I'm currently on my lunch break (chipotle), so I'll try to make this quick. So I can get back to my burrito bowl. There's a news article being shared around facebook right now about the tragic shooting at UNC chapel hill- http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/2/11/three-students-shot-dead-near-unc-chapel-hill.html.
In the article, the police report suggests the the motivation seems to be related to an ongoing dispute the students had with a neighbor regarding parking.
Here's the fun part-
Their religion apparently had absolutely nothing to do with what happened. The fact they were muslim appears to be as relevant to the situation as what genders they are, or what they were studying, yet the headline proclaims front and center that they were muslim.
The end result of this is a lot of people decrying the biased mainstream media for not covering this shooting of the muslims as a result of their own islamophobia.
The shyamala-llama twist- The article is actually preying on fears of islamophobia, not actual islamophobia. Because the shooting had nothing to do with them being muslim, the authors prey on their audience's fear of islamophobia to incite their audience to action.
I'm not sure I did my thought process here justice, but like i said I'm eating some chipotle right now. Kinda distracting.
Also, it's not that islamophobia isn't real, it's just not relevant to this case.
