You want proof of an anti-Muslim bias in the media? You don't have to go to Fox News. Just check out the opening line from this Op-Ed in the New York Times.
"Two weeks ago, dozens of cars were set alight in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand after a 30-year-old truck driver, Wissam El-Yamni, was roughed up and then died while in police custody. The uproar underscored the hostility of young minority men toward authority across communities in Europe, an antipathy that has at times led to deadly violence."
The article then goes on to outline several ways in which Europe can better integrate its Muslims. Many of the suggestions, such as strengthening Muslim civic groups and engaging with them, are laudable, but two things rubs me the wrong way.
1) The article - full disclosure, I've only skimmed it - makes no further mention of El-Yamni.
2) It is the uproar at El-Yamni's treatment, not that treatment itself, that underscores Europe's problem, which is like saying the civil rights movement, not prejudice itself, underscored America's race-relations issues during the 50s and 60s.
Just thought I'd point that out.
"Two weeks ago, dozens of cars were set alight in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand after a 30-year-old truck driver, Wissam El-Yamni, was roughed up and then died while in police custody. The uproar underscored the hostility of young minority men toward authority across communities in Europe, an antipathy that has at times led to deadly violence."
The article then goes on to outline several ways in which Europe can better integrate its Muslims. Many of the suggestions, such as strengthening Muslim civic groups and engaging with them, are laudable, but two things rubs me the wrong way.
1) The article - full disclosure, I've only skimmed it - makes no further mention of El-Yamni.
2) It is the uproar at El-Yamni's treatment, not that treatment itself, that underscores Europe's problem, which is like saying the civil rights movement, not prejudice itself, underscored America's race-relations issues during the 50s and 60s.
Just thought I'd point that out.
