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In the Sunday edition of the Washington Post<\/em>, there was a photo of some Palestinian girls walking by a wall covered in Arabic graffiti.\u00a0 It read \"Islam is the solution\" (as in al-islaam howa al-Haal<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The caption underneath mistranslated it as \"Hamas<\/strong> is the solution\"!<\/p>\n

How fitting.\u00a0 A generic, almost trite, religious slogan that one hears at every turn in the Middle East (and even in places where Muslims do not speak Arabic) gets utterly misinterpreted and transformed into a highly specific and menacing ideological declaration.\u00a0 \u00a0The ignorance of Islamic culture is quite comical<\/p>\n

BTW, what Muslim doesn\u2019t <\/em>believe \"Islam\" (read: their understanding of Islam) is
\nthe \"solution\"? And don\u2019t Christians talk about Christian faith being
\nthe \"solution\" to modern problems all the time?\u00a0 Does that slogan really mean anything <\/em>most of the time? <\/p>\n

In that simple example you have the essence of what\u2019s wrong with Western and especially American media coverage of Islam and Muslims in a nutshell.<\/p>\n

No wonder you have all this offensive and biased blather about \"Hamastan<\/a>\" in the mainstream media (take two of these from Haroon <\/a> and the American Errorist<\/a> and call me in the morning).\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re so terminally uninformed and incapable of considering Muslim perspectives when pontificating on the Muslim world, you\u2019re almost guaranteed to misunderstand the significance of everything you see.\u00a0 Like a frustrated shrink who detects eroticism in everything he encounters, you will misinterpret even the most mundane of events or statements by Muslims as dripping with exoticism and menace.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"