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NPR boosts British group blaming UK govt for Islamic State’s “Jihadi John”

Mar 9, 2015 5:32 pm By Robert Spencer

Jihadi-John Mohammed EmwaziIs the mainstream media clueless or complicit? It is getting harder and harder to maintain the former.

“NPR Boosts British Group Blaming UK Govt. For ISIS’s ‘Jihadi John,'” by Matthew Balan, Newsbusters, March 5, 2015:

On Wednesday’s All Things Considered, NPR’s Ari Shapiro spotlighted Cage, a British organization that ran to the defense of “Jihadi John,” the ISIS member who infamously beheaded several hostages on video. Shaprio slanted toward Cage by playing four soundbites from two talking heads from the organization, as well as a clip from the terrorist himself, who has been identified as Mohammed Emwazi.

By contrast, the correspondent only played three soundbites from critics of the “controversial organization,” as host Melissa Block put it in her introduction for Shapiro’s report. Block outlined that “an organization in London called Cage has become central to his [Emwazi’s] story. The group advocates for people who say they have been mistreated in the war on terror. The director of Cage is a former Guantanamo detainee.”

The All Things Considered host actually did better than the Washington Post and CNN in pointing out that the organization is led by a former Gitmo prisoner. Neither media outlet mentioned this detail in coverage of the group in reporting at the end of February 2015. However, Block omitted that Cage explicitly states on its website that it’s “been campaigning against the War on Terror for more than a decade. Its work has focussed on working with survivors of abuse and mistreatment across the globe.”

Shapiro led with two clips from the organization’s research director, Asim Qureshi, who claimed that Emwazi was “extremely kind, extremely gentle, extremely soft-spoken.” The NPR journalist noted that “Qureshi implied that British security services drove Emwazi to radicalism by harassing him; trying to recruit him; and preventing him from visiting his fiancee in Kuwait.”

After playing his clip from Emwazi, which was from a cache of “e-mails and recorded interviews” that Cage recently released, Shapiro played a soundbite from London Mayor Boris Johnson, who recently slammed the group. However, he followed this with two more clips from Cage spokesman Cerie Bullivant, who likened the CIA, and by extension, the U.S. government, to the homicidal Islamist group:

CERIE BULLIVANT, CAGE SPOKESMAN: If you want to put what happened to Alan Henning in modern security parleance, he was rendered from the convoy. Then, he suffered enhanced interrogation techniques. And then, he was dispatched by executive order. And for us, it’s just as illegal when ISIS do (sic) it as when the CIA do it.

The correspondent did acknowledged that Bullivant’s statement “may sound deliberately provocative,” but forwarded the Cage member’s spin about it – that “what sounds outrageous to many people helps Cage build bridges to groups that feel alienated from Western society.”

Near the end of the segment, Shapiro pointed out the criticism of Cage from an atheist former member of Amnesty International, who claims that “the Cage website glorifies some of the most senior figures in al Qaeda.” Indeed, the “cases” section of the website includes deceased Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula leader, Anwar al-Awlaki; and “Lady al Qaeda,” Aafia Siddiqui, who had connections to 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, and is married to Ammar al-Baluchi, who helped fund some of the 9/11 hijackers. They also have a “case” page for noted Islamist Omar Bakri….

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Filed Under: Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), journalistic bias Tagged With: Ari Shapiro, Jihadi John, Melissa Block, Mohammed Emwazi, NPR


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  1. Beagle says

    Mar 9, 2015 at 6:46 pm

    Of course jihadis, devout Muslims, are kind to other Muslims and monsters to everyone else. It’s in the Quran, 48.29 specifically.

    It never fails to amaze me how mystifying jihadi behavior is to most people, versus how simple and transparent for those who have studied Islam. No wonder so much time and effort is devoted to silencing knowledgeable critics of Islam.

    • Wellington says

      Mar 9, 2015 at 7:40 pm

      Ditto, Beagle. Instructive how ignorance of Islam is just about the best ally Islam has ever had. Well, the same could be said for any other totalitarian ideology.

      Conversely, and not surprising at all, knowledge of freedom-producing systems of thought (e.g., in the religious realm, Christianity; in the political realm, democracy) is just about the best ally in this regard.

      NIght and day comparison. That is for all those who can, a la Sherlock Holmes, not only see but observe.

      • quotha raven says

        Mar 10, 2015 at 5:55 am

        “… ignorance of Islam is just about the best ally Islam has ever had. …”

        Wellington – And an equal if not even more serviceable and powerful ally to Islam is political correctness and the beatification of “diversity”. Have you noticed how every person who mentions Islam in the context of terrorism feels obliged to say, over and over, some version of “of course, I know that only a very small percentage of Muslims are extremist and radical”. I believe people have literally been brainwashed and those words come out almost by auto-spond! This might be said to be exemplary of Voegelarian’s “ethical narcissism”. .

    • Jay Boo says

      Mar 9, 2015 at 11:04 pm

      Beagle & Willington
      I respectfully disagree
      COMPLICIT is the correct word.
      Although I can understand why it might appear on the surface that NPR is merely clueless, they are in fact without any doubt much more complicit that clueless.
      I often tune in to NPR while driving in spite of their liberal (understatement) slant.
      Many of their commenters use the same bait and switch convoluted routine.
      1 — They begin with a seeming unbiased statement as bait to distract attention.
      2 — Then, they shamelessly guide their willfully ignorant or unsuspecting audience down a pre-planned rabbit hole while pretending total (who-me?) objectivity.

      • Wellington says

        Mar 9, 2015 at 11:27 pm

        Complicit, Jay Boo, in the sense that the media truly know what Islam is about? Or complicit in the sense that they think they know what Islam is about? If the former, yes then indeed complicit. If the latter (which is my bet), then clueless.

        • Jay Boo says

          Mar 10, 2015 at 1:50 pm

          Wellington
          The best way for me to answer that is to suggest that you tune in to NPR whenever they are discussing anything Islam related and look for the pattern that I listed above while watching how they weave their sticky web and then slowly pull their victim (sometimes willing victim) ever deeper into their PC delusion, They may be coy but, trust that they know where they intend to take their audience right from the beginning.
          While I agree with Beagle’s assessment below, I would heavily weight in favor of NPR being more complicit than clueless.
          ———-

          As an aside:
          I am originally from Massachusetts. During their recent back-to-back blizzards, I was listening to NPR prepare to interview some students at a dormitory at one of the Boston area universities. Well as it turned out, I began laughing at myself for being so flippant and cynical for thinking “Now here they go again looking on campus seeking to find any available token student with a Muslim name to show the Muslim point of view about the blizzard and snow accumulations.” Sure enough, they immediately descended on three students who (lo and behold) just happened to be from Saudi Arabia. When it comes to groveling for Islamic (at-a-boy) approval NPR has absolutely no shame at all.

        • Wellington says

          Mar 10, 2015 at 6:16 pm

          I would contend, gravenimage, that while you are correct when you assert that some of the MSM (ditto for some academics) do suspect there is something “very, very dark about Islam,” this is “excused” by these rubes due to an extensive antipathy towards Western Civilization, which fools aplenty think the ultimate culprit in world history.

          The same kind of warped thinking has allowed many Western elites to actually believe, actually state, that it is impossible for a black American to be racist, even if a black kills a white because that person is white. In fact, this very example was proffered on the Dennis Prager radio show today (3/10/15) and the black American commenting actually said that if a black killed a white simply because they were white, that this still would NOT be an example of racism.

          I would also mention that the maxim, a little knowledge is a bad thing, is appropos here. I personally had fellow faculty members tell me (when I dared to criticize Islam) that Islam highly regards “People of the Book” and that Islam is against the killing of innocents. These people (and all with doctorates no less), with the paucity of knowledge of Islam that they had, had no idea whatsoever that the “People of the Book” rubbish really meant that Jews and Christians (perhaps Zoroastrians too) would get a few scraps thrown to them but only if they acknowledged Muslims as superior in every way (felt subdued and paid the jizya, blah, blah, blah). Ditto for the “innocents” nonsense, which, of course, COMPLETELY depends on how you define “innocence.”

          In short, gravenimage, I would describe what I have related above about all those in the West who continue to give Islam a pass as a masterful example of the worst kind of cluelessness. Another term comes to mind here too, that being “useful idiot.” So, I would argue that such people are not complicit. They are too arrogant, too uninformed, too stupid (and the worst kind of stupid is well-educated stupid) to be considered in almost every case as “complicit.” Calling these fools “complicit” actually, I would argue, gives them too much credit.

        • quotha raven says

          Mar 10, 2015 at 6:47 pm

          Wellington – This is in response to yrs below, in which you say

          “…In short, gravenimage, I would describe what I have related above about all those in the West who continue to give Islam a pass as a masterful example of the worst kind of cluelessness. Another term comes to mind here too, that being “useful idiot.” ”

          Right on. And, speaking as someone who is a former faculty wife at a big state university in the Rockies for some years, where I saw plenty of smug and self-righteous amongst friends and colleagues of my husband, I am again reminded of “ethical narcissism” (thank voeg). This obnoxious psychological dynamic is gaining traction in US culture, especially, ESPECIALLY in educational institutions at all levels from pre-K to post-graduate institutions. To put it visually, for those artists like gravenimage and dag, it’s like a slow, intravenous drip of indoctrination. through the years from the minute you are first dropped off at school! Cheers – Quotha,

        • quotha raven says

          Mar 10, 2015 at 6:53 pm

          To focus my point on topic: NPR, which I listen to a lot, is STEEPED in “ethical narcissism”
          as described by voeg. They are shameless in their preening. qr

        • Wellington says

          Mar 10, 2015 at 7:16 pm

          Thank you, quotha raven, for your comments. Much appreciated.

          Ah, the extent to which the current Western elites are fools is practically unfathomable. I dealt with so many of these useful idiots, highly educated to be sure, for decades, which is why I coined a new acronym to describe them, the acronym being “DWD,” which stands for “Dodo With a Doctorate.” My God, they’re all over the place, making a mockery of true education and, my God again, parents aplenty are actually paying mucho bucks to send their children to listen and imbibe the absolute drivel these DWDs are spouting. It’s Upside-Down World. It’s the Age of Nonsense.

          May you and yours have great success at staying sane in this very silly age in which we live. Take good care. Again, thank you for what you’ve posted here at JW.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 11, 2015 at 12:14 am

          Wellington wrote:

          I would contend, gravenimage, that while you are correct when you assert that some of the MSM (ditto for some academics) do suspect there is something “very, very dark about Islam,” this is “excused” by these rubes due to an extensive antipathy towards Western Civilization, which fools aplenty think the ultimate culprit in world history.
          ………………………………..

          Very true, Wellington—for many of these tools, it is only the West which is guilty of historic evil—in fact, it is only the West which is deemed *capable* of evil.

          With such a world view, how can ravening Mohammedans be anything *but* “victims”?

          More:

          …the black American commenting actually said that if a black killed a white simply because they were white, that this still would NOT be an example of racism.
          ………………………………..

          This is, as I’m sure you’re familiar, the “power” argument—that since whites (and Jews are also regarded as ‘honorary whites’), Westerners, Christians and males “have power” that actions, including violence, by any other group are really just a reaction to such power, and that they cannot really be held morally responsible.

          A sometimes unspoken corollary to that idea is that no member of the “power” group can ever really be a victim.

          I believe this is one reason that there is not much sympathy on the far left for Christian victims of Islam—on some very basic level they cannot really imagine a situation where Muslims hold power, even in a heavily Muslim-majority country, and in fact are deeply supremacist; nor can they conceive of a case where Christians do not hold power, and are regularly threatened, oppressed, and abused. Never mind that this is *exactly* the case in many places like Egypt, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, etc.

          More:

          I would also mention that the maxim, a little knowledge is a bad thing, is appropos here. I personally had fellow faculty members tell me (when I dared to criticize Islam) that Islam highly regards “People of the Book” and that Islam is against the killing of innocents. These people (and all with doctorates no less), with the paucity of knowledge of Islam that they had, had no idea whatsoever that the “People of the Book” rubbish really meant that Jews and Christians (perhaps Zoroastrians too) would get a few scraps thrown to them but only if they acknowledged Muslims as superior in every way (felt subdued and paid the jizya, blah, blah, blah). Ditto for the “innocents” nonsense, which, of course, COMPLETELY depends on how you define “innocence.”
          ………………………………..

          This is true—but I don’t believe this is just ignorance. After all, this is just the sort of bs that confirms their already extant world view.

          Moreover, cagy Taqiyya artists *know* this, and are only too happy to feed them more of this crap.

          More:

          In short, gravenimage, I would describe what I have related above about all those in the West who continue to give Islam a pass as a masterful example of the worst kind of cluelessness. Another term comes to mind here too, that being “useful idiot.” So, I would argue that such people are not complicit. They are too arrogant, too uninformed, too stupid (and the worst kind of stupid is well-educated stupid) to be considered in almost every case as “complicit.” Calling these fools “complicit” actually, I would argue, gives them too much credit.
          ………………………………..

          I definitely agree with you about “useful idiots”. As for active complicity, it can be difficult to know where deep willful ignorance leaves off, and active whitewash begins.

          I certainly agree that a decent but foolish individual like Ben Affleck falls into the first category, and I have never thought that there was some sort of “conspiracy” to mislead. On the other hand, I believe it is getting more and more difficult for politicians and journalists and others who should know better to simply and uncomplicatedly believe that Islam is a religion of peace—there is just too much evidence to the contrary, and more all the time.

          Right after 9/11 I think you could just be a naïf—but the mental gymnastics necessary to maintain such a stance *now* is quite a bit more problematic.

          quotha raven wrote:

          Right on. And, speaking as someone who is a former faculty wife at a big state university in the Rockies for some years, where I saw plenty of smug and self-righteous amongst friends and colleagues of my husband, I am again reminded of “ethical narcissism” (thank voeg). This obnoxious psychological dynamic is gaining traction in US culture, especially, ESPECIALLY in educational institutions at all levels from pre-K to post-graduate institutions.

          To focus my point on topic: NPR, which I listen to a lot, is STEEPED in “ethical narcissism”
          as described by voeg. They are shameless in their preening.
          ………………………………..

          Yes—academia and other far left institutions are the worst—but one finds elements of this throughout Western culture at this point.

          It was bad that my generation—I attended university in the 1980s—received little on Islam at all, but the blatant whitewash that students are getting now is *far* more dangerous.

          Excellent exchange between Wellington and Quotha Raven. Thank you both.

        • Wellington says

          Mar 11, 2015 at 6:44 pm

          Thank you, gravenimage, for your comment. As always, what you write is definitely worth reading.

          On the specific matter of the so-called “power argument” as a way of disallowing or exculpating racism by non-whites, the black American who called into the Dennis Prager radio show yesterday did indeed use this very argument in order to excuse even the killing of a white by a black. It’s complete rubbish of course, devoid of any sound ethics, and reeks of victim-oriented thinking, but, as Dennis Prager himself observed (and as I myself also know only too well having functioned in higher education for going on a third of a century), this is exactly the kind of crap that is taught at one university or college after another in today’s America. You know, using the term “higher education,” I would argue, has largely become a misnomer. More appropriate and accurate would be the term “higher indoctrination.” Sad but very true.

          Hope you and yours are doing well. Man, we had a brutal winter back here in the East and, as evidence that I am getting older, I await Spring more than ever. Take care, my astute friend.

      • Beagle says

        Mar 9, 2015 at 11:36 pm

        Complicit and clueless are not mutually exclusive. I suspect and detect unhealthy doses of both in the leftist nomenklatura.

        • gravenimage says

          Mar 10, 2015 at 1:57 pm

          Beagle, I believe you are correct. I think it is unlikely that many in the MSM actually have studied the text and tenets of Islam, nor know much of its history.

          But it is not necessary to be a Qur’anic scholar like Robert Spencer to suspect that there is something *very, very dark* about Islam.

          If you just read and watch the news regularly and see all the bloody Jihad violence, and notice Jihadists quoting Islamic texts (even if you don’t pay much attention to content) and claiming they are acting in the name of Islam, then you cannot be merely clueless at this point and simply believe that Islam is a religion of peace.

          You have to either be in pretty deep, willful denial, or—even worse—have a vested, philosophical interest (as in maintaining “political correctness”) to present a deliberate, whitewashed view of Islam.

          As the body count rises, such denial perforce becomes less innocent all the time.

      • M S case says

        Mar 10, 2015 at 7:19 pm

        Does NPR get partial government funds for their broadcasts??? They need to get out of the political run of things and stick with Lawrence Welk and concerts and such. They have no business in the political news arena They are just one rung on the ladder above CNN and the fake news media.

        • quotha raven says

          Mar 10, 2015 at 7:49 pm

          Yes, M S case, they are paid for with your tax dollars and have been forever. I used to support them til they went whole-hog commie pinko, back when Carter was pres. NPR also accepts big donations from Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, etc, etc ad infinitum with the leftist non-profit foundations. I would place NPR as indoctrinating as any propagandistic media, only more manipulative and subtle, with a veneer of elitim and “ethical narcissism” t to make listeners think they’ve joined the really smart set. Cheers! Quotha

        • quotha raven says

          Mar 10, 2015 at 8:00 pm

          M S – What I meant was that I used to make donations to them – they are also supported by listener tax-deductable donations. But I got fed up and quit supporting them that way, so now I only support them involuntarily through my tax dollars. (I’m paying for propaganda for a cause I consider wrong-headed). For a very interesting video on who NPR takes donations from, find James O’Keefe’s Veritas video of a lunch meeting his under-cover investigators had with top NPR executives. In that video, taken on the sly, O’Keefe’s operatives, acting as potential big donors from the middle east, maybe Saudi Arabia? – anyway, they make it clear that they support terrorist-related activities, , which doesn’t seem to faze the NPR execs! Well worth the research to find this (one of O’Keefe’s many) through google. Cheers! qr

  2. Northern Virginiastan says

    Mar 9, 2015 at 7:58 pm

    Public radio is like that. Last week on ATC, we were “treated” to Audie Cornish’s 5-part series on Muslims in Europe. She tweeted that she learned a lot from feedback but “not in a good way.”

    PRI’s The World is no better. The murder of the 3 Muslims in Chapel Hill hit host Marco Werman hard, as he had lived in Chapel Hill, but when I asked him about the vehicular jihad at UNC in 2006, he said that he didn’t know about it. On the day of Netanyahu’s speech before Congress, the first story was yet another story on Muslim angst.

  3. Alice says

    Mar 9, 2015 at 8:49 pm

    One of their now-fired fundraisers did call them National Palestinian Radio…

  4. jewdog says

    Mar 9, 2015 at 9:01 pm

    This is typical of the left’s cultural moral equivalence which is the idee fixe du jour. Rather than point out the depraved, but traditional, religious tenets that played a role in motivating these atrocities, these ignoramuses have to dig up far-fetched rationalizations to indict Westerners in order to make it seem like we’re all just as bad, whatever our cultural background. They have taken the rational principle of moral racial equality and extended it irrationally to culture, It is precisely this line of un-reason that is undermining the West.

    • BC says

      Mar 10, 2015 at 10:04 am

      The classic example of this is comparing Israel to the Nazis. Those who do this are either woefully or willfully ignorant of the Nazi era in Europe

      • RICHTHOFEN says

        Mar 10, 2015 at 12:17 pm

        Yes – and, I daresay, given half a chance, that Fahy would say that Hitler was a gentle, kind man who was much misunderstood and that nazi fascism was of a wonderful, peaceful nature – yet, even as an ‘establishment’ figure, he is allowed to get away with this and remain a senior police officer – what chance do we ordinary, heritage Brits stand against such bigoted, Anglophobic prejudice, bias and wilful ignorance?

  5. gravenimage says

    Mar 9, 2015 at 11:35 pm

    NPR boosts British group blaming UK govt for Islamic State’s “Jihadi John”
    …………………………..

    It’s the usual argument that what causes Jihad is…resistance to Jihad.

    More:

    Block omitted that Cage explicitly states on its website that it’s “been campaigning against the War on Terror for more than a decade. Its work has focussed on working with survivors of abuse and mistreatment across the globe.”
    ………………………

    The site also claims that their fight against the “War on Terror” will eliminate all injustice—clearly indicating that they don’t consider such horrors as the Islamic State to be unjust at all. And why would they? The organization is itself run by a violent Jihadist.

    More:

    Shapiro led with two clips from the organization’s research director, Asim Qureshi, who claimed that Emwazi was “extremely kind, extremely gentle, extremely soft-spoken.” The NPR journalist noted that “Qureshi implied that British security services drove Emwazi to radicalism by harassing him; trying to recruit him; and preventing him from visiting his fiancee in Kuwait.”
    ………………………

    Let’s assume just for the sake of argument that this is true—that the British government began harassing Emwazi for no reason.

    Now assume that this happened to you—what would you do? If you were an even marginally reasonable person, you would likely either retain a good lawyer, or else decamp for a more salubrious country. Either way, you might feel rather bitter.

    But would you—as Emwazi has done—leave for the most *horrifying terror state on earth* and behead innocent journalists and aid workers and post the atrocities on YouTube?

    Unless you are one of the Muslim trolls reading here, I assume your answer would be a vociferous *NEVER!*.

    The whole argument is grotesque. NPR should be ashamed of themselves for promulgating this evil West-hating bullsh*t.

  6. No Fear says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 2:43 am

    Are there any mature adults who are followers of Islam?
    I am yet to see any …….

  7. RICHTHOFEN says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 5:39 am

    Philip Hammond, at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has just finished exuding vast volumes of hot air about dealing with apologists for terrorism – yet, yesterday, a very senior UK police officer, Sir Peter Fahy, uttered the phrase -” The wonderful, peaceful nature of islam”, and no action has been taken by the UK Government
    This phrase says all we need to know about the UK ‘establishment’
    Apologists,appeasers, capitulators, Quislings, liars, water-carriers, useful idiots,traitors – all!
    In the face of all that is happening in the world and the UK, including the child abuse outrages in Rotherham, Oxford and most towns and cities in the UK, such an incendiary statement in support of the prime cause of world-wide terrorism is so bigoted, biased, Anglophobic and Christianophobic as to amount to nothing short of treason against the British people – this is the sickness underlying the spread of muslim crime, this is the reason it is being allowed to spread, exponentially, with impunity. It is the traitors at the very heart of government that are perpetuating the downward spiral to oblivion. Institutionalised genocide, by any other name

    • BC says

      Mar 10, 2015 at 10:09 am

      -” The wonderful, peaceful nature of islam” The obvious fallacy here is that Islam commands Muslims to kill those who leave Islam or even want to leave Islam, even members of their own family receive no mercy. That alone contradicts the -” The wonderful, peaceful nature of islam” which is in flagrant contradiction of every human value, not to mention contavenes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  8. Boston Tea Party says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 9:12 am

    More information here on how Amnesty International is in bed with CAGE:

    http://www.economist.com/news/britain/21645806-weightiest-human-rights-outfit-has-waded-moral-quagmire-reputation-risk

  9. Lloyd Miller says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 9:20 am

    Now just who do you suppose finances Amnesty International? The Rockefeller Foundations and other elements of the Establishment in league with the Saudis and other OPEC Muslim factions angling for PetroDollars!

  10. RonaldB says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 12:12 pm

    I actually totally stopped listening to NPR a few years ago. It was not that I disagreed with their slant. I know a public radio station is going to be socialist. That’s expected. What got me to turn them off was, they had a one-hour segment on 9/11 and the heroic response of the New York police and firefighters. And not once, in that tear-soaked retrospective, did they mention Islam. They could have had exactly the same program, word for word, if the twin towers had been hit by an earthquake.

    If they had said “the Islamic group, al-qaeda, fighting against Western atrocities against Muslims”, I would have continued to listen to them. Why? Because at least they would be telling me what’s there. I can detect their slant on my own. But, when they simply ignore the inconvenient parts, like the support for terrorism in the canons of Islam, I’m not getting news, or even a diatribe: I’m simply getting a fluff piece. So, when NPR whites out inconvenient information, rather than misrepresenting it, it’s simply not worth my time to listen to them. I listen to music when working out, rather than NPR, because my information content after listening to one of their stories is no greater than before.

    So, their story on Cage is a positive step. But, my question is, did they mention any connection to Islam? I don’t even care if they said “The human rights group, CAGE, inspired by the vision of justice in the Koran”. That would actually be a true statement. My point is that if I listen to news, I at least want the components of the story to be mentioned, even if the “reporter” has a different view than I do.

    • Raja says

      Mar 10, 2015 at 8:36 pm

      Your eyes have been opened by what is going around us in this age of information. Anybody can call Jesus by any names including son of devil. Not anyone can say anything about Islam and the Western world seems to be bending backward to appease the Islam followers!!!!! Any evil can be done in the name of Islam and the world is quiet. Now tell me which part of the world is peaceful? which is a religion of peace? It is worthwhile noting that the Western leaders have been deeply influenced by the “Clash of civilizations” book and the crafty Islam war machine operations (who are generally political Islam outfits or Pseudo social organizations) have seized upon the opportunity to coin new words like “Islamophobia” thus churning out huge volumes of lies and blatant deception.

      There is not a single “leader” in the world who understands this or at the least admitting to see/understand this.

      The present Western world system needs to allow more free opinion on Islam by atheists, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Jains, and so on.

      The western leaders are actually lying when they speak on behalf of Islam by calling it a peaceful religion and this is not sustainable for too long. Radicalization starts at a moslem home when they hate a secular government and call it a Christian government. What has Christianity to do with governance?

      Christian contempt for Islam was expressed in turning his name from Muhammad to Mahound, the “devil incarnate”.a few centuries ago but alas there is hardly any Christian around who understands the devil or the craftiness of the devil. Last week a moslem blogger was hacked to death by Islamists in Dhaka for elucidating the lies and deceptions of so called Koranic science and also superstitions found in Koran. This is the handiwork of peaceful “religion”!!!!

      More exposures please!!!! The truth is never imposed but exposed!!!!!

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 10, 2015 at 11:06 pm

      RonaldB wrote:

      What got me to turn them off was, they had a one-hour segment on 9/11 and the heroic response of the New York police and firefighters. And not once, in that tear-soaked retrospective, did they mention Islam. They could have had exactly the same program, word for word, if the twin towers had been hit by an earthquake…
      ………………………………………

      I’ve long noticed this as well, Ronald. Very often, it’s not just that they don’t mention Islam—not even in terms of Islamic “extremism”—but that they don’t mention *any* agent, not even the generic “terrorists”.

      It is, as you note, as though the towers fell in an earthquake or flood or other natural disaster. If the towers had fallen due to, say, poor maintenance, in fact, there would in many cases be more outrage, and more naming of those responsible.

  11. thomas pellow says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 1:09 pm

    “Islamist barbarism at the gate.

    “It is baffling that some well-meaning Westerners still regard Islamist extremists as carrying the banner of the oppressed. But such is the nature of the ideological Left.
    These shabby, useful idiots need to be exposed, along with the barbarians they lie for.”

    http://www.thecommentator.com/article/5693/islamist_barbarism_at_the_gate

  12. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    That the British government is blamed for the creation of “jihadi John” only shows that evil is always looking for for an excuse. Lets be realistic and put the real blame where it belongs. What made this brutal and murderous guy is Islam with the teachings of Islam and its “holy book,”, the Koran. As in Sura 47;4.

  13. John S says

    Mar 10, 2015 at 3:54 pm

    Will you please cease referring to Emwazi as “Jihadi John”. I and my fellow Johns have for too long had our Christian name associated with his acts of barbarity. If you must attach a soubriquet to him please refer to him as “Jihadi Mohammed”.

  14. shabeer_hassan says

    Mar 11, 2015 at 12:21 pm

    @BC
    Apostate ordered killing when they are fighting against Islam: committed murder and theft
    Bukhari :: Book 9 :: Volume 83 :: Hadith 37
    “By Allah, Allah’s Apostle never killed anyone except in one of the following three situations: (1) A person who killed somebody unjustly, was killed (in Qisas,) (2) a married person who committed illegal sexual intercourse and (3) a man who fought against Allah and His Apostle, and deserted Islam and became an apostate.”
    Prophet allow Apostate to live
    Muslim :: Book 20 : Hadith 4593
    It has been narrated by Salama b. al-Akwa’ that he visited al-Hajjaj who said to him: O son of al-Akwa’, you have turned apostate and have come to live again in the desert with the Bedouins (after your migration). He said: No, but the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) has permitted me to live in the desert.

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