Saturday, February 17, 2007

The Jihad Will Not Be Televised

Hear about the riot in Ste. Geneviève des Bois, France where fifty Muslims attacked attacked three cars and left a man in a coma? The failed hijack of a Mauritanian airliner by a man who wanted the machine flown to Paris (for whatever purpose) because of "all the bad things they are doing to Muslims"? How about that the Utah gunman turning out to be a Bosnian Muslim, but the press completely failed to report that tiny fact even to prove it irrelevant?

Probably not, unless you did a lot of burrowing, because the MSM has shown a remarkable lack of curiosity of late about possible Jihadist incidents.

"Ultraconservative" paranoia about a non-existent threat or a press determined to manage the news because the brutish public can't be trusted with the complete facts for fear of a "backlash"? I doubt if there is any truly Jihadist motive in any of these cases, but the tendency of the press to downplay them to the point of obscurity and to not even consider the possibility of a terrorist element during a time of war is at best a matter of reckless irresponsibility.

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