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AP changes Fresno jihad mass murderer’s words from “Allahu akbar,” removes Islam reference

Apr 19, 2017 9:35 am By Robert Spencer

This is typical of the establishment propaganda media, which apparently now considers its chief responsibility not to report on jihad attacks accurately, but to make sure that no one thinks negatively about Islam as a result of those attacks.

“AP Changes Fresno Shooter’s Words From ‘Allahu Akbar,’ Removes Islam Reference,” by Peter Hasson, Daily Caller, April 18, 2017:

The Associated Press edited the words of a Muslim man who allegedly killed three white people in downtown Fresno Tuesday afternoon and shouted “Allahu Akbar!”

The suspect, 39-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad, holds fervent anti-Trump beliefs according to his social media profile, and he told police afterward that he hates white people.

Rather than reporting the gunman’s literal words, however, the AP reported the gunman as saying “God is great.”

On Twitter, the AP’s report gave no indication that the suspect’s words were said in Arabic.

The AP took flack on Twitter for the edits, which some said was meant to downplay the shooter’s ties to Islam….

The AP’s story on the shooting noted that Muhammed said the words in Arabic, but still reported it as “God is great” instead of “Allahu Akbar.”

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Filed Under: Featured, Jihad in the U.S., journalistic bias Tagged With: Allahu akbar, Associated Press, Fresno


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  1. Jaladhi says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 10:04 am

    These media traitors of the West are bent upon lying to shield Islam from its criminal endeavors! No doubt they will get us all killed by their intentional folly!

  2. mccode says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 10:04 am

    In order to keep their disingenuous narrative running, the MSM presstitutes are providing free translation service. How thoughtful.

  3. Frank Verderber says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 10:12 am

    Well its just another APish story. Give them the bannana award for trying to slip another peel under the eyes of readers. Liberals! We can’t live with them, but we can live without them.

  4. Barry says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 10:29 am

    ….heck, if the perpetrator really said in english ‘god is great’ (not what some allegedly heard (the muslim war-cry ‘Allahu Akbar’, aka ‘Aloha Snackbar’)….maybe he’s really a Christian with a muslim name….dang Christians running around shouting ‘god is great’ and murdering people……all crassness set aside, there are now grieving, terrorized family members of the brutally and senselessly murdered victims. For their part, the press should be tried and hung for their complicity in reporting the ‘facts’….

  5. Ed Lee says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 10:50 am

    The Fresno Bee did report that he said “Allahu Akbar”.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 19, 2017 at 11:37 pm

      And many news channels ran footage of the Fresno chief of police saying the Jihadist screamed “Allahu Akbar!”, as well.

  6. davej says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 11:22 am

    Mistranslating it to the more innocuous sounding “God is Great” rather than the real and more ominous meaning: “Our God is the Greatest”.

    Three people are dead, why does the press want to whitewash the facts?

    • Ed Lee says

      Apr 19, 2017 at 11:35 am

      For an answer, go watch the final scene of “Three Days of the Condor”, especially the last 2 minutes, in which the characters are on the sidewalk in front of the New York Times offices. (It’s on YouTube).

    • JawsV says

      Apr 19, 2017 at 2:38 pm

      “Allah is greater.”

      • Michael says

        Apr 19, 2017 at 2:46 pm

        Well, JawsV, we wouldn’t want people thinking anything badly about Islam … any aspect of it. None of it! That peaceful Koran — it’s just so nasty when people actually quote from it, and try to suggest BAD THINGS about the religion of peace …

        I don’t know, actually. Seems stupid. Any intelligent person at this point knows only Muslims say ‘God is great (or greater) or Allah is greater or some variation thereof, before they murder their victims. But we have a lot of unintelligent people. And a lot of very intelligent people who go … um, well, okay. If you say so.

      • Tony says

        Apr 20, 2017 at 10:10 am

        Allah is not greater – he is a fraud and a killer of all of NORTH AFRICA in the 700’s AD to 800’s AD. Moslem’s must go!

    • Tony says

      Apr 22, 2017 at 12:27 am

      Because the victims probably were white, Christians !

  7. no_one says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 12:00 pm

    Liars.

  8. Dexter L. Wilson says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 12:33 pm

    Best thing to know more about these AP Socialists, See ” A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” which is actually about Saul Alinsky the mentor for Obama and Clinton but does include the fact that leaders of the Socialist and Communist Parties, Norman Thomas and Alexander Tracthenberg taught their socialist/communist followers to call themselves Democrats, liberals and progressives because those labels make them sound lovable. They are all amoral, just like the operators of AP, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNBC, Reuters, And MSNBC.

  9. Michael says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 1:53 pm

    well … at this point, I THINK most people know that whoever says ‘God is great!’ before murdering people, has ‘ties’ to Islam. Actually surprised they didn’t just say he ‘mumbled something before firing on unsuspecting innocents.’

  10. JawsV says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    “Allahu akbar” = “Allah is greater.”

    • Mark Swan says

      Apr 19, 2017 at 3:16 pm

      You got it JawsV, that is the sole meaning of that preposterous saying. It is infact a taunt to
      any belief others may have.

      • DFD says

        Apr 19, 2017 at 3:22 pm

        Hi Mark,

        Nice to see you again, I hope you and yours are well.

        Here is something I like an other to, if you can be bothered that is. You may find this question I posed to be interesting, and I assure you, it’s not hypothetical. Here is the link thereto:

        https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/04/australia-muslim-who-murdered-six-by-hitting-them-with-his-car-says-muslim-faith-is-the-correct-faith/comment-page-1#comment-1655065

        • DFD says

          Apr 19, 2017 at 3:33 pm

          Whoops, sorry, typo!

          It should have read as: “…like an *answer* to,…”

          **Alternatively** I could also say: “…here is something I like someone to guess about…”

          Salute my friend

    • Tony says

      Apr 20, 2017 at 10:11 am

      Your god is a fraud!

  11. dragaozao says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 3:39 pm

    I was expecting a quicker change with Trump.

  12. mummymovie says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 3:49 pm

    The latest: He ‘was motivated by hate, NOT terrorism’.
    So… Ali Muhammad’s murders will go down on the books as acts of ‘hate’ or ‘extremism’, rather than jihadist terrorism, and will unjustly, but likely, become a statistic to further demonize the ‘far-right’ (the umbrella under which the establishment has classified our counter-jihad movement).
    This larger propaganda game the establishment media is playing here is as much about statistics as anything else; Using the art of misclassification to statistically make violent acts of jihad magically stick to our side, rather than the side of the global Islamic jihad -where they certainly belong- amounts to a seriously brilliant Machiavellian strategy.
    We’ve got our work cut out for us.

    • Michael says

      Apr 19, 2017 at 7:17 pm

      we do have our work cut out for us, mummymovie. we should never underestimate the brilliance and genius, and evil, of the people planning all of this. They have the money to hire, and control, and groom, the very best minds in the world. they are far, far ahead of us … I like a good fight, but this one’s a toughie!

  13. mortimer says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 5:53 pm

    AP is seen in this move to be creating FAKE NEWS.

    Inaccurate news like this is FAKE NEWS. Shame on AP. They have no OBLIGATION to shield NATION OF ISLAM from scrutiny.

    NATION OF ISLAM created the narrative that white people are ‘devils’ and therefore that they should be exterminated.

    Would AP SHIELD neo-Nazis from scrutiny if a member of their group had attacked Jews at a Jewish community center?

    • Custos Custodum says

      Apr 20, 2017 at 1:33 pm

      No use blaming AP for doing what presstitutes do – turn tricks for paying patrons.

      Remember The Frog and the Scorpion?

      Note that you, gentle reader, do NOT pay AP (unlike Netflix), so you are not a patron.

      Lenin helpfully offered two rubrics to analyze political realities: кто кого? (WHO WHOM?)

  14. Martin says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 10:57 pm

    I still have yet to see any MSM journo translate “Allahu Akbar” correctly as “God is greater”

    • Custos Custodum says

      Apr 20, 2017 at 1:45 pm

      There must be a secret appendix (seriously) to the AP style book and other media organizations listing all the little and big tricks for RECASTING news events in the political correct manner required by their masters.

      Sample entry:

      Allahu Akbar Should be rendered as “God is great.” Alternative translations such as “God is greatest!” are not permissible. The use of such versions results in immediate dismissal.

      Good practice requires that no reference be made to words being shouted in Arabic or any other non-Western language. Such references are liable to inform attentive readers confuse our readers and risk damaging the Narrative causing uncertainty and doubt.

  15. gravenimage says

    Apr 19, 2017 at 11:29 pm

    AP changes Fresno jihad mass murderer’s words from “Allahu akbar,” removes Islam reference
    …………………..

    *Disgusting*.

  16. Steve says

    Apr 20, 2017 at 4:01 am

    Does AP think that we the Kafirs are that stupid? Shame on AP and other news outlets that use the same tactics. We are aware of your treachery and stupidity.

    • Jeanette says

      Apr 20, 2017 at 12:07 pm

      We are aware of your complicity in the atrocities of the Muslims.

  17. patriotliz says

    Apr 20, 2017 at 8:36 am

    Black Muslims should be reading jihadwatch.org to learn that they are being used by their Muslim slaveholders to fight jihad against infidels regardless of color, race, etc. Arabic Muslims see blacks as second class.
    Look what doesn’t get advertised to America about Saudi Arabia for all feminists and blacks to see:
    https://youtu.be/ILYQ2kLne3k

  18. Jeanette says

    Apr 20, 2017 at 12:06 pm

    Note to our leftist member (can’t remember your name):

    This is what I was talking about.

    The left people, the left organizations, the left churches, the left whatever, cover(s) for the atrocities of Muslims.

    And THAT is why we identify the left with Islam and its evils.

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