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| Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono : Western reporting on Muslims 'biased' |
| 2006-09-02 |
| WESTERN media apply double standards when reporting on Muslims and are often ignorant about sensitive issues for the religion, Indonesia's president was quoted by the Antara state news agency as saying today. "If non-Muslims are killed in fighting, then the Western media exaggerates the news. But this is not the case when Muslims are killed in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon," President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told a conference on the resort island of Bali. "Muslims all over the world do not need special treatment, but they only want to be respected in the same way as adherents of other faiths," Dr Yudhoyono told the gathering of journalists from around the world. He singled out the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad in Danish and other Western media. "The publication of the Prophet Mohammad's caricature has come as a surprise to all of us. Even more surprisingly, a number of Western journalists said they did not know that it was forbidden," Dr Yudhoyono said. Many Muslims regard any depiction of the Prophet as an offence against their religion. Denmark's government declined to apologise for the cartoons, saying the country's media was free and independent. The row over the cartoons sparked violent protests in parts of Asia, Africa and the Middle East in which at least 50 people died. More than 85 per cent of Indonesia's 220 million people follow Islam. Most Indonesian Muslims are moderate, but public concern on Islamic issues and militancy have grown in recent years. |
| Posted by:Oztralian |
| #10 The Western Media actually hasn't reported enough about the past recurrence of orchestrated/organised atrocities/genocides happening in Indonesia since its independence. It seems a remote place. Before the Internet came along it was easy for co-religionists in neigbouring countries' MSM to censor much of such reports until even immediate neighbours knew little about the going ons there. Indonesia comes across as a country little admired for justice and shrouded in a bad karmic shadow that easily induced the '04 tsunami to claim the heaviest toll. |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-09-02 15:29 |
| #9 "Western media apply double standards when reporting on Muslims" They certainly do. They don't report 99.99% of the bad stuff moslems do and blame it in the moslems who did it - rather than blaming it on everything and everyone else but. As opposed to blaming every Christian anytime one Christian (or purported Christian) does something bad or says something stupid. Pfui. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-09-02 14:37 |
| #8 Can we put this on a loop? It'll save time for everybody... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-09-02 13:51 |
| #7 SR-71, no it would be one battery short of a full set. |
| Posted by: twobyfour 2006-09-02 11:41 |
| #6 Another one with the battery in backwards. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2006-09-02 11:22 |
| #5 The chimney calls the kettle black. |
| Posted by: Duh! 2006-09-02 11:16 |
| #4 I agree with Susilo that western media reporting on Muslims is biased - but in the opposite direction he claims. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-09-02 09:15 |
| #3 Forbidden to you, f&ckwit, but not to us. I believe it is compulsory for us. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-09-02 08:56 |
| #2 Damn straight. The pretence that anybody infected with Islamic meme is still human is wearing awfully thin. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2006-09-02 08:51 |
| #1 Western reporting on Muslims 'biased' Those little snafus like 9-11, Bali, Madrid, Bali II and London might have something to do with it. "The publication of the Prophet Mohammad's caricature has come as a surprise to all of us. Even more surprisingly, a number of Western journalists said they did not know that it was forbidden," Dr Yudhoyono said. Forbidden to you, f&ckwit, but not to us. Now go play on the freeway or something. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-09-02 07:21 |