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...scoop is war, bombs and vengeance. The media has spun its cycle of terror and news services are racing to find people to blame. Lists of the dead and missing have appeared in smaller and smaller fonts in newspapers, and TV stations have ceased showing the planes flying into the World Trade Center...
Since the beginning of the recent violence in 2000, many voices in the Arab world have criticized the U.S. for taking Israel’s side in laying blame for the breakdown of the Camp David peace talks. Since taking office, Bush has distanced himself from the conflict, in sharp contrast to the hands-on attitude of the Clinton administration...
...Whos to blame for this schism? Yassine pointed to the media as the culprit for this blindness toward the shared values and sympathies that Muslim and Arabs share with their neighbors, both domestic and international. There are a lot of people misiniformed in this country, Yassine says. The media broadcasts Palestinians celebrating on TV but never shows the Palestinian vigils...
...Most panelists agreed that, again, the media is in part to blame for a prejudiced view of Islam. Laila said she found the rhetoric spewed from CNN and Fox reporters to be very scary. She also noted that a C-SPAN reporter randomly accosted a man who appeared to be Muslim in order to question his patriotism. The idea behind the question, Laila said, is that it follows that if you dont respond, you support what happened...
...light. So much is clear. Beyond that we must be careful not to use too broad a brush to accuse persons simply on the basis of mere suspicions. It is natural at a time of disaster to look for culprits, but all persons wearing turbans are not to blame. The New York Times reported that a poor Sikh was arrested on an Amtrak train on Friday. He was even discovered to be hiding a daggeractually a symbolic weaponin his shirt. A woman wearing a sari was nearly run down by a man outraged that he had been stopped...