The Islamist narrative has become mainstream, which is why a number of English-speaking media frame the terrorist attacks as the Islamists do. Watchi… - Maryam Namazie

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The Islamist narrative has become mainstream, which is why a number of English-speaking media frame the terrorist attacks as the Islamists do. Watching journalists regurgitate Islamist propaganda by explaining how they were "provoked" to kill – as if the real provocation isn't murder – ... They have already bought the propaganda hook, line and sinker. Facts and evidence are irrelevant to them....According to Islamist (and also ironically other far-Right) propaganda, regurgitated by lazy and cowardly "journalism," there are no distinctions between Islam, Islamism and Muslims. ... Is there no difference between Christianity, the Christian-Right and Christians? Do all Christians think alike? ... Replace these with Islam, Islamism and Muslims, though, and suddenly these "journalists" become incapable of critical thought. ...

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About Maryam Namazie

(Persian: مریم نمازی‎; born 1966) is a British-Iranian secularist, communist and human rights activist, commentator, and broadcaster.

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Canadian Prime Minister who says that “freedom of expression is not without limits.” Rather the stance to take – a simple one really – is that the aggression and provocation, the crux of the problem, is not free expression but murder. ..."

....What this shows is that 's cartoons are an excuse for acts of both random and targeted assassinations, executions and terrorism. What some don't see or choose not to see is that the excuse is not the cause of terrorism. The excuse is there to shift blame on the and to justify the unjustifiable....

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