The true feelings of some of the anit-American protestors?
Posted on 03/30/2003 2:21:07 PM PST by yonif
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The Times of London published a slideshow from the Iraqi war (Day Six), featuring 11 military photos and one anti-war protestor. From the hundreds of protestor photos available to news agencies that day, The Times chose a close-up of a woman donning a headband emblazoned with the words, "KILL JEWS." The photo is captioned simply: "A university student protests against the war in Iraq."
View the slideshow and click on photo #5: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,343-624507,00.html
Once the initial shock of the photo wears off, one wonders:
-- Why did The Times' editors choose this particular photo to represent the tens of thousands of worldwide protestors who oppose a conflict between two non-Jewish nations? Is this woman really "protesting against the war in Iraq"? Why did The Times' editors grant her call for genocide such a forum?
-- Why does The Times refrain from a detailed photo caption (unlike the others in the series), referring merely to the subject as "a university student" -- an anonymous, unplaced scholar with Anglo features? In fact, as the AP reported, the woman marched in Islamibad, Pakistan -- one of the world's hotbeds of radical Islam. Link: http://honestreporting.com/a/r/377.asp
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It seems to me that you are shooting the messenger. Isn't the more appopriate question to be: "I couldn't understand why a prostester far away from Isreal is calling for the death of Jews"?
To which the answer of course is that they are anti-semetic, and support terrorists. In which case the picture is perfectly appropriate and caputres the real feelings of our enemies.
Taken your meds today? That's right it is the end of the month.
Well put.
I asked the Times of London the questions raised in the HR article..let's see if they reply.
Remember:
...anti-Nazi pastor Martin Neimoller: "First the Nazis came for the Jews, but I wasn't Jewish so I remained silent. Then they came for the Communists, but I wasn't a Communist so I didn't speak up. Then they came for the trade unionists, but I wasn't a trade unionist so I remained silent. Then they came for the Roman Catholics, but I was a Protestant so I said nothing ... then they came for the Protestant clergy, and there was no one left to speak out."
Is silence golden? No, sometimes it's blood red.
One woman hesitated and said she did not want to draw attention.
Yet, you wanted the nespaper to be silent and not show the picture. Bizarre.
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