The funding angle deserves more examination than it usually gets. Most media criticism stays surface-level about bias without tracing where institutional funding actually shapes coverage priorities. When state-backed outlets operate in foreign markets, the economic dependencies create constraints that aren't always visible to audiences. I once worked with a team analyzing media ownership structures across differetn regions and the gap between stated editorial independence and actual operational constraints was pretty wild.
You are mixing terminologies, so let's start there...
Islam is a theocracy: a set of beliefs (and associated practices) and traditions that also serves as a government; there is no separation between the two.
A Muslim is someone who believes in the tenets of Islam and follows its practices and rules.
An Islamist is someone who believes that the rules of Islam should be enforced on non-Muslims or should, in some way, inform and influence state legislation.
You will find that it is mostly Blue jurisdictions pushing Muslim Cultural Heritage month - why? rules for thee but not for me... hypocrisy is their mainstay, they do not know how to function without it (always waiting for someone to prove me wrong on this, but it has not happened once in 30+ years). Also, Muslim is not a culture but a reference to a person's belief in Islam. Culture is associated with heritage and nationality - an Arab Muslim will have an entirely different culture from an Afghan or Iraqi Muslim.
The term "Separation of church and state" does not exist in our Constitution nor its amendments - it is a liberal terminology that is consistently taken out of text from a letter Jefferson wrote in 1802 to the Danbury Baptists Association, the term is in the 2nd paragraph (https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpost.html)...
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" thus building a wall of eternal separation between Church & State. Congress thus inhibited from acts respecting religion, and the Executive authorised only to execute their acts, I have refrained from prescribing even those occasional performances of devotion, practiced indeed by the Executive of another nation as the legal head of its church, but subject here, as religious exercises only to the voluntary regulations and discipline of each respective sect, ..."
ACLU is a pro-communist organization that heavily favors Democrats (of course) and is known for its wavering stances on many topics. Which means that if there are going to be any lawsuits, it is We the People who will have to initiate and sponsor them.
You're asking good questions; however, your terminology needs some honing...
The funding angle deserves more examination than it usually gets. Most media criticism stays surface-level about bias without tracing where institutional funding actually shapes coverage priorities. When state-backed outlets operate in foreign markets, the economic dependencies create constraints that aren't always visible to audiences. I once worked with a team analyzing media ownership structures across differetn regions and the gap between stated editorial independence and actual operational constraints was pretty wild.
You are mixing terminologies, so let's start there...
Islam is a theocracy: a set of beliefs (and associated practices) and traditions that also serves as a government; there is no separation between the two.
A Muslim is someone who believes in the tenets of Islam and follows its practices and rules.
An Islamist is someone who believes that the rules of Islam should be enforced on non-Muslims or should, in some way, inform and influence state legislation.
You will find that it is mostly Blue jurisdictions pushing Muslim Cultural Heritage month - why? rules for thee but not for me... hypocrisy is their mainstay, they do not know how to function without it (always waiting for someone to prove me wrong on this, but it has not happened once in 30+ years). Also, Muslim is not a culture but a reference to a person's belief in Islam. Culture is associated with heritage and nationality - an Arab Muslim will have an entirely different culture from an Afghan or Iraqi Muslim.
The term "Separation of church and state" does not exist in our Constitution nor its amendments - it is a liberal terminology that is consistently taken out of text from a letter Jefferson wrote in 1802 to the Danbury Baptists Association, the term is in the 2nd paragraph (https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpost.html)...
"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" thus building a wall of eternal separation between Church & State. Congress thus inhibited from acts respecting religion, and the Executive authorised only to execute their acts, I have refrained from prescribing even those occasional performances of devotion, practiced indeed by the Executive of another nation as the legal head of its church, but subject here, as religious exercises only to the voluntary regulations and discipline of each respective sect, ..."
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ACLU is a pro-communist organization that heavily favors Democrats (of course) and is known for its wavering stances on many topics. Which means that if there are going to be any lawsuits, it is We the People who will have to initiate and sponsor them.
You're asking good questions; however, your terminology needs some honing...