Muslims are not terrorists: The Hypocrisy of Media

After the incident of  9/11, the word "terrorist" has been associated mostly with Muslims and in non-Muslim countries they and their religious beliefs are views with suspicious and taken as of extreme or fundamental in nature.

In the modern world, where media plays significant role in daily life affairs and has the special capability of building or altering perception of a large group of their audience by the way of presenting the facts and figure regarding a certain issue and influence the thinking of an individual because usually people think what they see or listen. 

Sadly, when it comes to Muslims or their religion Islam, the media ,especially Western media, choose to present the facts and figures about Muslim and their region in such ambiguous manner that it depicts the Muslims and their religion Islam as fundamentalist and extreme in nature. 

Thus, creating a kind of hatred or ignite a sense of fear among their audience for the Muslims as they might do some kind of terrorist activity against non-Muslims or their religious beliefs prompt them to indulge any such violent activity.

There are different definitions of terrorism and different political scholars defines it according to their own words and thinking. But in general the terrorism can be defined as: 

The unlawful use of force or any violent act against persons or property to intimidate or coerce the Government, or the civilian population to achieve any political,religious or social objective.

So, according to this definition of terrorism, it can be rightly said that anyone who indulge any such act that falls within the limits of this definition could be termed as "terrorist". But not really, as it seems that apparently modern world media is only interested in bestowing this term "terrorist" to those offenders, who are either Muslim or at least possess a Muslim name.   

When a white psychopath enters a school or any other place with a gun and then shoots people there without any discrimination, you would never hear about him being called "Terrorist" by Media outlets, unless that person turns out to be a Muslim by faith or have any association with any Muslim organisation. 

Here, they have got a clear point to why not call any such non-Muslim White as "terrorist" because according the definition of terrorism such psychopaths have no political,social or religious purpose behind their gruesome act against humanity.

In USA,Mexico, or any other South American country where sometimes Mafia gang wars indulge in open battles either with rival gangs or with law enforcement agencies, which results in several deaths. In this case they have a clear political and social objective behind their violent action that is challenging the writ of state and assert their own dominance in that particular region or area.

 

Yet the world media remains reluctant to label such gangs or groups as terrorist group or gang and prefer to call them mafia or cartel.

The only difference between these non-Muslim mafias/cartels and Muslim terrorists group is their religion. So, it can be easily assume that hypocrite world media has already established a standard that term "Terrorist" is only reserved for the Muslims and to earn this title one should be the adherent of Islam. 

Muslims have to make it clear loud and clear that they are not terrorists and their religion,Islam, does not permit terrorism or any crime against humanity. A criminal is a criminal and his religion has nothing to do with his actions that go against humanity. So, it would be wrong to blame the religion of a criminal for his any wrongdoing or any human right violation.