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Frederick Noronha writes:
> When there are so many diverse Mulims around the globe, why does the
> media focus just on the intolerant fringe within that culture and
> religion? It's like the media showing Goans as drunks and vamps ...
> even though there are so many of us sober guys and teetotallers
> around!
Fred,
So Osama bin Ladin represents the "intolerant fringe"? What on earth
does INTOLERANT mean in your dictionary? The intolerant fringe has
carried out large scale murder of innocent people in Israel, America,
Kenya, Tanzania, Indonesia, United Kingdom, India, Iraq, Afghanistan,
and many other parts of the globe. Are the media supposed to shut up
about all of this? The truth is that the media don't give these events
half the coverage they deserve.
> What you see, and how you perceive the world, also depends on which
> spectacles you choose to see it through.
Yes, if you lived in a nation that was at the receiving end of every
second threat (the latest is directed against "worshippers of the
cross", I believe), then perhaps you will see it quite differently.
> I would suggest the
> dominant
> media in the West is suffering from an acute perspective problem as
> far as Islam and its people currently go.
You are absolutely correct. I wish they were less afraid to tell the
whole truth. The New York Times, for instance, makes the current US
administration out to be one of the worst things that happened to
mankind. It treated its readers to 30, count 'em, thirty consecutive
days of front page photos from Abu Ghraib prison. Many westerners wait
for things to go wrong in Iraq just so that they can say they were
right. They're silent when evil men are killed or captured. This is
testimony to the influence of the media in regards to Islamic terror.
Don't you worry, the media is doing a better job than you imagine.
Perhaps they should keep a running scorecard for who the Islamic world
reviles versus those it tolerates. He who hurts Islam the most incurs
the wrath of the mullahs. Currently it's Salman Rushdie 1 vs. bin
Ladin 0.
> And, everyone tends to
> get
> infected by this, even if you generally depend on alternative sources
> for your perspectives.
Fred, this is utter nonsense. In this day and age most of us get our
news from a variety of sources. Francis Bacon once said that man
prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
Sincerely,
Peter
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