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on Wednesday, November 15, 2006 1:06:55 PM
It’s hard to turn on the TV or read a newspaper and not be confronted with the idea Christians should be demonizing Arabs and Muslims. It appears to be the “fashionable” in thing to bash, and that’s not only a problem but also a shame.
Politically, Muslims and Arabs are the lightning rod that has pushed issues like Social Security, the environment, economic growth, and the national debt below the fold. All too often this is a common tactic in which the White House has raised to an art form: hide the bad news by releasing it late at night or over the weekend when people aren’t reading it. If you can’t hide the news, you make some up or you wait to hide your bad news behind a convenient story that has enough attention so yours won’t be noticed. The more this happens, the worse our country slumps into sickness. We don’t need diversions; we need real, solid, credible solutions that don’t pay off special interest hacks.
By making Muslims and Arabs “the bad guy”, the less the mainstream media and the White House have “time” to focus on the real issues. So let’s avoid falling for this game of demonization to hide ineffective government, otherwise, we are guilty of not being good stewards of the country we’re charged to protect and care for.
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