{"id":2082,"date":"2016-09-02T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=2082"},"modified":"2016-09-01T22:29:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T03:29:26","slug":"religion-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2016\/09\/religion-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the religion-terrorism link matters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On one occasion in Jerusalem there was a traffic accident some genius journalist reported about noting that the owner of one of the vehicles was Jewish and the owner of the other car was Palestinian. That information had less to do with that news piece than Donald Trump<\/strong> at a Nobel Prizes’ convention, because it had no relevance whatsoever in the events.<\/p>\n

Just as there are journalists willing to exploit the Arab-Israeli conflict for clickbait, there are also journalists and politicians more than willing to ignore information relevant to a story, so as not to offend<\/strong> \u2014 because it turns out that there are ‘offensive’ facts now (go figure!).<\/p>\n

From 9-11 to the attack in Nice<\/a><\/strong> (France), politicians have been very careful not to link Islam as the source of these acts of terrorism \u2014 the braver ones have used the excuse of interpretation<\/a><\/strong> and that of the ‘extremists’<\/a><\/strong>. The cowards have taken refuge in lower expectations racism, claiming all of these attacks are to be blamed on the West<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Besides the newsworthiness of the truth, there are at least three reasons why it is desirable that politicians and journalists begin to admit the relationship between religion and the terrorist acts it inspires<\/strong>:<\/p>\n