‘If the West’s wholesale lack of understanding of fundamentalist Islam ‘
I’m really tired of this particular assertion. We all ‘understand’ fundamentalist Islam, all too well.
What nobody bothers to ask is when will Fundementalist Islam try to UNDERSTAND THE REST OF US.
But on this specific topic, what we want to ‘understand’ is why NBC has yet to REPORT THIS STORY. Or CBS. Or ABC.
These clowns did two and a half YEARS on OJ Simpson...who also cut his wife’s head off - for those of you unfamiliar with that particular detail of that infamous murder.
Hell, they covered Dick Cheney accidentally shooting a friend while hunting 5,000 percent more than this.
Abu Ghraib? Haditha? But not this?
Here’s a good column on the restrained coverage:
The case was as grisly as they come: A wealthy television executive walked into a police station last Thursday to report that his wife was lying dead at the television station office where they worked in suburban Buffalo, N.Y. When police arrived there, they found the decapitated body of Aasiya Hassan, a 37-year-old mother of two who recently had filed for divorce. Police say she was beheaded by her 44-year-old husband, Muzzammil Hassan, whom they have charged with second-degree murder.
In a media climate that operates by the dictum “if it bleeds, it leads,” such a gruesome murder could have been expected to make national headlines within hours. Instead, the story took nearly a week get any traction. And early reports about the beheading were oddly restrained, marked by a degree of detachment and disinterest rarely seen in the sensationalistic world of modern journalism.
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