Editor,
Is it just me, or does it seem like the media are projecting a double standard when it comes to the recent killings of Jewish civilians in France compared to the killings of Muslim civilians in Afghanistan?
Why is it that when an American soldier kills civilians in Afghanistan, the media claim that the man is crazy, drunk or stressed; but then in France, the religion of Islam is blamed?
It just seems too convenient to me that when the religion of the man carrying out the unjustified killings is Christianity, you’ll never hear the media painting him as the “Christian terrorist.”
One must conclude one of two things from the systematic scapegoating of Islam by the media. Either the media have no access to the facts about Islam, which is hard to believe in this age of technology, or the media are making a concentrated effort to demonize Muslims and Islam in the eyes of the world.
Whichever of these two conclusions you choose to believe is up to you, but as for me, let me start seeing the condemnation of “Christian terrorists,” and maybe I will begin to change my mind.
Muhajir Romero
UNM student
