The Reason You Can't Always Hear the Moderate Muslim Voices

[hrmjustin]

Atia Abawi

Every day I hear and see the calls for moderate Muslims to speak out and stand up to extremism. And moderate Muslims should and do just that when they see their religion being hijacked.

In my work as a professional journalist and author who has covered the Muslim and Arab world for a decade I have seen moderate Muslims try and speak up in the face of adversity. However their voices are drowned out and the very same people who make the call rarely support them.

The West plays a role in muzzling these voices as it turns to Middle Eastern governments who quell dissenting views of their regimes. Islam today is being cannibalized by cancerous strains of fundamentalist religious ideologies that are promoted by wealthy and powerful Middle Eastern countries extinguishing moderate hopes in the Muslim world.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/atia-abawi/moderate-muslim-voices_b_5999622.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

[AtheistCrusader]

1. There is little profit motive for the western media to paint islam as anything other than

a dangerous, extremist ideology.

In the West, particularly the US, the media, nearly every last stinking form of it, is entirely profit-driven. Controversy sells ad space, and column inches. Fear sells. Hate sells.

Don't look to the media to squelch reporting about a dangerous minority, in favor of reporting about a moderate majority.

That shit don't sell newspapers.