Posted on 04/20/2013 10:04:59 AM PDT by IbJensen
The entire storyline of the two men responsible for the horrible terrorist attack during the Boston Marathon has me completely stunned. These two radicals, picked a very public event and a location they knew would be filled with people, including children, and decided they wanted to kill Americans. Yet, in all the coverage, the phrase all media avoided like the plague, was the one that was the most obvious and readily known: they were Islamic extremists.
First here's a little bit of history just to refresh the minds of the media and those others out there who think these very public acts of terror are somehow NOT motivated by a religion whose extremist wing is hell bent on destroying America:
* 18 April 1983 – The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing, Beirut, Lebanon by the Islamic Jihad Organization, 63 dead, 120 injured
* 26 February 1993 – World Trade Center bombing, in New York City. 6 killed.
* 7 August 1998 – United States embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. 224 dead. 4000+ injured.
* October 12, 2000 - USS Cole bombing at a Yemen port. 17 American sailors were killed, 39 injured.
* 11 September 2001 – 4 planes hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda hijackers: two planes crashed into World Trade Center and one into the The Pentagon. Nearly 3000 dead.
* 22 December 2001 - Richard Reid attempted shoe bombing on American Airlines Flight 63
* 11 September 2012 - On the anniversary of the 2001 September 11th attacks in the United States, Islamist militants killed 4 and wounded 7 in the Benghazi U.S. Consulate attack
Just talk a look at the expanded list to see what's been going on around the world over the past few decades.
And yet, when the reports started flowing in following the terrorist attack in Boston, it appeared the media all followed a two-step process.
* Step 1 -- Blame a far right, white, extremist man or Organization
* Step 2 -- Keep quiet about the real background of the bombers
Let's look at Step 1. As I watched the initial coverage, I switched back and forth between Fox and CNN. At one point on CNN (and this was on the day of the bombing when the only thing that was going on was replaying the bombing videos over and over again), Wolf Blitzer was talking to a guest who brought up the idea that it could be a member of a white supremacist group. He brought this up simply because, "We've been hearing about that in the news a lot lately."
As reported in Politic.com, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell blamed the NRA for delays in the Boston Marathon investigation. MSNBC's Chris Matthews immediately tried to link the bombing to a far right group.
I could go on and on, but let's move to Step 2. NO ONE, not even Fox News, was reporting that these guys... these terrorist bombers... were Islamic extremists. Why? Is it politically incorrect to identify them for what they are?
It was quite amazing on Friday when GOPUSA ran it's lead story with the headline: One Islamic Bomber Dead, One on the Run; Boston Suburbs Locked Down. It was amazing, because some people actually wrote in and complained that we used the word "Islamic." Some accused us of spreading rumors. Others blamed us for "poor reporting." And why? Simply because they hadn't heard it anywhere else.
Here was my personal favorite by one reader: "Hey dumbass, he's not islamic, but he was russian."
There's so much I could say about that one sentence. I guess this guy doesn't know the difference between a religion and a nationality.
The fact is that even while most of the media were silent, the information was EASILY available. They guys were Islamic extremists. One posted a video with an "Extremist Religious Prophecy Associated with Al Qaeda" on YouTube.
All of this information was out there, and yet even conservative web sites avoided the obvious.
I guess the media was just too upset that it wasn't a freaked-out white guy. Instead, it's one more chilling example, just like we saw in Benghazi, of a strain of humanity that is clearly inhuman.
I say Islamofacist.
Read Steven Emerson’s Statement to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States July 9, 2003:
http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/hearings/hearing3/witness_emerson.htm
I’ve observed repetitive attempts by American Jews and Roman Catholics, even after these terrorist attacks, to lecture how real Muslims don’t do these sorts of things.
Their argument frequently appeals to comparing extreme radical Muslims terrorists with KKK as extreme Christians.
They really believe Islam is no different than Christianity, just another religion and most people who devote themselves to it are just as reasonable as Christians.
IMHO, such perspectives are by those who really don’t know what it means to be Christian, and confuse worldly systems of religion as comparable methods to seek God. Worse, they blind themselves to the natural consequences of rejecting Christ and God’s Plan and instead seek a counterfeit substitute in any number of carnal and worldly systems.
I believe that adherents to the pedophile’s Koran become sociopaths over a period of time that varies from arab to arab.
Perhaps for the same reason that some Americans prefer a hyphenation, as though they were living in two worlds.
I’ve been saying it loud and clear on my FB postings. Catherine herridge from Fox News didnt hesitate to use the term in her reporting yesterday. Calling it what it is. The only ones who won’t use the term are the usual suspects.
Just get rid of the “extremist” part, and I’m good.
The more I think about our odious problem with Muslim infiltration and infestation of America the more I believe that ‘extremist’ isn’t extreme enough.
I believe also that any adherent to Islam and their pedophile prophet’s mostly plagiarized Koran is a potential murderer of the followers of Moses and Jesus.
Apparently many who make up our contaminated political class are willing to die on the cross of political correctness refusing to call Muslims a threat.
Sorry. Should have read the whole article. I thought it was using “Islamic” that was the focus. Islamic terrorism is the correct term as far as I’m concerned.
Please. The correct term is now: “Peace-loving initiator of man made disaster.”
A significant percentage of Fox stock is owned by Saudis.
That's what the Left has been doing for a century. The Muslims have noticed how well it worked.
I’m for a Constitutional Amendment explicitly de-listing Islam as a religion due any 1st Amendment protections, and identifying it as the totalitarian political system that it is, and thus being in complete opposition to the Constitution of the United States.
That's what the Left has been doing for a century. The Muslims have noticed how well it worked.
Bingo
“Islamic extremist” is redundancy defined.
* Step 1 -- Blame a far right, white, extremist man or Organization
* Step 2 -- Keep quiet about the real background of the bombers
Take a second to think about how vicious the press would have been IF it had actually been a 'right winger'... When ever a terrorists act happens I pray they'll find the killers... because if they don't I know who they'll blame.
I’ll go one step further...when truth is silenced by political correctness...people go into hiding...the sense of freedom fades....then bad stuff happens.
.....”such perspectives are by those who really don’t know what it means to be Christian, and confuse worldly systems of religion as comparable methods”......
You’re right....if one does not understand the truths of Christianity they are easily mislead....otherwise they could “See” that Islam is diametrically opposed to Christianity....and of course our Constitution.
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