反向證明伊斯蘭恐懼症存在於英國的例子
Imagine in one of London’s
central districts, a Muslim group representing a significant
section of the local community puts up notices before a street event
telling women to confine themselves to one side of the road only.
The posters, in Arabic and English, state: “Women should please walk along this
side of the road only.”
How much coverage in the UK media do
you think this would receive? Would we see articles about Muslims trying to
bring sharia law to the streets of London? Would
commentators fall over themselves to decry Islam as a religion of extremism and
intolerance? Would our media and politicians call on Muslim leaders to denounce
such primitive practices?
From long experience, we all know the
answer.
So how to
explain the near-silence about exactly this happening last week in the
London district of Hackney, except that religious
Jews rather than Muslims were the party responsible. The Shomrim
organisation put up the signs in preparation for the Torah
procession in Stamford Hill. The posters were removed after local residents
complained.
But as the Redress website notes, the
official response has been decidedly muted. An online search finds this
story apparently of interest – and then only marginally – to local
London media, plus one low-key story in the national Independent
newspaper. And a police spokesman merely expresses concern about
a “potential misinterpretation” of the signs, without explaining in what
possible way they might be misinterpreted.
He adds that Shomrim “have
agreed that next year they will only be written in Hebrew and will be
removed more swiftly after the event.”
As Redress observes:
In other words, as long as the Jewish
misogynists confine their hateful practice to Hebrew-reading Jewish women, and
do so quickly before anyone has had time to ponder why this is
happening on the streets of a British city, everything would be fine.
It is worth bearing this story in mind
next time you read an Islam scare story in the western media. What standards are used in assessing the Muslim community and
how consistently are they being applied to other religious communities? And if there is an inconsistency, what motivates it? Why are news editors regularly playing up a Muslim threat,
but playing down a Jewish or Christian or Hindi or Sikh threat?
- See more at:
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2014-09-22/when-men-only-streets-are-okay-in-london/#sthash.oIEwH7wq.dpuf
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