Thursday, June 5, 2008
PLEASE STOP SPREADING LIES THROUGH EMAIL!
"An 8 years (sic) old child...caught in a market in Iran for stealing bread... In the name of Islam he is being punished, his arm will be crushed by a car. He will loose (sic) forever the possibility to use his arm again. Is this a religion of peace and love?"
Click
here to see WHY THE EMAIL IS A LIE.
I am really pissed, that people, especially PEOPLE FROM SINGAPORE, are still forwarding such messages and passing it around. I mean, we all all educated on racial harmony and everything. But why is it that there are still people who are not mature enough to understand what's racist and are still passing on emails that contain blatant lies? You know, we should all start exercising some MEDIA RESPONSIBILTY. and only forwarding things that are not discriminatory or insulting, or worse, UNTRUE. like, forward some inspiring quotes or inspiring stories. whatever.
This is a response i read on the net, from
New Texture: The Blog"the deliberately misleading explanation of the photos makes it obvious that this is clear anti-Islam propaganda, being shared for the sole purpose of making people from another culture seem like alien monsters—which then makes it that much easier for us to not give a fuck when we invade and begin killing them, even instilling a sense of moral outrage (false, but who cares?) to somehow justify our actions.
So yes, it's more
xenophobic bullshit."
It's not the first time I'm receiving such emails, about some religion being better than another, or some religion having committed some really horrible things that we should all condemn. Or stupid emails saying that somebody has cancer and sending it on will give them money. It's getting on my nerves.
Also from
New Texture: The Blog"As strongly as I believe these emails are created and started by people with a very ugly agenda, I also believe that the majority of people who pass them along do so because they truly feel they are doing a good and noble thing. The only question is, does this streak of nobility that compels us to forward an email run deep enough that we'll spend an extra minute confirming whether or not we're spreading lies?"
Yes, please.
SPEND AN EXTRA MINUTE CONFIRMING WHETHER OR NOT YOU'RE SPREADING LIES. (if you're unsure.) Because this email, is quite obviously a lie.
And I'm upset that this email can still spread so far.
;4:45 PM
