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25-10-2004, 16:32
Perception vs. Reality of JIA
By ABID ULLAH JAN
American war lords and “intellectual” accomplices of the US-Israeli terrorism
complain that there is a “perception across Arab-Muslim world that the great
enemy of Islam is JIA – “Jews, Israel and America” (Friedman, New York Time, Oct
24, 2004)
In their view, “this wider trend has been fanned by Arab satellite TV stations,
which deliberately show split-screen images of Israelis bashing Palestinians and
U.S. forces bashing the Iraqi insurgents.”
This presentation of half truths needs fundamental corrections as follows.
1. What the Muslim world is facing is a reality, whereas what the media,
academia and political war lords in the US and most of the rest of the world are
creating is a perception to cover the reality.
2. There is no independent Arab media. To whatever extent the single station of
Al-Jazeera is against the countless other media outlets, it has been thrown out
by the puppet Iraqi regime and its broadcasts are conditionally allowed in
Canada. Eliminating Al-Jazeera of the images it shows is not the solution. It is
no use cursing the images and telecasters of the ongoing bloodbath. The solution
lies in holding the enemies of humanity accountable for the unprecedented level
of terror they unleash. Coverage of this terror leads to what accomplices of
concerned terrorists call a “perception” in the Muslim world.
3. Arabs and Muslims are not two different entities, as Friedman would attempt
to give a new twist to the prevailing perception. Arabs are Muslims too and
Muslims of all races are as concerned over what is happening in the Middle East
as Arabs. There is no place for racism in Islam. Friedman's separating Arabs
from rest of the Muslims speaks of a racist mentality. This separation by
Friedman is indicative of desperation to somehow show that other Muslims have no
connection whatsoever to whatever is happening in the Middle East.
To further clarify these points, we need to understand that .....
Read more at: http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/10794/
By ABID ULLAH JAN
American war lords and “intellectual” accomplices of the US-Israeli terrorism
complain that there is a “perception across Arab-Muslim world that the great
enemy of Islam is JIA – “Jews, Israel and America” (Friedman, New York Time, Oct
24, 2004)
In their view, “this wider trend has been fanned by Arab satellite TV stations,
which deliberately show split-screen images of Israelis bashing Palestinians and
U.S. forces bashing the Iraqi insurgents.”
This presentation of half truths needs fundamental corrections as follows.
1. What the Muslim world is facing is a reality, whereas what the media,
academia and political war lords in the US and most of the rest of the world are
creating is a perception to cover the reality.
2. There is no independent Arab media. To whatever extent the single station of
Al-Jazeera is against the countless other media outlets, it has been thrown out
by the puppet Iraqi regime and its broadcasts are conditionally allowed in
Canada. Eliminating Al-Jazeera of the images it shows is not the solution. It is
no use cursing the images and telecasters of the ongoing bloodbath. The solution
lies in holding the enemies of humanity accountable for the unprecedented level
of terror they unleash. Coverage of this terror leads to what accomplices of
concerned terrorists call a “perception” in the Muslim world.
3. Arabs and Muslims are not two different entities, as Friedman would attempt
to give a new twist to the prevailing perception. Arabs are Muslims too and
Muslims of all races are as concerned over what is happening in the Middle East
as Arabs. There is no place for racism in Islam. Friedman's separating Arabs
from rest of the Muslims speaks of a racist mentality. This separation by
Friedman is indicative of desperation to somehow show that other Muslims have no
connection whatsoever to whatever is happening in the Middle East.
To further clarify these points, we need to understand that .....
Read more at: http://world.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/10794/