Tom Facchine – But What About The Muslims In France

			The West has always looked for examples that prove its own superiority.
		

			The West has always looked for examples in the Muslim world and the eastern world, wherever you want
to call it, that prove its own superiority, meaning the West superiority. That's why when something
happens in a Muslim country, in Africa, and Asia, anywhere outside of the West, that makes us look
bad, even if it is bad, right? It might be bad, but it makes us look bad, you're going to see an
asymmetry of attention, you're going to see an asymmetry of media coverage, all the sorts of issues
that, for example, prove that the West for example, I'll give you a tiny example, a few years ago,
there was some Saudi girl who fled her country fled her family, and then was given political asylum
		

			in Canada was a big media spectacle. And Allah knows best. Maybe she had an abusive relationship.
Maybe it was really, really bad. But that's not the point. The point is look at the degree of media
fanfare that she received. Why, because of what she symbolized she symbolized to the west, that the
West is a place of tolerance and freedom and all these things. It was a narrative that the West can
pat their back in and say, look at us, aren't we superior? Aren't we enlightened? Aren't we better
than them? Right? Even if in other countries, maybe not in this particular case. But even if the
West is the reason, the underlying reason for destabilizing places in Africa and Asia and messing
		

			and interfering in their elections and causing poverty and colonizing their lands and stealing their
resources, right, or installing a corrupt dictator? Right? Then when the results happen, anything
that makes it look bad, it's going to receive a lot of media attention, because it makes the West
look good and feel superior. Right? Whereas when something similar happens in the West, and it does,
let's talk about the sort of intolerance that we see in France towards religious practice or
whatever. This is not something that's blasted on the the main media outlets, right, in addition to
the fact that the media is based off of scandal and outrage, and these things make money. There's
		

			also something else here, a sort of idea about trying to get people people lose sight of the fact
that the media doesn't just report on the news. It actually produces our sensibilities and our
associations, right. It's a tool for influence, and so the media attempts to assert and reassert a
sense of superiority, Western superiority over the rest of the world.