The International Media Council of the Next Century Foundation is convinced that the honesty or dishonesty of media affects the mental health of the world. Freedom of expression is vital as a means of permitting all views to flourish peacefully. It is a cliché that the price of this freedom must be continual vigilance – in particular vigilance to identify and expose the encouragement of malice, war and the incident of hate speech and image.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
In a strong show of solidarity, US President Bush and Turkish Premier Erdogan held a two hour meeting yesterday. Bush gave his support for Turkey's entry into the EU and praised Turkey for her help in the war on terror. However, after the meeting Erdogan was critical of US rhetoric in the war on terror - he said referring to Islamo-facists was offensive to many muslims and "In the same way we consider anti-semitism as a crime against humanity, Islamo-phobia is also a crime against humanity."
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And by the same token, racism and xenophobia, wherever you find it, is a crime gainst humanity.
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