We mustn’t forget that our media only tells us what it considers to be the most important news. That is why, amid the massive terrorism story today, and the longer-term Israel/Lebanon conflict (which isn’t receiving balanced, educated or logical coverage), other stories are being forgotten.

Darfur isn’t peaceful — the unrest has continued now for three years — but you could be forgiven for thinking that nothing more was happening there. According to CNN rapes are higher now than at any other time during those three years.

Russian troops are still fighting terrorism and committing atrocities in Chechyna. There’s a typhoon approaching China that has caused over 400,000 people to flee. The Gaza Strip, which was where the first Israeli soldier kidnap occurred before the current hostilities, is no longer reported upon. The Tamil Tigers are still murdering their fellow Sri Lankans. And, perhaps most importantly from a historical perspective, Fidel Castro is dead (though no-one’s been told that yet).

That’s not to say that the actions of Islamic terrorists supported by their Islamofacists are not worthy of media focus, just to remind everyone that there is more going on in the world, and some of it is important from a global perspective too.

I have said before that Islamism (as opposed to the Islam faith that all my Muslim friends and acquaintances believe in) is not compatible with Western civilisation. Our media is reporting poorly, but is reporting on the most important story of our time. Let’s just also hear what the more balanced news providers around the world report upon. This is a call, I guess, for an Indian or other former-Empire (and so English-speaking) country’s media organisation to set up shop in Britain, take a Freeview slot and start broadcasting some real world news.


Posted In: BBC, Islam, News and Politics, Media, War