How Arab world media responded to Charlie Hebdo attack - Haaretz/Israel

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

For those that think that ordinary Muslims are cheering the butchers.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/world/.premium-1.636152

From rage at perpetrators to fear that deadly attack will boost racism in France, Arab journalists present stances that Western media neglects.

A sharpened pencil forced into the twisted barrel of a Kalashnikov rifle — that is the image with which Lebanese cartoonist Armand Homsi of the Al-Nahar daily expressed his rage over the murders at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris.

Al-Nahar’s founding editor-in-chief, Gebran Tueni, and its star columnist, Samir Kassir, were assassinated in 2005 by Syrian agents.

In its editorial on Thursday the newspaper said: “All the murdered journalists are a torch lighting the way for other journalists. No matter how hard they try to silence the media, the written word will remain a ticking bomb that will one day blow up in the faces of terrorism and the terrorists.”

More than 60 journalists were killed while on the job in 2014, some on the battlefield and others slaughtered by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. While dying in a war zone is accepted as an occupational hazard, murder by Islamist organizations is seen as part of radical Islam’s culture war with the West.

[nichomachus]

1. Islam has been corrupted -- by the West

Islamic government used to be moderate, secular, and even socialist.

Then, the West destabilized those governments, overthrew them, and replaced them with fascist dictators. At the same time, the West bolstered the worst religious fanatics in Islam. At they same time, they were stealing their resources and impoverishing their people, leaving them nothing but fundamentalist religion.

Had the West not interfered -- for their own selfish and brutal reasons -- most Islamic governments today would be moderate.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. There's no way to prove this, of course,

but it certainly makes sense.

[nichomachus]

3. There are plenty of ways to prove it - but you need to do research

You could start here:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/09/who-should-be-blamed-for-muslim-terrorism/

[Deuce]

4. Thanks for the link...good read.

[oberliner]

6. If you are starting at CounterPunch you might as well end there

That is a loathsome site filled with ridiculous nonsense.

[kacekwl]

5. I understand how the west has to bear responsibility for

the majority of these radical killers but, it is time for the sane among us and those in all countries to bring a stop to the madness. I think if all countries came together and pooled resources to combats terror we would make progress in finding and stopping those involved. Working in unison instead of all running in different directions will also show who is serious and who is not.

[oberliner]

7. The exact opposite of what you say is true

Secularization came to the Islamic world via the West.

Prior to that, Caliphates were the norm.

In fact, one could argue that the modern Islamic fundamentalist movement was a response to the secularism of the West.