The Sun - Dangerous Editorial

I like most people, was disgusted when I read the news story about the members of the "Muslims Against the Crusades" group that were demonstrating in London (The Sun 12th Nov) their actions were utterly disrespectful, and cannot be justified in anyway. 

However, I feel that in future the press should be slightly more tactful when reporting on subjects such as this. 

Firstly, let me show you a screen shot of the tab that comes up in your browser when you click on this story. 

Ok, so to some extent this is true, the people demonstrating were of the Muslim faith. But you are talking about a very VERY small minority who has this extremist view. 

BBC News tell me there are around 1.6 million Muslims in the UK. The 'Mob' however, was made up of 40 people... 

I think it’s a total disrespect to the Muslim faith to have their religion associated with the terrible behavior of 40 people. If you want to report the story, fine. It sells papers. But surely "Angry Mob" "Extremist mob" would have got the message across just as well?

This brings me to a quote: Mohammed Shafique, of the Islamic Ramadan Foundation, said: "They are a vile, evil minority who do not respect life and certainly not Muslim life."

Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3223873/Muslim-mob-burn-giant-poppy-and-disrupt-Remembrance-Day-silence.html#ixzz15sERR0Ih

After all, no one likes a stereotype. When we play in the world cup, the whole county is behind our boys 50 million odd of us! If 20 lager filled lads smash up a bar in Cape Town that makes us all drunken hooligans then? 

Shorty after this story being published and aired on the news I checked my Facebook, where I found some uses had left their own very 'colorful' opinions on the story. Yes everyone was very angry about it and wanted to voice their opinion, but most forgot the mention that it was 40 extremists, and stuck with the Muslim tag. 

I think this is very dangerous, a story about 40 extremists in London has now been directly related to the Muslim faith, where we can see from the quote from Mohammed Shafique is not fair at all. Not only is it now related, but its been blown out of proportion on the largest social network site on the planet. 

'With great power, comes great responsibility'

The Sun is currently the highest circulated newspaper in the county. The mass media plays a hugely important role in shaping our attitudes and perceptions towards modern society.

Making such narrow minded links like this could have terrible consequences and I wish that the editorial team at the paper could show a little bit more social responsibility.