Posted on 05/09/2015 12:46:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
Two separate but related events held at Garland, Texas Independent School Districts Curtis Culwell Center evidence media coverage that selectively expresses tolerance of sexism, gender violence and hate crimes.
Culwell Center first hosted on January 17th Sound Vision Foundations Stand with the Prophet, which it stated was more than an event. It was A movement to defend the Prophet Muhammad, his person, and his message directly responding to the murder of 16 people, mostly Charlie Hebdo satirists, in Paris.
Culwell Center next hosted on May 3 the American Freedom Defense Initiatives (AFDI) Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest, which paid tribute to Charlie Hebdo satirists. It also responded to Sound Visions event, which in coordination with the Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR) was part of a greater effort advocating Sharia compliance throughout American laws.
The Dallas Morning News, and many news organizations, described AFDIs May 3 contest as anti-Islam. However, I cant recall news organizations labeling Charlie Hebdo anti-Islam.
Despite Charlie Hebdo's and AFDIs efforts to expose Sharia law, reporters and public figures criticized and blamed AFDI, and its founder Pamela Geller, for the Islamic gunmens acts. I cant recall these same news organizations and public figures blaming Charlie Hebdo satirists for their own murders.
Coverage of the January 17th event focused on Islamaphobic protesters picketing an Islamic conference. Yet most reporters never mentioned the speakers who have publicly affirmed killing as an essential element of Islam and have known ties to terrorism.
To be anti-Islam and anti-Sharia is to reject submission to Allah and to the legislation outlined in the Quran. There is nothing bigoted, racist, or personal in rejecting a political ideology that opposes the U.S. Constitution. Even the European Court on Human Rights has ruled more than once that Sharia law is incompatible with the fundamental principles of democracy.
By labeling people anti-Islam are reporters supporting Islamic ideology, Sharia law, which legalizes wife-abuse, child marriage, FGM, and honor killings, and Jew-hatred?
This type of reporting also promotes a culture that normalizes gender violence, which ranges from sexism to blaming the victim for her abusers crime. For example, instead of reporting on Sharia law in Irving, Texas, Dallas Morning News reporter Alvi Selk asked its mayor Beth Van Duyne bizarre and sexist questions about her child custody arrangements, boyfriend, and how she balances work life, family life, and life in general. I cant recall any reporter in my lifetime asking a male politician how he balances fatherhood, life and public duties, or to disclose his child custody terms. Attempting to shame women, not men, is only one of many stigmas with which women in public positions must deal.
If womens rights were an issue, reporters might cover abuse of women and girls permitted by Sharia that might help save lives. The Times of London first exposed and helped bring to justice a pedophile ring hidden by city officials and police for 16 years. News organizations also played a helpful role in Scandinavian and Western European countries grappling with near-bankrupted budgets largely due to welfare and crime costs associated with Sharia compliant communities.
Reporters could also write about good news occurring worldwide. Christians are outpouring love towards Muslims from Chapel Hill to Upsalla, bringing healing to the voiceless and oppressed.
Instead, by blaming Geller, a Jewish woman, for the failed hate crimes committed by Islamic gunmen on May 3, the media only reinforces well-known stigmas associated with Battered Wife Syndrome. Blaming the victim for the offenders crime and making excuses for the offender hurts vulnerable women and girls who unlike Geller have no resources or voice to defend themselves.
I asked questions after the January 17th Culwell Center event to feminists and human rights groups, which still remain unanswered.
Are there any other feminists and human rights advocates like Geller who are demanding that women and girls in America be protected from Sharia law? Why is there silence about Sharia, which legalizes:
Fathers killing their daughters/or forcing them into child marriage,
Imams marrying girls even for one hour to men, which American criminal laws define as sex trafficking, prostitution, and pedophilia,
Husbands beating and raping their wives,
A womans legal right to equate to only half of a mans legal right,
Discrimination, punishment, and death based on sexual and religious orientation.
By ignoring these facts and blaming Geller the media enables, permits—even ensures—that hate crimes will increasingly occur and victims voices remain silent.
Anti-Islam? As in Pro-Civilization?
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Leftists, being thugs, love everything thuggish.
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Some of these lefties would look good in a head to toe gunny sack!
HUMPH!!
Killing has been an essential element of Islam right FRom the get-go!
The get-go was 622 AD!
Mohammed and his thugs were forced out of Mecca because the Meccans did not like his preaching.
Mohammed and his thugs changed their behavior in Medina — they went FRom preaching to killing.
Been that way ever since — the preaching they do is all about killing!
Since killing is all they understand, we’d best get on with the job!
I just have one question. Why was Pamela Geller “allowed” to draw cartoons, but Florida Pastor Terry Jones was not “allowed” to burn Qurans?
She had more nerve then Him
Thanks for posting. Has a lot of enlightening information.
I seem to remember plenty of liberals blaming the attack in Paris on Charlie Hedbo.
Hebdo...Doh!!!
How, pray tell, can one “defend the “Prophet” Muhammad, his person, and his message?
Mohammed was a world beheading champion, pedophile, rapist, thief, robber, torturer, terrorist, kidnapper, liar, murderer, and dog killer.
All of that being said, he was “considered a prophet and the ideal man. (Koran 68:4, 33:21)”
(http://patriotsbillboard.org/mohammed-pedophile-rapist-thief-terrorist-murderer-liar/)
Did they explain EXACLY what that was or did they leave that part out?
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