"Thirty-five people dead in Paris. They don't know what it is yet. Not sure if there were bombs." That was the text message I received on Friday during my walk home from Rice University. "Here we go again," I thought... My first reaction: The media will instantly assume Muslims carried out the attack, regardless of whether Muslims were even involved. That is standard fare these days in the media. Violence = Islam = Terrorism. My second reaction concerned my social media feeds. I had a gut feeling that my Facebook "friends" were going to pour their hearts out for the killings in Paris. I was right. And I was a bit annoyed by that. "TERROR." That was the first word that I saw on CNN when I got...
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