"All This and Heaven Too."
Posted on 10/30/2002 3:14:24 PM PST by TLBSHOW
Media Muslim makeovers!
After all the speculation about the sniper terrorizing Maryland and Virginia, at last we have some cold hard facts. He is a Muslim. He converted to Islam 17 years ago. He changed his name to John Muhammad. He belonged to Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam. He cheered the terrorist attack of Sept. 11. He registered his getaway vehicle with the DMV on the anniversary of Sept. 11 – writing down the time of registration as 8:52 a.m.
Naturally, therefore, the mainstream media have decided the crucial, salient fact about sniper John Muhammad is that he is a Gulf War veteran. Thus, the New York times described the snipers as: "John Allen Muhammad, 41, a Gulf War veteran, and John Lee Malvo, 17, a Jamaican."
They are now hot on the trail of whether Osama bin Laden ever served with the U.S. military in the Gulf War.
To review recent events, last year, 19 Muslims slaughtered thousands of Americans on U.S. soil. Since then, one Muslim tried to blow up a U.S. commercial jet with a shoe bomb and another Muslim shot up Los Angeles airport. The Religion of Peace has also been active abroad, decapitating an American journalist and blowing up a French tanker. In the last few weeks alone, Muslims bombed a nightclub in Bali and were narrowly prevented from slaughtering hundreds of theater-goers in Moscow.
Inasmuch as the nation is at war with Islamic terrorists, you might think it would be of passing interest that the sniper is a Muslim. But you need a New York Times decoder ring to figure out that GULF WAR VETERAN John Muhammad is a Muslim. The main clue is the Times' repeated insistence that Islam had absolutely nothing to do with the shootings.
Wrestling with the freakish development that a practitioner of the Religion of Peace is a killer, the Times has even rushed to print with the completely unsubstantiated speculation that John Muhammad had recently rejected Islam. Experts explained that a "rapid and bizarre change in religious beliefs" is common among "serial killers." One doctor said a change in religious beliefs before committing violent crimes is "a fairly well-known phenomenon in clinical psychiatry," adding that he "was not diagnosing Mr. Muhammad's condition."
His condition? He's a Muslim. That's his condition and his diagnosis. It may be time to update the DSM-IV by adding "Jihad Impulse-Control Disorder" to its index of official diagnoses.
In addition to copious articles intimating that John Muhammad was practically not even a Muslim, the media have universally concluded that there is "no evidence" connecting him to al-Qaida. Of course, it will be difficult to find any evidence, having instantly pronounced the case closed.
In one hard-hitting investigative piece on Muhammad, for example, the Times produced amazing details from his life, including conversations with relatives, neighbors, friends and ex-girlfriends. The article droned on about how he met one ex-girlfriend – her job, her hobbies, her hopes and dreams. But when she said, "We stopped talking after he asked me about religion," the Times dropped the subject and moved on to the next topic.
After weeks of blithe theorizing that the sniper was an "angry white male" – based on invidious and offensive stereotypes – aren't we entitled to a little theorizing about Muhammad's terrorist ties? There is surely more evidence that he was a member of al-Qaida than that he abandoned Islam before carrying out the sniper attacks.
Emerging as al-Qaida's leading spokesman in America, the Times has also blacked out the information that the terrorists who seized a Moscow theater last week were practitioners of the Religion of Peace.
I note again: America is at war with Islamic fanatics. But in a prolix front-page article about the "hostage siege" in Russia, the Times referred to the Islamic fanatics who stormed the theater exclusively as the "captors," the "separatists" and the "guerrillas." One searches in vain for a clear statement that the Moscow hostage crisis was yet another enterprise of the Religion of Peace.
The only hint that the "captors" were even Muslims was the Times' dismissive description of Russian President Vladimir Putin's reaction to the terrorists' demands. Instead of acquiescing, Putin "cho(se) to cast the rebels as international Islamic terrorists." The Times knows a cheap political ploy when it sees one.
In one of the oddest attempts to soften depictions of Islam – the one religion the media respects – the Times has apparently banned the word "burka" from its pages. (Burkas have gotten such a bad name recently!) Instead, one reads only about the "burka-style gowns" of the Islamic terrorists in Moscow or the "burka-like robes" of women in Bahrain. (How about: The swastika-like adornment on the skinhead's forearm.)
Not to be outdone by the Times, CNN has valiantly insisted on calling John Muhammad by his Christian name. The night the snipers' names were first released, CNN's Jeanne Meserve repeatedly called Muhammad two names he does not answer to: "Here are the names. John Allen Williams, aka Muhammad Williams, and also a John Lee Malvo." Williams isn't his name. It's not even "Muhammad Williams." It is John Allen Muhammad.
After assuring viewers "we will deal with this carefully," Aaron Brown summed up Meserve's report, saying, "We will say again that these two men, John Allen Williams and John Malvo – and I'm not clear on the spelling on Malvo ..." While telling whoppers about Muhammad's name, he's fretting about spelling issues.
The next night Brown slipped and mistakenly called Muhammad by his actual name. He was quickly corrected by Kelli Arena:
BROWN: "And then it was sometime later that they got the second name, Muhammad or Williams, I guess."
ARENA: "Right, Williams."
Perhaps CNN should go whole hog and start describing Muhammad as a member of the "religious right" whose name is "Jerry Falwell."
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The New York Times is part of a multi-media cartel that is determined to push the world toward socialism. Over decades, a left-wing cadre has risen through the ranks in the major journalism centers until its members now control most of the top ten outlets. Witness the bias endemic in the electronic press. Note that the Times, the Washington Post, the Atlanta Constitution, the LA Times, and most other major metro dailies are all unabashedly liberal in their tone. We've all been exposed to the pink jabber from Hollywood.
The Left was smart enough to know years ago that Americans were gullible, and that to change minds you had to own the stage. So they set about placing their minions in positions of power from which they could spread their poison. The Times is just one example.
"All This and Heaven Too."
Great (and even semi-great) minds think alike. I attacked the same situation of avoiding the word "Muslim" in my column this week. There's also a short section on His Indescribable Holiness, the once-and-future (maybe) Senator from Minnesota, Walter Mondale.
Use the first link, below.
Congressman Billybob
A Dispatch from the Front, Plus Some Comments on Norwegian Charisma
Great (and even semi-great) minds think alike. I attacked the same situation of avoiding the word "Muslim" in my column this week. There's also a short section on His Indescribable Holiness, the once-and-future (maybe) Senator from Minnesota, Walter Mondale.
Use the first link, below.
Congressman Billybob
A Dispatch from the Front, Plus Some Comments on Norwegian Charisma
Well let's look at the evidence. In Israel muslims kill Jews at will on a daily basis. In the USA Saudi muslims bombed and killed thousands of us with our own planes. In the USA Farrakan (a muslim) proteges advocate killing "all the white devils." In the USA muslims have been linked to the OKC bombing. Just recently in the USA a muslim goes on a killing spree thruout the DC area . In Bosnia, in Chechenya, in Yugoslavia, in the Phillipines, the muslims are killing and maiming non muslims and creating chaos. In Russia muslims storm a theatre with hundreds held hostage under threat of death by execution or bombing, ending in the death of untold numbers. . In Iraq their leader threatens our existence. From Libya they shoot at our planes. Come on Ann, the list goes on and on and on and on and I need to make my point quickly. Needless to say it would take untold amounts of bandwidth to list all the evidence that we are at war with muslims. Period. no tag attached.
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James R. McClure Jr.
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