CAIR Launches Major Campaign to Educate American Media About Islam
The guide is intended to provide an Islamic perspective on critical issues such as Islam and its interaction with democracy, freedom of religion, women's rights, and interfaith relations.
In addition, CAIR is offering media relations training to Muslim communities across the United States. The "Beyond Stereotypes" website will provide tips on pro-active educational activities for Islamic communities including hosting media events and meeting with newspaper editorial boards.
"It is our duty, and that of the Muslim community, to make sure every journalist who writes about Islam or Muslims has access to accurate information," said CAIR Communications Coordinator Rabiah Ahmed.
The organization said today from Washington, "The negative perception of Islam and Muslims is the result of negative actions by a tiny minority of Muslims. That minority should not be allowed to overshadow the vast majority of Muslims...worldwide who reject terrorism and religious extremism."
A recent Gallup Pole concluded that only 7% of the world's Muslims believe that the attacks on September 11th of 2001 were justified.
Critics of the "war on terror", which is not limited to but is virtually entirely directed against, Islamic terrorist forces and threats, say that it is not meeting with the success that it should and could because the fight against fundamentalist terrorism is being conceived of, mostly subconsciously, as a replacement for the Cold War against the Soviet Union and the militant expansion of Communism instead of being seen and engaged in on its own terms. Those terms would require the development and use of some drastically new military and strategic tactics which the massively powerful United States military machine is ill-equipped to act upon because of the Pentagon's mentality, they say.
The Cold War was a war of polarization and gave America and the West a reasonably-arrived-at sense of being engaged in a good-vs.-evil struggle, with the West being the guys wearing the white hats. The critics say that the war on terror gets distorted when that same mentality is used to think about fighting fundamentalist terrorists.
Supporters of the war have said that attacking Iraq to bring down Hussein's regime was necessary because he mixed together, through his love of Josef Stalin, Communist expansionism and Islamic extremism, as was evidenced by his attempts to court al Qaida. However, say the critics, his military was weak compared to that of the Soviets', and he only gave lip service to Islam to maintain his Middle Eastern power.
They go on to point out that Osama Bin Laden's organization has not gained political ascendancy in any nation and, they opine, for all of its rhetoric and its leaders' prancing, Iran would be afraid of using nuclear weapons should it get them because that would politically justify a United States counterstrike that could obliterate the entire nation. What's more, Iran's invasion of any one of its neighbors would turn the entire world against that nation.
They conclude that, while military action against Islamic extremists will sometimes be needed and that they are dangerous, they are not a large enough group nor a potent enough threat to justify an all-out and polarizing war that is not the most effective way of combating terrorism in the 21st century anyway.
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You da man, Jim.
Thank you very much, Nick. I do consider myself a "pro", yes. That's the standard I set for myself.
Well said Jim! Methinks the troops on the ground might disagree about their level of "potency".
"They conclude that, while military action against Islamic extremists will sometimes be needed and that they are dangerous, they are not a large enough group nor a potent enough threat to justify an all-out and polarizing war that is not the most effective way of combating terrorism in the 21st century anyway." Well, it sure as Hell didn't solve the problem to act as if it was a law enforcement issue, so I'm afraid war is the last option. And the Gallup poll of 7% think 9/11 was justified? That's 70 million Muslims who agree with bin-Laden. That sounds like right many possible jihadists, at least to me.
Great article! Are you a professional journalist? When I read your articles, they are so well done that they seem to be written by somebody that has worked in the business, and you write about topics I find very interesting and important. Great job!