Man punches nurse for removing wife's burqa during c-section

[Douglas Carpenter]

143. my problem with this story is that it begins with the title "French Muslim Jailed" and then thestory

begins with the words, "A Muslim man" - Then the story describes something that has nothing to do with Muslims or Islam or Islamic practices or beliefs or anything of the sort - even practices in the strictest forms of Islamic practice in the world. Then the story proceeds to support a racist and bigoted stereotype. No doubt as we speak right now there are many C-sections going on involving Muslim women. No doubt there are male health care workers in attendance at many of those c-sections. No doubt the female patient is wearing nothing other than a standard hospital gown just like they would wear anywhere in America or Europe. So why on earth is this story is titled, "French Muslim Jailed"? What does the assaulter being Muslim have to do with the story? Nothing! Absolutely nothing! "A Muslim man"? It is worded that way for the same reason that there were times and places in the world and there probably still are where a headline could have read, "Black man rapes white girl" or "Jew caught running a ponzi scheme" or "Homosexual arrested for molesting young boys". The frame of mind that would word stories that way - is the same frame of mind that could word this story this way. Take an example of something that probably really did happen and use it smear an entire people with something that has nothing to do with the practices of that people.