I was disturbed to notice a headline on a tabloid UK newspaper today stating something along the lines of “Terror alert, Is it time to search all muslims?” This is, in my view, they very sort of language that alienates folk from the muslim culture and causes some to fight back in anger. This made me wonder whether, during the troubles in Northern Ireland years ago, we would have accepted something similar like “Terror alert, Is it time to search all Catholics?” or
“…search all Christians?”
How would all our many and varied people of the media feel if there was a headline like “Scaremonger alert, time to search all Journalists” stopping all law abiding journalists to take their holidays abroad like the rest of us?