In a recent post, we noticed how wildly at variance is the reporting, among
mainstream sources, of so basic a fact as whether the total for those slain in
the past week’s assault by the Egyptian military runs in the hundreds or thousands. And now here is another example in which the basic
information you receive varies
drastically depending on your news
sources --- and this, again, as regards the MSM, rather than small sectarian
outlets that self-create their own little worlds.
Consider the following headline:
World reacts with outrage
as Chicago mobs storm,
burn, dozens of mosques and Muslim businesses
Now, that did not in fact happen; had it done so, it would be all anyone was talking about.
By contrast, the following is essentially true
America reacts with indifference
as Cairo mobs storm, burn, dozens of Christian churches
News of the attacks is not suppressed, exactly; you can find it online if you hunt for
it, though mostly only in Christian news sources. Today’s Sunday New York Times, for example, makes
no mention of it, though it does have a large headline “Sectarian Attacks
Return with a Roar to Iraq” -- the attackers here being mostly Sunni Moslems,
the victims Shiites. The only
reason I even learned of these events is that they are prominently featured in
middle-of-the-road French-language publications. In Le Figaro,
and even on the largely-Muslim Morocco-based radio station
Medi1: http://www.medi1.com/player/player.php?i=5584255
Go figure.
[Update 20 August 2013] OK, now the MSM is
paying attention:
That article has an interesting wrinkle:
“We have seen zero indication that
the Muslim Brotherhood as an organization is organizing these attacks,” said a
high-ranking Western official ...
The official said the blame more likely rested with Islamist vigilantes rather
than Brotherhood members acting on orders.
What the truth may be -- Allahu
a`lamu. But it is certainly
the case that AQE has been hostile
to the MB, as not being sufficiently extremist.
The New York Times has likewise belatedly caught up
as well:
Hundreds of Islamists poured into the
street, torching, looting and smashing the village’s two churches and a nearby
monastery, lashing out so ferociously that marble altars were left in broken
heaps on the floor.
Over the next few days, a wave of
similar attacks on the Coptic Christian minority washed over the country as
Islamists set upon homes and churches, shops and schools, youth clubs and at
least one orphanage… [T]he
authorities stood by and watched: in Nazla, as in other places, the army and
the police made no attempt to intervene.
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