Media shockingly ignorant of Muslims among us (Steyn)

Chicago Sun Times ^ | 03/12/06 | Mark Steyn

[aynrandfreak]

This week's Voldemort Award goes to the New York Times for their account of a curious case of road rage in North Carolina:

"The man charged with nine counts of attempted murder for driving a Jeep through a crowd at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill last Friday told the police that he deliberately rented a four-wheel-drive vehicle so he could 'run over things and keep going.' "

The driver in question was Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar.

Whoa, don't jump to conclusions. The Times certainly didn't. As the report continued:

"According to statements taken by the police, Mr. Taheri-azar, 22, an Iranian-born graduate of the university, felt that the United States government had been 'killing his people across the sea' and that his actions reflected 'an eye for an eye.'"

"His people"? And who exactly would that be? Taheri-azar is admirably upfront about his actions. As he told police, he wanted to "avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world."

And yet the M-word appears nowhere in the Times report. Whether intentionally or not, they seem to be channeling the great Sufi theologian and jurist al-Ghazali, who died a millennium ago but whose first rule on the conduct of dhimmis -- non-Muslims in Muslim society -- seem to have been taken on board by the Western media:

The dhimmi is obliged not to mention Allah or His Apostle. . . .

[Question_Assumptions]

No, you didn't. But I'm not just replying to you. If you read up a few replies, you will find Ninian Dryhope saying, "Muslims are bad people. I do not trust any of them." Do you think this statement is unwarranted?

[irv]

Those with the most violent characteristics and the most hair-trigger flight-or-flight-responses are considered the strongest, are emulated and are made leaders, both civic and religious.

Reminds me of the old saw about how the CIA predicted who would be the next premier of the Soviet Union. They picked two candidates from the possibilities: one was the stupidest of them all, the other the most brutal. One of those two would win.