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i am sure majority of the people would agree that the attitude of the secular media in many countries towards Muslims can at best be called biased.
Islam, its hudood, personal rules, concept of J!had, women rights etc are all misrepresented to a very large extent.
the voice of the religious muslims who defend Islam in writing on public fora such as BBC, tribune (of pakistan) etc is very less. defense of Islam in other forms is always quite minimal (e.g television debates etc). even when given the chance such debates and defense are given meager coverage.

what is even more telling is the biased and sometimes completely false reporting of events occurring in Muslim lands - especially lands which are seeing Muslim J!hadists up against either secular puppet Muslim governments (such as afghanistan) or secular democratic governments (such as pakistan). let us not get into the debate on which country is puppet or not - that is not the point.

the point is that Muslim resistance movements all over the world are portrayed negatively and falsely in the media. and there is no alternative Muslim broadcasting corporation that can go on site, investigate and reveal the truth for a very large audience.. a recent example is that of the taliban shooting video that has been making the rounds. the entire western media and western influenced media were one in their 'condemnation' of it.
there are very obvious flaws in this story and i believe the video was staged and no one was killed. some of the reasons i have outlined here in this thread( if you disagree please do so in that thread).

but who can go to the site and actually investigate this and bring it to the fore? do we have anyone?

and this isnt particular to j!hadis.

every now and then some Muslims are interviewed by the western media and it is made to show as if there is something wrong with the Islam of the Prophet (PBUH) and the first three generations.naudhubillah.

my aim is not to go into detail about the unjust media, it is to seek suggestions and ideas as to how something of the likes of BBC and CNN can be set up that is professional, popular (what i mean is it should have a large audience) ,unbiased and operated by religious practicing Muslims. Importantly it should not take dictations from secular governments.

all i see these days for so-called right-wing media outlets is beneath the surface work with a very small audience. and i do not blame the readership. i saw an online edition of the daily ummat and it had stories of frequent human interactions with jinns. now that reduces your 'authenticity image'.
al-jazeera does not count i am afraid.

the real problem with such newspapers is that majority people do not trust them and so their readership is small. they do not have raunchy photoshoots and scandals of heroines both in their online and print edition. the people trust western media despite having no access to verify the authenticity of any report because so many of them say the same thing and we have been led to believe by our governments that what they say is the truth! this is damaging to Islam as a whole. we are getting slaughtered in the media war and as a result the media has brainwashed many of our numbers. something must be done to counter this.

suggestions please. (from brother usama2 esp)