This is my 12th post in response to the YouTube video Planet of The Arabs, filed under the category Muslim Stereotypes.

Based on the Book Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People by Professor Jack Shaheen, the video shows clips of Hollywood films the author alleges are demeaning and stereotypical portrayals of Arabs and Muslims.

One of the most egregiously insulting instances of such portrayals can be seen starting at the 7:46 mark of the video, a clip from the 2000 film Deterrence.

Here's the story up to this point: The year is 2008 and President Walter Emerson (played by Kevin Pollak) and his entourage are stuck in a small Colorado diner because of a raging snowstorm. While there, a TV broadcast cuts to a story that Uday Hussein, the current Iraqi dictator and son of Saddam Hussein, has sent his troops into Kuwait, and is preparing to overrun Saudi Arabia and then attack Israel.

Emerson is informed that Iraq has mobile chemical and biological weapons that can be deployed within 90 minutes. Because our forces have been drawn down and too scattered over the world, a meaningful response cannot be mounted for weeks [reminder: this film was scripted before 9/11 and before we went into Afghanistan and Iraq].

Emerson warns Uday that if the Iraqis do not immediately retreat, he will order a nuclear strike on Baghdad. Uday however refuses to negotiate with Emerson because he is a Jew. The Iraqis announce that they possess more than 20 long-range nuclear weapons and if any American bomber enters Iraqi airspace they will launch those weapons upon New York, Paris and Tokyo.

OK, at this point, one of my readers may object that the plot is getting unbelievable: no American administration would have ever allowed Iraq to possess nuclear weapons. To those readers I respond: look at Obama and how he has obsequiously knuckled under to Iran's plans to continue to develop nuclear capabilities.

But I digress.

Back to the scene at the 7:46 mark. In this scene, Ralph, the racist trucker, played by Sean Astin, tries to explain to President Emerson that no one will give a damn about a Muslim city getting nuked.

Ralph tells Emerson that he and a buddy devised a code by which a "fag" is denoted by the word "watermelon," a "black" by "Texan," and a "spic" by "trucker." And what about Arabs? "He looks at me and says,'Well, hell, Ralph, we just call them sand-niggers.' See what I'm saying Mr. President? Nobody gives a shit about no dirty ass sand-niggers."

Contrary to what Dr. Shaheen may allege, the use of that epithet, "sand-niggers," does not in this film demean Arabs, it demeans Americans. Ralph is portrayed as a typical homophobic, xenophobic, racist, bigoted American buffoon.