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I wouldn't bet on that. The media will paint you the way it wants to. IMO the corporate media is one of the biggest enemies, if not the biggest, of civilization. As for Muslims, you had better wake up and realize that the wacko fundamentalists are defining you all. They are serious about instituting Sharia law on all, by the sword.

From one end of the globe to the other they are making Islam known as a murderous cult of death. Right or wrong that is the way the world is coming to see it.

Any outrage or opposition to them from within the world of Islam is hardly a blip on the radar. Things will get real difficult for you in Britain if a 9/11 type incident happens there. Bet on that.

The media will paint you the way it wants to. IMO the corporate media is one of the biggest enemies, if not the biggest, of civilization.

absolutely, people like the late Neil Postman have chartered the decline of civilisation from the introduction of the telegraph wire till the TV. Take terrorism for example, it is little more than a media event. September 11th was designed to make the news - if the air time for your message to world costs too much, cause outrage and get on the news. There is absolutely no military or strategic benefit in attacking the trade center, blowing up a restaurant in Israel, blowing up a nightclub in Bali, attacking an embassy in Saudi; these are just publicity stunts. I made a point of not watching the footage of sept 11th, till this day I haven't seen what happened.

As for Muslims, you had better wake up and realize that the wacko fundamentalists are defining you all.

well, political Islam is a relatively new phenomenon for us, it was in part, supported by the West in pre-colonial times to bring down the Ottomans, and again to impede Soviet expansionism. But it has peaked and is in decline; traditionalist scholars have dealt comprehensively with the arguments of the literalists. In the mosques, the fundamentalist agenda is dying fast. It used to be common to find wahhabi literalists in mosques, but these days, they aren't around so many of them. We just see them on the news, they provide suitable sound bites.