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Article: Media cast jaundiced eye on Muslim side of stories.
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- March 26, 1993
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Most of us in the Arab and Muslim world who watched U.S. television coverage of the arrest of Mohammed Salameh in connection with the World Trade Center bombing found it incomplete, stereotypical and often racist.
What troubled us was its excessive focus on the violence of a brand of politicized Islamic fundamentalism that defines a very small minority of Arabs and Muslims. We have no problem with straight news coverage of the suspect, the rented van, the mosque where he worshiped, even instances of Islamic violence in Egypt, the United States or other countries.
But that must be balanced by efforts to explain his religious motivation, the conditions ...