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"GLOBAL WAR ON CHRISTIANS" SMEARS ISLAM
Muslims asked to challenge one-sided Reader's Digest article
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/24/97) - An article, entitled "The Global War on
Christians" in the August issue of Reader's Digest, the world's most widely
read magazine (circ. 27 million in 19 languages), unfairly associates Islam
with a number of offensive practices. In a letter to Digest Editor-in-Chief
Christopher Willcox, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad wrote: "After
reading this article, one is left with the impression that Islam somehow
encourages or permits rape, kidnapping, torture, and forced conversion. The
writer and his editors must have known that Islam does not condone these
practices, but failed to offer any balancing information or even a cursory
disclaimer to that effect."
The letter went on to describe a pattern of unbalanced coverage established
by Reader's Digest in the recent past. Awad quoted from the new book "Arab
and Muslim Stereotyping in American Poplar Culture" by Dr. Jack Shaheen,
Professor Emeritus of Communications at Southern Illinois University:
"Between 1994 and 1997, several Reader's Digest stories perpetuated the myth
that Arabs and Muslims hate civilized peoples, especially Americans and
Israelis. Says Ann Bardach in her January 1994 Digest essay, 'All in the
Name of Islam,' the 'fundamentalist extremists have found nesting sites
throughout the country [U.S.].' Bardach declares that American Muslims who
resent 'any kind of scrutiny or criticism of Islam' are censoring the press.
She alleges that the 'media, scrabbling to be politically correct...have
cranked out a plethora of feel-good features on Muslim culture.' Her article
contains no examples of censorship or 'feel-good' essays...The caption
reads: 'Women are being abused, even mutilated...All in the Name of
Islam....'
"Fergus M. Bodewich's, 'A Holy War Heads Our Way,' was published in the
January 1995 Digest. To emphasize that readers have reason to fear Islam...
"In the Digest's March 1996 issue, Brian Eads writes that 'Muslim
Arabs...300 men on foot, horseback and camels,' are assassins and slavers of
Sudanese Christians...Eads misleads readers by painting all Muslim Arabs
with the same disapproving brush...
"The July 1996 Digest features another essay by Bordewich, entitled 'Alarm
Bells in the Desert.'....Bordewich quotes one Saudi who tells him, 'Teachers
and students are taken up in an Islamic fervor bordering on madness.' ...In
the Digest's February 1997 issue, New York Times columnist A.M.
Rosenthal...says that 'Almost all terrorism directed at the United States
originates in the Middle East.'"
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