In response to a previous question of mine, someone mentioned the Tamil terrorists from Sri Lanka (Hindus). There are also the IRA terrorists in Ireland (christian, but not active for a few years now), There's the seperatists in Spain who are still quite active (politically motivated), The Sarin gas attack in Japan (1995 cult group). The list goes on. Oklahoma bombing (political) There's no doubt that 9/11 was the most atrocious act of terror in history. Fundamentalist Islam probably IS one of the scariest issues facing the planet right now, but they don't have a copyright on terrorism. Shouldn't the media present terrorism as being a disease not bound to one culture, but something that must be stamped out from ALL cultures, including our own?
2007-04-17 02:58:08 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
to be honest, the media distorts almost every topic... they pick one side of something and 'report it to death' stuck in the mode of sensationalizing everything they report so they can bring in viewers or sell papers....
2007-04-17 03:21:32 · answer #1 · answered by livinintheword † 6 · 8⤊ 0⤋
Yes
But we have to face some realities. The Pope was not in favor of the IRA actions, neither was the Archibishop of Canterbury, Billy Graham, Robert Schuller, I don't even think Pat Robetson and Jerry Fawell felt that was a good thing to do.
Where are all the Islamic Clerics telling the world and Islamics that terrorism is NOT the way of ISLAM.
All it takes a whole bunch of them saying they will not be with Allah if they do those things and it will lower in intensity.
Gandhi was Pacificst. He was like Martin Luther King.
2007-04-17 03:10:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am sure that this government doesn't define terrorism by religion. Remember the SLA? Patty Hearst? They were politically based and were taken down in a blaze. It is just that Islamic terrorist have been in the news.
2007-04-17 13:40:14 · answer #3 · answered by jb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not just the media. The president is trying to sell his war on terror. He'll sell the american public on whomever he feels the enemy du jour is (meanwhile our bullying ways are making more enemies by the day). The media just hypes up and follows suit.
2007-04-17 03:03:44 · answer #4 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Lucky Fokker –
Are you sure? South America is sitting on a lot of chocolate and coffee. Oil is one thing, but coffee is serious business. And, having a war in our own hemisphere would work better for live TV coverage because the time difference would less.
2007-04-17 03:09:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The issue I have w/ the media is that there is so much bias & opinion being "reported" as "news". I don't watch the news much any more because I get so tired of the taliking heads wasting time w/ their opinions instead of giving us the news as it happened minus the spin.
2007-04-17 03:14:09 · answer #6 · answered by wanda3s48 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't have faith women human beings who get an abortion pass to hell. I do have faith that existence starts off the 2nd of theory (i've got faith existence is commencing up with the tiny spark of radiation that happens while an egg is fertilized), and that one and all existence is sacred. i'm very professional-existence because of this, and in a suitable international, women human beings might have intercourse while they're waiting to be professional-imaginitive, and all toddlers may well be stored. even nevertheless, it is not a suitable international, and that i think of abortion might desire to be criminal for females human beings who might in any different case die (i for my area might supply delivery, yet i will no longer be able to ask all women human beings to do a similar), and to easily ward off back alleyway abortions. yet abortion isn't a ability of birth control!
2016-12-29 04:05:45 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can spin it anyway you want. The root of terrorism, except for Ireland, is indeed religion. Any religion that claims to be the only way to God is dangerous and false.
2007-04-17 03:22:40 · answer #8 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Of course it should. No one group has the monopoly on terrorism (unless you want to count the US in general). We need to be promoting non-violent means of resolving disputes, not just showing how one group did it wrong. We need to teach our kids that violence is NOT the answer, at home, internationally, or on the playground. Religion and culture have nothing to do with that.
2007-04-17 03:05:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
VTech was the College's 9/11.
Now the South Koreans (and everyone else looking like them) will be profiled.
And all thanks to the media.
2007-04-17 03:08:47 · answer #10 · answered by Malcolm Knoxville V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋