Newspaper Critique
BIAS AGAINST ISLAM IN THE NEWS 1
Bias against Islam in the news
BIAS AGAINST ISLAM IN THE NEWS 2
Faith has caused clashes around the world for thousands of years so this is not a new problem just an ongoing one and one that American journalists do not do a good job of reporting on in an unbiased manner but consistently portray the Islamic faith unfavorably and in a biased manner as Muslims violent actions are vilified while violence against them by
Christians is seen as retaliation and justified..
The headline as well as the first sentence of the article by Ashish Kumar Sen concerning the plight of Syrians is framed in such a way that the reader is led to view the
Islamic faith in general and the Clerics specifically through a negative lens. Under the headline Clerics permitting desperate Syrians to eat cats, dogs, the first sentence reads
“Syria’s civil war has become so dire that some Islamic clerics have permitted starving
Syrians to eat cats and dogs.” Repeatedly saying that Syrians are now allowed by their religious leaders to consume cats and dogs is meant to sensationalize. Nowhere in the article does it mention that donkeys as well as animals killed by bombs are also now permitted, both of which were previously forbidden to consume by Islam. It then goes on to say that the ruling coincides with the Muslim holiday Eid al Adha which is a festival marked by lavish feasts .I can only assume this was mentioned to cause the reader to think that because the
Syrians want to party and
Bias against Islam in the news
BIAS AGAINST ISLAM IN THE NEWS 2
Faith has caused clashes around the world for thousands of years so this is not a new problem just an ongoing one and one that American journalists do not do a good job of reporting on in an unbiased manner but consistently portray the Islamic faith unfavorably and in a biased manner as Muslims violent actions are vilified while violence against them by
Christians is seen as retaliation and justified..
The headline as well as the first sentence of the article by Ashish Kumar Sen concerning the plight of Syrians is framed in such a way that the reader is led to view the
Islamic faith in general and the Clerics specifically through a negative lens. Under the headline Clerics permitting desperate Syrians to eat cats, dogs, the first sentence reads
“Syria’s civil war has become so dire that some Islamic clerics have permitted starving
Syrians to eat cats and dogs.” Repeatedly saying that Syrians are now allowed by their religious leaders to consume cats and dogs is meant to sensationalize. Nowhere in the article does it mention that donkeys as well as animals killed by bombs are also now permitted, both of which were previously forbidden to consume by Islam. It then goes on to say that the ruling coincides with the Muslim holiday Eid al Adha which is a festival marked by lavish feasts .I can only assume this was mentioned to cause the reader to think that because the
Syrians want to party and