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The

Media

at Fault

T he media plays a vital role in shaping our perception of events and

reality, yet, despite the advance of global media platforms, the media
still does not reflect in certain instances a clear vision of events.
It is difficult to find a media outlet that is genuinely able to spread
truth and show the actual reality behind the headlines.
If we look at some of the reports that have been published by a number of
governmental agencies and centres of global research, we will find many facts
of reality that are contrary to the popular image of reality as presented by certain
media outlets. There are nearly twenty million Muslims living in the European
Union, with the largest proportion (8%) in France, followed by Germany with
6.5%. A law enforcement agency of the European Union, Europol, published a
report in 2013 on terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims and non-Muslims. The
report found that 2% of recorded terrorist attacks that were driven by racial or
religious motives were carried out by Muslims, whilst an overwhelming 98% of
attacks were carried out by non-Muslims. The deadliest incident recorded was
in Norway in 2011, when a Norwegian man killed more than 77 people, mostly
children, in the name of stopping Muslim immigration to Europe.
Also, in the United States, a study issued by the University of South Carolina in
2014 found that 37 US citizens had been killed by Muslims in the period from the
September 11th attacks in 2001 until 2014, while more than 190,000 Americans
had been killed in the same period of time by non-Muslims.
On this matter, the magazine The Daily Beast conducted an investigation under
the title ‘Are all Muslims Terrorists?’, and referred in the investigation to the fault
of the media in creating a distorted negative perception of Muslims, saying about
the readers that ‘it is not your fault that you did not learn the percentage of those
who were killed at the hands of non-Muslims; it is the media’s fault’.
Therefore, it is important for us to endeavour in creating media outlets that reflect
the true nature of circumstances unfolding around us in our communities, nations,
and international situations.

Editor-in-Chief

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