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No Islam Radical, Cristians Radical, Government Terrorisme, Media Terrorisme Every time an act of terror or shooting occurs, Muslims closely watch the news with extreme trepidation praying that the suspect is not Muslim. This is not because these terrorists are likely to be Muslim but rather because in the instances where they happen to be, we see amplified mass media coverage and extreme unjustified hatred towards Muslims. As a Muslim, I am tired of condemning terrorist attacks being carried out by inherently violent people who hijack my religion. I am tired of condemning these attacks to people who are calm and apathetic when Muslims are killed by these same radicalized terrorists. I am tired of hearing the word “terrorist” not being used when the suspect in a terrorist attack is a non-Muslim. I am tired of the “mentally disabled” excuse being recycled when the suspect in a terrorist attack is a Caucasian. I am tired of seeing hundreds of terrorist attacks carried out b...

Jason Merritt/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Everyone might be obsessed with Lorde's latest release, Melodrama, right now, but something she said recently has put the 20-year-old in the middle of a controversy. On Monday evening, an interview with The Guardian came out where Lorde compared being friends with Taylor Swift to having an autoimmune disease, and fans were understandably offended. The good news? Lorde has already apologized for her insensitive comment, and even though it can't change the damage that's already been done, it was the right thing to do. In the interview, Lorde was trying to explain how being friends with someone like Swift comes with a very specific list of dos and don'ts, considering how famous she is - where they can and cannot go. What they can realistically do when they hang out - and then compared that to the way people who live with extreme allergies must live. She said: "It's like having a friend with very...