The recent Eastleigh attack is one case in hand; you are my witness that television footage proved their biased story with video images of some people saying the grenade was thrown from along the street by men wearing Islamic attire.
Throughout the following days, they repeatedly carried the story with reports that Al-Shabaab sympathisers -supposedly meant to finger-point the Somalis- were behind the attack.
But everybody knows what the police investigations revealed. The grenade was said to have been planted inside the vehicle.
Such are the kinds of uninvestigated reports that these poor reporters and their unprofessional editors always tell their viewers every passing day, it is not a wonder that they are misinforming Kenyans therefore destroying the mutual co-existence of communities.
To assume and believe that this relentlessly down beating coverage of a marginalised minority has no effect on community relations or on integration is naive, if not deceitful.
Exposing Muslims as different and dangerous community can have serious repercussions, and local media draws attention to a growing number of Muslims who now live in daily fear; some because their Islamic identity has been associated with violence and are repeatedly harassed because of nurturing their culture, while others have been denied their basic rights and have suffered devastatingly in the hands of the security agents.
The media beats the drum for the Isolation of the Kenyan Muslims, in many ways; the press has been given free rein to effectively demonise the Islamic faith and its followers in the country, leading to victimization of local innocent Muslims.
I grow tired of having to also endure watching a barrage of lazy stereotypes, inflammatory headlines, withering generalisations and often erroneous and baseless stories.
