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NBC, AP Avoid 'M-word' in Report About 'Honor Killings'
Newsbusters ^ | January 30, 2012 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 01/30/2012 6:21:52 PM PST by PJ-Comix

It is the religion that dare not speak its name...at least on NBC News and at the Associated Press among other politically correct circles. Both media outlets reported on a verdict in an "honor killings" case in Canada while managing to avoid mentioning a certain religion whose name starts with "M." To watch or read both reports, you would think that "honor killings" was some sort of bizarre ritual limited to the family in question or perhaps a few other members of an unspoken "patriarchal culture.

First the AP report on the MSNBC site which does mention a religion but not the one you think:

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: associatedpress; honorkillings; intimidation; liberalmedia; muslimwomen; muslimworld; nbcnews
HUffPo also avoided the "M-word" in reporting on this case.
1 posted on 01/30/2012 6:22:02 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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2 posted on 01/30/2012 6:26:51 PM PST by Roscoe Karns
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It must be those danged “M(ormans)” again.

They get blamed for more things now that they don’t have George Bush to kick arround , anymore .... /sarc


3 posted on 01/30/2012 6:35:15 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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I noticed that as well in the article I read. No reference to the M word. However, they did manage to call the father “ultra-conservative”.


4 posted on 01/30/2012 6:42:47 PM PST by crusadersoldier
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I’d bet on a meth head following Dave Ramsay’s Money Makeover before the media mentioning Muslims in a bad light.


5 posted on 01/30/2012 6:43:49 PM PST by InvisibleChurch ( go in peace , serve the Lord)
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gotta be the Amish...its in code!..ask Maxine Waters!...she knows code!!!


6 posted on 01/30/2012 6:45:27 PM PST by M-cubed
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Are we certain it wasn’t an honor killing resulting from a feud in a Canadian branch of the Calabrese Ndrangheta? I know I have paisan living in Ontario. I’m sure NBC will follow this lead.


7 posted on 01/30/2012 6:48:59 PM PST by xkaydet65 (IACTA ALEA EST!!!')
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I know! I know! METHODISTS! No, No.

Mormons! Nah.
Molochites? Not quite.

Memphisites, followers of Elvis the Divine! Not sure..

Man it’s right on the tip of my tongue. I feel muzzled! Maybe I am hungry and need mo ham.

Maybe the barbed wire cut me ( been fixing fence). Need to wrap a rag around my head to stop the bleeding..

Boy this is tough! I thought I was shaira-p on these things.

Just not my day.


8 posted on 01/30/2012 6:57:25 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Sorry ... they didnt even label him ultra conservative ... just your run of the mill conservative:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/30/us-crime-honor-idUSTRE80S0Q520120130?feedType=RSS&feedName=everything&virtualBrandChannel=11563


9 posted on 01/30/2012 7:03:39 PM PST by crusadersoldier
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But it’s sharia compliant!!!!


10 posted on 01/30/2012 7:04:27 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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I’m thinking “Methodists”.

It’s not Islam, since that religion begins with a letter “I”.


11 posted on 01/30/2012 7:10:23 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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Not to be confused with the “honor killings” in Mexico...


12 posted on 01/30/2012 7:11:08 PM PST by citizencon
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Remember the Christmas Day murders in Grapevine< TX, when a father murdered six family members before committing suicide. It was a major news story until it became known that the family was Muslim and was unhappy that his daughter was “becoming westernized.”

Mysteriously the media interest suddenly died.


13 posted on 01/30/2012 7:24:15 PM PST by bwc2221
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Both media outlets reported on a verdict in an "honor killings" case in Canada while managing to avoid mentioning a certain religion whose name starts with "M."

Those darn Mennonites! Mennonites with the moniker Mohammad, making murderous mayhem!

14 posted on 01/30/2012 9:35:43 PM PST by RansomOttawa (tm)
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All Baghdad Bob, all the time...

media-bias0
The piss-stream media's message: Leave the covering up for the Jackwagon to us.

Countdown until Zer0 leaves Office: 355 days as of January 31, 2012.

15 posted on 01/30/2012 9:59:25 PM PST by BobP (The piss-stream media - Never to be watched again in my house)
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avoid mentioning a certain religion whose name starts with "M."

Mennonites?

Methodists?

Mormons?

16 posted on 01/30/2012 11:17:29 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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