Mumbai Media Machinations -Leslie J. Sacks
Hypocrisy drips heavy from the Western media
The tragedies in Mumbai set in stark relief the variation in media labels for those that kill Jews in Israel and those that kill innocents of other creeds in other places.
You will note that "militants" hardly exist in th[e Mumbai] horror, but "terrorists" abound. Will someone please explain to me the difference between a "militant" suicide bomber who incinerates a bus full of women and children in Jerusalem, and the Mumbai "terrorists?"
Why it is 'militants' who blow up schools and study centers in Israel and execute its students, while 'terrorists' are those who attack hotels in India? (Terrorists Paralyze India's Business Capital)
Why are terrorists called terrorists in India, Beslan, Madrid, London and Bali - and not in Israel? [I]s it possible that this double standard thrives on sympathies, not fact; arises out of prejudice, not truth; that it is the product of agenda driven politics and less than honest journalism?
Hide the Jews
"Americans, Britons and Israelis are being targeted by the terrorists" according to a proliferation of news reports. You may sadly note that Jews are not anywhere noted as specifically "being targeted" in the news headlines. Yet it was the Jewish Chabad House - a religious center that was targeted. Jews were the target, not the Israeli Consulate.
Whether they are children or elderly, Jews remain the world's most sought-after terrorist trophies because they happen to share the same invisible genetic source, the same historical inheritance.
The Importance of Getting It Right
Obfuscating the truth may be politically correct or simply incompetent reporting, but it does little to explain the mindset of these killers or the intentions of their handlers. And until we understand this, the immovable intentions of these Islamic radicals, our answer to their challenge will remain tenuous and out of reach.
[Leslie J. Sacks]
UPDATE:
Hypocrisy drips heavy from the Western media
The tragedies in Mumbai set in stark relief the variation in media labels for those that kill Jews in Israel and those that kill innocents of other creeds in other places.
You will note that "militants" hardly exist in th[e Mumbai] horror, but "terrorists" abound. Will someone please explain to me the difference between a "militant" suicide bomber who incinerates a bus full of women and children in Jerusalem, and the Mumbai "terrorists?"
Why it is 'militants' who blow up schools and study centers in Israel and execute its students, while 'terrorists' are those who attack hotels in India? (Terrorists Paralyze India's Business Capital)
Why are terrorists called terrorists in India, Beslan, Madrid, London and Bali - and not in Israel? [I]s it possible that this double standard thrives on sympathies, not fact; arises out of prejudice, not truth; that it is the product of agenda driven politics and less than honest journalism?
Hide the Jews
"Americans, Britons and Israelis are being targeted by the terrorists" according to a proliferation of news reports. You may sadly note that Jews are not anywhere noted as specifically "being targeted" in the news headlines. Yet it was the Jewish Chabad House - a religious center that was targeted. Jews were the target, not the Israeli Consulate.
Whether they are children or elderly, Jews remain the world's most sought-after terrorist trophies because they happen to share the same invisible genetic source, the same historical inheritance.
The Importance of Getting It Right
Obfuscating the truth may be politically correct or simply incompetent reporting, but it does little to explain the mindset of these killers or the intentions of their handlers. And until we understand this, the immovable intentions of these Islamic radicals, our answer to their challenge will remain tenuous and out of reach.
[Leslie J. Sacks]
UPDATE:
Media Ignore Militants' Muslim Identity -Mark Steyn
At the Habad House, the murdered Jews were described in almost all the Western media as "ultra-Orthodox," "ultra" in this instance being less a term of theological precision than a generalized code for "strange, weird people, nothing against them personally, but they probably shouldn't have been over there in the first place." Are they stranger or weirder than their killers?
The New York Times was being silly in suggesting this was just an "accidental" hostage opportunity - and not just because, when Muslim terrorists capture Jews it's not a hostage situation, it's a mass murder-in-waiting. The sole surviving "militant" revealed that the Jewish center had been targeted a year in advance.
(Washington Times)
At the Habad House, the murdered Jews were described in almost all the Western media as "ultra-Orthodox," "ultra" in this instance being less a term of theological precision than a generalized code for "strange, weird people, nothing against them personally, but they probably shouldn't have been over there in the first place." Are they stranger or weirder than their killers?
The New York Times was being silly in suggesting this was just an "accidental" hostage opportunity - and not just because, when Muslim terrorists capture Jews it's not a hostage situation, it's a mass murder-in-waiting. The sole surviving "militant" revealed that the Jewish center had been targeted a year in advance.
(Washington Times)
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