Posted on 03/19/2006 1:46:09 PM PST by Crackingham
Like many news junkies, I’ve noticed that stories putting Muslims in a bad light tend to be sketchy and underreported. A minor example is the comment - “the greatest terrorists in the world occupy the White House”--by the head Muslim chaplain of New York City’s prisons. In Manhattan, remarks like that are nearly as conventional as talk about the weather, so the controversy was fairly small. It might have been larger if the media had shown any interest in other points the imam made. For instance that Muslim prisoners are being tortured in Manhattan, and that Muslims must be “hard against the kaffir” (i.e., nasty to infidels), which presumably city employees are not paid to recommend. (By the way, why are clergymen city employees at all?)
A much bigger example is the misleadingly low-key reporting of the Ilan Halimi murder in Paris. We now know that Halimi was killed as a classic expression of Jew Hatred. But with so much evasiveness and misdirection by police, government and press, it took a month to get that fact clearly on the table. Halimi, a cell phone salesman, was kidnapped and held for ransom by a mostly Muslim gang. He was horrifically tortured for three weeks, then slain. From time to time, neighbors had come to watch the torture or to participate in it. Nobody called the gendarmes. At first the government and the press presented this story as a straightforward kidnapping for ransom. A spokesman said Jewishnesss may have played a role simply because the kidnappers thought Jews were rich. AP and UPI, in feeds to the U.S., barely mentioned the possibility of anti-Semitism. After arrests were made, the BBC worked hard to avoid using the word “Muslim,” though verses from the Koran were recited during the torture.
The Los Angeles Times account of February 28 shows how hard candor can be. It reported that the gang made hundreds of abusive phone calls to Jews and had systematically tried to kidnap Jews. But the reporters wrote this: “Rather than a premeditated anti-Semitic murder, it seems a more complex product of criminality and dysfunction in the narrow world of thug culture: a poisonous mentality that designates Jews as enemies along with other faces of ‘outsiders.’” Oh, please. If whites had tortured and killed a black man, I doubt that reporters would be carrying on about how complex and unpremeditated it all was. They would just say it was a lynching
In an excellent article last week, Colin Nickerson of the Boston Globe said the crime was being attributed to a “predominantly Muslim youth gang” notorious for “virulent anti-Semitism.” The gang’s taunting phone calls to Halimi’s father were filled with anti-Semitic slurs and a rabbi had been told, “We have a Jew.” The Globe said hatred of Jews is now a hallmark of what’s cool in France, even among young immigrants from non-Muslim nations. Very strong article. No dancing around, just good reporting.
Governments and the media often avoid calling terrorism by its proper name. Presumably the idea is to calm the public and avoid embarrassing Muslims. It took nine months for the FBI and the government to admit that the attack on L.A. airport in 2002 was a terrorist operation. We had been told that personal reasons might explain why a pro-Palestinian gunman, who openly admitted the desire to kill civilians, would kill two people at an El Al counter. The same verbal dance took place recently when the Iranian student rented a large van and tried to run down and kill as many students as possible in North Carolina. He said he was attempting to: “avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world.” But the university tried desperately to avoid the obvious T-word.
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Therefore: KEEP ON BUYING "DANSK"!!!
New York and Paris are both "enlightened" cities. We should just shut up and let our betters explain things to and for us. OK?
Chubby Checker would have been proud of that dance.
Thought you couldn't list someones race religion color or nation of origin and still be objective?
YEAH RIGHT
If i was real and honest about which causes what percentage of crimes I'd be put in time out for a lack of objectivity.
Truth be damned.
Another event covered up was that near stadium bombing by somebody named Hirsch. They claimed he was committing suicide and Michelle Malkin and a handful of others had the guts to mention that he might have been a new convert to Islam and may have tried to carry out a terrorist attack. Nothing to see here, move along.
Correction his name was Hinrichs -- not Hirsch.
Hard to believe.
Lately, I've been reading the history of Jihad. The Muslims have been at this violence against heathens (that's us) for the last 1300+ years. Non-stop violence of the most imaginative cruelty they can muster.
The most stunning thing to me is that I've read and enjoyed history for some 50 years, including a couple of years of it in college, and I never had a clue that this pox has existed on humanity since the 600's. Only their infighting and primitive technology has kept them from conquering the world.
It is as if we have a cancer on humanity, and our immune system has been tricked into letting the cancerous cells pass without harm.
"... and held for ransom by a mostly Muslim gang."
MOSTLY ?
"...attributed to a “predominantly Muslim youth gang” "
PREDOMINANTLY ?
Anti-semitic to be sure, but it appears that John Leo is upset that the gangs seem to have had a kaffir componant, and the writers wrote the facts, not what he wanted them to print.
(Don't tell anyone that it was the destruction brought about by the Fatimids that gave rise to the force behind the Crusades, either.)
Qur'an 8:12
That's so true. The media bias is so pernicious, they not only keep us from getting the whole story, but they rally around the terrorists and leftists. Well, they don't call them, terrorists, but insurgents – good grief! And what's so annoying is that they keep denying they're biased.
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