Islam...the religion of peace?

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masterblaster72

***The fact that they pick up single cases and amplify them and make it look as if all Muslims are just like that.

I've not seen any news outlets do that; if they do such things I would immediately stop using them. Fox News might do this, but I don't watch that network as it has zero integrity.

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This is what i call distortion and manipulation of facts. When u repeat the same thing over and over again it forms a solid stereotype.

Reliable news outlets report facts. If certain newsworthy facts occur again and again, the news will report those facts. The news outlets I use don't make it a point to paint Muslims in a bad light.

News outlets will report violent acts. They will report on Boko Haram and recent bombings of Shiite mosques in SA. They will also report on mass graves in Mexico or biker gang shootouts in Texas.

What reliable news outlets won't do is refrain from reporting violent incidents for the sake of the facts being very inconvenient to followers of Islam.

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I don't agree with generalisation re UAE or Qatar, thousands of people from Asia support their families back home thanks to job opportunities in ME. Slavery is not a mundane thing there u know, just like in the case mentioned in the article about US modern day slavery.

I'll direct you to the Global Slavery Index 2014. Refer to rankings of prevalence by country on page 10, and where UAE and Qatar rank in relation to the US.

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Just out of curiosity are there other countries that you boycott? Israel? Russia? Mexico? Brazil?

There are a number of other countries in addition to UAE and Qatar I would not visit for various reasons.

Oddly enough, the Global Slavery Index shows 1100 persons in slavery in Switzerland. I don't get that, but I think it's because the Index seems to include such things as forced marriage, rather than simply the garden-variety, chained-to-the-oars stuff. Wonder where these numbers come from...?

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markharju

******The fact that they pick up single cases and amplify them and make it look as if all Muslims are just like that.

I've not seen any news outlets do that; if they do such things I would immediately stop using them. Fox News might do this, but I don't watch that network as it has zero integrity.

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This is what i call distortion and manipulation of facts. When u repeat the same thing over and over again it forms a solid stereotype.

Reliable news outlets report facts. If certain newsworthy facts occur again and again, the news will report those facts. The news outlets I use don't make it a point to paint Muslims in a bad light.

News outlets will report violent acts. They will report on Boko Haram and recent bombings of Shiite mosques in SA. They will also report on mass graves in Mexico or biker gang shootouts in Texas.

What reliable news outlets won't do is refrain from reporting violent incidents for the sake of the facts being very inconvenient to followers of Islam.

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I don't agree with generalisation re UAE or Qatar, thousands of people from Asia support their families back home thanks to job opportunities in ME. Slavery is not a mundane thing there u know, just like in the case mentioned in the article about US modern day slavery.

I'll direct you to the Global Slavery Index 2014. Refer to rankings of prevalence by country on page 10, and where UAE and Qatar rank in relation to the US.

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Just out of curiosity are there other countries that you boycott? Israel? Russia? Mexico? Brazil?

There are a number of other countries in addition to UAE and Qatar I would not visit for various reasons.

Oddly enough, the Global Slavery Index shows 1100 persons in slavery in Switzerland. I don't get that, but I think it's because the Index seems to include such things as forced marriage, rather than simply the garden-variety, chained-to-the-oars stuff. Wonder where these numbers come from...?

mh
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Decades ago you could have attributed it to state sponsored forced labor; these days, I'm not so sure. My guess would be desperate migrants coming north from Italy and getting caught up in some bad business.

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