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The writer is a
Graduate in Chemistry from London university. More muslims writers should step
forward like Yasmin, and to influence the west public opinion, which
usually dictated by the anti-islamic western media.
My Response to “The Sun” Newspaper
Editor Yamin Zakaria Below is my response to Mr. Tom Newton Dunn, Defence Editor
of The Sun Newspaper, and I have placed his response below mine. Mr Tom Dunn responded to my original
article which can be seen at: http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/15094/ The entire exchange can also be seen at: http://www.cdlr.net/English/cdlrboard/showthread.php?s=&postid=1777#post1777 To Mr. Tom Defence Editor
The Sun
Thanks for your response. It
came as no surprise that my original article [1] would not get published;
because, The Sun, is the most rabid anti-Islamic tabloid to disseminate
hate-filled propaganda against the Muslim community. One of the real
difficulties of upholding genuine free speech is that you have to publish the
opposing views no matter how painful! It is easy to constantly lecture a
community about their lack of free speech, especially after using it as a
pretext to hurl insults at them and then hypocritically denying them that same free speech to respond.
I would like to bring to your
attention the following points you raised, and hope that may clarify the factual
inaccuracies on both sides. I have addressed them in their order of merit.
A)
Pictures You claim that publishing the
pictures was in the Public interest, as it sends: “very powerful statement of how much
If you wanted to show the
changes in As for the reason why the
The international news
agencies you cite, the vast majority are from the West, even those in the Arab
countries are virtually run and managed by the West by proxy, the only one with
some level independence is Al-Jazeera, which, for its
troubles, is bombed, its journalists harassed and murdered by US troops.
B) Who are the
terrorists? Please remember that there are
terrorists and there are State Terrorists. Like there are suicide bombers and
mass murderers. The latter deploys the latest high-tech weapons on towns and
cities, schools, colleges, farmers and even their sheeps (John Pilger’s
documentary). It is estimated by Johns Hopkins University's, Bloomberg School of
Public Health in Baltimore, that 100,000 or more civilians in Iraq have been
killed by the US and coalition forces. Do you not remember the wanton slaughter
of retreating civilians on the road to Your laughable reference to
the killings of civilians by the Iraqi resistance is an example of how detached
you are from the reality as you have failed to take
into account the magnitude of the victims from state terrorism (100,000 and
rising), and you know the Iraqi resistance can not compete with your scale of
“liberation”! Furthermore, you put the
effect before the cause. Let us remind ourselves of the cause. There were no
bombs falling on Iraqi civilians prior to the illegal and criminal invasion of
C) Iraqi
Majority When you refer to the
“significant majority” of Iraqis, are they the same significant majority that
failed to fill I have not been to
The fact that you have flown
into As for your reference to the moral
responsibility, please spare us your fake benevolence. We did not see much
enthusiasm for that moral responsibility in D) Facts and
History You talk about
facts and 30 years of history. If you know about history you will know that
during the reign of Saddam, when most of the oppression was committed, your
country and the US made a good deal of money by selling him weapons knowing how
those weapons were being used. Your support and weapons sales makes you fully
complicit with Saddam, just as in a murder the one providing the gun and
support, is an accomplice. Where was the Sun when millions were dieing in a
proxy war, fought for you, against E) What is The Sun
‘Newspaper’? The final point
about your ‘newspaper’ not being pornographic, of course topless women and seedy
stories are not pornographic, because you are continuously setting higher
standards for what constitutes porn! I still remember the childhood joke in my
school, when the kids used to say Sun is a paper that you do not read but simply
look at. As for being xenophobic your reputation precedes you, this is a
perception of your paper not just held by Muslims, but the general British
public, born from decades of Sun reporting. And with fascist minded columnists
like Richard LittleJohn the likes of Nick Griffin could easily retire. If I
remember correctly he actually praised him on BBC Newsnight. If you doubt my
words about Sun’s reputation, then commission an independent survey of perceived
Sun values, and let the facts speak for themselves. Yamin
Zakaria [1]
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/15094/ Yamin, Thanks
for your article. I'm afraid we won't be publishing it because it is so
full of factual inaccuracies. To correct but a few, neither I nor The Sun are
xenophobic, racist or pornographic. We resent such childish and unfounded
insults from you too. Secondly, the photos of Saddam may well have humiliated
him, but we believe it was substantially in the public's interest to see them as
a very powerful statement of how much But
much more importantly, they did not at all humiliate "the entire Arab-Muslim
nation" as you woefully suggest. On the contrary, according to international
news agencies and broadcast mediums, the significant majority
of Iraqis were delighted to see them, while the reaction across the
Thirdly,
it is not the coalition forces who are killing innocent Iraqis in their dozens
on a daily basis, but a group of warped terrorists who seem to share your
views. Lastly,
I wonder by what you write if you have actually ever been to I
would argue that your sympathies are not only misplaced and deeply unwanted by
the Iraqi people, but based on a very deluded ignorance of the country and the
facts that suround its history over the last 30 years. Moreover, to continue to
hold them is an insult to Saddam's many millions of
victims. I
hope this has gone some way to correcting you. Yours, Tom Tom Defence
Editor
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