this only shows how the west trivialise terrorism, recklessly blaming the wrong person/group only shows that all that is meant to be negative propaganda against the Other, and not out of any genuine concern about the terror itself. and once it was found that the terrorist is a follower of christian faith, they even stopped calling him terrorist. when shall the western world have a semblence of humanity! farida
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: niyas abbas <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 4:42 PM Subject: [issuesonline_worldwide] Fw: [BNC] When It Is Easy to Blame Muslims -Western media caught with their pants down .... To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], Asian Tribune <[email protected]> Cc: Shamika Soysa <[email protected]>, Sachitra Mahendra < [email protected]>, [email protected], Nakeeb Issadeen < [email protected]>, [email protected] ** Western media caught with their pants down .... read ... ----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Universal Message <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 29 July, 2011 15:38:08 Subject: [BNC] When It Is Easy to Blame Muslims When It Is Easy to Blame Muslims * (0 votes, average 0 out of 5) By Dr. Abdullahi Sheikh Rashid Freelance Writer- Kenya Thursday, 28 July 2011 13:40 Anders Behring Breivik brought to the court. Moments after Norway suffered a brutal attack it has never faced since World War II, pundits and analysts rushed to assign blame to al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda- like groups whether a new Muslims’ group or ordinary Muslims. This was even before the Norwegian Police issued any comprehensive statement regarding the identity of the attacker, Anders Behring Breivik, 32, a ‘Christian fundamentalist’ (per Norwegian police) who claimed more than 93 people, 7 in Oslo bombings and 86 in Utoya Island youth camp shootings that shattered Norway’s innocence. As media networks across the globe hurried to cover the tragic story, Laura Ingraham, a Christian conservative and US radio host made an appearance as a guest host on The O’Reilly Factor and blamed the terror attacks on Muslims. In her words: “Two deadly terror attacks in Norway, in what appears to be the work, once again, of Muslim extremists…” She then lamented that Muslims scored a huge victory as a judge in Manhattan dismissed a case filed by Timothy Brown complaining that building the Park51 Islamic Community Centre will hurt the feelings of the local community and the New York Firefighters. According to Media Matters, during the discussion, B-roll footage included one of the smoking Twin Towers. At The New York Times, it featured a headline that screamed much of the day: Powerful Explosions hit Oslo; Jihadis Claim Responsibility. According to Glenn Greenwald in a post at the Salon, the BBC gave a definitive statement indicating Muslims were the culprits. At The Washington Post, a column by Jennifer Rubin was direct: Muslims were responsible. She then hit at those who were arguing for the reduction of the defence budget: “This is a sobering reminder for those who think it’s too expensive to wage a war againstjihadists... Obama would have us believe that al-Qaeda is almost caput and that we can wrap up things in Afghanistan. All of these are rationalizations for doing something very rash, namely curbing our ability to defend the United States and our allies in a very dangerous world”. The column is still available and the Post has neither retracted nor apologised. At The Wall Street Journal, owned by disgraced Rupert Murdoch of the News of the World debacle, “Jihadists” were responsible. “…in jihadist eyes, [Norway] will always remain guilty of being what it is: a liberal nation committed to freedom of speech and conscience, equality between the sexes, representative democracy, and every other freedom that defines the West. For being true to those ideals, Norwegians have now been asked to pay a terrible price.” According to Think Progress, when more information became available about the terrorist, who ironically stood against what the The Wall Street wrote above, it rewrote the online version removing any trace of the above paragraph. At the American Enterprise Institute, apastion of skewed Muslim coverage and analysis, Ahmed Majidyar published a post linking the attack toal-Qaeda and Muslims. After his true identity emerged, many newspapers changed their headlines from ‘terror attack, massive terror, terror catastrophe and etc’ to ‘madman’ attacks Norway. I guess, it is only Muslims who can never be madmen. It is only them who commit crimes and value less the human life. Who Else! Islamophobic Andrew Breibert of Big Government website joined the fray and blamed Muslims for the attack. Former US President George Bush Speech writer sarcastically said he “blamed Lutherans” for the heinous murder of 93 Norwegians while also saying it was part of “Jihad”. Many other bloggers and commentators blamed Muslims. However, as it turned out, the attack; the worst Norway has faced since the World War II, was carried by a blonde, blue-eyed 32 year old Christian fundamentalist who hated Muslims, leftists, liberals and multiculturalists. As his lawyer told the Verdens Gang newspaper in Oslo, Anders wanted to ‘change the Norwegian Society’. By targeting the ruling party’s youth camp meeting, he wanted to give a “warning” to the Labour Party that inclusiveness wasn’t an option. After his true identity emerged, many newspapers changed their headlines from ‘terror attack, massive terror, terror catastrophe and etc’ to ‘madman’ attacks Norway. I guess, it is only Muslims who can never be madmen. It is only them who commit crimes and value less the human life. The degenerate Islamophobes who blamed Muslims for the attack never apologised. None did! In fact, according to Think Progress, some like RedState’s Erick Erickson who earlier blamed Muslims went up with a bizarre new post claiming that Christian terrorists were somehow different from Muslim terrorists. I don’t know how the kids who were decapitated in Utoya by a Christian are different from those who were decapitated in Beslan by a Muslim. In our own Kenyan media which mimic the language of the foreign press, it has never been a different case, especially with the Nation Media Group which is known to be hostile to Muslims compared to the Standard Media Group. This is a nation where when dozens of infirmed octogenarians who are wheelchair bound are burnt inside a Church by fellow Christians, it is election violence. But when a blast that may hurt one or two individuals goes off in a busy street in Nairobi screams: “Breaking: Police suspect terror attack in Nairobi”. “The police are investigating what seems to be a terror attack that claimed one individual and injured ten in busy Stupid Street in Nairobi. The Nation which has spoken to the Police spokesman confirmed that Al-Shabab Muslim terrorists may be behind the heinous attack”. It is not that I don’t value the single individual above (in case it happens), but I’m simply pointing to the irony, in fact, the hateful irony. I pray for the victims or Norway. 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