Indonesia criticises Western reporting on Muslims

03 Sep, 2006

Western media apply double standards when reporting on Muslims and are often ignorant about sensitive issues for the religion, Indonesia's president was quoted by the Antara state news agency as saying on Saturday.
"If non-Muslims are killed in fighting, then the Western media exaggerates the news. But this is not the case when Muslims are killed in Palestine, Iraq and Lebanon," President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono told a conference on the resort island of Bali.

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