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Bin
Laden Vs. Koresh
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Michelle
Malkin
Remember
9-11: Stop sanitizing the killers
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How
many times have you picked up a newspaper and read about
terrorist attacks perpetrated not by Muslim terrorists,
but by generic "militants" or "guerrillas"
or "rebels" or, as Middle East scholar Daniel
Pipes noted, the Pakistan Times called them, "activists"?
Contrast the media whitewashing of our Islamofascist enemies
with the press coverage of the Waco, Texas, siege in 1993
– which constantly reminded us that David Koresh
and his Branch Davidian followers were members of a "peculiar
religious sect" (New York Times, March 3, 1993) and
"a group of religious zealots with a known propensity
for violence" (Washington Post, March 2, 1993) who
were steeped in a "culture of Christian extremism"
(San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 1993).
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Michelle
argues that the media is eager to paint al Qaeda as representative
of Islam, but eager to cover up David Koresh’s Christianity.
No, wait, it’s that the media wants us to think all Christians
are members of a cult but that al Qaeda isn’t a cult. I
mean, that it is. But the media won’t report it. Um, hang
on a minute. I’ll figure this out.
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The media “whitewashes” the fact that Muslim terrorists are Muslims.
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Hmmm…Nexis
search for “al Qaeda” within 10 words of “Muslim”
in the New York Times reveals 52 hits in 2004. “Islamic terrorists”?
72 hits in the New York Times in 2004. “Islam” and “terror”?
126 hits. Yeah, they’re really trying to keep that quiet.
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The media “constantly reminded us” that David Koresh and his followers
were religious. |
This
is stupid. Koresh’s bunch were defined (self-defined!) by
their religious ideology. And while Malkin would like us to believe
that the Times considers them to be one step removed from the College
of Cardinals itself, the very first Times article about the sect
reports, “The Seventh-day Adventist Church, which lists worldwide
membership of more than 5 million, has since renounced the Davidians.”
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The New York Times is biased because it does not believe that al
Qaeda is a “religious” “cult.” |
This
is an entirely bogus comparison. Malkin complains that al Qaeda
is not referred to as a cult – right after she complains that
they are not referred to with the same word (“Muslim”)
used to describe millions of peaceful world citizens. Which is the
media trying to hide, Michelle – that al Qaeda is a Muslim
group or that it is a cult group? It can’t work both ways.
With this claim, she actually helps defeat her argument. |
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Michelle Malkin’s argument is that the media is eager to paint
al Qaeda as representative of Islam, but eager to cover up David
Koresh’s Christianity. No, wait, it’s that the media
wants us to think all Christians are members of a cult but that
al Qaeda isn’t a cult. I mean, that it is. But the media won’t
report it. Um, hang on a minute. I’ll figure this out.
Dishonest media criticism is tough work, and here Malkin falls all
over herself with this bogus “whitewashing” stuff. Of
course the New York Times reports that Muslim terrorists are Muslim
– when it’s newsworthy. And when the religious identity
of the Branch Davidian cult was relevant, that got reported, too.
The only clear assertion she makes here – that you “read
about terrorist attacks perpetrated not by Muslim terrorists, but
by generic ‘militants’ or ‘guerillas’”
– is boldly false. Note the Quotes of Truth on prominent display,
as if she’s taking those words right from some puff piece
about al-Zarqawi. Please. |
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