Posted by
Doctor Demex on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 8:26:17 PM
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED AUGUST 31, 2006]
Why are the San Francisco Chronicle and other mainstream media avoiding
any mention that Omeed Aziz Popal is a Muslim? Mr. Popal, 29,
formerly of Afghanistan and now of Fremont, apparently was angry over
his recent marriage, which had been arranged in the Afghan
tradition. He expressed his rage by trying to kill 14 strangers
with his automobile. Maybe the Chronicle thought the man's name
said it all, since the paper didn't reveal it until paragraph
fifty-five!
The news editors in this case might argue that Mr. Popal's religion had
nothing to do with his murderous rampage. Other reports say he
declared himself a "terrorist" as he emerged from his car, perhaps so
the police wouldn't think he was a nut.
The "liberal" media probably believes mentioning Mr. Popal's religion
might anger other Muslims into a similar murderous frenzy, which the
media seem to accept as the natural course of things. Reporters
can get away with insulting Judaism and Christianity, because they're
not likely to be assassinated for it.
Despite the liberal media's cowardly fear of retaliation for the
slightest misperception of an insult to Islam, perhaps there's a shed
of journalistic integrity in the way they honor their condescending
tradition of deciding for their readers what is newsworthy. What
I mean by this is that they might simply believe that mentioning the
Islamic connection to a terrorist is no longer newsworthy because
everyone has come to EXPECT the slaughter of innocents from
Muslims. But if Mr. Popal had NOT been a Muslim—now that would
have been a story rivaling "Man Bites Dog!" The only trouble is,
whenever non-Muslims murder people, it's usually because the
perpetrators are out of their minds. In contrast, radical Muslims
have no such excuse, because their natural state of mind is to murder
non-Muslims.
The United States and the rest of the free world is in a mortal battle
with people from a culture that encourages blaming all their problems
on non-Muslims and killing as many of them as possible. As much
as the liberal media enjoy war as a source of poignant stories, they
also use every available excuse not to mention the connection between
terrorism and Islam, because to do so would give credibility to the
claim that we're actually at war. That's what President Bush
keeps trying to remind us, and liberals must portray him as a liar at
all costs.