August 23, 2013

There Is No ‘Million Muslim March’ on 9/11 AND THERE NEVER WAS

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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