BBC Psychology?
So I’m watching the BBC America News, and it’s infuriating in some ways, but I was thinking: Why would they downplay using terms “Islamic” and “Muslim”? After all, it’s truthful in many ways for certain stories.
So I keep on thinking (trouble): Could the BBC, realizing the influence they have on the way people think (repetition of the same story over and over makes the problem seem bigger), be trying to reduce the impact of possible retribution if they continued to report jihad violence as it is?
They reported tonight (April 28, 2008) on the mosque that was burned by other Muslims because the sect “deviated” from normal Islam. The BBC didn’t report what that deviation was, but because I’d read about it earlier at Jihad Watch, I knew why: the sect didn’t follow the Jihad ideology; no violence.
Toning down the idea of Jihad might paint all Muslims as violent, and story after story about violent Muslims and Jihad would alarm many people, possible leading to violence against Muslims at home (Europe and America). This would fit in with a Liberal-Socialist understanding of the situation. They’d be wrong to do it, but I could see how this line of thought could influence the BBC to present stories in a certain less-Jihadalicious light.
