MSM extremism

I love the headline on this Guardian story. "Muslims have 'extra responsibility' to fight extremism" Odd, isn't it, that Muslim leaders should call upon their followers to do more to "root out extremism" but the MSM should be exempt from such moral responsibility?

The BBC doesn't even refer to the terrorists as "terrorists" and story after story at the Guardian refers to them as "bombers" and "suicide bombers" but not as terrorists. That's because terrorism isn't an act of war. It is a savagery practiced on innocent civilians. And our MSM have not been particularly helpful in curbing the violence. In the same issue, an article by Salma Yoqoob, leader of the racist Respect party (George Galloway's party created just for him after Labour kicked him out) that lays the blame for the terrorist attacks bombings on Blair's foreign policy. The word "terrorist" doesn't appear once in his article.

And this is the contribution of our MSM to the violence. By not denouncing terrorism, by not calling it what it is -- a savage attack on civilization and a cowardly one at that - they are tacitly encouraging the martyrdom of radical muslims. They know it. Imagine the reaction had they refused to acknowledge the dastardly evil of Nazi Germany and the equally evil collaborators in Vichy France. But it isn't hard to imagine is it? Because to this day, leftwing publications (most of our MSM qualifies for this tag) only denounce Western, specifically, American values. To this day, they do not denounce the Marxist terrorists in Peru. From the Council on Foreign Relations site:

What types of attacks do they commit?
In the 1980s and early 1990s, vicious terrorist attacks were daily occurrences across Peru. Shining Path and Tupac Amaru were notorious for indiscriminate bombings, assassinations, brutal killings, kidnappings, bank robberies, and attacks on Western embassies and businesses. The human and economic toll was devastating, and Peruvians have a particular dread of terrorism to this day. Human rights groups estimate that more than 30,000 people have died since the rebels took up arms two decades ago.

That is nothing compared to the four decades old war against people in Columbia by FARC most recently helped by the IRA to build better bombs. The three IRA terrorists are now comfortably living in Cuba.

Do you hear any MSM denounciation of the murderous ideology of Marxism practiced by Robert Mugabe?? Do you hear condemnation of Hamas, the Palestinian terrrorist group? You don't, for the simple reason that most of the MSM doesn't think of them as terrorists. They are, as the New York Times referred to Yassir Arafat, "romantic revolutionaries." Tell that to the hundreds of thousands of victims in Algeria and Morocco, the Sudan and Zimbabwe. Tell that to the victims of the Marxist nutcase Pol Pot led Khmer Rouge. Tell that to Columbians who have lived through forty years and 200,000 lives lost in what is euphemistically called a "civil war." (Although how it can be considered such when Cuba and the Soviet Union have supplied the money and arms for the terrrorists for decades, I don't know.)

So, when you think of the War on Terrorism, include the MSM on the other side. To them, it's just dead people, like the barely noticed cringing Sudanese in Darfur, succumbing daily to vicious assaults, international MSM indifference, and UN apathy. Like the 800,000 dead in Rhwanda, they are dying in silence. It's the same deafening silence that shielded the Gulag for decades. Shielded by the exact same people.