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Man bites dog: 36 Muslims demonstrate in favor of anti-terror efforts, media swoons

Mar 6, 2012 3:35 pm By Robert Spencer

This is a classic example of how the mainstream media frames the narrative and tries to form the opinions of the American people: three dozen Muslims show up to support the NYPD, and the media coverage is intense and adulatory. These Muslims were saying what all Muslims in the U.S. should have been saying for years, such that it should be taken for granted by now that most think this way — after all, so much of our foreign and domestic policy is based on the assumption that they do.

But they don’t generally say these things, and the media is so avid to find “moderate Muslims” that when a group appears that does say the right things, no matter how small the group is, the media hypes it into a major event. And so the AP story on this tiny rally was picked up all over: in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution; the Register-Guard of Eugene, Oregon; the Deseret News; NJ.com; PennLive.com; Cleveland.com; and elsewhere.

By contrast, we had tens of thousands of people at our Freedom Rally against the Ground Zero Mosque on September 11, 2010:

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Nonetheless, we had virtually no mainstream media coverage. Why not? Because the media wanted the mosque built, and didn’t want anyone interfering. So the many thousands of us who gathered on that day didn’t exist, but these 36 Muslims certainly do exist.

Again: the 36 Muslims said all the right things, all the things that Muslims should have been saying since 9/11 and before that. The story the media is ignoring and hoping you don’t notice, however, is that other Muslim groups that are much larger and more mainstream within the Muslim community in the U.S. are not saying these things. They have never said or done anything effective to oppose jihad terror, and in fact have impeded efforts to do so. But the media never, ever deals with that. It continues to treat Hamas-linked CAIR as a neutral civil rights organization, and to vilify those who are fighting to defend freedom against Sharia and Islamic supremacism.

Anyway, the 36 Muslims consisted of the usual suspects. Good heavens, what would the media and the fond, self-deluded folks on the Right do without Zuhdi Jasser? They would have to convert to Islam themselves to provide the “moderate Muslims” they assume exist and upon whom they place so much hope. Jasser is no doubt a capital fellow, but his Islam, unfortunately, is entirely eccentric and unrepresentative of any genuine currents within Islamic tradition or the Muslim community in the U.S. today.

Even worse, also among the group protesting in support of the NYPD was the false “moderate” Tarek Fatah, who exposed himself as an enemy of those who are truly interested in defending human rights against the global jihad and Islamic supremacism when he savaged the courageous freedom fighter Wafa Sultan in a National Post article, in which he accused her of the Muslim Brotherhood-invented crime of “Islamophobia”: here. I responded here. And in a recent email exchange, Fatah resorted to rhetoric taken straight from the likes of Hamas-linked CAIR in smearing me and Ali Sina as “medieval hate mongering people, seething with feelings of revenge and wanting a Final Solution of all Muslims.” No one who genuinely wants to defend free societies against Sharia and Islamic supremacism could or would resort to such defamation.

But anyone who calls himself “moderate” will do as far as the mainstream media is concerned.

“Muslims: Hoo-Ray! Group backs NYPD surveillance effort,” by Jessica Simeone for the New York Post, March 6:

A group of Muslims yesterday rallied in support of the NYPD”s controversial anti-terror surveillance of area mosques and Islamic social organizations and student groups.

“We stand behind transparency and police work,” said Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser of the American-Islamic Forum for Democracy outside Police Headquarters in lower Manhattan.

“In no way do we want to be spied on. But this is not about spying; this is about monitoring public programs,” said Jasser, one of three dozen Muslims who gathered to support the NYPD”s surveillance of their brethren.

“If you look at arrests for terrorism, of the last 200 arrests, 80 percent have been from Muslims, and yet we are only 1 1/2 percent of the population,” said Jasser, who narrated a documentary, “The Third Jihad,” about the dangers of radical Islam that the NYPD showed at training centers and later disavowed.

“So it’s rather a denial not to recognize that we have a responsibility to root out the radicalization,– he said. “To ignore the problem within our own family is to ask for this kind of surveillance.”…

But critics of the surveillance, noting the small size of yesterday”s gathering, said many more people oppose the program….

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