Couple of days i was sick so couldn't catch up with you guys.
Gunner: Yes intimidation is an instrument which dictator Governments can and will try control uprisings, it usually done by spreading fear by Security and Militia Apparatus, But that's not the pilot which such Regimes can stand on, they need legitimacy and that's when Ideology or a Specific Religion comes to playing table. In fifth century it was Christianity and now Islam and Communism in many countries.
Media is not a router in politics by it's own Kidd, it's an instrument to express thoughts and direct mass people into a subject, and unfortunately religion has many open doors for the ones who want to enter with sword at hand.