Our perception of reality is heavily influenced by what we choose to pay attention to as well as what the media decides to present to us. In both cases we are severely limited by the narrowness of those two perspectives. Recently we have been all but bombarded by images and media coverage focused on the unrest in the world apparently the result of a trashy islamophobic film entitled The Innocence of Muslims; violence which has led to or been associated with the death of the US Ambassador to Lybia, as well as to many other deaths and countless injuries. One could be forgiven I suppose in believing that every Muslim sanctions and participates in such irrational and violent reaction to something that should be dismissed out of hand as a ridiculous individual rant, of which there are countless examples in a free society.
But this would be unforgivable. Responsible thinking people should question the tendency to swallow hook line and sinker the media depiction of "news". The fact is, gaining an understanding of our world and the events that shape it requires a suspension of immediate perception in favor of a more measured and porbistic reflection. This means work, and unfortunately only an alarming few have the stomach for it. WPS
To gain some perspective on the unrest I propose the following article.
http://en.avaaz.org/783/muslim-rage-protests-newsweek-salafists?utm_source=avaaz_newsletter&utm_medium=blast&utm_campaign=stop-the-clash
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