Media Adidas Nitrocharge Shoes Musings Blog Archive Islam terrorism

Media Musings Blog Archive Islam terrorism

Since the day the two metal birds crashed into the two tall statutes, terrorism is associated with Islam. The media fueled this inaccurate perception that defamed Islam since 9/11 by portraying these bombers as "Islamists" or "Jihadists" as if they were responsible for every attack-including the Boston bombing. More then 12 years later, the media rush to blame "the Muslims," without any real concrete knowledge of the situation. In the recent Boston Marathon bombings, the media are responsible for starting a wave of suspicion and accusations that the terrorists were Muslim.

A Saudi student, injured in the blast, was tackled by another bystander and labeled a suspect by the New York Post Adidas Nitrocharge Shoes. The hashtag #Muslims trended on Twitter, from Fox News contributor Erik Rush.

ThePost later clarified that the young men were completely innocent, but never apologized for the misinformation and even though Rush stood by his comment, he did not remove the tweet. Guess all the banter got to him…

Maybe he does have a right to express his opinions, however, as a professional journalist there is a line that he crossed. It is his responsibility to provide citizens with accurate and objective information of any story.

Peter Manning, a journalist of over 30 years, states in his book, "Us and Them":"In more than 60 percent of cases [from the coverage of 2 major newspapers], the words 'violent', 'death', 'attack', 'kill', 'suicide' or 'gunmen' were in close proximity to the words 'Arab', 'Palestinian', 'Muslim' or 'Islam'. "

A few years ago, the media were more likely to blame Islamists for any shooting, crime or terrorist plot through sensationalizing stereotypes of Muslims when delivering the news with images, language or even posing leading questions. Today it continues, only they are doing it in a sneaky way by avoiding these all together.

Fox News reporter Dan Gainersaid it perfectly, George Carlin famously joked about the seven words you couldn't say on air Nike Hypervenom Phantom Shoes For Sale. Add two more - "Islam" and "Muslim" - but only if you use them in a negative context.

The real issue is that the media are shaping the publics ideologies of race, religion and ethnicity by either saying too much or too little and avoiding the real story. Not only that, but the media is instilling these ideals in people that limit the freedom of Muslims in everyday society. Lets be honest, how many airport security workers pull Middle Eastern people to the side to check them?

There certainly truth to the idea that media have unduly demonised and/or misrepresented the Muslim faith as a whole; a faith which is largely non-violent. However, as the long-running problems in Ireland are the work of extremist Christians, so too has an overwhelming majority of post-millennial terrorism been the work of extremist Muslims. To name a few: the USS Cole bombing, S/11, the Bali bombing, the Madrid train bombing, the 2008 Mumbai attacks, etc New Soccer Cleat For Sale. These are only the most well-documented and publicised events, however. Thousands upon thousands of rockets sent against Israel by Hamas and similar groups have been launched in the name of Islam. 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