the Ali Baba Kit !!

"We have this fictional setting called Arab Land, a mythical theme park, and in Arab Land, you know, you have the ominous music, you have the desert.

We start with the desert, always the desert as a threatening place. We add an oasis, palm trees, a palace that has a torture chamber in the basement.

The Pasha sits there on his posh cushions, with harem maidens surrounding him. None of the harem maidens please him so they abduct the blonde heroin from the West who doesn’t want to be seduced. When we visit Arab Land we must be aware of the instant Ali Baba kit.

What we have, we have the property masters of Hollywood going around and they’re cladding the
women in see-through pantaloons, belly-dancing outfits, they’re giving the Arab villains scimitars –
you know, these long, long scimitars. We see people riding around on magic carpets, turban charmers programming snakes in and out of baskets. Yesteryear’s Arab Land is today’s Arab Land. "

Reel Bad Arabs, Jack Shaheen.