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The Muslim World's Take on Terrorism |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / MEDIA IN REVIEW |
| Author: James Emery |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 2,360 Words, 15,477 Characters |
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Truth and history are whatever we choose to make them; facts are unimportant," said a terrorist sympathizer who has written for Muslim news publications and who was recently interviewed by The World & I. The statement overtly expresses the view taken by those of the world's Muslim journalists who embrace radical Islam, of whom there are many.
Immediately after the September 11 World Trade Center attack, publications in Muslim countries filled their pages with articles that blamed Israel for the assaults on New York and Washington and suggested that the strikes were the fruit of a plot to sully Islam and justify a Western blitz against the Muslim world. The U.S. government was accused of complicity in the attacks and of fabricating evidence, and journalists bent over backward to exculpa...
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...nalistic ethics regularly give way to emotional and political objectives that go beyond a slant to become overt bias, deliberate distortion, and selective omission. Meanwhile, many observers say, terrorist zealots continue to sacrifice the lives of countless Muslim youths for their own selfish objectives, content in the fact they'll be glorified as heroes in heaven--and in the Muslim press. vbcrlf
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