Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Daytona newspaper editors smoking crack

It has been a long time since I've read anything as idiotic as a recent editorial at the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Get a load of this:

    When even leading media automatically veil Islam in implications of belligerence, is it any wonder Muslims perceive themselves under a siege of suspicion? American Muslims have a message for those who'd eye them so suspiciously: Leave us out of it.

What the hell is this crap? All of the biggest media in the country - ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, CNN - give Muslims a pass. This list makes it very clear. I don't know what these editors are thinking. Look at CNN's report on the Hamas Hate Mouse. Mainstream media routinely hides bad news about Muslims and often deliberately distorts the truth just to make them look better.

    The stereotypes were in evidence again, however, when the Pew study was published this week. Headlines focused on one inflammatory detail in the survey: Among Muslims between the ages of 18 and 29, 26 percent thought suicide bombings could be justified.

Of course headlines focused on that one detail -- it's alarming and something needs to be done about it.

    In any case, how is a survey showing even marginal public support for conventional American bombing campaigns in Iraq less disquieting?

Ahhh, well, because our bombing campaigns target supporters of Saddam Hussein and bloodthirsty terrorist scum, while Muslim suicide bombings usually target innocent people, including women and little children, as they go about their daily lives. Are the liberals at the Daytona Beach News-Journal unable to make this distinction? Unwilling? What is wrong with them?

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