Doing an analysis of an article as part of the examination of my course and chose the following (in Swedish), Terrorism sker inte i Guds eller Allahs namn by Carina Bergfeldt. She's written a great article in response to what happened in Paris yesterday, opposing all generalizations about muslims and the hatred that follows after a terror attack like yesterday.
A quote from the article that really breaks it down and shows how messed up the world is:
Put a weapon in the hand of a white man who kills 77 people in Norway, and we talk about the lone perpetrator's psyche, how it could go wrong.
Put a gun in the hand of a black man who kills two policemen in New York, and we discuss his skin color and publishes statistics on how blacks are overrepresented in prison.
Put weapons in the hands of three Islamists who commits a heinous deed, killing 12 journalists in Paris, and we talk about their religion.
When the perpetrator is a Muslim he does not apply to the same rules as when he is white.
A quote from the article that really breaks it down and shows how messed up the world is:
Put a weapon in the hand of a white man who kills 77 people in Norway, and we talk about the lone perpetrator's psyche, how it could go wrong.
Put a gun in the hand of a black man who kills two policemen in New York, and we discuss his skin color and publishes statistics on how blacks are overrepresented in prison.
Put weapons in the hands of three Islamists who commits a heinous deed, killing 12 journalists in Paris, and we talk about their religion.
When the perpetrator is a Muslim he does not apply to the same rules as when he is white.
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