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Is Everyone Afraid to say Islamic Extremist?
GOP USA ^ | Bobby Eberle

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eberle; evilobamaregime; islamickillers; politicalcorrectness; radicalislam; tsarnaev
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The term Islamic sociopath fits best. Many Muslims are not sociopaths, but most read their Koran and understand from that reading that this butchering 'infidels' is what Mohammad required of his people. He did not value life and was as evil a pedophile and plagerist as you could hope to find.

Obedient followers to the death was what he was after, and totally ruthless in his efforts. Disagree with him and you were dead. It is going to take a lot of pain and suffering, as in a major war, to turn these people away from the god of hate to the God of Love. I have to say, 'why bother?'. Why try to assimilate those who hate us and will never assimilate? They just keep flocking to America, but why? The only reason is to load up the nation with haters and when the time is ripe turn them loose on us!

1 posted on 04/20/2013 10:04:59 AM PDT by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen

Sure looks like the MSM is afraid to say it.


2 posted on 04/20/2013 10:06:30 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: IbJensen
No, just the media.

3 posted on 04/20/2013 10:07:10 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: IbJensen

even Fox News avoided it until last night


4 posted on 04/20/2013 10:08:56 AM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: IbJensen

People have been indoctrinated, stigmatized, etc. They don’t want to be called “haters” or accused of hate speech or intolerance.

People are afraid to speak the truth.


5 posted on 04/20/2013 10:09:50 AM PDT by Perseverando (The truth is hate to those who hate the truth.)
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To: IbJensen

“...Many Muslims are not sociopaths, but most read their Koran and understand from that reading that this butchering ‘infidels’ is what Mohammad required of his people.....”
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Quite right. It’s not Islamic “extremism”, it’s simply Muslims who decide to follow the true teachings of the Islamic cult. ALL Muslims understand this. And only the smallest percentage of Muslims condemn it.

Folks need to understand this.


6 posted on 04/20/2013 10:11:19 AM PDT by House Atreides
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Omitted - The massacre at Ft. Hood by a muzzie terrorist. Perhaps the author agrees with obama that that was just “work place violence”?


7 posted on 04/20/2013 10:11:51 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: IbJensen

“It is going to take a lot of pain and suffering, as in a major war, to turn these people away from the god of hate to the God of Love. “

Don’t waste your time (or your life) trying to convert these radical Muslims from Islam to Christianity. It ain’t gonna work. The only good muslim is a __________ muslim. Fill in the blank.


8 posted on 04/20/2013 10:14:19 AM PDT by fivecatsandadog (Let's not be so open-minded that our brains fall out.)
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To: Perseverando
People are afraid to speak the truth.

Just mention the name Norquist.
9 posted on 04/20/2013 10:17:32 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: IbJensen
Not me


             

10 posted on 04/20/2013 10:17:41 AM PDT by tomkat
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11 posted on 04/20/2013 10:18:13 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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....”People have been indoctrinated, stigmatized, etc. They don’t want to be called “haters” or accused of hate speech or intolerance......People are afraid to speak the truth.”.....

Those who do ...know well they will be vulnerable to all the Islamic Organizations, here in the US, to silence the truth..via law suites, threats and or worse..... THAT is what Stealth Jihad is...silencing the truth...and critisizing those who speak out opposing it.

Their agenda is to use our own laws against people who can bring attention to this creeping Islam invading our country...so far, and sadly, it’s working.

Change the vocabulary, you silence the truth.


12 posted on 04/20/2013 10:19:28 AM PDT by caww
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To: Graybeard58

Maybe a (huge) oversight?


13 posted on 04/20/2013 10:20:15 AM PDT by Jane Long (Background checks? Dandy idea, Mr. President. Shoulda started with yours. - Sarah Palin)
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To: IbJensen

They are not extremists, they are mainstream Islamists.


14 posted on 04/20/2013 10:24:12 AM PDT by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matt***Are you saying that youÂ’d be willer how small" ~Horton Hears a Wh)
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To: IbJensen

Nope....

Islamic faggots


15 posted on 04/20/2013 10:24:55 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: IbJensen

CPAC/ACU’s Grover Norquist actually lobbied to stop criticism of radical Islam! He also lobbied to build the mosque at ground zero.

October 5, 2011 — In a speech yesterday on the House floor, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) expressed concern about Grover Norquist’s influence on the political process in Washington and his association with several individuals, groups and causes many would consider unsavory.
Wolf questioned Norquist’s relationship with convicted felon Jack Abramoff and terrorist financiers Abdurahman Alamoudi and Sami Al-Arian. He also raised the issue of Norquist’s advocacy of moving Guantanamo Bay detainees to the United States, including 9/11 mastermind Khaled Sheik Mohammed, and his representation of the Internet gambling industry and Fannie Mae...documentation shows that he has deep ties to supporters of Hamas and other terrorist organizations that are sworn enemies of the United States and our ally Israel.

[snip]http://shariafreeusa.com/grover-norquists-islamist-connections-should-give-us-pause/

[snip]This report is about the ways that Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) supported CNAPI activities, through support for a second organization, the American Conservative Defense Alliance (ACDA), a founder and leader of the CNAPI campaign. The policies for which CNAPI lobbied became the do-nothing Iranian policies of the Obama campaign in 2008 and of the Obama administration to the present day: no support for the Iranian Green movement and Iranian democracy activists, few or no economic sanctions, and no military option. And advocacy for unconditional negotiations, as Obama had advocated during the 2008 campaign.This report is about the ways that Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) supported CNAPI activities, through support for a second organization, the American Conservative Defense Alliance (ACDA), a founder and leader of the CNAPI campaign.

More than just a founding member, ACDA actually hosted the November 2007 formation meeting of about 30 largely left-wing and Islamist organizations (including the Council on American Islamic Relations - CAIR) to form CNAPI, as reported on June 10 2008 in the New York Sun and the Global Muslim Brotherhood Report.

And where did they host it? According to the Sun, “at the headquarters of Americans for Tax Reform in Washington.”

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/grover_norquist_and_the_iran_lobby.html#ixzz2R1cz7WDF
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[snip]AT CPAC this year, Grover Norquist told a George Soros publication that Islam “is completely consistent with the U.S. Constitution and a free and open society,” a statement that reveals either a profound lack of understanding of Islamic law, or a conscious effort at deception.

Like the Soros-funded study, “Fear, Inc.,” from the Center for America Progress, Grover labels anyone who disagrees with his views as “Islamophobic.” Republicans need to “knock that stuff down and just make it clear that there’s no place for that in the party of Reagan,” he insisted in the same interview.http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/grover_norquist_and_the_iran_lobby.html


16 posted on 04/20/2013 10:25:53 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: IbJensen

Why can’t we just say “Islamic” and leave out “extremists”?


17 posted on 04/20/2013 10:27:39 AM PDT by 353FMG ( I do not indicate whether I am serious or sarcastic -- I respect FReepers too much.)
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To: cripplecreek; Perseverando

Yep!

Like the Soros-funded study, “Fear, Inc.,” from the Center for America Progress, Grover labels anyone who disagrees with his views as “Islamophobic.” Republicans need to “knock that stuff down and just make it clear that there’s no place for that in the party of Reagan,” he insisted in the same interview.http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/grover_norquist_and_the_iran_lobby.html


18 posted on 04/20/2013 10:27:41 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: IbJensen

Very good article.

I wonder why the Nidal Hassan attack on the military base isn’t considered an Islamic attack? It was not dissimilar in motive from any of the other attacks, including what we will find out about Boston.


19 posted on 04/20/2013 10:29:00 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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Its really up to the GOP to, to use the left's formerly favorite phrase, speak truth to power.

If they cower before media and democrat mau-mauing then there will be no one in any position of authority to articulate the truth.

20 posted on 04/20/2013 10:30:58 AM PDT by skeeter
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