Stand up to the slandering

Letter August 03, 2011
Perhaps it’s time we dispensed with the defensive whip-us-because-we-deserve-it attitude.

LAHORE: This is with reference to Hisham Wyne’s article of August 1 titled “Oslo’s many stories”. I am impressed by the writer’s apparent affection for the Islamopohobia depicted off late by the western media and the latitude that he seems to have given it for its irresponsible ‘Muslim-centric’ analysis.

However, it would definitely help contextualise the article if the writer had also given readers a bit of background of why there is such an intense desire to justify what the western media is doing. Perhaps it’s time we dispensed with the defensive whip-us-because-we-deserve-it attitude and stood up to put an end to this constant slandering by the western media.

Huma Khalid

Published in The Express Tribune, August 4th, 2011.