Propaganda and Islam: What you’re not Being Told

[polly7]

November 16, 2015 by True Activist

By Justin King

(ANTIMEDIA) Propaganda is the wheel by which the government steers the bus of a nation; typically driving it into war or off the cliff of humanity. It is amazing to see how many people who are otherwise rational human beings will blindly follow the herd on the matter of how subhuman a perceived national enemy is.

The western media wonderfully paints Islam as a death cult bent on world domination. Over and over again the American populace is shown footage of the atrocities committed by fanatics or of Arab men burning American flags. The problem, of course, is that this isn’t remotely representative of the Islamic population of the world. Are there Muslims who employ terrorism? Of course. Are there Christians who employ terrorism? Of course. There are even Buddhists who employ terrorism.

Some general facts about Islam might help break the noose of wartime propaganda that rests around America’s neck. Below are a list of statements this journalist has seen in the last week on social media, followed by the data to put that statement in perspective.

“All [or most] Muslims are terrorists.”

There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. The much-discussed ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) organization, which has been described as the “richest terrorist group in the world” can only field between 7,000 and 15,000 troops in its battle to create a fundamentalist homeland. Even taking the highest estimate of their troop strength means that fewer than 1 out of every 106,000 Muslims from all over the world are actually willing to take up arms and fight for the fundamentalist dream. The Iraqi army, however, can field 250,000 soldiers to fight against that fundamentalist vision. That figure does not include irregular forces allied to the Iraqi army. The premise that all Muslims are terrorists falls flat by a mere study of the numbers. It isn’t a majority of Muslims. It isn’t even 1% of Muslims.

“They are stuck in the Stone Age, and they want to stay there.”

This statement marginalizes the thousands of Muslim men and women who sit in prison for attempting to change their government and those that died in the attempt. Political prisoners throughout the Arab world sit rotting away for attempting to bring about change in their nations. They are Muslims. Four Saudi Princesses are currently being starved to death by the King for speaking out in favor of women’s rights. Countless journalists and bloggers sit behind bars for questioning their governments. The US government continually props up these brutal dictatorships with multi-million dollar arms deals and keeps the power in the hands of those that don’t want change.

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(I am not excusing in any way the horrors committed by ISIS and other radical terrorist group.

And it's strange that Saudi Arabia, our good ally, is so brutal to its own citizens for trying to advance human rights, while Iraq pre-invasion had women who had far more rights than anyone in the region.)

[Trajan]

1. As an atheist ... I dislike them all ...

For what it's worth ...

[polly7]

2. I can understand that.

I just fear the propaganda and hate will continue to keep adding to the suffering of many of those 1.6 billion who do not believe terrorism is any more acceptable than the majority of those of any other religion.

[randys1]

3. Excellent compilation. I think (trusting your sources for now)

[Wellstone ruled]

4. As this story says,

today's Media verbiage is so slanted towards Hate the Muslims,Muslims are Terrorists, yah right. If one has been reading stories out of Europe,you will see a theme that the Police and Border Agent did have face time will many of these nasty people. They did not have enough information to stop or hold them. Free movements do allow for the Bad Guys to work the system. And what happened does lay at the feet of the Neo-Con movement here in the USA. Do you hear anything about them,no,why,they run the Media and they are not going to admit they f---ed up.

[NonMetro]

5. When Justin says the "media" spreads these lies, he turned it into another

"anti-media" rant, trying to garner support for his ideas because, well, everyone hate the media, after all. And some of the things he said few people have ever heard, such as Muhammad is a pedophile, that Muslims take child brides and rape small children, or that Muslims are stuck in the Stone Age. If the "media" is spreading all these lies, how come so few people have heard these things?

Also, why does he choose right now, when the world is still reeling from this terrorist attack in Paris to try to minimize the problem? Oh well, he says there are over a billion Muslims, but these radicals can be counted in the thousands. It's no "big deal" then? People are making a mountain out of a molehill? ISIS is not growing, and is not daily gaining adherents?

And because they don't spend all day beating the women, we're supposed to believe they're enlightened in that? They do occasionally stone some to death. Is that OK as long as it's rare? Why is Justin minimizing the mal-treatment of women? Why?

[Judi Lynn]

6. I appreciate this article. Thank you. n/t