The flaws are not hard to spot. This is basically Jihad Watch or Little Green Footballs as a film, and is not intended to try and convince anyone not of that mindset. For a start, only a small minority interpret the verses Wilders cites to justify the acts depicted; the majority of Muslims in the [...]
Once again, the effect of the headlines was to arouse a knee-jerk response by over-simplifying what was being said. To turn a story like this into a scary headline just about Islam does not seem to serve any one well. It stokes the very fears that damage community cohesion.
Mike Baker
Surveying the reception and impact of the report suggests serious concerns around the complicity of certain sections of the media and their willingness to reproduce and perpetuate negative stories around Muslims. One need only compare the almost wholesale acceptance of such reports with the derision that greets any report from a Muslim organisation that talks [...]
What the Mail and Express coverage of the NUT paper ‘In Good Faith’ (not available online yet) shows is how far the tabloids have come in being able to demonise particular ‘out groups’. A few years ago, they managed to turn the term ‘asylum seeker’ into an insult. They’ve now managed to do the same [...]
Tellingly, in its report of the attack on the priest, the Sunday Telegraph had made no mention whatsoever of the alcohol-fuelled nature of the assault despite a clear statement from the canon’s wife making this plain. Of course, it just so happens that the Sunday Telegraph was also the paper which originally printed Michael Nazir-Ali’s [...]
March 15, 2008 – 11:06 am
I am convinced that if I got up on stage and did nothing but list the names of Muslim leaders I know who have very publicly condemned terrorism (check out the Not in the Name of Islam campaign, signed by 700,000 people and only one small example of Muslims condemning terrorism), people would still ask [...]
In their quest to present Muslims as monsters forever complaining about their lot, what absurd and immoral lengths might the gutter press stoop to? How about this made-up story in the Daily Arswipe, headline: “Pro-Empire Historians Fear Muslim Backlash”
Julaybib Ayoub
The broadcast seems to point out that, while there are some good hearted Americans out there who did stand up for the rights of the Muslim customer, the majority of the public are still quite indoctrinated with Islamophobia. So much so that they are OK with a store refusing to serve a customer based on [...]
