dealing with the media and some examples of good or not so good approaches

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#1 [Permalink] Posted on 16th April 2016 19:52

DISCLAIMER
obey the law of the land
this thread is about dealing with the media
dealing with the authorities,law enforcement is another matter and all laws of the land must be obeyed
,regarding different states of the u.s and different countries ,know your rights and obey the law

ill start with a tragedy and disastrous response

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FULL PRESS CONFERENCE from San Bernardino Shooter’s Mosque

no disrespect to the elder but
was there was no one there who could speak decent english for the introduction
if its nothing to do with islam and muslims then why have a press conference in a mosque
unable to deal with the usual loaded and incendiary questions
totally unqualified people in front of cameras
no obligation to have a press conference in a mosque,but they did
in fact,there is no obligation to have a press conference
a complete disaster of epic proportions and unbelievably naive
putting mosques at the centre of attention
unbelievable

as terrorists are not produced in mosques
mosques should not be the focal point of the media

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#2 [Permalink] Posted on 16th April 2016 20:04

unfortunately another pr disaster

by cageuk regarding the mohammed emwazi(jihadi john affair)
and acknowledgement of mistakes

www.cageuk.org/press-release/cage-and-mohammed-emwazi-cas...

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#3 [Permalink] Posted on 16th April 2016 20:08

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an excellent response to murder

A British Imam's Response to the Woolwich Killing

an absolute masterclass in wisdom/communication and sensitivity

shaykh shams ud duha
EBRAHIM COLLEGE

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#4 [Permalink] Posted on 16th April 2016 20:46

5pillarsuk.com/2015/12/14/four-strategies-to-combat-media...

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Muslim bubble

Despite everything I’ve said above I do also believe that Muslims need to be introspective.

Many Muslim community activists now exist in a sort of “Muslim bubble” where their opinions and strategies are simply re-inforced by fellow activists. This, of course, isn’t always a bad thing because it’s essential that we encourage and support each other, especially when we’re being attacked. But it can also lead to lazy group-think and to mistakes which cannot be rectified easily after the damage has been done.

So while our intentions may well be to advance our narrative and counter Islamophobia, the wrong media strategy may well end up damaging our narrative and feeding Islamophobia.

I think CAGE’s Mohammed Emwazi strategy and Asghar Bukhari’s “Mossad-ate-my-shoe viral video” from this year are good examples of that.

Was Asghar Bukhari's video a PR own goal?

Asghar, you might remember, claimed he was being harassed by Mossad who were moving his slippers about to confuse him. But whatever the veracity of his claims, he ended up giving his enemies an excuse to laugh at him.

We must understand the psychology of the wider audience. Arguments that may wash in the Muslim community may well gain no traction in the majority non-Muslim community in which we live.

So when we go on national television and say: “Muhammad Emwazi was radicalised by the security services” (which would be a controversial argument within the Muslim community itself), the majority audience will think: “How does that justify him beheading all those people?”

When we say he was “a beautiful young man” they will think: “why is he praising a bloodthirsty killer?”

When we refuse to condemn Muhammad Emwazi for committing those crimes on the basis that his actions have nothing to do with us, the majority audience will hear: “He’s evading the question because he really sympathises with him.”

So by humanising a serial killer and by refusing to condemn him for justified-yet-complicated reasons, we are allowing ourselves to be put on the back foot.

And instead of spending the little airtime that we have talking about what we want to talk about – such as the role of foreign policy and the security services in radicalising Muslim youth – we spend all of the time trying to fend off irrelevant questions about whether we are apologists for terror.

As for the Mossad-ate-my-shoe stuff, I won’t even bother explaining why that was a PR own goal.

What will this achieve?

Muslims are a minority in this country and to some extent or another we will always be fighting an uphill battle to claim our rights. So even if the community unites and implements my recommendations to the letter (which of course they won’t), the Islamophobic stories and TV programmes will continue.

So it’s a case of hunkering down, getting organised, being brave and doing the best we can.

This article is taken from a speech Roshan delivered to an IHRC conference on

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#5 [Permalink] Posted on 16th April 2016 23:21

bbc4 the deobandis part 2...

aiman dean at 19 minutes amongst other so called "facts" creates a nonsensical link between the fear of hell(repeated for impact no doubt) leading to a desire for martyrdom ROFL..
..ill let the scholars and jurists take this illogical and asinine statement apart

bismillāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm ("In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the most Merciful").
this is recited before virtually EVERY act of a muslim...
ALLAH TAALA IS MOST GRACIOUS ,MOST MERCIFUL,recited possibly hundreds of times a day by all muslims,
taught to toddlers for some even the first word before even "mother" or "maa"
thus Allah taala most gracious most merciful is what is repeated countless times a day from toddlers to even the bedridden elderly

tauha qureshi....the ahmadi issue...total disaster ,

once again,if you are not able to articulate in good clear english,without an accent
if you cannot stay away from conspiracy theories and emotional outbursts.
if you do not know your own subject matter and limitations,
also if you have not asked for the questions in advance
if you are not also recording the interview with a witness with all legal rights upheld,in case of heavy editing
if you cannot handle a radio interviewer and react as if you are being grilled by MI5,

then
PLEASE DO NOT DO INTERVIEWS,leave it to the experts or men of experience and knowhow

research being "blindsided" and "ambushed",,and research your interviewer thoroughly beforehand

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#6 [Permalink] Posted on 17th April 2016 14:47

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Germany's planning new rules requiring refugees to integrate better into society - or get their welfare benefits cut. Hansjorg Mueller, Alternative for Germany Party, and Dilly Hussain, Deputy Editor at @5PillarsUK, discuss the issue

sensible balanced and well articulated by dilly

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