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Since I get so many people coming to this thread (even if they say they don't care ), I've decided to post something to challenge your political views. The username 'The Truth' posted earlier about racism in the media.
All of the following was posted by "The Truth":
Racism in the media
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I accept that my views in a previous thread about Mel Gibson have crossed the line and are getting too political, so I've decided not to contribute any more. But I do want to make a point about racist and biased media and demonstrate something.
Here is an article from ABC news about the threat of terrorism in Britain. What offends me about this is how they try to paint Muslims and terrorists and extremists as the same thing.
Suggesting that Muslims are terrorists is like saying that because a handful of Christian priests have been convicted for paedophillia, then all Christians must be paedophiles.
Let me demonstrate something by rewriting the article I posted above........
All I am saying is that you should be more alert when listening and reading the news and don't let yourself get brainwashed by this kind of media propoganda.
All of the following was posted by "The Truth":
Racism in the media
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I accept that my views in a previous thread about Mel Gibson have crossed the line and are getting too political, so I've decided not to contribute any more. But I do want to make a point about racist and biased media and demonstrate something.
Here is an article from ABC news about the threat of terrorism in Britain. What offends me about this is how they try to paint Muslims and terrorists and extremists as the same thing.
L O N D O N, Dec. 28 — A suicide bombing that killed three Israelis in Tel Aviv last spring. The brutal murder of an American journalist in Pakistan last year. And the notorious attempted "shoe bombing" on a flight from Paris to Miami two months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
‘Targeting the U.K.’
Since 9/11, many British Muslims have exported their extremism.
One week after the Istanbul bombings, British police arrested a Muslim man in Gloucester, U.K., and charged him under antiterror laws with conspiring with Reid.
That same day, authorities searched a Muslim school in northern England, and made more arrests in other British locales including Manchester, Cambridge and London.
But in many ways, preventing a terror attack in Britain will be much more difficult than it is in the United States. The difference begins with the make-up of the respective populations. There are between 1.6 million and 2 million Muslims in Britain — roughly the same as the United States, which has almost five times as many people.
Over the years, Britain has taken in all kinds of radical exiles, including famous names like Marx and Lenin. More recently, Saudis, Algerians and other Muslims have taken refuge there.
The British believed exiles provided useful intelligence and had grievances with their own countries, but not with Britain. But that was before 9/11 and the Iraq war. Since then, the presence of Muslim exiles in Britain has taken on a different meaning.
Suggesting that Muslims are terrorists is like saying that because a handful of Christian priests have been convicted for paedophillia, then all Christians must be paedophiles.
Let me demonstrate something by rewriting the article I posted above........
It's the same article, but has substituted terrorist for paedophile and Muslim for Christian. See how outrageous and offensive it is?Since 9/11, many British Christians have exported their paedophilic tendencies.
One week after the Gary Glitter case, British police arrested a Christian man in Gloucester, U.K., and charged him as a paedophile.
That same day, authorities investigated Christian school teachers in northern England, and made more arrests in other British locales including Manchester, Cambridge and London.
But in many ways, preventing paedophillia in Britain will be much more difficult than it is in the United States. The difference begins with the make-up of the respective populations. There are between 1.6 million and 2 million Christians in Britain — roughly the same as the United States, which has almost five times as many people.
Over the years, Britain has taken in all kinds of paedophiles and rapists, including famous names like Gary Glitter and Jonathan King. More recently, Americans, Spanish and other Christians have taken refuge there.
The British believed sexual offenders provided useful intelligence and had grievances with their own kind, but that was before previous child abuse incidents. Since then, the presence of Christians in Britain has taken on a different meaning.
All I am saying is that you should be more alert when listening and reading the news and don't let yourself get brainwashed by this kind of media propoganda.