After the Cold War, which was the period of conflict between the US and the Soviet Union, the US remained the sole superpower in the world; moreover, after the Soviet Union, another enemy needed to be created by the policymakers in the US. Before the Cold War, the color of the enemy was Red, Communism, but then it became Green, Islam. At that time, one book that is called The Clash of Civilizations and Remaking of World Order, which is written by Samuel Huntington, was published (Seib, 2004). In the book, the author asserts that global politics will be shaped by “the clash of civilizations” (¶ 3); in fact, cultural and religious differentiations will be the source of conflict in the World (as cited in Seib, 2004). The mass media have been manipulated. In other words, a fraud, “the clash of civilizations”, was created by the mass media. Issues which are related or unrelated to Muslim people are distorted (Present right view of Islam to the West, 2001). For example, nowadays, May 19, 2007, from CNN’s Mohammed Tawfeeq and Brian Todd reported that the 17-year-old girl was stoned due to “honor killing”, which is a murder, especially for a woman who has been perceived as having brought dishonor to her family in Iraq; moreover, they broadcast that “The case portrays the tragedy and brutality of honor killings in the Muslim world”. Actually, the tenets of Islam never include “honor killing”. This issue was distorted; in fact, this issue can be clarified just by tradition, not Islam.
Posted by: mehmetsoyer | November 23, 2007


This is a very important thing to portray to both the western world, and the Islamic Ummah who seem to have built in the concept of honor killing in their culture. I wrote an article similar to this one recently about War on Terror or War on Islam. Please take a look.
Thank you.
By: destogate on November 24, 2007
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