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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Canadian Mag Maclean’s Glamorizes Evil

Nov 13, 2015 8:22 am By Robert Spencer

What could be more multicultural than featuring a jihad murderer posing with a jihad victim? My latest in FrontPage:

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The Canadian newsmagazine Maclean’s has made an all-out bid to get noticed this week by placing confessed jihad murderer on Omar Khadr on its cover. Khadr, a Canadian citizen, pleaded guilty to war crimes charges in connection with killing of U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Spee in Afghanistan in 2002, and spent ten years in Guantanamo. For the mainstream media, killing an American soldier and serving a stretch in Gitmo is an irresistible one-two punch, making Khadr both a victim and a hero.

Looking for all the world like a successful young professional, Khadr beams out from the cover, accompanied by Rinelle Harper, a victim of racist violence against Canada’s aboriginal people, and Amanda Lindhout, who was kidnapped and tortured by Islamic jihadists. Possibly Maclean’s editors were unaware of the irony of having Khadr share the cover with Lindhout, as he almost certainly shares the world view and priorities of her captors; or maybe they thought putting the two together on the cover along with a genuine victim of racism would buttress Khadr’s victimhood status and obscure his ideological connection with Lindhout’s torturers.

Whatever the case may be, Maclean’s cover is no less grotesque than the Rolling Stone cover that featured Boston Marathon jihad murderer Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Grotesque and revealing: confirmed once again is the mainstream media’s inveterate hostility to America and the West, such that those who wage war against the United States and its allies, and who are punished for doing so, are celebrated as heroes, while those who defend the U.S. and Judeo-Christian civilization are despised and marginalized.

One need not search Maclean’s cover archives to know that neither Sgt. Spee nor any of his comrades were ever featured – unless in a piece disparaging and criticizing the U.S. military and war effort. Canadian freedom activist Ezra Levant said of the Khadr cover: “It’s a disgrace that he is on the cover of a mainstream news magazine, being portrayed as a victim, and in the company of two real victims, including a victim of Islamic terrorism. They have managed to transform a pathological murderer into a ‘victim,’ providing Al Qaeda with a great PR victory.” Levant himself, however, despite his heroic stand for the freedom of speech against the authoritarian and oppressive Canadian Human Rights Commission, has almost certainly never graced the Maclean’s cover – unless to herald a hit piece attacking him.

Maclean’s is a Canadian outpost of the politically correct perspective that dominates the mainstream media in the U.S., Britain and Western Europe. Publications of this ilk would never dream of featuring on their covers, at least in a positive way, Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who has spoken out so strongly against the perils of allowing large numbers of Muslims, with the attachment of so many among them to Sharia and jihad, into the West. But Omar Khadr or others who have attacked the West either in word or deed? Fine.

In October 2010, at the height of the controversy over the proposed Ground Zero Mosque, the New York Times ran an extensive profile of my colleague Pamela Geller. Entitled “Outraged, and Outrageous,” the piece accused her of waging “a form of holy war through Atlas Shrugs, a Web site that attacks Islam with a rhetoric venomous enough that PayPal at one point branded it a hate site,” and described her in superior and condescending tones ordinarily reserved for anthropologists studying primitive peoples in the bush. The following month, the Times profiled Daisy Khan, wife of Ground Zero Mosque imam Faisal Abdul Rauf, calling her “an Eloquent Face of Islam” and lamenting that “despite her message of inclusion, Ms. Khan has been accused by critics of being an extremist in a moderate’s garb” and praising her for having “gained a reputation as a bridge builder.”

In a sane world with a responsible media, one might think that one of the organizers of a project to build what would certainly have been taken by Muslims worldwide as a triumphal mosque built at the site of a jihad victory would have been the subject of the skeptical, sneering profile, while the defender of a view held by 70% of Americans – that the mosque should not be built – would have been lauded as a hero, but the anti-American bias of the mainstream media is now so pervasive as to be taken for granted nearly everywhere.

No one was surprised, after all, when CNBC moderators lit into the Republican Presidential candidates as if they had all committed heinous crimes, while asking the Democrats, in the words of Ted Cruz, “which of you is more handsome and why?” Cruz declared: “The questions asked in this debate illustrate why the American people don’t trust the media.” The Maclean’s cover featuring Omar Khadr is a further illustration of why that mistrust is wholly justified. The mainstream media has become a propaganda organ of the enemies of freedom. The only good aspect of this degeneration is that the media’s bias is now so naked and obvious that few people, if any, think of Maclean’s and its stateside counterparts as worth trusting or paying any attention to at all.

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  1. jihad3tracker says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 8:32 am

    Off-topic but basically in the Western fantasyland category as Robert’s post here about MacLean’s :

    The wonderful brilliant counter-jihad truth teller David Wood currently has a video he made just after the beheading of James Foley. Title is “Obama’s Escape From Reality”, up at www dot answeringmuslims dot com today.

    Eleven minutes of dark humor, with citations from the texts and teachings, beginning at 3:49. If you watch until the final minute, Janine Garofalo does a good spearing of BHO’s disgusting behavior.

  2. Nonblvr says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 10:06 am

    “accompanied by Rinelle Harper, a victim of racist violence against Canada’s aboriginal people”,………Actually Harper was a victim of two aboriginal male but perhaps that now qualifies as racist violence. She was actually rescued by two white males.

    http://www.winnipegsun.com/2014/11/17/rinelle-harpers-family-shows-grace-courage

    • Don McKellar says

      Nov 13, 2015 at 10:59 am

      Now, now, let’s never let the facts get in the way of a good leftist propoganda story! An aboriginal woman raped by two aboriginal males and then rescued by two white males — there’s no way to spin that in a politically correct way! Let’s shut up about that, shall we?

      • Dan says

        Nov 13, 2015 at 12:02 pm

        Yeah!

        We have found a truthsayer.

        May we burn him?

        This video might lighten your day.

        http://www.therebel.media/video_modern_educayshun_perfectly_mocks_sjw_in_university

  3. Don McKellar says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 11:01 am

    McLean’s has not forgotten the publicity that Rolling Stone got for their Boston bomber as rock star cover. And besides, if we just look at jihad killers as simply part of the Canadian cultural mosaic, can’t we all just get along better?

  4. Westman says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 11:20 am

    Ma-cleans up terrorist with makover into boy next door. Read all about it! Get your copy before Ma-cleans is replaced by Dabiq Magazine.

  5. mortimer says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 11:26 am

    There are two kinds of journalists: the first has read up on the jihad doctrine and ‘get it’; the second kind deals in speculation, guessing and uneducated opinion.

    The first group of well-informed journalists is represented by Graeme Wood of Atlantic magazine who wrote the article ‘What ISIS Really Wants’ (March 2015)…but practically all the rest have been sent out to write on Islam without any preparation to do so. They are woefully inadequate and substitute opinion and unvetted opinions for solid fact of Islam’s authentic doctrines…which are excruciatingly difficult to learn!

    They skimp on prep time and the result is that the public is not well-served and ‘opinions’ about Islam are nothing more than flattery and often intentional disinformation.

  6. Yokel says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 12:04 pm

    Is this not the same magazine that stood up to the jihad lot when Mark Steyn wrote an article that upset them? My, how quickly things change!

  7. Wellington says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 12:45 pm

    Implicit in this morally inverted cover is an anti-Western Civilization theme——-among other stupidities and faults.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 13, 2015 at 3:08 pm

      Wellington wrote: “morally inverted cover” ! It sure is…but it’s also a CLASH OF MORAL OPPOSITES!

      Amoral jihad terrorism is contrasted with Western Golden Rule ethics represented by the young women.

      The only commonality between Omar Khadr and abused women is Islamic lies, cruelty and barbarism.

      However, while the young women never embraced Islamic barbarity, Omar Khadr has not left it as witnessed by his JIHAD BEARD and CLIPPED JIHAD MUSTACHE.

      His hair reveals he accepts honor killing, child-marriage-pedophilia, FGM, wife-beating, superstition against dogs, Jew-hatred, repression of women, Islamic supremacism, revenge killing, hand-chopping, head-chopping, slavery and all those other NORMATIVE, backward Islamic doctrines that go with them.

      Omar Khadr, far from being a modern pluralist, remains a Bronze Age warrior at heart. He’s sorry he got caught.

  8. Angemon says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 1:07 pm

    Rinelle Harper, a victim of racist violence against Canada’s aboriginal people

    Rinelle Harper is Aboriginal Canadian, and she was the victim of violence, and the violence against her was described as “racist”, however, her attackers were also Aboriginal Canadians.

  9. Joseph says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 1:09 pm

    Well I guess they won’t have **Jihadi John** posing for the front cover.

  10. Nathanael Hoernlé says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 3:19 pm

    Omar Khadr is seen as a victim of injustice because he was 15 at the time of the crime he was accused of, and, apparently, that makes him legally a “child soldier” by international standards, and therefore not responsible for his actions, if indeed he did anything.

    He was apprehended and incarcerated without representation on the part of the country in which he was a citizen, and he was subjected to interrogation under torture without protest from his own country. He now maintains that his confession was only an attempt to make the torture stop, and declares himself to be innocent.

    Now I admit that all that sounds about as impressive to me as Osama bin Laden’s original insistence that 9/11 must have been the work of some extremist group in the United States, but, I reiterate it here in order to ask for opinions on it. Does any of it seem to stand up?

    • Wellington says

      Nov 13, 2015 at 5:19 pm

      The traditional presumption in Common Law is that one cannot be guilty of a crime if under 7 under any circumstance. From 7-14 the presumption is innocence but it can be rebutted with evidence. From 14 up you are tried as an adult. Modern nations have altered these ages (basically extending adolescence higher, a plague all around nowadays for the West) but I would invoke the traditional formula.

      However and more to the point, he was taken in war as a POW and thus things like representation fly out the military window here because we’re not talking crimes anymore but war. As for torture, I would ask what torture? There is a huge difference between intense interrogation and torture, though many in the West, including those who should know better, consider something like water-boarding torture rather than an example of intense interrogation. I would close by noting that the prisoners at Gitmo are not only for the most part some of the true scum of the earth but they actually have it pretty good, what with halal meals, a copy of the Koran, prayer rug, et al. I’m not sure about golf clubs for playing a round of golf. I’ve heard it rumored but…….{sarc/off}.

      In short, no pity for this barbarian. None.

  11. revereridesagain says

    Nov 13, 2015 at 3:42 pm

    Sounds like the Jesuit magazine “America” hasn’t got the word yet either:

    http://americamagazine.org/issue/called-prayer

    Since when did “Allahu Akbar” mean “God is greater than our hearts” instead of “our god is greater than your god”? What has happened to that good ol’ Jesuit rationality, so superior in understanding than that of us “secularlists”. What defense against Islam can we expect from the likes of this cringing, fawning dhimmi?

  12. Bernice says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 9:29 am

    Shame on Macleans for putting that filthy terrorist on the cover! I will never read that rag again, and I will never patronize any of their advertisers. And please don’t tell me that Omar Khadr was a “child soldier.” He was just short of his 16th birthday. In Pakistan that pretty much makes you husband of 3, father of 6 or 7. He is a disgrace to Canada, and has made our judicial system a joke. He should NEVER be free!

  13. richard courtemanche says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 11:41 am

    As with the CBC, Canada’s national magazine is kowtowing to Islam.

  14. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Nov 14, 2015 at 8:51 pm

    Re: “The only good aspect of this degeneration is that the media’s bias is now so naked and obvious that few people, if any, think of Maclean’s and its stateside counterparts as worth trusting or paying any attention to at all.”

    AND YET GULLIBLE FEEL-GOOD AND LOW-INFO CANADIANS JUST GRANTED ISLAMO-PANDERING SOCIALIST UBER-SPENDER JUSTIN TURDEAU A MASSIVE MAJORITY GOVERNMENT IN THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS HERE LAST MONTH!

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