Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Labelling by Media

A shooter enters a building on Ft. Hood base, shouts Alahu Acbar, then proceeds to shoot dozens of people, killing 13.  The shooter was a muslim man.  The media tells us not to rush to label the man as a muslim extremist or jihadist.

A shooter in Arizona kills several people, and wounds other, including congresswoman Abbie Giffords.  The media tells us it is because of Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh.

A man leaves a car parked in the streets of New York near Time Square, with a bomb inside.  The bomb does not explode.  The media says the man was upset over the lack of health care in the US.

A shooter kills a couple of soldiers at a recruiting station in Arkansas.  Again the media tells us not to rush to judgement about this man or his motives.

A man plants a bomb that does vast damage to a building in Oslo, Norway, then goes to an island camp where he shoots and kills more than 70 young people.  The media tells us he is a christian extremist.

The trend in these stories is that muslims who commit, or are accused of committing, violent crimes that could be declared terror, are spared the rush to judgement, while caucasian men doing similar acts, are quickly labelled.

The evidence is clear.  The left leaning media is loathe to label any muslim as extremist or jihadist, while quickly doing so for non-muslims.  Not only that, the non-muslim is quickly labelled right-wing extremist.

Why would they be so protective of jihadists who hate them to the core, and would kill them at the first opportunity?

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