This week there has been a man who threatened many Muslim people and said that he was out to "kill Muslims", deliberately targeted women in headscarves and eventually stabbed a man in forest hill. Then tonight three people were killed in an attack on a Swiss mosque. I think it's strange that I saw neither of these mentioned on the TV news, nor prominently featured on the BBC website. These are not the only similar events that have been very underreported this year
I absolutely understand that the attacks in Berlin tonight we're of a much larger scale and deserved more coverage. Of course the majority of the news tonight was rightly on this sad and shocking event.
However, I feel that by underreporting attacks on Muslims, the news, particularly the BBC, is encouraging a view that these attacks are due to a clash between religious and cultutral values, when really it is a clash between hateful people and everyone else. Most Muslims, Christians, athirsts etc are just people who are being hurt by the acts of a few sick, damaged people who have let hate consume them.