Muslims Getting Special Treatment by Media

What should not be hgappening - special treatment in the media - is happening over the subject of Islam and MUslims as Western media outlets bow down to the violence and threats Muslims are puting forth. Tomorrow, they plan to demonstrate at the Danish Embassy in New York City.

Even the European Union is considering making special rules exempting Islam from the same treatment and media coverage as other religions and cultures. Freedom of speech is going down the toilet very quickly.

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COPENHAGEN (AFX) - The editor of the Danish newspaper that first published the controversial prophet Mohammed cartoons said the media was giving Muslims special treatment as a result of the subsequent uproar.

'It turned out that the freedom of the press crumbled much more quickly than I thought. It seems to me that the freedom of the press the world over is being limited as Muslims are being given special treatment,' Jyllands-Posten editor Carsten Juste told the Danish daily Kristelig Dagbladet.

'The result is that these privileges are going to be extended even further,' Juste warned, saying he was 'very ill at ease with what is happening at the moment'.

Juste said religious belief was a private matter, but it had entered the public arena like never before.

'Now we have to be careful about things we never thought we would have to be careful about,' such as writing about the oppression of women in Muslim societies, he said.

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