How Western Media Enable Islamic Terrorism

la-epa-egypt-unrest2-jpg-20130819If the West is experiencing a rise in the sort of terror attacks that are endemic to the Islamic world—church attacks, sex-slavery and beheadings—it was only natural that the same mainstream media that habitually conceals such atrocities, especially against Christians and other minorities under Islam, would also conceal the reality of jihadi aspirations on Western soil.

As The Commentator reports:

[T]he level of the [media] grovelling after the tragic and deadly saga in Sydney Australia over the last 24 hours has been astounding.

At the time of writing, the lead story on the BBC website is of course about that very tragedy, in which an Islamist fanatic took a random group hostage in a cafe, ultimately killing two of them.

He did this in the name of Islam. But you wouldn’t get that impression if you started to read the BBC’s lead story, which astoundingly managed to avoid mentioning the words Islam, Islamic, Islamist, Muslim, or any derivations thereof for a full 16 paragraphs. The New York Times, which led by calling the terrorist, Man Haron Monis an “armed man”, waited until paragraph 11.

In the Guardian’s main story – whose lead paragraph simply referred to a “gunman” — you had to wait until paragraph 24.

If you’d have blinked, you’d have missed it.

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In the wider media, reports about Muslim fears of a “backlash” have been all but ubiquitous.

If these are the lengths that Western mainstream media go to dissemble about the Islamic-inspired slaughter of Western peoples, it should now be clear why the ubiquitous Muslim persecution of those unfashionable Christian minorities is also practically unknown by those who follow Western mainstream media.

As with the Sydney attack, media headlines say it all. The 2011 New Year’s Eve Coptic church attack that left 28 dead appeared under vague headlines: “Clashes grow as Egyptians remain angry after attack,” was the New York Times’ headline; and “Christians clash with police in Egypt after attack on churchgoers kills 21” was the Washington Post’s—as if frustrated and harried Christians lashing out against their oppressors is the “big news,” not the unprovoked atrocity itself; as if their angry reaction “evens” everything up.

Similarly, the Los Angeles Times partially told the story of an Egyptian off-duty police officer who, after identifying Copts by their crosses on a train, opened fire on them, killing one, while screaming “Allahu Akbar”—but to exonerate the persecution, as caught by the report’s headline: “Eyewitness claims train attacker did not target Copts, state media say.”

A February 2012 NPR report titled “In Egypt, Christian-Muslim Tension is on the Rise,” while meant to familiarize readers with the situation of Egypt’s Christians, prompts more questions than answers them: “In Egypt, growing tensions between Muslims and Christians have led to sporadic violence [initiated by whom?]. Many Egyptians blame the interreligious strife on hooligans [who?] taking advantage of absent or weak security forces. Others believe it’s because of a deep-seated mistrust between Muslims and the minority Christian community [what are the sources of this “mistrust”?].”

The photo accompanying the story is of angry Christians holding a cross aloft—not Muslims destroying crosses, which is what prompted the former to this display of Christian solidarity.

Blurring the line between victim and oppressor—recall the fear of “anti-Muslim backlashes” whenever a Muslim terrorizes “infidels” in the West—also applies to the media’s reporting on Muslim persecution of Christians.

A February 2012 BBC report on a church attack in Nigeria that left three Christians dead, including a toddler, objectively states the bare bone facts in one sentence.  Then it jumps to apparently the really big news: that “the bombing sparked a riot by Christian youths, with reports that at least two Muslims were killed in the violence. The two men were dragged off their bikes after being stopped at a roadblock set up by the rioters, police said. A row of Muslim-owned shops was also burned…”

The report goes on and on, with an entire section about “very angry” Christians till one confuses victims with persecutors, forgetting what the Christians are “very angry” about in the first place: nonstop terror attacks on their churches and the slaughter of their women and children.

A New York Times report that appeared on December 25, 2011—the day after Boko Haram bombed several churches during Christmas Eve services, leaving some 40 dead—said that such church bombings threaten “to exploit the already frayed relations between Nigeria’s nearly evenly split populations of Christians and Muslims…”  Such an assertion suggests that both Christians and Muslims are equally motivated by religious hostility—even as one seeks in vain for Christian terror organizations that bomb mosques in Nigeria to screams of “Christ is Great!”

Indeed, Boko Haram has torched 185 churches—to say nothing of the countless Christians beheaded—in just the last few months alone.

Continuing to grasp for straws, the same NYT report suggests that the Nigerian government’s “heavy-handed” response to Boko Haram is responsible for its terror, and even manages to invoke another mainstream media favorite: the poverty-causes-terrorism myth.

Whether Muslim mayhem is taking place in the Islamic or Western worlds, the mainstream media shows remarkable consistency in employing an arsenal of semantic games, key phrases, convenient omissions, and moral relativism to portray such violence as a product of anything and everything—political and historical grievances, “Islamophobia,” individual insanity, poverty and ignorance, territorial disputes—not Islam.

As such, Western mainstream media keep Western majorities in the dark about the Islamic threat, here and abroad.  Thus the “MSM” protects and enables the Islamic agenda—irrespective of whether its distortions are a product of intent, political correctness, or sheer stupidity.

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  • Bamaguje

    It will take at least two more 9/11 type catastrophe for the lamestream media to change course, and stop making excuses for Islam.

    • http://facebook.com/AnnInquirer Ann Inquirer

      Wake Up! They won’t change course, they can’t. They are ruled by the Saudis, their biggest investor.

    • nobullhere

      If we had another 20 9/11 type atrocities here in the West, the lamestream media would still peddle the same claptrap and make the same excuses for Islam as they have since 9/11.

  • http://gerardjackson.com/ gerard jackson

    This scum are not journalists. They are vicious leftwing agitators.

    • UncleVladdi

      They are gangster criminal extortionists, just like all islamocommunazis.

  • Peter Castle

    We are under attack by Islamic terrorists, not random extremists.

    See “Terror Strikes America – Again!” at http://t.co/nurkdy0GI6.

    Conservatives and Christians are not the enemy. Islamic terrorists are the enemy.

    See “OK Beheading? Must be Tea Party Christians!” at http://t.co/JeE8yIckeC.

  • Texas Patriot

    Another great piece of journalism, Mr. Ibrahim. The phenomenon of Jihad-Denial in the West and throughout the world is beginning to crumble and will soon come crashing down as another ridiculous and misguided hypothesis about an ideology and a movement which we still profoundly misunderstand. Every little bit of truth will hasten it’s demise. Keep up the great work.

  • drygoldfeld

    The media in Eurabia , the USA and now even in Australia get ready for the Islamist takeover in the wake of the victory of the Left in general and municipal elections .

    • Moa

      Actually, the Left has been defeated economically and intellectually (the Left has had no new ideas for a long time, and all the ideas they have had have failed miserably when put into practice).

      Looking at elections around the World the Left is in massive retreat because the electorates realize the promises of the Left are bunk. Look at recent elections in Norway, Australia, USA, New Zealand, UK, The Netherlands, etc where there is a gradual shift to the right (or dramatic, in the case of the US Senate elections).

      The Left is in dire trouble and it knows it. That is why it needs to import massive amounts of Third World immigration (because current demographics mean their socialist welfare states are not supportable, and the existing population has wised up to the empty promises of the Left).

      This is also why the Left is supporting jihad and opposing Free Speech in every way it can (eg. trying to get rid of the First Amendment; and Hillary Clinton’s disgusting pushing of the censorious UN HRC 16/18). The Left is starting to make its overt grab for power – because seizing power is the only card it has left to play, and it is running out of time. This is why Obama is doing what he is doing, so blatently – not because he is strong or has popular support, but because he is weak and loosing support rapidly.

      We would all know this except for the propagandist media and treacherous “academics” who never hold government or media to account.

      We are winning. We just need to push harder against the lies and the illegal colonization of our societies and replacement of our populations.

  • JanetLevy

    This moral equivalence originated and still persists against the Jews. Thus the phrase “the Arab-Israeli conflict” which was really the “Arab-Muslim war against the Jews” plus the inordinate pressure on Israel to “make peace” when the Jews are only defending themselves against ceaseless attacks from Palestinian Muslims.

    What did the most powerful leader in the Christian world with a flock of 2.1 billion followers do? He importuned ISRAEL to “stop the cycle of violence” despite the thousands of rockets and terrorist attacks and the democratic election of Hamas leadership. The Pope chose to continue on the destructive anti-Jewish path pursued by the Catholic Church since the 4th century.

    See “The Holocaust was Caused by the Church, not Just Hitler” by Ted Belman.
    http://www.israpundit.org/archives/63603199

  • Yusuf S. Ghazzali

    No word about christian persecution in Israel?

    • Moa

      By the “Palestinian” Muslims who have disgustingly religiously-cleansed all the Arab Christians out of Bethlehem ?

      Oh, but you ignore the crimes of the jihadis. You are one of them, and are the enemy of all Free Men. Your time will come, and you will be very shamed of the evil words you said to support the cult of Dushara (which is the name of the Nabatean god that gained the title of “Allah” – compare the Nabatean pantheon with Qur’an Sura 53:19-20. Allah is Dushara, and not the God of Abraham who is called YHWH).

      Islam is a lie, and it hurts Muslims most of all.

    • UCSPanther

      We’re going to teach you Jihadis to respect other cultures, and if we have to do it the hard way, then so be it…

    • avi15

      There is no such thing. Just a straight lie, troll.

  • Yusuf S. Ghazzali

    They misinterpret the Islamic texts and apply them without wisdom….

    • Moa

      How? Al Azhar has ruled that ISIS are not takfiri. It is you who misunderstands Islam – the deceptive, evil political ideology that was fabricated by Caliph Abd al-Malik for political ends long after Mohammed (who came from Petra, not Mecca as the mythology later states) was dead.

      “An Historical Critique of Islam’s Beginnings – Jay Smith”
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd9lIuUjPs0

      You were born into a man-made lie that was meant to enslave you for the benefit of the Caliph. But you don’t have to remain a slave, and you should definitely not work to enslave others !

    • UCSPanther

      We are still not going to bow before you…

    • Whirlwinder

      Yusuf, stop it with your taqiyya. They have studied the Islamic texts and carry out the jihad just as Muhammad would have it.

    • Ayatolla Howmany

      “The Caliph has a Doctorate in Islamic Studies”

      And you know Islam better than him?? FUCK OFF, IDIOT MUSLIM.

    • http://facebook.com/AnnInquirer Ann Inquirer

      Well, there’s the understated T A Q I Y Y A, aka BS of the day.

    • jetcal1

      That in no way absolves them of responsibility. Any questions?

    • ssmith

      How do they misinterpret the Quran and Hadith thrn ? Give us some more information We are very curious.
      I have read your books by the way and seems very clear to me that what these savages are doing is following their ” perfect man”!
      Are there that many Muslims otherwise misunderstanding and misinterpreting Islam ? If so, you better run to Muslim websites and let your brethren know what they are doing wrong, they need you to set them straight. Why not organise mass protests in the streets with banners declaring IS misunderstands Islam? Muslims misinterpreting Islam need your wisdom, we can do without it here if you don’t mind.

      You wont reply, Muslims rarely do. They make a statement and run off . Then come back, ignore replies and make another statement elsewhere on the thread.
      You Muslims are rarely even capable of being able to hold a discussion. But understandable , all you have is defence of the indefensible.!

      • Physiocrat

        Studying the koran has addled their minds. Tragic.

    • Physiocrat

      If the texts are so easily “misunderstood” they must be of diabolic origin.

    • UncleVladdi

      Who does, the BBC? If so, then: yes indeed. But ISIS? Not at all!

  • Moa

    The media has always supporting the Left, supported by Soviet disinformation campaigns. There is no discontinuity from the 1930s. The media love Leftist collectivists and their thug leaders.

    The media loved Hitler’s National Socialism but switched to Stalin during the Spanish Civil War. The media have taken their memes from Moscow ever since then *without* interruption. Of course, the chain that the Cultural Marxist Politically Correct memes take are not made obvious.

    I thoroughly recommend the book “Disinformation” by Ion Mihai Pacepa. Get it for yourself for Christmas (you can read it very cheaply on your computer using the free Kindle software).

  • Vinashak

    Every where the so called liberals and leftists are doing the same suicidal thing…
    If a christian, hindu or anyone else even criticizes a muslim, he is immediately branded a dangerous communal zealot… nowadays they start even before anything happens (eg. #illridewithyou)

    When an Islamic terrorist kills, rapes and enslaves with impunity, all they can come up with is they are not “true muslims” and “terrorism has no religion”… although they do not use the same logic when it is the other way round…

    I wonder why leftists have such a boner for such regressive zealots… is it because they find parallels between the unflinching devotion of Jihadists with the followers of commie dictators?

  • watsa46

    The left/far left enemy is the non left. They will use anybody to destroy their enemy, if possible. Here comes the sheiks with plenty of petro$ and their goal to destroy anything that is Judeo-Christian! So an alliance of common interests was created and the 1st born was the ME study program disseminated like a METASTATIC CANCER throughout academia controlled long ago by the left and the 2nd born was the multitude of Mosques build all over the Western world. Since the left is anti Judeo-Christian, they see no reason whatsoever to ask for reciprocity from the fanatical Muslims they fear most. What a courage they have shown so far.
    The same left/Hollywood has caved in to apparently N-Korea.
    The western left is spineless. At least the old fashion communists of Europe/USSR fought the good fight even if they lost!

  • GHjo

    Is it the “Stockholm-syndrome” or are they feeding the crocodile,hoping they will be the last ones eaten?Is there anyone that have a credible explanation to this
    strange phenomena?Do they conceal the doings of other criminals,like the
    Mafia,the same ways as they do with crimes done in the name of Allah and Islam?

  • http://facebook.com/AnnInquirer Ann Inquirer

    They are working for the Moslem in Chief and his CAIR Cabal in the oval office, thanks to Saudi investment in the MSM.

  • http://facebook.com/AnnInquirer Ann Inquirer

    KISS it. Clinically Mohammad was a psychopath and a pathological liar. There was no Allah, he just made him up. No revelations from Gabriel either. No one ever witnessed any.
    The Jews & Christians in Mecca did not buy his lie, so he went to Medina and enlisted the Bedhouins to raid caravans, slave trade and kill Jews & Christians for not buying into his delusion.

  • mobuyus

    There are many gays in journalism drawn to the easy living, that harbor fantasies of being ravished by large swarthy middle-eastern men.They can be seen “working”at the cbc and bbc.Any law enforcement gets in the way of their nefarious plans.

  • Yusuf S. Ghazzali

    This article is incorrect. Western global mainstream media never tires of associating any form of criminality or terrorism with Islam and Muslims. They never tire using words liker islamic terrorist , Muslim extremist, islamist killer bla bla bla ….
    However when Jews in Israel commit worse crimes,like the mass killings of non-jews recently in Gaza, they are never exposed……….their racist motivations of bloody wars against non-jews is instead concealed by the mainstream media which by the way is largely owned by Jewish-Americans…..

    • UCSPanther

      If you are dumb enough to believe the laughable propaganda of the Ayatollahs, then you are dumb enough to believe whatever garbage rolls off the propaganda presses of Hamas and Fatah…

  • Yusuf S. Ghazzali

    How about persecution of religious and ethnic minorities in Israel which insists on describing itself as a Jewish state despite having millions of non-jewish citizens. Is that fair really??

    • diskit

      Jewish state is for Jews. Go to Islamic heaven.

      • ssmith

        Or at least for now to one of the 52 Muslim countries around the world.
        leave the Jews out of this as nothing to do with them ,just leave them alone ! They have ONE SMALL country onlyand indeed share it and give equal rights to their Arab citizens. FACT.

    • avi15

      Unlike under Islam, which is chauvinistic, minorities have nothing to fear under Judaism, which is benign and tolerant and underpins the values of western civilisation itself.

    • Softly Bob

      What persecutions are you talking about? Are you talking about the enslavement of non-Jews in Israel, or are you talking about the mass rape of non-Jews in Israel? Neither of which are happening.
      Perhaps you’re talking about the refusal to allow non-Jewish minorities to practice their religions, or maybe you’re talking about the refusal of the Israeli government to allow non-Jewish minorities acces to the democratic process, or to serve in government or the military.
      Neither of which are happening.
      Maybe you mean the way that Israel discriminates against women or executes homosexuals. Neither of which is true.
      Your post is pathetic. Why did you post it? Are you stupid, misinformed, downright immoral or an irrational mixture of the three?
      Tell us… what’s the answer? I for one would love to know!

      • ssmith

        Yes Bob, there is ONE Jewish state in the world, ONE !
        And that is not allowed from Muslims and Westerners alike !
        This Muslim’s lying slandering hatred for Israel trumps any compassion for the victims of his own religion.because we don’t hear a peep on that from him ?
        How typical. ! He can leave the Jews out of this and concentrate on the grave sins and barbaric acts of his own brethren .
        Maybe Muslims think we don’t know from their books that their allah gives them 72 virgins if they die as ” martyrs” which means killing an infidel..blowing themselves to smitherines taking innocents with them, or however they choose to earn a place in the heavenly brothel.
        Their whole cult in a sane world would just be viewed as superstitious medieval absurd nonsense.

        • A Disqus User

          Nobody says “let’s import MILLIONS of non-Blacks into EVERY & ONLY Black countries until Blacks become a minority, FORCE assimilate them into EVERY black community to create a “blended humanity”, give them
          Affirmative Action & free health care and push miscegenation 24/7 via movies/t.v shows & media(only in black countries)”

          THEN, when the Blacks object we call them RACIST!

          Of course not.

          They only call WHITES “racist” for objecting to their own geNOcide.

          Anti-racist is a >code< for anti-White

      • Physiocrat

        You will not get an honest answer from that man. His mind is flooded with lying propaganda.

        • UncleVladdi

          His “god” told him to lie to everyone, himself included!

  • Clive Walters

    On the day of the Sydney terror incident, at lunch time I was walking to a shop, when I saw four women dressed in tents (I assume the medieval Arab garb indicated Muslim) who safely went on their way. No one accosted them, no one insulted them, most people didn’t even given them a second look.

    In Sydney, the media obsession with ‘islamophobia’ and ‘backlash’ against Muslims is pure fabrication, and possible cynical incitement to the same. Australia is an incredibly safe place for all nationalities and religious groups. Any ‘attacks’ against Muslims are rare and dealt with by the police. What is amazing, though is that 1000 Muslims can ‘protest’ in the centre of Sydney and call for the murder of non-Muslims and they are not arrested!

  • avi15

    There is a muslim double act: muslim fanatics commit atrocities, while their muslim and non-muslim apologists say that this is untypical, thereby preventing all effective action against these atrocities. This double act is like a snake venom that paralyses its victim: only in this case, the victim is western civilisation, which is now dying on its feet.

  • kbs55

    Israel needs to call for a return to the original borders agreed to with the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and all arabs vacate the land now occupied.

    If the death cult Islam put down their weapons there would be peace, but if Israel puts down its weapons there would be no more Israel, or any other country.

    Islamics are the followers of a tyrannical false religion. (Islam is relativism.)
    Which came about to glue together a group of robbers, murderers, rapists, and opportunists (tomb robbers and artifact sellers).
    For more than two centuries, Wahhabism has been Saudi Arabia’s dominant faith. It is an austere form of Islam that insists on a literal interpretation of the Koran. Strict Wahhabis (ISIS) believes that all those who don’t practice their form of Islam are heathens and enemies.

  • UncleVladdi

    There’s a legal saying “Knew, or ought to have known,” which surely must apply in a venue which prides itself on KNOWING the facts, and spreading the news about them.

    It’s been how long since 9/11 brought islam to the world’s attention again?!

    The enemedia presstitutes’ jobs should be to do simple, basic research into the subjects they pontificate on.

    When they put up their fact-free opinions in stead of those obvious facts, they are committing the CRIME of slanderous, victim-blaming criminally-negligent FRAUD.

    With islam, they are all willing accessories and complicit enablers of this ancient yet ongoing extortion-racket CRIME-syndicate fraudulently advertised as the “religion” of islam, and as such they are aiding and abetting these “holy mobsters’” human-trafficking slavery and murder crimes.

    They should be arrested charged indicted tried and sentenced.

  • UncleVladdi

    There’s a legal saying “Knew, or ought to have known,” which surely must apply in a venue which prides itself on KNOWING the facts, and spreading the news about them.

    It’s been how long since 9/11 brought islam to the world’s attention again?!

    The enemedia presstitutes’ jobs should be to do simple, basic research into the subjects they pontificate on.

    When they put up their fact-free opinions in stead of those facts, they are committing the CRIME of slanderous, victim-blaming criminally-negligent FRAUD.

    With islam, they are all willing accessories and complicit enablers of this ancient yet ongoing extortion-racket CRIME-syndicate fraudulently advertised as the “religion” of islam, and as such they are aiding and abetting these “holy mobsters’” human-trafficking slavery and murder crimes.

    They should be arrested charged indicted tried and sentenced.

    MOST OF THEM ARE OWNED BY THE SAUDOMITES ANYWAY – THEY GET PAID TO COMMIT TREASON.

  • UncleVladdi