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Religion and Politics

Americans want to learn about religion, it is a topic they are interested in above all else being covered in the media, well newspapers at least. Sadly though, as has been popular thought for a while, reader's are most dissatisfied with the type of coverage that the media is giving in regards to religion. One main issue they have with America is the mass amounts of coverage the Christian Right get, so what about the religious left?It seems like when an issue arises that involves people on that end of the spectrum, the story is turned around to make it seem like they are making radical, immoral decisions, such as Bill Clinton's support of homosexual rights. Another argument they made was that

"Meanwhile, Islam, with its emphasis on social justice and racial equality, has been caricatured as violent, irrational and bigoted."

Now I have a biased view on something like this, as I see the only reason there is positive coverage of Jews with Christians is because they have ulterior motives having to do with their savior. But I do agree that for the most part, Islam is considered as a bigoted and irrational people. My personal opinion is that for the most part, they are a passionate kind religious group, their portion of extremists tend to outnumber and outdo the extremists in any other religion. Along with the fact that they use violence as an everyday solution to problems. But in the end, the media does need to better itself when it comes to something so important as religion. Tensions are bad enough already and the media needs to get over its selfish greedy ways and stop making biased reports that pin one group against another. One day we'll learn, hopefully it won't be too late.