When one can
not value and compare statements the normal way, through media diversity, then it is difficult to be a critical and independent citizen in democracy.
A key tool available to the Arabic, Kurdish or Somali speaker who actively seeks factual and accurate news reporting is Sveriges Radio's activities in minority languages, organized as part of Ekot.
There you
should be sure not to be exposed to inflammatory untruths.
You should actually be able to be completely bomb-proof.
That is why it is serious that the Arabic-, Kurdish- and Somali-speaking editorial offices under Ekot - which is thus aimed at a predominantly Muslim group - have made such a misleading report of Ebba Busch's statement about the Easter riots.
Instead of
giving their vulnerable listeners a correct and objective path into society, they are pointed in the direction of conspiracy and disinformation.
To replace Islamist with Muslim in the translation is to present criticism of violent extremism as a disguised Muslim hatred.
And the caption
that Ebba Busch criticized the police for "not killing many Muslims".
Such a thing does not write itself.
Whether it is the work of an incompetent translator or an incompetent journalist, it is a shocking publication - the meaning of which is eerily consistent with the Islamist sacrificial myth.
The news coverage of this event - Paludan's tour, the riots, and Ebba Busch's startling comment - has been difficult and important.
Extra important for newsrooms that target predominantly Muslim-speaking minorities.
It is serious that the newsrooms seem to have collapsed into their target groups 'corrosive nightmare visions - instead of defending their, and the target groups', place in the open society.
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