[emiller]

Say it ain't so... I liked when the "pirates" shot RPG's at the cruise ship from rubber rafts. "Blackbeard" wouldn't have done that! "The Flying Dutchman" from Spongebob wouldn't have done that- and he's a ghost.

I rest my case.

[SuperSonic]

[dead]

Eees not a gang, eees a club.

[Mikey_1962]

All they need is Midnight Basketball...

[henderson field]

"...ignore the fact that rioters are Muslims..."

That would be like writing a history about World War II without mentioning Adolf Hitler.

[areafiftyone]

I don't see any of ze muslims. Zay are youths!
Excuse me while do ze pee in my pants
IHillary - by Atlas Shrugs

[sergeantdave]

The media is not ignoring the fact that the rioters are muslim; it's purposely covering up that fact for a reason - radical muslims are the allies of the Marxists in the MSM.

"Burn, Baby, Burn" is a major tenet of the MSM.

[gathersnomoss]

Shhhh! Someone may be listening.

[SirLinksalot]

I've heard people in this forum argue that it has nothing to do with religion since most of these disaffected rioters are SECULAR.

These paragraphs tell us that there is something more to it than meets the eye ....

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Treating its readers with a modicum more respect, the NY Times at least acknowledged that “a majority of the youths committing the acts are Muslim”—but buried that tidbit more than 1,000 words into a 1,400 article. And in the same sentence, the paper hastened to add that “the mayhem has yet to take on any ideological or religious overtones.”

No religious overtones? Then why did many of the rioters, after a canister of tear gas rolled up to the steps of a mosque on Day 4, reportedly declare that their actions were a “Jihad”?

The “Jihad” chants were only reported by the mainstream media, it appears, by Newsweek’s Christopher Dickey in a piece for the November 14 issue titled, “Rage on Rue Picasso: Will the riots swell the ranks of jihadists in Europe?”

Of course everyone knows that the fact that the rioters are primarily Muslim is significant. How is a different question. But it is self-evident that the violence is largely unique to Muslims. That’s why even the AP and the BBC, both of whom otherwise pretend to be blind to the religion of those destroying whole towns, mention that it is Muslim leaders urging calm.

The BBC, while engaging in absurd acrobatics in its reporting on the riots to avoid even the mention of the word “Muslim”—unless it’s to describe those calling for peace—has an entire series on the state of Muslims in France. It is labeled “background” for the riots stories—and it was only kicked off after the riots had raged for several days.

The role Islam—whether as opportunistic rallying cry, through hateful teachings in the name of the religion, or otherwise—played in the riots is something we might not know for some time. If ever. But it is certainly relevant. So why do so many in the mainstream media consider it not even worth mentioning?

[backhoe]

Is Paris Burning? ( Religion of Peace® Alert )
Click the picture:

Islam, The Alleged Religion of Peace® ( TARP™ )? Click this picture:

No, I am not exaggerating. Click the pic, go to "last," and read backwards.
If you are not informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.

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Then, there is this little problem...

For "Thunder on the Border," click the picture:

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Kindly note tagline:

[Busywhiskers]

So much for the radical Amish theory.

[Savage Beast]

You mean some are not?

"perhaps the most respected news organization on earth, the Associated Press"

Surely you jest.

[syriacus]

Bush seems to have felt that bringing democracy to Iraq would shake up the Muslim world.

Perhaps it has.