do with post 9/11 terrorism. Next time you'll see it too : everytime you have a muslim or someone "looking" suspiciously "muslim" doing his ablutions, washing hand, face and feet, you have this efficiently creepy music on, since it's the prelude of an upcoming attack or bombing or whatever (because of course the muslim is most of the time also the terrorist in those fictions*). So after 11 years of thus-themed movies and TV series, you get to be freaked out every time a guy get close to a robinet, and start washing. It's quite a feat when you think about it ...
* For more on the representations of arabs in hollywoodian fiction, I recommend the books by Jack G. Shaheen.
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