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**neictscek** · 08-05-2012, 10:31 AM

I don't know what the Express Tribune is. If its anti-Muslim, go in there, show your good character and work ethic, work hard and move to the very top, and inshallah things will change. We can't keep hiding away. We desperately need Muslims in the media!

I wouldn't turn down the offer, in fact I would look at it as an opportunity to remove misconceptions about Islam. Even just your presence there may change things inshallah

No offence but this is very naive. They will not want misconceptions removed- if I went to an anti Islam newspaper and worked my way to the top (which would take years during which time I would have been a part of a media organisation that prints anti Islamic material on a daily basis) somehow (tbh, that isn't even possible since they wouldn't let anyone move too far ahead unless they followed the same agenda's) and became head or editor, and then the owner gets a phone call from his anti Muslim friends (whether they are politicians or army or whatever), they'll send you packing unless you start playing by their rules. In the end:

1. By joining the Express Tribune, the OP will have to help them in one way or another to print anti Islamic material and this is haraam even if the end goal is dawah
2. The OP will NOT be given a position of too great an authority where he/she would be allowed to make policy choices (such as who the paper backs in an election, whether they are pro war or anti war, etc)
3. The OP, if somehow becomes the head editor, will be removed from the position if the policies of the newspapers 'friends' are not promoted

08-05-2012, 10:31 AM	#5
neictscek Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 433 Senior Member	I don't know what the Express Tribune is. If its anti-Muslim, go in there, show your good character and work ethic, work hard and move to the very top, and inshallah things will change. We can't keep hiding away. We desperately need Muslims in the media! I wouldn't turn down the offer, in fact I would look at it as an opportunity to remove misconceptions about Islam. Even just your presence there may change things inshallah No offence but this is very naive. They will not want misconceptions removed- if I went to an anti Islam newspaper and worked my way to the top (which would take years during which time I would have been a part of a media organisation that prints anti Islamic material on a daily basis) somehow (tbh, that isn't even possible since they wouldn't let anyone move too far ahead unless they followed the same agenda's) and became head or editor, and then the owner gets a phone call from his anti Muslim friends (whether they are politicians or army or whatever), they'll send you packing unless you start playing by their rules. In the end: 1. By joining the Express Tribune, the OP will have to help them in one way or another to print anti Islamic material and this is haraam even if the end goal is dawah 2. The OP will NOT be given a position of too great an authority where he/she would be allowed to make policy choices (such as who the paper backs in an election, whether they are pro war or anti war, etc) 3. The OP, if somehow becomes the head editor, will be removed from the position if the policies of the newspapers 'friends' are not promoted
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