Nothing wrong with that. I wouldn't want to be a muslim myself, and honestly I don't care what religion you are as long as you aren't hurting people.
That's absolutely fine. What I'm saying is that they care about the fact that the muslims are a minority. Not for the right to practice their religion peacefully, but only because they are demonized, if you understand what I mean.
Persecution of muslims does actually happen though. Just because a news station treats a group like stuff doesn't mean that real people don't hold these views, it's actually quite the opposite. News stations pander to an audience and if the viewers didn't agree with it then they'd go watch another channel.
I disagree. I acknowledged above that persecution does happen, only because of media stations, such as Fox News, carry out their incessant fear-mongering. The general population does not hold these views. I'm going to tell you something that I've begun to notice. Journalism is HEAVILY biased. It is a tool for political parties as well as social groups to spread propaganda and ideas that they hold to be true. It's not so much as reporting the truth. Now, of course, this is all up for debate, but I disagree with your statement that the viewership influences the output of the news station. If that were the case, they likely would have never started watching in the first place.
No, definitely not on a societal scale. And what do you mean by exclusively muslims? Other ethnic groups and by the same token other religions are taken pretty seriously when people treat them bad. Muslims just get more attention on account of the middle east being a big deal recently.
Refer, again, to my example above. I don't expect you to take it as fact since it is my own personal experience, but it has been my own observation that an alarming number of people who will defend muslims to their graves will say similar stuff about Jews or Christians to the people they just got done lashing out on. These progressives don't really care about the people, they care about their perceived large-scale persecution. They then pat each other on the back for standing up for these poor people. I sometimes use my own experience on this very forum as an example. Even after I corrected my statement, people did and still do hold me to the original statement. I hope you understand what I'm trying to convey.
