this is what poos me though AL.
Its not just the media its every day aussies like you or me, who go about their everyday inciting this on social media, which talk about us staying away and its all our fault this small minority are making all muslims look bad.
Every day for the last year i have seem some comment on social media, blasting the west for getting involved which is exactly what is getting these people upset. I do find these same people also have believed in many conspiracies over my life
i know you you dont think that that the actions of the west, and in particular the yanks have a bearing on these things but they do, and it is not conspiricy theories, it is known facts. the yanks have a history of helping those that are fighting the percieved enemys of america, only to get the leash themselves. saddam is a prime example. but i digress.
the bottom line is that there are times to back your mates in a fight and there are times to tell them to pull their head in.
surely you can understand that a young man seeing bombs fall on their house and killing his family is more likely to grow up with a hatred for those responsible. this then snow balls. those looking to spread their hatred have ready made recruits, and the more it happens the more it snow balls
when going to war, you have way up all these things, and too often we have been with the yanks when they have dropping bombs that kill civilians in pointless conflicts, when we should have been telling them this isnt a fight worth having.
Yes, but how old are they. 15,16? At that age just like goodes girl they are just dumb and dont comprehend that they are inciting more hatred and anger.
On the media yes your right. I mean naming the wrong kid was a disgrace and i hope they get their arses sued.
However naming a would be terrorist and telling us the story was the right thing to do. The media are going too far though and should investigate it in their own time not station themsleves outside a mosque. Its not underbelly most of those muslims at the burial are good descent Australians
the problem is that it isn't just kids who don't know better. there are those who know exactly what they are doing,
then there are those radicals hoping for that sort of action so they use it themselves to stir the pot, as well as waiting for the ignorant comments from the likes of lambly (however you spell her name) to then incite among the already disenfranchised that australians hate muslims. pick out a couple of red neck social media quotes and you are painting a pretty strong picture for those easily stirred up. they play into each others hands and it escalates, and you can bet you balls it wont be those stirring the pot that directly feel the repurcussions.
it really is easy for a small few to whip up the masess, you only have to look at the australia day crap a few years ago to see that.
in this situation many media outlets ran with headlines such as
"muslim extremest stabs police and is shot"
change that to
"religous extremest stabs police and is shot"
and the story is the same, but the polarising effect is not. it is less likely to stir up angst for both muslims and non muslims for differing reasons.
personally i have no sympathy for the bloke, just as i dont for the countless other people who have met a similar fate when attacking cops, but their religion is never mentioned in the reporting.
what concerns me is that people from both sides of the divide are, and will continue to, use it to promote their own unsavoury agenda.
