| The Hypocritical UK Media Ignores Terrorist Acts |
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It is fine to expose and demonise criminals as they are meant to be exposed and demonised but it’s purely hypocritical and outrageous when Christians, Catholics, Jews, Atheists, etc do not get the same media attention and are not exposed and demonised in the same way when they commit the SAME crimes. Forget that… they don’t even get media attention when they commit WORSE crimes than Muslims!    Readers have left 18 comments.
Thersites:
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All of these reports come from British papers, which shows you're wrong in saying they were ignored. In no case is there any reason to think the perpetrators or alleged perpetrators is christians; what is your evidence for your claims?
In this instance "White Racist walks free after religious terror attack on Muslim center", does that mean you think all alleged religious terrorist attacks are racist, or only those against muslims? If so, why?
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2008-11-17 20:10:48
Colin the Athiest:
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There is a difference between violence and religious inspired violence. The examples that have been given are criminal and have been treated as such. They have been reported as such. All examples are disgusting. To say they are religious is not true.
However, every terrorist act (Glasgow, London, Exeter) recently in UK were from Muslims claiming scripture as their inspiration. So I do think trying to link the two is wrong.
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2008-11-17 21:00:58
MAQ:
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There is a difference between violence and religious inspired violence. The examples that have been given are criminal and have been treated as such. They have been reported as such. All examples are disgusting. To say they are religious is not true. — Colin the AthiestHowever, every terrorist act (Glasgow, London, Exeter) recently in UK were from Muslims claiming scripture as their inspiration. So I do think trying to link the two is wrong. Forget for a moment that the real reason for those attrocities was a backlash against British and American foreign policy. Instead, please answer how is terrorism any different from so called "religiously inspired" terrorism?
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2008-11-17 21:32:40
Ghalib.:
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Colin, the Zionist! Yes you are!
Stop trying to deceive and mislead. All of the Muslims that have been attacked in the examples, have been attacked, due to them being just that, Muslims, No other reason BUT hatred for Muslims and Islam! ISLAMOPHOBIA!
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2008-11-17 21:58:07
Bernie:
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But this isn't a list of terrorist acts!!!!
Extremist Christian commits religious attack on Muslim Imam - vile attack but NOT terrorism Obama to employ chief of staff with terrorist links? - but Rahm Emanuel is not a terrorist and has never carried-out a terrorist attack! Christian terrorists in racist plot to murder 88 black students and Obama for white supremacy! - Nowhere in the BBC report you linked to does it state that the USA police have arrested these people on terrorism charges. Yes, it was intended mass murder but so was Columbine. Christian Terrorist found with explosive devices - the ONLY case here where Terrorism is involved since the charges are under the Terrorism Act. White Racist walks free after religious terror attack on Muslim center - Vile arson attack but where is this person called a terrorist? Sorry but I find your list to be unrepresentative of the point you are trying to make.
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2008-11-17 22:04:15
Bernie:
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I would add that with the exception of ONE item these incidents were all mentioned on the BBC website. How is that NOT UK Media?
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2008-11-17 22:05:34
shan:
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Colin the zionist hiding behind the atheist label, the people who have carried out terror attacks labelled as muslim or islamic terrorists have never attacked using religion as their motivation to do so.
they have used violence as a political tool to stop the murder and occupation of nations. They see democracies bombing and murdering for econiomic and political gain and feel they can use the same methods for their purposes,which i feel are misguided. since muslims are our favourite whipping boys at the moment we cannot use the brainwashing techniques used to villify muslims on christian terrorists. we cannot repeat the same thing for days and days,coming up with every conceivable scenario when christians are involved as this is reserved for muslims.
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2008-11-18 10:19:04
m:
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so were these people practising christians?? Or did they just happen to have a christian background??
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2008-11-18 11:01:11
you got it Bernie:
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But this isn't a list of terrorist acts!!!! — BernieExtremist Christian commits religious attack on Muslim Imam - vile attack but NOT terrorism Obama to employ chief of staff with terrorist links? - but Rahm Emanuel is not a terrorist and has never carried-out a terrorist attack! Christian terrorists in racist plot to murder 88 black students and Obama for white supremacy! - Nowhere in the BBC report you linked to does it state that the USA police have arrested these people on terrorism charges. Yes, it was intended mass murder but so was Columbine. Christian Terrorist found with explosive devices - the ONLY case here where Terrorism is involved since the charges are under the Terrorism Act. White Racist walks free after religious terror attack on Muslim center - Vile arson attack but where is this person called a terrorist? Sorry but I find your list to be unrepresentative of the point you are trying to make. Exctly the point the article is trying to make. These are the kinds of sleazy headlines that are given to Muslims who commit the same crimes as the non muslims mentioned in the articles so why do muslims receive one type of headline and non muslims dont.....this is the hypocrisy of the media today. Imagine if it was Muslims who were in a plot to kill obama....r u trying to tell me that the media would give it the same coverage that it gave the 2 non muslims in the plot to kill obama! No it wouldnt....they would hype it out of all bounds!
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2008-11-18 13:54:37
@Thersites:
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All of these reports come from British papers, which shows you're wrong in saying they were ignored. In no case is there any reason to think the perpetrators or alleged perpetrators is christians; what is your evidence for your claims? — ThersitesIn this instance "White Racist walks free after religious terror attack on Muslim center", does that mean you think all alleged religious terrorist attacks are racist, or only those against muslims? If so, why? The article is saying that these reports were not given the same media attention as they would have been given if committed by Muslims. Look how offended you are because the headlines have 'christian' and 'terrorism' and 'racist religious crime' linked together. Well imagine how offended Muslims get when they receive these types of headlines for similar offences. The media is hypocritical to make a distinction between the way they report muslim and non muslim crime. If the headline had been 'Muslim racist walks free after religious terror attack on Christian center' would you have thought twice about it? No you would have just accepted it and moved on. The religion of these criminals is not even mentioned in the articles whereas when a muslim commits these crimes everyone knows his/her religion.....thats the hypocrisy we are facing.
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2008-11-18 14:09:54
Bernie:
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"The religion of these criminals is not even mentioned in the articles whereas when a muslim commits these crimes everyone knows his/her religion.....thats the hypocrisy we are facing. "
The answer is VERY easy. Because the Western Press and Media is presumed to be dominantly White and Christian. Anyone mentioned is deemed to be white and christian unless otherwise stated. The point still remains that these are predominantly NOT terrorist attacks and so they aren't great news. Throughout history when there have been terrorist attacks from a section of teh community then whenever an attack takes place that might be under that label then we use the label. In IRA days it was "Irish" in these times it is "Muslim". It is a fact that of all the convictions for terrorism offences since Sep 11 2001, at least 95% have been Muslims. Look it up in the Home Office records and Hansard. The number is around 180 convictions from memory
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2008-11-18 17:52:33
Colin the Athiest:
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There is a difference between violence and religious inspired violence. The examples that have been given are criminal and have been treated as such. They have been reported as such. All examples are disgusting. To say they are religious is not true. — MAQHowever, every terrorist act (Glasgow, London, Exeter) recently in UK were from Muslims claiming scripture as their inspiration. So I do think trying to link the two is wrong. Forget for a moment that the real reason for those attrocities was a backlash against British and American foreign policy. Instead, please answer how is terrorism any different from so called "religiously inspired" terrorism? If someone murders or tries to murder, and they are Muslim, they tend to leave jihadist suicide videos and links can be traced back to known terrorist organisations. Therefore they can be safely labelled Muslim terrorists. Having said that, it is obvious that not all Muslims are advocates of this type of violence. But the perpetrators are clearly religiously and politically inspired in such a way as to label them terrorists. The cases mentioned in the article citing 'white and or christian' acts of violence are not from people who belong to known terrorist organisations and as far as I can tell are not religiously inspired. They are just racist, evil people. And just to prove white people can be terrorists, there is the guy in Exeter, who is white, but converted to Islam and decided it was a good idea to try and blow up people in a restaurant because of the idealogy that was in his head. I do understand Muslims getting upset with the 'terrorist' label, and believe me, everyone I know does not think Muslims are terrorists. But it is no good trying to pretend Muslim extremism and terrorism does not exist, it does, and needs to be tackled. Reporting it is just one way of doing so.
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2008-11-18 21:22:03
Islamophobe:
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what verses of the bible do they point to to justify their acts?
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2008-11-19 12:31:23
shan:
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colin the zionist when christian and jewish terrorists murder there is usually a chaplain or rabbi around to bless them and tell them they are right in what they do.
so not all terrorists are christians or jews but they are certainly blessed by their religious authorites in what they do. so to try and hide this like your own allegiance is deceitful.
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2008-11-19 13:11:49
Colin the Athiest:
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colin the zionist when christian and jewish terrorists murder there is usually a chaplain or rabbi around to bless them and tell them they are right in what they do. — shanso not all terrorists are christians or jews but they are certainly blessed by their religious authorites in what they do. so to try and hide this like your own allegiance is deceitful. You make no sense whatsoever. All the examples cited in the article did not have any religious person involved. None were blessed by religious people. What do you know that I don't?
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2008-11-19 16:56:20
shan:
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of course it makes no sense just like calling yourself a atheist defending those who kill muslims yet even a hint of criminality where the persons happens to be a muslim sends you on a tantrum.
the matter of fact is all recent terror attacks have been political and not religious, no occupation no violence. as for terrorists being blessed watch the news reports and you will find chaplains and rabbis blessing terrorists.
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2008-11-19 17:14:13
slickafoe:
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Can someone kindly explain why we have the descendents of the thirteenth tribe of Israel on this website making comments that they simply do not have the right to do so!?!
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2008-11-22 01:28:13
slickafoe:
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Colin the Athiest: Quote
There is a difference between violence and religious inspired violence. The examples that have been given are criminal and have been treated as such. They have been reported as such. All examples are disgusting. To say they are religious is not true. However, every terrorist act (Glasgow, London, Exeter) recently in UK were from Muslims claiming scripture as their inspiration. So I do think trying to link the two is wrong. COLIN you naughty boy! trust you to sneak through the back door,now you know that is no way to behave..TUT TUT!!AND BERNIE! AHHHH FORGET IT....SHUKS
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2008-11-22 01:31:08
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It is disgusting how the media portrays crime and terrorism committed by so called Muslims by giving them front page space and juicy headlines as compared to non Muslim terrorism.
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