Thursday, July 19, 2007
Wow. What would we do without academic studies?
Most often Islam and related concepts and symbols are linked to terrorism and political violence abroad, the researchers say. During the period studied last February, there was little coverage of Islam as a religion and a culture.
Excuse the sarcasm, but these researchers have bananas for brains. Ever since the Iranian revolution which brought the Ayatollah Khomenie to power --especially the fatwa that was placed on the head of Salman Rushdie-- the world has been forced to deal with the phenomenon of radicalized, jihadist Islam.
OF COURSE Islam and its symbols are linked to terrorism, the only people who are currently involved in spreading an ideology --through terrorist acts-- around the world....are Muslims. I find it incredible that these Finnish researchers would be baffled over the connection...
Muslim political "activists" have had a tendency to make their own news on a regular basis for some time now. That kind of reporting tends to happen more often (and is quite a bit more important) than puff-pieces on food and culture.
Next thing you know, someone will be writing an entire book saying there's no liberal media bias.
Hmmm, I wonder how much coverage Judaism gets as a religion and culture in the Finnish press. I'm sure plenty. Not counting the Zionism-as-Racism coverage, that is.
Very little. Every few years Helsingin Sanomat (the biggest paper) has some article about Finnish Jews, just as they do about all other minorities. These article describing minorities are, of course, always positive.