If 9/11 happened today, that's what the BBC headlines would read. Just look at the way they worded the headline of the German music festival bombing: Syrian Migrant Dies in German Blast https://i.redd.it/pzr8gufwlbbx.png It's as if they're trying to word it to make the bomber sound like the victim. This is some cowardly journalist tactics to downplay the role of Islam in the motivations of killing innocent people. If we aren't allow to identify the problem and prevent more of these incidents in the future, how the hell are we gonna tackle it?
No of course not. I'm just satarizing the way the news headline would read if 9/11 happened today. I mean, at the time of 9/11 I believed the official story until it revealed more holes than Swiss cheese, then I became a skeptic. My point is that biased journalism has been putting selective groups up on the pedistal lately. Ironically, it was BBC who reported the collapse of tower 7 twenty minutes before it actually fell.
I doubt it to be honest. Not in the US. The US media generally calls out Islamic terrorism before anyone officially confirms it.
Seems you're stuck in a certain mindset. For one: why does it imply you are not allowed to identify the problem any way you like? Secondly: I agree mainstream media often words it dubiously or seemingly with a certain intent to steer their readers/viewers in how they (or MAYBE their bosses) prefer them to see the world. Same thing you are doing when you are making dubious claims and assumptions and hope other people agree with you on here (you just do it with a slightly different motive as you don't get paid for it ). But before I go on assuming things about your conclusion I wanna ask you to explain: Is this based on a hunch or some form of intution or something more? If so what? Is any serious consideration of a secondary motive or posing the option that it was a mixed set of happenings that made such a person do a thing like that a dirty tactic to downplay the role of such a person's religion? Why is that so certain (to you)? To me it is clear that islam is not the sole reason that in the last years muslim extremism and terrorist activities have risen. Do you understand that I could just as easily come to some similar conclusions about people like you and their motivations when it is put that people who sincerely doubt islam is the only reason for this extremism are viewed as PC turds and are supposedly excusing things because they don't like how others talk about these matters (which is not because it is often politically incorrect, no, that's not the reason at al. It is because these people strongly and sincerely believe the problem is generalized and the conclusion is simply off when it is stated the islamic religion is the main and only culprit here and considering otherwise is always done with a dirty tactic or pc reason in mind). To me it seems that people who, where it comes to the issue of muslim extremism and terrorism, always prefer to nag on how opposite views are merely expressed to excuse things or because they find yours so nasty and mean (but never done out of sincerity or a serious consideration to look for the real truth) and on how the media reports on it are just as much a victim of said media.
Could be the case. Then again it seems the public catches on immediately if the name of the killer sounds middle eastern, and no further description is needed to indicate it was a jihadist. I remember before/during the San Bernardino shooting, Twitter was flooded with tweets from people saying "It's another Planned Parenthood killer on the loose! Take guns away from crazy white men." Those people called it before anything was confirmed. What are you talking about exactly? I didn't say anything about identifying the problem "any way you like," I said if we aren't allowed to identify the problem for what it is, how are we gonna tackle it? This short video explains it better than I could. (thesis statement at 10:56) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6ePVxRLDM0 Not all terrorists and mass killers are muslim, I get that. It seems to me that mis-prescribed psychotropic drugs play a major factor in ticking someone's impulse to do something so horrible. Big pharma likes to downplay the roles of their designer drugs and how they can turn people into monsters, just as the media likes to downplay the role of muslims. I'm not looking to erraticate Islam; that's not realistic. However I think some good reformation within the religion can be done. Secondly, that article headline on BBC was re-titled shortly before I made this thread because of the heavy criticism they faced on the internet. It now reads: Syrian Asylum Seeker Blows Himself Up in Germany.
You have provided a link to a photo. Can you provide a link to the actual article Or has this just all been made up?
It existed, but the headline was changed http://www.mediaite.com/online/bbc-headline-on-suicide-bomber-syrian-migrant-dies-in-german-blast/