In ‘Spinning the War: Political Communications, Information Operations and Public Diplomacy in the War on Terrorism’, Robin Brown refers to a quote from Karl Von Clausewitz that perfectly embodies both the Brown and Kai Hafez (“International Reporting”) pieces on global media “War is nothing more than the continuation of politics“. As both pieces prove, much [...]
Watching New Muslim Cool as part of the Center for Social Media‘s Tenth Annual Human Rights Film Series I found myself unnerved at times but ultimately inspirited by the uniquely American story that Director Jennifer Maytorena Taylor captured. In the film we meet Hamza and Suleiman Perez, Puerto Rican American Muslim converts whose self-depricating admittance [...]
Before he spoke to the United Nations General Assembly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric: “The world needs a new system. Today‘s conditions cannot go on the way they are, in other words, the status quo cannot keep. The economic conditions around the world, cultural problems, as well [...]
The People of Iran answered Ahmadinejad’s ridiculous stereotypical Muslim claims that all of the Muslim world’s problems are the result of a Zionist plot with this simple chant asking the President and the people of Iran to focus on the massive problems in their own nation first rather than being fooled by Government red herrings [...]
Obviously such rhetoric runs rampant on both sides of the conflict, but the notion that the selling of land in Israel to an Arab is tantamount to a sin and a betrayal of the nation that would somehow discount them from many Jewish religious activities is what I find to be the most disturbing part [...]
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