It Shouldn’t Happen to a Muslim

Oborne concludes that in today’s climate the media say things about Islam and Muslims they would never say about other groups. When he replaces the word’ ‘Muslim’ in some recent headlines with ‘Jews’, ‘Blacks’ and ‘Gays’ and shows them to members of the public, they find those headlines deeply offensive.
Channel 4: Dispatches
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Urban myths and Muslim bus drivers praying

The miniscule number of Political Correctness Gone Mad stories that turn out to have a grain of truth in them are almost all influenced by this sort of reporting too. A while ago, a children’s book about pigs wasn’t shortlisted for an award, in part because Muslims wouldn’t like stories about pigs. Of course, that’s [...]