The media seems to have a thing for portraying Muslims in the most
sensationalistic, frightening way imaginable. Newsweek released their
popular “Muslim Rage” cover a year ago, which quickly became an internet
meme sensation with America Muslims mocking the ridiculousness of
it. While Burmese Muslims have been slaughtered by their Buddhist
neighbors, the Western media has managed to refrain from stereotyping
Buddhists as violent murderers, and rightly so. But “The Muslim Threat”
has sold in the West since the Crusades, and the media knows any
suggestion of “Creeping Shari`ah” or other similar Islamophobic
paranoia, will get them the ratings they are after.
For the past week, the Right Wing pundits were fuming over the claim
that a “Million Muslim March” was planned for the anniversary of 9/11
this September. But to walk into any mosque in the United States and ask
just about anyone if they had heard of this before last week and the
answer would have been “no” or more often, just a strange look.
***Read article at Political Blind Spot***
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