NY Times Removes Mention of Islam, Quran from Paris Survivor’s Account

Mediaite ^ | 01/09/2015 | by Matt Wilstein

[SeekAndFind]

The New York Times, which has already faced criticism for its decision not to publish images of the controversial Charlie Hebdo cartoons that may have provoked the attack on that magazine’s Paris offices Wednesday, is now under fire for apparently removing a quote from an article about reactions from survivors of the attack.

Earlier today, the website Ace of Spades posted this excerpt from a story by reporter Liz Alderman about the shooting as experienced by those who survived it:

Sigolène Vinson, a freelancer who had decided to come in that morning to take part in the meeting, thought she would be killed when one of the men approached her.

Instead, she told French news media, the man said, “I’m not going to kill you because you’re a woman, we don’t kill women, but you must convert to Islam, read the Quran and cover yourself,” she recalled.

But as The Daily Caller pointed out Thursday afternoon, the Times has since changed that passage to read like this:

Sigolène Vinson, a freelance journalist who had come in that morning to take part in the meeting, said that when the shooting started, she thought she would be killed.

Ms. Vinson said in an interview that she dropped to the floor and crawled down the hall to hide behind a partition, but one of the gunmen spotted her and grabbed her by the arm, pointing his gun at her head. Instead of pulling the trigger, though, he told her she would not be killed because she was a woman.

“Don’t be afraid, calm down, I won’t kill you,” the gunman told her in a steady voice, with a calm look in his eyes, she recalled. “You are a woman. But think about what you’re doing. It’s not right.”

Gone is the quote from Vinson that mentions converting to Islam, reading the Quran and covering her face. These is no update or correction on the article pertaining to this change. The source of that quote, where it still remains, is a story from Radio France Internationale.

Here is the rough translation of the French as it appears on RFI’s website:

Moments after the tragedy, Sigolène Vinson was speaking to RFI. “I am Sigolène, I am alive. But this is horrible, there are dead [tears]. “If Sigolène Vinson is still alive, it is because she is a woman. One of the attackers said: “We do not kill women, but you have to convert you to Islam and conceal you,” before shouting “Allah Akbar”.

Of course, even if Vinson’s account is accurate, it does not explain why she was spared. There was one female among the 12 victims in Wednesday’s attack: Elsa Cayat, an analyst and columnist for the magazine.

We have reached out to the Times reporter who filed the story and will update this post with an explanation for why the quote was removed if we receive a response.

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . will continue the rot of the morals of the nation and destroy it within."

If the rot continues, we will face civil war, blatant secular (Left-wing) totalitarianism, or dhimmitude under Islam (not so soon as in Europe).

[Beowulf9]

Because it doesn’t follow the ‘America Should ‘Empathize’ With Its Enemies’, philosophy.

http://conservativebyte.com/2014/12/clinton-says-america-empathize-enemies/

[Incorrigible]

Bump

[stephenjohnbanker]

Rich conservatives don’t often make horrible investments.

[ozdragon]

Restructure

[exit82]

It would be like taking one for the team.

Besides, a world without the NY Times would actually have more freedom by taking away one of the power source for leftwing radicals in the press.

So, it would mean more freedom, and a better business climate.

So it may actually be an investment with a return.

And think of all the trees that would be saved.

[stephenjohnbanker]

NYT has a valuation of 1.9 billion. It also has hundreds of millions in secured & unsecured debt. NY is a basket case anyway. L.A. Times would be a much better bet.

[exit82]

NYT has a valuation of 1.9 billion.

That's funny right there.

[riverdawg]

“All the news that is fit to delete”

Mad Magazine had it right 50 years ago in a parody of the NYT: “All the news that fits, we print.”

[stephenjohnbanker]

indeed : )

[windsorknot]

They’re not terrorists unless they are right-wing-extremist TEA Party types.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Is that the paper or the paper’s TV stations ?

[tioga]

Comic relief. I was laughing.

[exit82]

Don’t know.

To me, the NY Times Co. isn’t worth anything.

For all the damage the Times has inflicted on the Earth for the last 82 years, the Sulzberger family should be penniless.

[clintonh8r]

Sorry I missed that. What the fight over this issue? The other day Schempert was miffed that anyone would “blame all muslims.”

[SunkenCiv]

Gosh, what a huge surprise.

[Lady Heron]

All this does is hurt the NY Times in the day of the internet. We know they play with the news and are not to be trusted.

[SeekAndFind]

REPLACE THIS



WITH THIS



BECAUSE OF THIS....

[Dr. Sivana]

Years ago, I wrote a letter to the editor of The Hartford Courant. The letter was printed, and even used in a TV interview of a Connecticut gubernatorial candidate. It was not what I wrote, though. I accused the Courant of calumniating a candidate, and the newspaper changed the word to slander. On the face of it, one might think that the Courant was simply discounting the notion that its readers could use a dictionary.

In fact, they replaced it with the wrong word. As great newspaper man J. Jonah Jameson stated, "the word is libel". That would have been less inaccurate. In any event, it is not for them to edit reader's letters, except perhaps for obvious typographical errors.

[SeekAndFind]

As great newspaper man J. Jonah Jameson stated, "the word is libel".