Why Leveson Inquiry Must Investigate Treatment Of Muslims At The Hands of British Media

By Sikander Hayat

English press’s hatred against the Muslims who are living in United Kingdom must be investigated in great detail. The press spew venom at Muslims anytime it wants. You have to be blind to not see the openly biased coverage of any events involving Muslims.
By providing circumstantial evidence and conducting a media trial for weeks on end is not justice but a try to imprint on the minds of general British public that “these guys” are cheats and in the process sow the seeds of mistrust among different communities of Britain. They did the same against the Jews just before the Second World War. Same is true for Muslims now. Let us see if the consequences of this hate mongering are different this time around because the history does repeat itself, sometimes.

This situation must be investigated by the Leveson Inquiry in great detail. 

According to Wikipedia "The Leveson Inquiry is an ongoing public inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press following the News International phone hacking scandal. On 6 July 2011, Prime Minister David Cameron announced to Parliament that a public government inquiry would convene to further investigate the affair. On 13 July, Cameron appointed Lord Justice Leveson as Chairman of the inquiry, with a remit to look into the specific claims about phone hacking at the News of the World, the initial police inquiry and allegations of illicit payments to police by the press, and a second inquiry to review the general culture and ethics of the British media". 

Will this enquiry look into the constant lies that British Media in its entirety has spread about
 Muslim in general & British Muslims in particular. Since 11 September 2001, there has not been a day gone when there has not been a bad story about Muslims. Muslim organizations have not been strong enough to challenge the constant lies in the media. I do not deny that there must have been some cases where they have reported correctly but overwhelming majority of these stories have been fabricated. 
There might have been one or two newspapers like Independent who have been less responsible of this character assassination of a community but on the whole everyone has played their part. 

Lord Justice Leveson must ask this question of the people responsible for the editorials and invite Muslim community and ordinary members of the community whose lives have been destroyed by this witch hunt. 

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