How far the "news worth" damaging the image of Islam?
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Interesting!!!!\n\nI have been going through various questions and answers about Islam.\n\nI have found that Muslims and non-Muslims have been emotional for projecting their sentiments. Non-Muslims being in majority appear more frequently.\n\nStrange that despite lapse of four days none of non-Muslim has appeared to reply a material question.\n\nThis is a good question.\n\nActually media (both print and electronic) are doing business. They have to earn money. The people in media are not supposed to act like scholars or judges, they have to produce material to get business.\n\nNon-Muslims are a good market so criticism on Islam is a good product. No matter it is true or false.\n\nThere had been much false about USSR, there had been much false about Germany and now it is false about Islam.\n\nNews-Worth is definitely damaging image of Islam.
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Do you really think your affecting anyones opinions on islam?
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it isnt that big of a deal ....... the news needs to get over it ................
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The way the media paints Islam out to be, would be the best answer.\n\nThis society is purposefully "dumbed down".  For the most part, we do not read.  So what ever emotional driven image we see on the 10 o'clock news, or whatever Hollywood feeds us, is what we take as truth to form our opinions.\n\nLM
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Unfortunately, western media is not against muslims.  They condone the muslim terrorists after they destroy things, burn people alive, and murder babies.  No, western governments cannot do legally do anything to the media, but the middle-eastern governments can do something about it.  They can crack down on the terrorists.  All the good muslims need to stop allowing these terrorists to do their acts of evil, and then there won't be any reason for us to dislike them.
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Absolutely - otherwise there wouldn't be any bad news in the world. Thats the whole point of the 'news'.\n\nNow if what they're saying is a lie, you can sue them for slander.
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I would LOVE to read this book. Funny, isn't it, how college profs whine about Republicans trying to stifle free speech - but the colleges do that all the time. SCARY. Brown University's Women's Studies program even pulled their funding for Gabriel to speak, knowing that she was going to speak out against the treatment of women under Shira law. The Muslim group on that campus (Brown) protested Gabriel speaking because she is "too controversial". Yeah, someone who has lived under radical Islam would definitely be "too controversial" - she might actually present another side to the story. Makes you sick, doesn't it?
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I get Islamic people preaching the Qur'an to me all the time. I have many faith groups trying to convert me. I know my beleifs and  Thats all that matters.\n\nI wouldn't care if I saw a billboard for Buddhism or any religion. You don't have to pay attention to the media if you don't want to.\n\nI'll bet they have many billboards about Buddhism in countries that are mainly Buddhist.
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i have never trusted the media.... \n\ni'm a religious studies major...\ni make it a point to only study religions from the perspective of the ppl who practice them. what can a hindu or a jew or a christian or a muslim teach me about buddhism that a buddhist who lives this everyday cant\n\n\n***also.... since converting to Islam i have noticed the same things you have. after watching Control Room, i understood why things are the way they are.\n\n*just my opinion\n\nasalamwalaikum
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OMG NO!!!! Mainstream media, be they normally associated as left or right, are a bunch of non informed idiots. \n\nLiars! They are ALL liars! :) They spin it just like the next politician. \n\nPeople please, do not rely on one news source. There are three sides to every story; you side, my side and the truth. \n\nthe moral is, read as much as you can about any given situation from different sources, and draw your own conclusion.\n\n**Believe 1% of what your mother tells you and nothing anyone else tells you.
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its not news.\nit is entertainment.\nit is easier to convince people of your side when you limit debate, information and interpret the world to fit a particular world view. \non the left but especially on the right are guilty.\n\nThats why you hear something and you check out the facts. in the end you are not a silent partner but should be a active member in debate and discourse. like yahoo answers...even.
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This is yet another stupid action by someone in the public eye that throws Islam into ridicule. Fanatics of this standard are the worst enemies that the Muslim faith can have.
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This is one way of propogating Islam. If these people dont write bad things about  Islam, muslims, prophet MUHAMMAD (pbuh), no one  bother to read about islam, Insha Allah it will be better in the long run. If we go back in the beginning day's history of islam. we can see 'Quraish Makkah' used to tell people that there is big magician, take care. Learned and educated people used to more curious and fond of seeing and meeting that magician, which was an indirect way of propogation.
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Between the lines, most of the news is just a bunch of homogenized crap.  I lived in New Zealand for 4 years and\ngot a glimpse at just how slanted the US News reports tend \nto be.  National Public radio and BBS are fairly good news sources and PBS is also quite good- like the news hour.  Switch on Fox News and watch me boil into a murderous rage- talk about brainwashing B.S.!
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I am not going to answer about the 9 year old wife of the prophet Mohamed because I know nothing about it. Instead I would like to direct my opinion to AIRASAE. \n\nAirasae, this is an open public discussion and anything can be expected out of it except lewd and foul contents. Nobody is trashing or crushing anybody. If one man's truth can not be your truth just give them logical answers instead of paranoia. If some disturbing questions would rise up against Islam, every muslim would say that Islam is being crushed. Have you ever noticed the countless time Christianity have been crushed with words, thoughts and bombs. But what comes into our minds would often seek the answers to a belief different from ours. \n\nThey say Islam is a religion of peace, but look around you. Bombs here, bombs there and bombs everywhere not even the third world was spared. If western cable companies report what transpires in the muslim world, you say that they do biased reporting. Do you think respectable, world class cable TV stations stay a long time if the world will know that they are trying to do false reporting? They will be out of business in no time. \n\nIf Islam is really a religion of peace truth will surely come out and no one can ever stop it. So, why so worried, be paranoid and overprotective when you can't do anything about it because people have eyes to see, ears to hear and brains to analyze and finally decide. \n\nIf I were a muslim, the first thing I would do is to really try to understand why innocent people including women and children are being targeted. This is not Jihad, this is a crime against humanity. Just imagine the whole muslim world went crazy over a cartoon made by one dumb christian and yet nobody gets crazy over what suicide bombers are doing. How Ironic can it be?   \n\nIf christians would bomb public places with no exactly logical target but innocent people, I would voice out a loud cry to go against those who perpetrates such crime because it simply is not acceptable. I will protest against my fellow christian suicide bombers until my people will get the message and join the protest because to me they are not freedom fighters but mere criminals. Do you see why we don't have such martyrs? It is because to us they will never be martyrs nor freedom fighters nor jihad fighters because to the Christian world, it will always be a heinous crime if they will kill muslims that way and every christian soul knows that.\n\n\nTO BEYOND EVENT\n\nShould I believe because you said so? Read between the lines. If ever it really happened because you said so, then you have first hand knowledge not me. If you are a muslim, educate me for being so naive. Collateral damage was coined in the 20th century and made popular by Mr. Schwartzenegger and it was a nice movie. I just wonder what they call it during Napoleon's time.
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Muslims have a rule that bans painting any picture of Islam holy men and a caricature of Islam prophet surely brings anger to Muslims so the question is why a danish newspaper has published such a debatable thing.\nI think at the moment we need peace not fights.
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yeah, I think the first link Muslim gave you has many, you can look the newspaper pictures under such catogory.  and there is no problem in reading about Islam. except I disagree with Muslim that Muhammed was great. he wasn't in my point of view..