Will the U.S. Snooze Media Notice This Story?
Posted by MEC on June 2, 2008
The UK’s Independent reports that a Muslim seminary “which is said to have inspired the Taliban” has issued a fatwa against terrorism.
Senior clerics from the 150-year-old Darul Uloom Deoband issued the edict saying they wished to wipe out terrorism. “Islam rejects all kinds of unjust violence, breach of peace, bloodshed, murder and plunder and does not allow it in any form,” said the rector, Habibur Rehman, to the cheers of thousands of students. Many held placards saying “Islam means peace”, while others chanted.
So far, Google News lists stories about this in newspapers from India, South Africa, Canada, various Asian countries, Reuters … but none in the United States. Maybe Muslims are only newsworthy in the U.S. when they’re associated with terrorism.
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Phoenix Woman said
Of course. Yet any obscure doofus who joins a terror cell run by an FBI agent is guaranteed to get front-page coverage, so long as he or she is a Muslim.
Stormcrow said
Of course, the actual credibility of the threat from said doofus never comes into the picture at all.
The ability to judge or, for that matter, even define the term “credibility”, has long ago vanished from the ranks of the court stenographers who stand in the places that journalists once occupied.
MEC said
But too many people never question the credibility, because they’ve been saturated with MOOSLIMS AR ALL EEVUL TERRAISTS propaganda, and they never hear about the Muslims who oppose terrorism.