Hi, well, this is my first blog post after quite a while and I was quite inspired by someone on my twitter who posted one of her blogs and it just reminded me of how I loved to get my point across about things I really do care about but I've never really published my views as such due to, I guess, the fear of being judged but I figured, not everyone has to comply with what I'm saying and that's the absolute beauty of it.
One thing that has really been bugging me recently is media. The idea, the concept of media is one of which is central to our everyday lives, we are influenced, brainwashed if you will, by it no matter where, who and what we're doing. Now, media can be used in a positive and a negative way, depending on who it's coming from but I think majority if the time, it's not used to its full potential. Think about it, the media has so much power and is so strong in influencing people, don't you think that if used correctly, we could use it for good? Sadly, it's not the case. When I typed in "media" into Wikipedia, I was amused to find a list, amongst which was a title "news media (united states)". This, to me, was not surprising as we're all aware the majority of media is owned by the US but after looking into it further I saw that the Persians and places that are now Iran and Iraq played a prevalent role in introducing media. Well, isn't that interesting. The people who were most likely of Islamic descent brought about the media, they brought about algebra and other groundbreaking discoveries such as Dr. Fatima Al-Thallab from Kuwait: she invented a nursing device for feeding infants with a cleft lip and/or cleft pallet. Nobody remembers these advanced discoveries from MUSLIM people? Why? As they're too busy focusing on the negative part of Islam.
The same media that the Persians helped to create, is now being used to alienate and destroy them. Media obviously doesn't like religion too much right? In particular media doesn't like Islam.
Whenever a Muslim man or woman does something unacceptable in society, their religion is always brought up but if we look at someone like Jimmy Savile, I have never to this day heard this crime regarded as an 'act of terrorism' and I have never heard anything about his race or religion, because evidently it's not important. At the end of the day, we're all human beings, we're made of the same matter, the same atoms, everything. Maybe our languages are different, maybe the amounts of melanin in our skin is different but we are all the same, therefore we should be equal. We're not, but we should be.
To draw a conclusion to this whirlwind of thoughts;
1) We should use the resources around us to spread as much good and as much love as we can, at the end of the day, what is producing hate going to get you? Happiness? No.
2) Never just focus on the negative parts of something, there is ALWAYS a counter-argument and a bright side. Of course, things may appear to be negative, us as humans do like to highlight negativity but it's your job to find the underlying good.
3) The media is stupid.
One thing that has really been bugging me recently is media. The idea, the concept of media is one of which is central to our everyday lives, we are influenced, brainwashed if you will, by it no matter where, who and what we're doing. Now, media can be used in a positive and a negative way, depending on who it's coming from but I think majority if the time, it's not used to its full potential. Think about it, the media has so much power and is so strong in influencing people, don't you think that if used correctly, we could use it for good? Sadly, it's not the case. When I typed in "media" into Wikipedia, I was amused to find a list, amongst which was a title "news media (united states)". This, to me, was not surprising as we're all aware the majority of media is owned by the US but after looking into it further I saw that the Persians and places that are now Iran and Iraq played a prevalent role in introducing media. Well, isn't that interesting. The people who were most likely of Islamic descent brought about the media, they brought about algebra and other groundbreaking discoveries such as Dr. Fatima Al-Thallab from Kuwait: she invented a nursing device for feeding infants with a cleft lip and/or cleft pallet. Nobody remembers these advanced discoveries from MUSLIM people? Why? As they're too busy focusing on the negative part of Islam.
The same media that the Persians helped to create, is now being used to alienate and destroy them. Media obviously doesn't like religion too much right? In particular media doesn't like Islam.
Whenever a Muslim man or woman does something unacceptable in society, their religion is always brought up but if we look at someone like Jimmy Savile, I have never to this day heard this crime regarded as an 'act of terrorism' and I have never heard anything about his race or religion, because evidently it's not important. At the end of the day, we're all human beings, we're made of the same matter, the same atoms, everything. Maybe our languages are different, maybe the amounts of melanin in our skin is different but we are all the same, therefore we should be equal. We're not, but we should be.
To draw a conclusion to this whirlwind of thoughts;
1) We should use the resources around us to spread as much good and as much love as we can, at the end of the day, what is producing hate going to get you? Happiness? No.
2) Never just focus on the negative parts of something, there is ALWAYS a counter-argument and a bright side. Of course, things may appear to be negative, us as humans do like to highlight negativity but it's your job to find the underlying good.
3) The media is stupid.
Assalamu alaikum && Welcome to the world of blogging.
ReplyDeleteI hope and pray that your stay here is productive, enjoyable and all things yummy (please don't start licking your computer screen).
:)
I agree with you Zoya that the 'media has so much power and is so strong in influencing people' and it often used badly. Welcome to blogging too! x
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