US media behind worsening Islamophobia: Reported

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Wednesday 18 Feb 2015 - 14:16 Makkah mean time-29-4-1436 US media behind worsening Islamophobia: Reported Pic from PressTV Kuala Lumpur, (IINA) - The biased media and political environment in the United States are largely responsible for the “worsening” Islamophobia across the country, a writer and public speaker in Malaysia says, TV press reported. “The American people are basically consumers of news media, whatever they hear, they believe,” Raya Shokatfard told Press TV in a phone interview on Tuesday. “So, naturally when they believe whatever they see and whatever they hear, it creates some feeling of hatred towards Muslims,” she said. Shokatfard said the shooting deaths of three American Muslim students by a neighbor in North Carolina last week was hardly covered by American news organizations. After the massacre, the FBI has opened a preliminary inquiry into the murders to determine whether or not any federal laws were violated. Shokatfard noted, “This does not mean this is the end of it, the FBI is going to check into this and it’s going to be the end of it.” SM/IINA