Wednesday, October 17, 2007
MEDIA DIDN'T CRASH PLANES
The ABC’s Sally Neighbour breaks ranks:
I have to say I tire of people complaining that the media makes Muslims look bad, makes all Muslims look like terrorists. It may sound trite to say this, but the media didn’t crash those planes or bomb those nightclubs. Militant Islamists did it, and they did it invoking the name of Islam. The media doesn’t make Muslims look bad. Terrorists who kill civilians while shouting “Allah Akhbar” make Muslims look bad.
Obvious, yet refreshing to hear from someone within that organisation. Maybe the whole place is finally getting the picture; can’t wait to see how they’ll celebrate Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. More from Sally:
When I was a young radio journalist in Melbourne in the 1980s, we were constantly reporting horrible attacks carried out with meat cleavers by members of Vietnamese criminal gangs. “Choppings”, we used to call them. At the time we were forbidden from saying the “choppers” were “Vietnamese”, supposedly because it was racist. In fact, it was just political correctness. Thankfully those days are gone. Let’s not return to them.
Tell it to the Sydney Morning Herald.