Cambodia? Send John Kerry to talk to this guy!
Anyway, here we are again: Hun Sen claims that the media makes this link, but as you can see yet again from the Al-Zawahri Q&A below, it is the Islamic jihadists who make this link. And in reality, the mainstream media has been notoriously reticent about exploring this link. "Cambodian PM accuses media of linking Islam with terrorism," from ABC Radio Australia (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has accused major media organisations like CNN and the BBC of unfairly linking terrorism to Islam.
He made the comments in an opening speech at a two-day international conference on interfaith cooperation for peace, being held in Phnom Penh.
Hun Sen said it is inaccurate to link the world's 1 billion Muslim population to acts committed by small numbers of people.
Certainly most are not committing these acts. But when the perpetrators commit them in the name of principles that the majority holds, and the majority does not move to stop them, it is legitimate to point that out.
He said when terrorism occurs in one place, a politician or the media will link it to Muslims as a whole.
When has any politician or media figure ever done this?
''Terrorism is terrorism. It has nothing related to religion,'' he said.
Except for the unfortunate fact that the terrorists say it does.
''Therefore, all politicians and media should change their attitudes in using any words relating to Islam.''
Sure thing, Hun. As soon as the Islamic terrorists do this, so will I.
He said the "biggest mistakes" had been made by major television networks such as America's CNN, Britain's BBC and TV5 of France.
...which makes me wonder what planet this guy lives on. CNN? The BBC? When has either one ever done anything but go out of its way to deny or downplay the link that the jihad terrorists make between Islam and terrorism.
Comment: Denial of facts leads to dangerous decision making. We do not make up the data, we use our enemies' own words and actions. We need to get beyond the argument "Yeah but this is a small minority of ...". Our enemies know this argument is one of our achilles heels, do you not see this does not stop them from stating and acting in the world as terrorists? They know we will self-criticize and accept criticism regarding how bigoted we are and this in turn determines our actions. Well, have we not learned anything from history? We are allowing our very enemy to control the situations and events in our wolrd.
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