Wow! You really know how to piss a guy off! Ok, here goes:
(1) You should read my post again. But this time, pay particular attention to the part that says "SINCE 2002". The range of 105 - 160 is the lowest and the highest from 2002 to 2013 (2014 and 2015 are not out yet). Your lack of reading comprehension is not really my problem. I can appreciate that English is a second language but going off without reading something carefully?
(2) Every group that has shown up to the U.S. has faced discrimination at some point or the other. Ask the Italians, Irish and the Chinese how badly they were treated when they started showing up. How about the Japanese who were sent to internment camps during World War II? Think you're being treated worse than that? What's happening to the Muslims today is nothing compared to that. You should consider doing what they did. Sack up, work hard and get on with life. The bitching and moaning doesn't endear you to anyone.
(3) In life, we don't get to decide what someone thinks or says about us. That includes media outlets. There is no point in saying they should or shouldn't have something on. But at some point you're going to have to ask yourself why it's not say, Japan that gets all the negative coverage. Could it be that the entire media is pro-Japan? Or is it more likely they aren't out there embarrassing themselves?
The most important point ( that you obviously missed in your zeal to fire back a response) was that people (not just Americans) love to isolate someone and gang up on them. We see it in children and we see it among employees. It just makes them feel better about themselves and makes them forget their failings in life.
(4) This is just you projecting your insecurities on me. I didn't say any of those things. And to be honest, I wasn't even thinking it. I just thought you were trying to say that just because you're a liberal doesn't make you unamerican. Notice that I said "views" and not background or ethnicity in my previous post, you know, the one you're overreacting to?
(5) Already answered along with (1). One of the biggest reasons I try to avoid making idiotic references like your MLS reference is to avoid this very moment. In a split second, you can go from an intelligent poster to an ignorant douche.
Regarding the rest of your post, the only way can make the media stop sensationalizing this stuff is to stop believing everything they say. If we're not buying it, it won't be on the air. So it's really up to us to decide what goes on the air and what doesn't. Being integrated into American society on the other hand, is not our choice to make but it's rather up to the immigrant. Living in group just with their own, doesn't help. It only serves to alienate them from the rest of the populace. Yes, Britain and France made mistakes but you and I will disagree on what they are. So let's leave that for another day.
Good night.
You obviously have no experience in media, its role or how it can literally brain wash an entire population. You are trying to make some points that obviously have no common sense to them.
1) There is no reading comprehension issues. Frankly speaking, you threw English as a second language on me, lol. That tells me your mindset. No wonder almost every doctor, engineer and anyone with actual brains comes from a diversified family background. Take a look at the Indians who revolutionized out tech sector since the 90's, you think we, as a nation could even breathe without smart, educated people who came to us and now their second or third generation is actually the top 1% earners of this country? Time to go back to your open garage, play the honky tonk, "my girlfriend left, I got a dog and I am sipping my beer" music loud. This intellect thing here, is a little too much for you. You wrote me a book above without even making one point. What an awesome job!
2) I agree, every group showed up faced discrimination. But the group under question and you clearly ignoring the fact, has been here since the 1900's, they have ALREADY been through discrimination. If you don't know the history for automakers in Michigan and up state NY, then you need to get edu-macated first before writing on a topic (pissing you off again, please point my ghetto Ebonics and English out to me without yet making a smart and intelligent point).
3) In life we don't decide what others say. But when others start to kill your family members or threaten you or tell you to leave your country and go back somewhere else, you think that can be ignored? You have obviously never been a minority. Go live in Saudia for a few weeks or Jordan or somewhere you may feel a similar sentiment. I'd love to see how you react. Once upon a time, I met with a professor who was teaching PHD courses on Middle East. I asked him how much experience he had in that subject. His answer was, I took a couple of courses in the Syria in a university. I was shocked to see that this moron, who barely sounds like an intellect, has lived in a foreign country for six months, doesn't speak the language or can ever understand the culture in just as little as 6 months......is teaching a PHD course on probably the World's most sensitive and fuked up geography. How great? You remind me of that person!
4) Ganging up on others? No, I don't think that's the case and I never said that. I am pointing out what is true. If you can't take it, like I said, play your country music in your garage by your truck and don't indulge in a conversation that requires you to know a few more things than what you are used to.
America is an open society. When the leaders at the level of Palin or Bachmann openly discriminate and show hostility towards a group, religion or a type of individuals, their followers would do the same. The leaders build a culture. Like our forefathers did with the bill of rights and eventually it changed America and made it the most successful nation on the planet.
THAT is what I am saying, the growing Islamophobia and intolerance as a whole, isn't healthy and will cause us issues if we don't act responsibly.
5) As far as the media is concerned, how many average Americans leave "Fux" news and go try to find the "truth" somewhere else? And "fux" news runs on what? Hatred for Islam as their primary objective for many years, bigotry and hatred. How come they don't ever show MILLIONS of Muslims and Christians who have been killed in India by Hindu extremists? Who have been burnt in their homes alive by Hindu extremists whether young kids or adults???? because India does business with majority of the big guys supporting the fux news type of outlets. So you'll never see the real picture!!! How come our President told the Indians about the Hindu extremism but on our tv stations, unlike Islam, there hasn't been one documentary on how millions have been killed or forcefully converted to Hinduism? And I am not saying just one simple documentary, I am saying apples to apples comparisons, show me even effort towards that. Well, there is none!!! Due to business reasons and political alignment with them due to China. So we ignore Humans getting killed elsewhere but we cry and highlight when its a Muslim. Don't you think it should be the same for everyone?
You can't ignore what the media says, its how that works. If you think you can, may be you are ONE individual out of millions and hats off to you. Other than that, average American has less then 2-3 hours of family time per evening including watching the tv. You think people are so keen in finding out the "truth" after a long day at work and then dealing with families and kids?
6) We are not talking about me being liberal or not. What we are talking about is the fact when your leaders set the culture wrong, it goes down to the last level. Which is what you are seeing here.
BTW: you still haven't shown me proofs I asked for, where you can show me similar events, killing of American students and all, who are muslims, mosque attacks, etc, etc. from the 80's or the 90's??? Unless you can credentialize your stance, its useless to debate.
And for the record, I don't have any insecurities, when I write, I write the truth and obviously its not the most popular thing to do, see or hear. No one wants to hear their baby's ugly or one of them at the least.
