- "I'll tell you the media sounds almost reverent when they talk about Islam ..."
Bush speaks with reverence every time he mentions Islam. So what? I just don't see the bias in this particular article.
Posted on 02/07/2006 1:22:27 PM PST by Alouette
Developments Tuesday in the controversy over drawings of the Prophet Muhammad:
• NATO peacekeepers exchange fire with protesters who attacked their base in a second straight day of deadly demonstrations in Afghanistan over publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Three demonstrators are killed and dozens wounded.
• An Iranian newspaper announces a contest for cartoons satirizing the Holocaust in response to the caricatures of Islam's prophet. The country's commerce minister announces Iran is cutting all trade ties with Denmark, where the drawings were first published.
• Police fire tear gas to disperse hundreds of Muslim protesters in Srinagar, India, wounding at least six demonstrators and two policemen.
• Chanting and burning effigies, about 5,000 people gather in Peshawar, Pakistan, to protest the caricatures.
• Masked Palestinian gunmen riddle a picture of the Danish prime minister with bullets and set fire to a mock Danish flag in the Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
• Thousands of Egyptians demonstrate peacefully in Cairo, demanding a boycott of Danish products and the expulsion of the Danish ambassador.
• About 50 protesters in Tehran hurled firebombs at the Norwegian Embassy; a small fire outside the embassy was quickly contained.
• Lawmakers in northern Nigeria burn Danish and Norwegian flags and bar Danish companies from bidding on a major construction project.
• Hundreds of Muslims burn a Danish flag in the Philippines in protest and urge a boycott of Denmark's products.
• Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen calls the protests a "global crisis" and appeals for calm.
• Denmark advises its citizens to leave Indonesia as a precaution.
• Australia temporarily closes its diplomatic missions in the Palestinian territories.
• An aid group that provides food to tens of thousands of people in Chechnya suspends operations after officials ban all Danish organizations.
• President Bush calls the Danish prime minister to express "solidarity and support" in the wake of violence over the drawings.
• China's government criticizes Western newspapers for publishing the drawings and appeals for calm.
• Japan expresses concern about mounting violence linked to the drawings and urges protesters not to further inflame tensions.
Bush speaks with reverence every time he mentions Islam. So what? I just don't see the bias in this particular article.
By the way, if Muslims are so offended by images of human beings, why do we always see footage of Islamic men parading down the streets hoisting placards with images of their favorate ayatollah or sheikh? Isn't that idolatry? And doesn't the Koran say that Islam is to be a religion without a clergy? Aren't all thos imams and ayatollahs and sheikhs violating the Koran?
So what's biased about this report? I also don't understand your comment in post#1.
Thank you for showing that we can count on you to rush to the defense of the Left no matter how incoherent or stupid their position.
I didn't realize the headline was what was bugging you. I dunno, it just is typical LSM crap. What would you rather they say?
The "report" detailed just about every negative impact in the world as a result of publishing some mohammed cartoons six months ago, without ever quantifying this murderous muslim outrage as being evil, unneccessary, over reactive, anti-freedom of the press, dangerous to the entire world and utterly uncalled for. This gross omission amounts to a whitewash, or an apology for islamic barbarity.
By detailing only the violent, deadly consequences of the cartoons sans any reference to them being a gross overreaction, along with the failure to defend the media's own cherished freedom of speech, (which they claim as noble justification when they insult Christians with their own insulting cartoons), the obvious implication is that these muslims are just doing what should have been expected and the cartoons were to blame, not the muslims. The 'article' is an unbalanced as Bill Clinton's sense of morality.
So the outrage in this A/P article does not completely lie in what they printed, but in how they laid it out and in what they failed to print to put all these islamic outbursts into their proper context.
There, I hope that enlightens you a little bit.
The thing that most struck me about the headline was the use of the word "Case", like crAP is implying that a criminal act had been committed with the drawing of the cartoons.
How about just "Mohammed" drawings?
Would MSM refer to Jesus as "Lord and Savior"?
Those at the Ass. Press think they know something about Christianity besides the fact that they don't act like easily provoked maniacs. They know that they nothing about Muslims, though, except that they DO act like easily provoked maniacs.
So, when the press reports something without editorializing, that's considered bias? I thought news was supposed to be objective. Besides, what idiot (other than the Muslim extremists) can't figure out that these violent outbursts are a "gross overreaction"?
You do realize that if there wasn't any reaction to the cartoons at all, then there wouldn't be anything to report. The reaction (or, in this case, overreaction) is the news.
I don't recall people complaining that the reports on the Columbine school shootings said nothing about Harris and Klebold overreacting to being bullied. But is that where we are now? You and MNJohnnie want to be told what to think when you read a news story?
There's an understatement.
I haven't noticed any effort at sensitivity on the part of Muslims for Western/Christian concerns, except mealymouthed lip service in the midst of one of their many complaints about unfair treatment...and even that ONLY when they are in the minority, such as currently in the U.S.
Sorry, just a little slow out of the box on this...lol After reading some of yours and others replies, your point is well taken. It was probably written by a 'foreign' AP(LSM) person that was totally unconscious of the way he/she was writing the silly thing. Other than that, it does look like just a recording of the events sparked by the raging Muslim masses today. There are plenty of articles today about the ridiculous outrage and even The Guardian (the most liberal paper on the planet) are asking some not so liberal questions regarding this in an editorial today.
That's it. I am looking for something Danish to buy.
Better not let them in on that at Fox News. If they didn't hype this 'crisis' more than the Michael Jackson trial, they'd have to start factually reporting on the 1/2 of 1 percent budget 'cut' conservatives are straining to get through Congress..
Don't see bias here. Just a list of current events in this news story
Well put.
Those who are blind to the point you, Alouette and others are trying to make here are spiritually dead themselves. They can't see what they are blind to, and therefore can not recognize how they are part of the problem faced by civilization in resisting the Islamic cancer.
I thought this take on Islam was interesting:
Some insight on the cartoon riots
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/archives/2006/02/some_insight_on.php
It really is quite amusing. Editorializing in news reports is proof the press is biased. Not editorializing in news reports is proof the press is biased. I think public education is taking its toll on America. People can't think for themselves anymore, much less practice discernment.
In light of the recent outrage and violence arising from the infidel's publication of the blasphemous images of the prophet (peace be upon him), I am hesitant to ask the following questioni but am dearly in need of your guidance. You see, while preparing breakfast, I was making a grilled cheese sandwich and (praise be Allah!) an image of the prophet (Peace upon him) appeared on my wonder bread!! Is it within the holy teachings of the most sacred Koran to put this sacred relic up for auction on E-bay? Is it sanctioned to seek profit from the prophet (peace and all that...)?
I think that claiming you were sticking up for the Left is a bit of an overstatement. HOWEVER what you did was in effect like the scene in Mel Gibson's The Patriot where he walks into the tavern and says "long live King George."
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