The media distorts by its selective coverage of terrorism.
The sad fact is that this distorted coverage, in the United States media, is very responsible for much of the anti-immigration craze that has swept the western world in the last few years.
Many people simply think that Muslims are the main driver of homicides, or at least terrorism, in the United States.
Actually, the Muslim contribution to the national murder tally is minimal.
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WICHITA, US: Three militia members convicted of taking part in a foiled plot to massacre Muslims in southwest Kansas were sentenced Friday to decades in prison during an emotional court hearing in which one of the targeted victims pleaded: “Please don’t hate us.”
US District Judge Eric Melgren sentenced Patrick Stein, the alleged ringleader, to 30 years in prison and Curtis Allen, who drafted a manifesto for the group, to 25 years. Gavin Wright, who authorities said helped make and test explosives at his mobile home business, received 26 years. The plot was foiled after another militia member alerted authorities.
Melgren dismissed defense attorneys’ request that he take into the account the divisive political atmosphere in which the men formed their plot to blow up a mosque and apartments housing Somali immigrants in the meatpacking town Garden City, about 220 miles (355 kilometers) west of Wichita, on the day after the 2016 election.
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“These defendants planned to ruthlessly bomb an apartment complex and kill innocent people, simply because of who they are and how they worship,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said.
The sentencing hearings for the men came a day after two members of an Illinois militia known as the White Rabbits pleaded guilty in the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque , admitting they hoped the attack would scare Muslims into leaving the US No one was injured in that attack.
3 terrorists get decades in prison for plotting to massacre Muslims in US | Arab News
It will be tough to combat anti-immigration sentiment with the existing media situation, imo.
I don't know what the solution is.
(Muslims aside, immigrants as a whole kill fewer people per year, in the United States, than tainted salad, but they are successfully portrayed as an extremely dangerous national catastrophe)
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