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...it is extremely rare for Muslim organisations to proffer such a nuanced critic of the personal motivations behind anti-Muslim copy. That’s why Polly gets awards for her 'Islamophobia'. Nor do they ever spot the obvious motivation, which is that Musi-bashing is GOOD COPY. Muslims are the modern folk demon. Writing about the allegedly bad and stupid things they do is GOOD COPY. If journalists have an agenda, it is one which directly attributable to their own training, and the relationship between media and culture.
...The mistake people like MCB and MPACUK make in particular is to attribute the bias of journalists...to some kind of pro-Zionist agenda, or worse, to the power of the Israeli lobby. This is quasi-conspiratorial rubbish. This is not deny the existence of political lobbying, editorial bias and ownership on the media, but this is a universe away from the implication that everything falling from the lips of journalists...is little more than empty polemic spurred on by agendas sealed in dark rooms full of men looking like Ron Moody in Oliver.
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