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.
Words have meanings --- MSM seek to dilute when it fits their agenda.
I read a couple days ago about Sirhan Sirhan being denied parole again. He killed Robert Kennedy in 1968 due to Kennedy's support of Israel. The press really plays that one down.
I am not surprised.
The MSM consists primarily of ultra-liberals......and we all know here that, by default, ultra-liberals haven't two good brain cells to rub together.
Therefore..........most get their news fed to them by a bunch of blithering idiots.
Anyone here who thinks I'm just being sarcastic.....think again.
This is evil.
If you believe this nonsense then turn off the Junk Media and spend more time here on Free Republic and the other outlets of the New Media.
15 years ago the MSM was refusing to admit it was biased to the left. Back then we spent many hours trying to prove this point on the old Internet newsgroups. It is common accepted knowledge now. Lets hope it wont take another 15 years for the MSM to admit the truth about Islam.
I think we now have an alternative to the MNS: talk radio and the internet. With talk radio we can express our views, and distribute those views worldwide through the Internet, which it has became the MSN's major competitor.
"Like many news junkies, I’ve noticed that stories putting Muslims in a bad
light tend to be sketchy and underreported."
And the MSM is reluctant to report that the Islamics use Stalin-style
tactics of Photoshopping as well (fortunately not very well so far)
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/008110.php
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