The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5
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Tiglath
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- Tuesday, March 10 2009, 1:37:02 (CET) from 202.168.50.40 - 40.50.168.202.static.comindico.com.au  Australia -  Windows XP -  Internet ExplorerWebsite: Website title: |
There is much too little proper analysis of Australian media's reporting on the middle east conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and on Islam so it's very good to read David Chibo's piece. I studied communications at a Sydney university in the late 1980s and undertook a comparison of European (mainly Nazi German) media coverage of Jewish issues in the 1930 with Australian media coverage of Palestinian and Islamic issues in the 1980s. The results were frightening; the one-dimensional, racist portrayal of Jews in the 1930s was almost identical to the contemporary Australia media's portrayal of Muslims even down to shared caricatures of huge-nosed, money-grubbing evil looking menaces in the 30s German media and the 80s Australian media. I am heartedly sick of the fact that Muslims and Arabs specifically appear to be fair game in a way that no other ethnic group in Australia is. The sort of blanket racist remarks that can be made in respectable company against Arabs/Muslims would not be tolerated if the word African or Jew or Asian replaced Arab/Muslim. If we want to encourage a modern, pluralistic Islam to flourish in Australia the last thing we should be doing is denigrating Islam and Arabs. You wanna encourage sympathy with the Islamist cause from young Australian Muslims/Arabs then continue to marginalise these young Muslims and Arabs by spewing your hate-filled lies about Islam and make no effort to distinguish between ordinary Muslims and the extreme radicals of the Islamist movement. Well done David and keep up the good work. For more comments click here: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=8621&page=0 --------------------- |
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