In recent days it’s come to light that many black people are living in fear in Libya. Black immigrants who came to Libya as workers are suspected of being loyalists to Qaddafi. They are subjected to arrest or worse.
The reporting on this has been strong. Much of it I’ve been impressed with. And pretty immediately it’s apparent who’s in danger from who. Poor, young blacks have become targets of Libyan rebels because they fear that they’re mercenaries in the employ of Qaddafi. It’s clear reporting.
Check out these headlines:
“Black migrants now live in fear in Libya”
-Los Angeles Times
“Libyan rebels round up black Africans”
-The Associated Press
“Poor, young blacks become rebel targets”
-Minneapolis Star Tribune
But sadly, one has to wonder why we’re getting obfuscation on other stories of murder and violence. Today, Reuters ran this headline: “Youths Kill Family of 8 in Restive Central Nigeria.”
Youths? Family of eight? What’s really going on there? As I’m sure you guessed, what really happened was that a Christian family of 8 was hacked To death by Muslim attackers.
The headline in this case is created almost for the sole purpose of obfuscating what actually happened. This goes on all the time now. In fact, the word “youth” has almost become code for rampaging and murderous Muslim gangs.
The thing is, I don’t think the media hold this stuff back because they love Muslims so much. I think what’s really at issue here is that they don’t trust Christians not to get carried away by this news. They don’t trust Christians not to start attacking Muslims. Christians are those gun-toting bitter clingers, you know. They don’t trust you and me so they think they’re actually helping to achieve peace by covering up the motive of murder.
Their silence is an insult to us and it’s an insult to those being slaughtered.
September 6, 2011 at 3:19 pm
I know it's important that you're always a victim and will often… adjust reality to fit that narrative but did you actually bother to read through to the article?
Because if you had you might have noticed the very first word of the very first paragraph:
JOS, Nigeria (Reuters) – !!HELLO—–>Muslim<—–HELLO!! youths hacked a Christian family of eight to death in Nigeria's volatile Plateau state on Sunday, local officials said, continuing a week of violence that has pitted gangs from the two faiths against each other and civilians.
So the "obfuscation" of the fact that they were Muslims killing Christians is what exactly?
>Their silence is an insult to us and it's an insult to those being slaughtered.
Yes, they're silent on the fact that it was Muslims by saying it was Muslims! Those sneaks!
Tell me, how would you re-write the article to escape you're rather bizarre charges? Have the word Muslim done twice as large in blinking red copy?
I guess since you didn't bother to read the first graph there is no hope you read the last one:
"The fracas broke out on Friday night when the youth ambushed one soldier and killed him close to the Army Barracks in retaliation to the killing of a woman and the arrest of four Islamic clerics," the source said
I know, I know, the Christians MUST be good and the Muslims MUST be bad but maybe there's blame on both sides? That's often the case with ethnic strife.
No, Christians always victims, always and forever!
September 6, 2011 at 4:01 pm
Some of you may have heard of Erick Stakelbeck's from the Christian Broadcasting Network. (I heard about him from an EWTN broadcast). He has a new book out called the "The Terrorist Next Door", which I just finished reading last night. While it doesn't specifically cover the new and ever-expanding wave of specifically anti-Christian targeting of Muslims it does a fantastic job of covering both the ideological roots of Islamic terrorism and the Anti-Jewish and Anti-Christian orders of both Koranic verses and Hadiths.
What is truly amazing to watch is both the knee jerk reaction of the uninformed who want defend Islam in their quest to protect "moderate" (non-practicing) Muslims. They attack anyone who tells the truth.
At the same time the PC rules of the media have gone so far beyond the pale that it's no longer okay to broadcast the truth. The UK media are particularly, suicidally insane. The US media are not far behind.
Christians are being targeted and murdered and driven out of their countries by Muslims in Indonesia, Iraq, Egypt, and many other places. How often do you hear about this on the news?
Islam is now the biggest threat to the security of civilization. Yet, I bet you will will not hear the Muslim during the 9/11 anniversary ceremonies unless it is to list them among the victims "of the extremists".
September 6, 2011 at 4:27 pm
Savage, Once again you miss the point. Matt was talking about the headline and sad as it seems, that's where most people get their news.
And reporters often talk about "skirmishes" or "ongoing conflicts" as if it's a tit for tat thing between Christians and Muslims. The Islamic persecution of Christians is an almost completely ignored story.
September 6, 2011 at 4:44 pm
I agree, the headline is misleading, and anonymous is right, that is where a lot of people get news, just from a headline without reading an article. The Coptics were being murdered in Egypt, and that was largely ignored too. We must keep praying. Praying that extremists can have a change of heart. Praying for those who seem to be apathetic. Just pray.
September 6, 2011 at 4:56 pm
>and sad as it seems, that's where most people get their news.
No, not really, not even close to being true.
Once again, the very first word of the article is Muslim, the fact that the word isn't in the headline is meaningless as the article goes on to expand the story.
And as for people that only read the headlines, of what possible value as a group would they be to influence? Once again Matt makes the charge of "obfuscation" where there clearly isn't. His comparison of different stories written about a difference subject is meaningless and just adds to his paranoid tone.
Let's say if it just said "Muslim" in the headline but made no mention of "Muslim" anywhere else in the body, would that be acceptable?
September 6, 2011 at 5:39 pm
HA! So ridiculous. So we are to believe that the headline has no power and is meaningless?
Where and how media EMPHASIZE stories and matters. The headline should have screamed something else.
Besides – the examples of DOWNPLAYING are nearly limitless.
September 6, 2011 at 6:11 pm
>So we are to believe that the headline has no power and is meaningless?
No, you are to believe that there is no "Whitewashing" of facts if the facts are, y'know,there?
Once again, first word, Muslim so if they were trying to hide that fact from the reader they probably wouldn't have it.
>The headline should have screamed something else.
Such as?
September 6, 2011 at 8:05 pm
re: Such as?
Followers of the blood thirsty pedophile extortionist theocrat, Mohammed, violently murdered a Christian family after raping the women then stole whatever they can justified by declarations in the Quran that their made up deity Allah allows them to treat non-Muslims as subhumans.
September 6, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Let me add: while calling the Libyans of African descent "kaffir", a Muslim equivalent to the American n word.
September 6, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Correction, Rick:
You should have written, not "allows them to treat non-Muslims as subhumans" but rather, "Demands that non Muslims be killed or treated as subhumans (forced into Dhimis and obliged to pay the unpayable "Jizya" while "humiliating them" but only until such time as they are strong enough to kill them." All, of course, in accordance with the Qur'an and Hadiths
(OK, OK, maybe that is a bit longish for a headline.)
Remember that the 12 Mahdi (Imam) is coming, and can only come after the Little Satan first (Israel), then, the Great Satan (the USA) are destroyed, even though this will necessarily result in the deaths 1/3 of all Muslims. Small price to pay for having the 12 Imam show up along with Jesus (sic) to bring the remaining Muslims to Heaven. (Lucky for us, Iran won't have the bomb to give to Hezbollah for at least…several months.)
But on the other hand, maybe we can head this off, if we only we pull our troops back home. Afterall, it is our troops being overseas that created this Satanic "theology". Right? They went to Iraq and Afghanistan, jumped into the Pentagon's time machine, went back to the year 577 and inculcated the young boy and how to create an anti-religion necessitating jihad against the civilized world, but only if we went to Iraq (oh I guess Saudi too) and Afghanistan. Those silly Pentagon types! What were they thinking!
Or, when that doesn't work, we could all just convert to Islam to save our asses a seat on the bus ride to hell.
September 6, 2011 at 8:31 pm
J. Davis: Your's would be my first preference, but I was writing it along the guidelines of the White House to address the needs on Muslims who were unfairly beleaguered by the 9/11 accident on no fault of their own.
September 6, 2011 at 8:56 pm
Now that the Muslim Brotherhood is running the show in Egypt, there
has been open season on Coptic Christians. I recall one progrom that
happened recently– a mob attacked a Copt neighborhood, sacked
homes, killed dozens and injured more, and burnt two churches. The
police did not intervene for hours.
The headline here in the West? Something along the line of "Violence
breaks out between Muslims and Christians in Egypt". Christians in
much of Africa are undergoing a prolonged Kristallnacht and the MSM
here in the West doesn't think it's news fit to print.
September 6, 2011 at 9:13 pm
@Clinton: Journalistic integrity is history – specially with Muslim shareholders in the MSM. I think that should stand for Muslim Sponsored Media.
Muslim money is even rewriting American history in texts used in our public schools with lies like Muslims discovered America and contributed much to the Industrial Revolution.
September 6, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Oh Rick, that's some fine crazy racists paranoid gibberish right there! Muslims own Fox, NBC, CNN! THEY'RE IN YOUR HOUSE! AHH RUNNNNNNN AWAAAYYYYY!
And all that stuff you say about Muslims, can some of it be said of Christians? The pedophile thing for instance, that may be a stone you want to leave un-cast.
September 6, 2011 at 9:48 pm
@salvage: Jesus was pure, chaste and celibate. Mohammed married a 6 yr old, raped a Jewish woman and was a polygamist.
Jesus obeyed The Heavenly Father's will even until death on a cross. Mohammed made up his diety to tell his followers to give this and that to the so-called prophet.
Jesus taught poverty in the spirit and lived his teachings. Mohammed was an extortionist, robber, a covetous and greedy criminal.
Jesus is the Incarnate Son of God. Mohammed is a fake, a pretender who made up a cult for his selfish purposes.
Jesus forgave his persecutors even while being tortured on the cross. Mohammed taught his minions to murder the Jews and Christians.
You got nothing dude – just a blood thirsty, lustful and avaricious pig.
September 7, 2011 at 12:55 pm
>Jesus was pure, chaste and celibate. Mohammed married a 6 yr old, raped a Jewish woman and was a polygamist.
Yeah, but Jesus had the advantage of not being, y'know, real? You do know thathe was a pastiche of past mythological and legendary characters right?
As for Mo, well there's a historical record of him at least and all the stuff you accuse him of have been done by the followers of your Jesus, sometimes in an organized fashion so really you're splitting hairs.
>
Jesus obeyed The Heavenly Father's will even until death on a cross
I thought Jesus was the Father? So really he was obeying himself and what death? He got to come back to life three days later didn't he? See death means no more, the end, if you get to come back that's like a coma or a really good nap.
>Jesus taught poverty in the spirit and lived his teachings.
And now the Vatican is worth billions! Jesus is also big biz for some of the Protestant sects as well.
>Mohammed was an extortionist, robber, a covetous and greedy criminal.
Yeah, but find me a religious leader that isn't.
>Jesus is the Incarnate Son of God.
No, I don't think that's right, doesn't make much sense.
>Mohammed is a fake, a pretender who made up a cult for his selfish purposes.
Now that makes a whole lot of sense and pretty much describes all regions.
>Jesus forgave his persecutors even while being tortured on the cross.
Another thing that makes no sense, was Jesus supposed to end up on the cross? Wasn't that part of the plan? So what was he forgiving? The Romans and Jews who helped nail him up for doing exactly what he wanted / needed them to do?
>Mohammed taught his minions to murder the Jews and Christians.
No, that's not true. In fact the early Muslims had a measure of respect for "peoples of the Book" and that even lead to a golden age in Spain where all three religions got along under Muslim rule.
And I guess the Vatican picked up that lesson for the Crusades and the various wars of religion during the Reformation cuz they sure killed a lot of Christians and Jews!
At any rate aren't Jews going to be sent to Hell by your angry sky god for not believing in it?
>You got nothing dude – just a blood thirsty, lustful and avaricious pig.
Wow, you get all that from my posts here? Well I don't think I'm blood thirsty, I've certainly been lustful (and quite good at it) and avaricious? Nah, too lazy for that.
Hmm, bit of advice, when outside wear a hat, baldies like yourself get too much sun, brain starts to fry. I suspect your is a bit off to begin with so make it a big hat.
September 7, 2011 at 1:49 pm
S,
Decaf, perhaps? Are you so in need of love and attention that you'll take whatever you can get, negative or positive?
Nobody here is going to convert you; that's strictly between you and God. You're not going to convert anyone here; the quickness with which you resort to personal insults is enough to indicate your awareness that your arguments are lacking in substance. So why do you spend so much time standing outside the party throwing rocks in the window (to borrow an analogy from Heather King at the Shirt of Flame blog)?
September 7, 2011 at 2:52 pm
@salvage: Looks like you don't even know how to read your own Quran and Haddith because all the so-called "accusations" are documented there. But you know "taquiyya" – the Muslim practice of lying to promote and defend Islam. If you want to persist in your route, you'll meet your Mo and his sock puppet Allah in hell. That's my warning to you.
September 7, 2011 at 3:06 pm
"Yeah, but Jesus had the advantage of not being, y'know, real? You do know thathe was a pastiche of past mythological and legendary characters right?"
This is ridiculous, as anyone who has read history knows. There are many independent historical sources for the existence of Jesus outside of the Bible: Cornelius Tacitus, Suetonius, Josephus, to name a few.
Your arguments are not worth the compliment of rational opposition.
September 7, 2011 at 3:14 pm
@salvage: Quran with chapter and verse. Taquiyya does not work in the information age. Your Mo is blood thirsty indeed; that's not a sign of godliness. So, I'd find another path if I were you. Your "prophet" just wants profit.
Note: Mo-ham-mad taught Muslims to murder Jews.
Sahih Bukhari Hadith Volume 4, Book 52, Number 176: Narrated by 'Abdullah bin 'Umar: Allah's Apostle said, "You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, 'O 'Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.'" Sahih Bukhari Hadith Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177: Narrated by Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."
Note: Mo-ham-mad taught Muslims to murder non-Muslims.
Qur'an 2:191: And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.
Note: Mo-ham-mad taught Muslims to murder people who left Islam.
Qur'an 4:089: They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.