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To: Sully- who wrote (18155)3/9/2006 8:57:22 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
How the liberal media feed anti-Muslim bias

BY JAMES TARANTO
Best of the Web Today
Thursday, March 9, 2006

Another Whiff of Isolationism

Anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise, a new poll suggests, the Washington Post reports:

<<< As the war in Iraq grinds into its fourth year, a growing proportion of Americans are expressing unfavorable views of Islam, and a majority now say that Muslims are disproportionately prone to violence, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The poll found that nearly half of Americans--46 percent--have a negative view of Islam, seven percentage points higher than in the tense months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, when Muslims were often targeted for violence. >>>


"Muslims were often targeted for violence" is a drastic overstatement; "occasionally" would have been more accurate. But how could it be that Americans are more hostile to Islam today than they were in the immediate aftermath of an Islamist massacre in New York?

Our sense is that the media's antiwar bias is feeding the public's anti-Muslim bias. By relentlessly focusing on the bad news in Iraq and playing down the good, journalists perpetuate an image of the Muslim world as a hostile, uncivilized place.

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