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Some Arab journalists can tell the truth (and other comments)

Reader comment on item: Is the Solution to Hire More Muslim Journalists?

Submitted by Rachel Garber (United States), Mar 9, 2008 at 20:38

I want to make two comments about this article. The first is to relate the story that Khaled Abu Toameh gave to Bryan Schwartzman of the Jewish Exponent. Is article can be found in the Feb. 28 issue of the Exponent, so I won't quote the whole article, however he told Schwartzman that "his willingness to criticize leaders and Palestinian society has not made him a very popular figure among Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza. Many of the colleagues have been shot, many of my colleagues have been killed, have been imprisoned. But 'if they kill me,' he said 'I'd rather die as someone who told the truth than as a hypocrite'"

The other point that I'd like to make is that there are many Buddhists living in this country, many of whom I would venture to guess who are followers of the Dalai Lama. Now I don't know diddley squat, about Buddhism, nor I suspect, do many people in this country understand Buddhism. They go about their business, worshiping in their temples, following their beliefs, and I don't know of any of them clamoring for more Buddhist journalists on the nations newspapers. I haven't heard demands of fair representation so Americans will understand their religion, why they should have their spiritual homeland back from China.

Incidentally, Tibet, unlike "Palestine", was a sovereign nation. In 1947, the 22 Arab nations who voted on the partition plan, the plan that would have created a Palestinian state was vetoed by them.

Over the years, many religions have come under fire for various "problems" created by some within their community. Most notably, the scandal a few years ago involving sexual assaults on minors by Catholic priests, here and abroad. Although there was a great hew and cry from the Catholic hierarchy about the attention given by the press, I heard no calls for more Catholic journalists, there was no outrage, no one bombed the newspaper offices, no one tried to bomb the American embassy in Rome. No one attacked innocent non-Catholic civilians in various countries around the world, or took non-Catholic soldiers as hostages.

All this whining for understanding by the Muslim world is just an excuse. An excuse to make their religion seem to be so put upon, to demand that non-Muslims not eat in front of them during Ramadan, that their terroristic acts be called "criminal murderers" (as if there any other kind of murderer) in England. To refuse to pick up blind passengers with seeing eye dogs (if dogs so offend you, find another job) to refuse to pick up passengers carrying alcohol (are they holding a gun to your head and demanding you drink it?), and to be able to enforce shar'ia laws in non-Muslim countries.

Muslims, Buddhists, Shintoists (the religion of Japan) Methodists, Jews, Mormons, should all be free to live wherever they please. But to expect, nay demand, that things should be changed to accommodate their beliefs, they really should live in Muslim countries, where they can practice their religion without having to come in contact with the rest of the world.

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CNN drops producer Idris Mukhtar Ibrahim over Hamas praise, '#TeamHitler' post - Another Islamofascist "journalist" [866 words]AnnaNov 20, 2022 10:29288851
Firing of an employee also shows your hiring incompetence. [23 words]PrashantNov 20, 2022 12:21288851
Washington Post's naivete is hurting [229 words]PrashantAug 3, 2011 02:08187976
Hiring more Muslim reporters? [507 words]vigilant1Dec 12, 2008 20:49145004
there should be more muslim journalists [216 words]maria porto carlosJul 29, 2011 11:01145004
The "Solution" is to pressure the MSM to allow ONE ISRAELI JOURNALIST to do a report on the Middle East [196 words]DrRJPMar 20, 2008 15:41123112
1Enough Muslim appeasement !! [126 words]Nafata BamagujeMar 16, 2008 14:15122813
Even if Bennet COULD get Muslim journalists... [213 words]RobertMar 11, 2008 17:17122411
sadly, a common phenomenon [151 words]Al KreplerMar 11, 2008 09:43122385
muslim journalists [130 words]zari namdarMar 10, 2008 19:19122309
1Is CNN International Really - ANN or the Arab News Network ?? [154 words]LindaMar 11, 2008 09:14122309
CNN Int'l and BBC are de facto controlled by The House of Sod & FOX, well, I have some bad news .. [437 words]James BurkeMar 12, 2008 07:18122309
Iranian TV based in Washington DC [261 words]zari namdarMar 14, 2008 04:15122309
Mrs's Zari Namdar's comment is only 50% right! [172 words]lili azariApr 19, 2008 13:46122309
it is time to expose phony Iranian TV stations! [200 words]zari namdarApr 24, 2008 06:57122309
Ms. Zari Namdar gets it! [150 words]Lili AzariApr 25, 2008 09:53122309
Muslim Journalists are biased [134 words]TIRDAD GHARIBApr 25, 2008 13:28122309
IRAN MUST BE SAVED FROM THE TERRORIST MOLLAHS TORTURING OUR CHILDREN IN IRAN [220 words]TIRDAD GHARIBApr 25, 2008 18:23122309
I am a real American Zionist who speaks Farssi {iranian }very well! [376 words]zari namdarApr 26, 2008 03:23122309
Ms. Zari, please keep cool and read ! [205 words]lili azariApr 28, 2008 10:12122309
HOMELAND SECURITY TO WATCH VERY CLOSELY ON IRANIANS AND OTHERS [147 words]TIRDAD GHARIBMay 28, 2008 16:04122309
TO IRANS TERRRORIST REGIME AND STATE AND THOSE IRANNIAN AMERICAN SUPPORTING THE ISLAMIC OF IRAN DO NOT MESS WITH AMERICA AND ISRAEL. [272 words]TIRDAD GHARIBMay 29, 2008 17:06122309
Zari Namdar or Bi-nam? [55 words]Patriot Iranian-AmericanMay 3, 2009 11:11122309
What's Needed Besides the Phenomenon of Suicide Bombing? [271 words]Ron ThompsonMar 10, 2008 18:02122300
Bennett's Logic, or Why Spock Puked [78 words]Azamin IppishMar 10, 2008 10:25122270
Sometimes words (and their translations) do NOT matter. [107 words]GodotMar 10, 2008 09:44122267
Chasing dark shadows [354 words]Ghulam Muhammed, MumbaiMar 10, 2008 01:04122235
Hire more Moslems at News papers? [163 words]M.D. AnthonyMar 10, 2008 00:03122224
Liberals and Radicals as Bedfellows [267 words]Barry KumarMar 9, 2008 22:56122215
yes they are foolish [55 words]dfwhite19438Mar 11, 2008 02:31122215
Not just foolish - braindead!!! [85 words]JaladhiMar 12, 2008 14:04122215
Some Arab journalists can tell the truth (and other comments) [518 words]Rachel GarberMar 9, 2008 20:38122206
The great knowledge of mr Bennet... [41 words]Francesco MangasciàMar 9, 2008 19:30122199
Islamism, Islamists and Islamisation [365 words]Norma FaresMar 9, 2008 16:00122184
Hiring Quotas [64 words]PattyMar 9, 2008 15:45122183
No it is not about hiring Muslim journalists it is about hiring journalists that are fluent in Arabic [129 words]dhimmi no moreMar 8, 2008 15:53122097
"...Bennett unintentionally revealed the appallingly primitive state of understanding of Islam".... [294 words]YnnatchkahMar 8, 2008 10:59122076
I know all the tenets I need to know about Islam [105 words]DrRJPMar 7, 2008 17:19122010
About the Quran calling human beings animals. [312 words]YnnatchkahMar 7, 2008 22:22122010
Hah! [15 words]YevgeniyMar 7, 2008 13:04121994
understanding how fascism functions [139 words]G.VishvasMar 6, 2008 23:29121950
Brainwashing [115 words]dfwhite19438Mar 9, 2008 18:46121950
The Getting of Wisdom [111 words]Rebecca MouldsMar 6, 2008 17:47121923
Definitely. [159 words]YnnatchkahMar 6, 2008 16:31121918
Actions of Muslims throughout the world shape their image in non-Muslim mind!! [162 words]JaladhiMar 6, 2008 14:38121905
Assassins ! [252 words]dfwhite19438Mar 11, 2008 02:17121905
To defeat Islam in one presidential term... [265 words]RobertMar 12, 2008 00:04121905
Truth about Islam has to be widely told!!! [170 words]JaladhiMar 12, 2008 16:05121905

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