Follow-Up on the NY Times' Suppression of the Synogogue Bomb Plotters' Muslim Faith

Vocal Minority ^ | 5/29/09 | EricTheRed_VocalMinority

[EricTheRed_VocalMinority]

Last Friday I suggested that if the story were about a Christian plotting to bomb abortion clinics, the perpetrator’s faith would be in the first paragraph, if not in the headline itself.

This prompted reader “Dave B” from the U.K. to comment:

Here is what the headline is when a christian extremist tries to blow up an abortion clinic. "Man Arrested in Abortion Clinic Bomb Plot"

You wouldn't even know he was a christian until the 17th paragraph where they say: "Jordi is "overzealous about the Lord," but not a violent person, Ward said."

This news story NEVER made it to CNN (search for his name on their site, I dare you.) and only the resulting trial can be found mentioned searching on Fox News where his religious affiliation is not even hinted at, least of all mentioned.

Now, I can’t vouch for Red Orbit or CNN, but in February, 2004, when this anti-abortion activist Jordi pleaded guilty to the bomb plot, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service (used by the Miami Herald among others) wrote this:

A former Army Ranger inspired by antiabortion activists pleaded guilty Friday to devising a plot to blow up abortion clinics and gay bars nationwide.

Stephen John Jordi, an evangelical Christian from Coconut Creek, Fla., with a flaming cross tattooed on his right forearm, pleaded guilty to one count of attempted firebombing.

That's the second paragraph. So let me clarify: Even though I never said all mainstream media outlets would advertise a Christian anti-abortionist’s faith at the top, it is apparent from this Jordi example that some have, and others have not.

Let's not distract ourselves from the real issue, though: As long as the plotters of a bombing or other heinous act are Muslim, the MSM continues to not call attention to it. In fact,