[Jellowstrom]

"Secular Muslim"? Sounds like 'dead living person'.


Abu Fatimah, you asked for opinions on the news article?
My first reflection was on the unreliability of the source. 'Secular' journalists (most of the media) have been found to be prejudiced against Islam. As well, the entire journalism industry should be downgraded like Spanish banks.

When prize winning journalists like Johan Hari have been found to have plagarized their own works, and top journalists at the NY Times and New Republic have been exposed as liars and cheats, what does that say about lowly reporters from chaotic African and Muslim frontlines claiming to voice the opinions of Ahmed the baker or Arwa, mother of two?
Who is ever going to verify these interviews and opinions?
Who among the Western and secular readership will even bother to question them?
They almost always instigate hatred of Islam- that's the entire purpose of the propaganda angle.



In fact, the article you cited is more a propaganda piece than a reliable portrayal of events. These kinds of reports were done by colonial imperial correspondents as a build up for colonial interventions and invasions.


And look at the kind of reactions it antagonizes in Muslims- hating the very idea of 'Shariah'.