Roeder and Muhammad shootings - good parallel?

Kansas City Star ^ | June 3, 2009 | Derek Donovan - The Star's Reader's Representative

[Jim Robinson]

Several readers in the past few days have been upset that the print edition of The Star hasn't run much about Abdulhakim Muhammad, who pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the fatal shooting of Pvt. William Long outside an Army-Navy Career Center in Little Rock, Ark. It was No. 3 in Tuesday's "Today's Top 5" on Page A-2, but that's been it so far.

"You've given all this space to Scott Roeder and (the killing of) George Tiller," said one, "but nothing about this shooting in Arkansas, which is terrorism."

I understand the reasoning here, and it's perfectly fair to say the paper has underplayed the Little Rock shooting...

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"Bottom line: I think Roeder is much bigger news in KC than the Little Rock shootings -- but I think it's reasonable to say Muhammed was underplayed in general."

[alisasny]

Even more pressing is why is Michelle not in Saudia Arabia..is it because she knows how women are treated and refuses to bow down similar??

I have women friends in Europe who do NOT travel with their husbands on business to this backwards country for this reason.

[NEMDF]

Good find, JimRob. I agree that the Tiller incident, being in Kansas, would be bigger in Kansas City. But that is no excuse for the CinC and much of the media to to give so little play to the act of terror in Arkansas.

[CharlesWayneCT]

In Kansas, yes, the Tiller killing could be considered a more newsworthy item. How though do you explain the rest of the states, and how do you explain Obama fawning over Tiller but ignoring the death of one of his servicemen?

[handy old one]

Both are the worst acts of terrorism and should be treated with the same disdain. The lack of respect for life is shown in both cases both during and after the attacks, with the statements and actions used.

[Jim Robinson]

It’s his bottom line not mine. As far as I’m concerned, domestic terrorism is just as much a danger in Kansas City as it is in Little Rock or any other American city. The media is going waaay out of it’s way to downplay homegrown Muslim terrorism.

This is journalistic malfeasance of the highest order. Left-wing political hacks all.

[stayathomemom]

Not a good parallel. Both victims were doing their jobs. Tiller was a tool of a government which allows the killing of innocents. The Arkansas victim was a new recruit doing his job. The church has, to my knowledge, not said that it was wrong for a government to have a military force. The Arkansas killer was engaging in a form of jihad as far as I can tell. Tiller's killer should have known that the government is the authority in this sort of situation, also that he denied Tiller his Time of Grace to acknowledge his sins. He took God's vengeance into his own hands, which is wrong. Only God knows when a heart is truly hardened.

[CharlieOK1]

Maybe the Tiller killing is being treated as a bigger deal because it happens so seldomly. Unfortunately, the story “Muslim man kills members of US military” is not exactly unexpected.

[Zakeet]

Nothing new here!

Remember the death of Matthew Shepard, the homosexual who was killed by a couple of idiot cowboys during a blotched robbery. Oh, the books, movies, hate crimes legislation, and thousands of news articles.

Remember the death of Jesse Dirkhising, the 13-year old boy who was sodomized and strangled by a couple of homosexuals. No books, no movies, virtually no media coverage, and not even prosecuted as a hate crime.

No double standard with the media, the government or any other liberal organization. No siree.

[fight_truth_decay]

The four would-be home grown jihadis hoaxed into thinking they had bombs arrested before they could attack two synagogues in New York .

Mohammed Reza, philosophy and psychology major,Iranian immigrant, drove an SUV into a crowded pedestrian zone at UNC. Mohammed said he acted to "avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world."

Mohammed Ali Alayed,a Saudi living in Houston stabbed and murdered a Jewish man, Ariel Sellouk, who was once a friend.

Maher Hawash, Intel engineer, bringing in $360,000K a year was arrested outside Intel offices in Oregon. paid up his house mortgage (interest payments go against Islamic law) and donated more than $10,000 to the Global Relief Foundation, an Islamic charity subsequently closed for financing terrorist groups. Early in 2001, he went on pilgrimage to Mecca. And "Middle Eastern males" were seen coming and going from his house.Hawash pleaded guilty to conspiring to help the Taliban after supporters had turned him into the symbol of the pious Muslim victimized by a biased and overzealous justice system. He had voted for Bush. Hawash said he had rejected the speculations and accusations that Muslims were responsible" for 9/11. He said the "the harassment and arrest of Muslims" that followed 9/11 caused him to experience "skepticism and resentment" against the United States.

Plus, a list (1997-) of Muslim attacks on Jews from which most Americans will not even remember the "headlines", outside of the area in which it took place..

Remember you were considered a racist if you used Obama's middle birth name, Hussein.

"America is a country of Muslims, Jews, Christians, non-believers": Obama in Al-Arabiya interview.

In the US, Obama switched the order by saying: "..."a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus and non-believers."

Obama address to Turkish Parliament April 6, 2009 : "The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country—I know, because I am one of them."

The state I am in, the national news, for some odd reason, is all hyped up over the burning down (alleged arson, no insurance) of a proposed strip club in Vassalboro, (Pop. 4,000) once a topless donut shop, also locals said not to have been doing so well, as a cuppa coffee & soft donuts don't bring in the money like liquor.

AKA Short attention spans and the state run media knows it.

[SuperLuminal]

Good point!

[ansel12]

Maybe the Tiller killing is being treated as a bigger deal because it happens so seldomly. Unfortunately, the story “Muslim man kills members of US military” is not exactly unexpected.

When domestic Americans are joining with the foreign enemy during a war and murdering uniformed soldiers in our own cities, that is a story.

This is more rare than a doctor being murdered, and much more important, and much more likely to be the start of a series of domestic terrorist attacks that can dramatically change our lives, our society and our nation.