Posted on 03/13/2006 5:08:10 AM PST by SJackson
Way back when I was a cub reporter, I got hold of a book about the "art" of interviewing. It was a thin book no use spending thousands of words to tell a reporter, cub or old Grizzly, to bone up on a subject and let natural curiosity take its course.
That thin book came to mind on reading a three-part series in The New York Times about an imam named Reda Shata, who presides over the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge in Brooklyn, N.Y. As far as the art of interviewing goes, the reporter got it exactly backward: Thousands of words; negligible expertise; and no curiosity.
Both the New York Post and the New York Sun have already pounced on the most egregious flaw of omission: not a mention, in 11,000-plus words, of the day in March 1994 when a man walked out of that same Bay Ridge mosque and, inspired by the anti-Jewish sermon of the day (delivered by a different, unidentified imam), armed himself and opened fire on a van carrying Hasidic Jewish children. Ari Halberstam, 16, was killed. The Times series, as it happened, concluded on the 12th anniversary of his death.
(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...
Sura 9:5 of satans Koranus, Slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush.
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It's a religion of peace
It's a religion of peace
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This entire article must be read to understand the problem
The liberal view of politics is that new oppressed minorities keep surfacing. No matter how unpleasant and unworthy they may seem, it is the liberal's task to overcome his repugnance and support them in their struggle against the values of mainstream Amerikkka. This series of articles was a masterpiece of the genre.
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