Discussion for article #229374
Very interesting. I hadn’t thought about the possibility that the American Media may be partially responsible for recruiting and radicalizing the mentally ill. But it certainly makes sense. Although a shout out to the Islamophobia channel, FoxNews might have been warranted.
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Meh. I would readily aver that anti-muslim hate crimes are undercovered and wish that were not the case. But to suggest that coverage that asks whether any given new violent crime that initially has the trappings of an Islamist lone wolf might be just that is ridonculous. There is a sad but relatively un-newsworthy baseline of violent crime in this country by the mentally disturbed, just like there is a sad baseline of car crashes or gun accidents. If, on top of that, we begin to see–as we already have in Great Britain and Canada–incidents of American citizens activated to jihad by social media, sorry fella, but that’s news.
Religion is what people make it. You can use it for good, or for evil. The name of Jim Jones church was The People’s Temple of the Disciples of Christ.
The best way for the unfriendly coverage to end would be if Wahabbi sunnis did not commit acts of terrorism. It is hard to cover a beheading without social, cultural, educational and religious context.
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Prof. Rashid’s argument has a corollary on the right, where they love to cite random statistics about black-on-black crime and the paucity of coverage thereof whenever a white cop or a gang of racists attack a black person.
The best way for unfriendly coverage to end would be if Catholic laypeople did not commit acts of terrorism by bombing abortion clinics and killing doctors. It is hard to cover an assassination at a church service without social, cultural, educational and religious context.
Fear pays the bills, folks…
Umm, video games?
Have you counted the number of abortion doctors killed by Christian extremist in the last 10 years. Compare it to the number of beheadings by the Wahabbi sunni terrorists in the last 10 DAYS. Do you have a sense of scale and proportion?
Also, note that the only imagery in the Saudi flag is a beheading sword. Because of their social, cultural, political and educational disadvantages and context, the Wahabbis Sunni state routinely beheads in the public square. It is considered public entertainment and deterrent. This is today in Saudi Arabia, not in 600AD.
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Jones said that he started a church to convert people to communism, because they wouldn’t go straight to there. He was a psychopath through and through.
Maybe “The Islamophobia Of Media Analysis In ‘Lone Wolf’ Shootings” will diminish the day more moderate Muslims will use the same vehemence on condemning Muslim terror as much as they are telling the rest of us about our “Islamophobia”