Are Muslims the New Jews?

How the Middle East might see us if they were as selective as we are

A lot of the Middle East is pro­gress­ive, mod­ern and soph­ist­ic­ated. You have freedoms and rights, life is good and so on. Yet some select­ive report­ing does a fair bit of dam­age to the image we have of them. If you saw such select­ive views of the West, we wouldn’t look good either.I was a little uncom­fort­able with some entries on b3ta, so wanted some­thing to try and show bal­ance. Not to say I’m the only one who feels that way, of course.…

The thumb­nail below links to a higher qual­ity file for those who want some­thing sweeter:

Ataturk v. Nixon, Dubai v. Hull, Hijab v. Prostitute, Lebanese Youth v. British Youth, Turkish Magazine v. US Gun Magazines

Comments
  • Hilary

    I really liked this on b3ta and fol­lowed the links to yr blog. I’ve got fam­ily links to the Middle East and it’s good to see someone give a bal­anced view. Thanks Dave — you are loved :)

  • Thanks Hil­ary — I’m so sorry it’s taken me this long to respond. Also some unanswered e-mails.

    Was nice to get on the front­page at last!

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