It’s Job One of the establishment media after every jihad massacre: make sure no one thinks ill of Islam.
“One Year Later, WaPo Blames ‘Gun Violence’ For Orlando, No Mention Of Islamic Terror,” by Joe Bilello, Mediaite, June 12, 2017 (thanks to Lookmann):
It’s been one year since the horrific Orlando nightclub terror attack at the hands of a radical Islamic terrorist and the Washington Post is still trying to figure out what could have possibly motivated the mass murder.
On Monday, the Post published a strange column––flagged by the Washington Free Beacon this morning––that omitted any mention that Islamic terrorism played a role in the slaughter of 49 innocent people at the Pulse nightclub on that June evening in Orlando, FL.
In a piece titled “A year ago, 49 people died at Pulse Nightclub. Today, Orlando remembers,” author Katie Mettler completely disregards the self-proclaimed motivations of the terrorist Omar Mateen. Mettler refused to acknowledge any correlation between Islam or terror and the attack, instead choosing to point the finger at “gun violence”.
While describing a memorial service for the victims, Mettler said, “By the end of the night, more than 1,000 people had gathered to remember what happened last June, when Orlando became the first U.S. city of the summer — before Falcon Heights, Minn., and Baton Rouge and Dallas — to be upended by gun violence.”
What makes the WaPo column so bizarre, even for radical Islamist apologists, is that there wasn’t any speculation to be made regarding the motives of Omar Mateen. This was not a case of supposed Islamophobes blaming religion for the actions of a man who just happened to have a Muslim name.
According to the transcripts from the 911 call, Mateen was quite clear as to what inspired his murderous rampage.
“Praise be to God, and prayers as well as peace be upon the prophet of God,” Mateen said in Arabic before switching to English: “I wanna let you know, I’m in Orlando and I did the shootings.”
“My name is I pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of the Islamic State.”…
TL says
Most of the press has done a fine job of covering up Omar’s ambush (Koran 9:5) of kuffār and kāfirah at Pulse Orlando. All that remains for them to do now is to concoct a conspiracy theory about the “extreme right wing” having manipulated him into doing it.
Patricia F Koenig says
The way the mainstream media covers up the dangerous reality of jihad and the violent and perverted precepts of Islam…indicates the NWO (which controls the mainstream media) is promoting Islamic migration to the West in order to weaken Christianity.
John A. Marre says
Amazingly the Democrat congressmen have turned this into a case for gun “control,” not Muslim control.
mortimer says
Place a ban on Muslims entering the US from any country that helps terrorism.
john spielman says
and KICK out all pro sharia muslims as well
John says
And that would include LINDA SARSOUR please. At the top of the list.
Lon Spector says
This is just one reason among many others that the mainstream media is the moral
equalvlent of ISIS. With all the deceit and historical damage the media has done, you
could say they are WORSE then ISIS.
If I posted an arrow sign towards the edge of a cliff and beckened people to go over, I would
be guilty of MURDER. The media INTENTIONALLY misleads the population, fills their heads
with lies and compels them towards suicide. Satan does the same thing. Therefore, the MSM
is Satanic.
Presently, a lone teenage girl is on trial for encouraging a male acquaintance to commit suicide.
Why will put the media on trial for the millions THEY have lead to the slaughter?
WPM says
If some like him can not get a gun they get a bomb ,large truck, anything to kill large number of non believes. The answer ban renting cars ,trucks ,ban axes ,brick ,stones and anything do with making bombs clock, cell phones, electronics, but let people like this family immigrate here. They came here had there son here, raised him in a religion of hate. They {members of his family and him} travel back and forth from America to the land of hate and back to America. When this happen the go on TV boohooing that they did not see this coming they lost their “dear son” .Raze there Temple of Doom the “Mosque” where this poor dear learn his lessons of main stream Islam. Deport this whole family with there Doe eye teary eye testimony that they could not see it coming . Gear up the travel ban we did not let Germans move here from 1941 to 1945 we are at war then and at war now.
Bill says
Even before San Bernadino, the left, Democrats and media elites were using acts of Islamic terror as a pretext for more gun control. The NYT was doing it again the other day. This rewriting of history by the WP is expected. Democrat itinerant police worker, William Bratton, was also recently using globalist speak predicting that London-like terror attacks in the USA were going to become the “new normal”.
The Democrats are building up for another massive civilian disarmament push and are waiting for the next Islamic terror attack to declare as “gun violence, followed by hysterical demands for repeal of the Second Amendment. They want this to happen. Unfortunately, the USA has any number of Gun Free Zones where the terrorists can strike with ease. So sad as it may be, Bratton is correct — we are vulnerable and the ruling Democrat elite want us that way. Although, unlike gun control advocate Bratton, I will never accept it as normal.
Ed Lee says
Last September, the president of Gun Owners of America was asked what will happen if Hillary is elected. His answer was very succinct. 1) Gun confiscation, 2) Civil war. For Democrats, the goal has not changed. They don’t believe that step 1 leads to step 2.
AnneM says
All this will do is make more Americans arm up.
Bill says
It is having that effect.
But, even with more Americans becoming aware of their own responsibilities as they relate to their own self-defense, there are so many Gun Free Zones in America, that an Islamic terrorist has a virtual smorgasbord of targets to choose from. A few examples would be all of New York City, the entire State of New Jersey, most of California, any school in the entire USA except for a handful that have opted out of the “Gun Free Zones will protect you myth”. I am not announcing anything new or unknown here. They will simply use the same tactics that they have been using with brutal and efficient success in Europe, which may or may not involve the use of firearms. Each attack will be followed by surrender, appeasement, efforts to disarm the law-abiding, increased importation of terrorists and their supporters, and, of course, sympathy concerts hosted by entertainment celebrities.
In these zones, the terrorists will have free rein until the police arrive late, as is always the case, no matter how diligent they may be. The terrorists will be of course be stopped eventually, but only after slaughtering many of the defenseless who are deprived of the both the right and the means to protect themselves in these places.
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Stan Lee says
Bill: Thank you for citing three highly populated locations of our country which carry the designation of “Gun-free Zones.” The matter of designated “Gun-free Zones” result from the political powers existing in those zones, which all coincidentally are Democrat dominated, Therefore, the political constituencies of those particular zones voted for state or municipal governments to institute such “Gun-free Zones”.
The thought of these type zones concern me greatly, as it concerns you. Obviously, that matter concerns the leaders and legislators of those governments minimally enough to leave any/all protection of the citizenry from criminals possessing all manner of highly portable and deadly type weapons to local police, who may or may not be in position to protect on an immediate basis. Such attitude towards protection of citizens, considering how law enforcement assets are stretched today, is unrealistic in everyday practice given the threats that exist.
AnneM says
Do not forget there a growing tread in the USA called CCW.
Westman says
It seems obvious that, like an obsolete production machine, the WaPo keeps churning out the same old obsolete product after the market demand has changed. The ultimate result for most enterprises is bankruptcy. The WaPo gets by due to a niche market of nearby government money that trickles down through one of the nation’s greatest concentrations of marxists.
The WaPo is an economic captive of the socialist cause at a time when people generally will not pay for online media content. Paid subscriptions, in the mid-west, are mostly from institutions. Now, with the internet, Its influential reach far exceeds its economic reach due to the American fascination with the idea that wealth, notoriety, and academic credentials are a sign of wisdom and leadership.
The WaPo has been handing out Marxist drizzle since the 1960’s and yet Washington DC is two divided societies in which a congressman can attend a royal function with elites and walk down the wrong street and be robbed or killed. The home of international relations is the home of corruption and drive-by shooting – action more aggressive than affirmative.
Yet the liberal WaPo is unable to recognize that both it and the liberal ideas it sold congress are failures. It’s still churning out the old product, guarding liberals from the truth, and becoming a partner of the seditious shadow government.
mortimer says
Washington Post ascribing the Orlando jihad massacre to “gun violence” would be similar to ascribing Hitler’s invasion of Poland to the production of large TRUCK TIRES.
IT’S THE IDEOLOGY, STUPID!
Washington Post is asinine to ignore the IDEOLOGY OF JIHADISM.
Hitler invaded Poland by appealing to the IDEOLOGY OF LEBENSRAUM and the MASTER RACE IDEOLOGY.
davej says
To write about that massacre while ignoring the motivation for it is a massive act of disrespect to the victims and dishonor to the survivors.
What has happened to journalism – all we get now is propaganda and Fake News.
Westman says
Ruffling socialist feathers will not pay the bills in Washington DC for the WaPo. The US is socially polarized, yet the local economy of DC, on which brick-and-mortal WaPo depends, is based in socialism and government. The WaPo is an economic, dependent, captive.
Carlos Danger says
Lord Bezos/Amazon/Washington Post……..three enemies of your freedom.
Cretius says
Disgusting! Living in denial just like the 1930s and 50 million dead later and we had a solution.
Lucretius says
WaPo fiddles while jihad burns.
Blangwort says
One could make the argument that the motives of a mass killer are irrelevant. The behavior itself belies insanity. It is an argument I do not agree with, but it is a legitimate argument.
But if that’s the argument that the Washington Post wants to make, then they have no business labeling Dylan Roof’s mass murder as being done on behalf of anyone, (no, it wasn’t due to white supremacy, he was insane, right?
They can’t have it both ways. Either list the stated motives of all mass murders or none.
Bobby Joe says
You have a good point, but it would be better if you used the word “belies” correctly. I think you mean the behavior itself belies sanity.
Arthur says
Let’s not forget that Omar Mateen held a security officer license and a Florida statewide firearms license (class “G”). These are different from a concealed carry license. Mateen passed a full background check before he bought his firearms. The firearms license required 28 hours of classroom and range training. To maintain the license the holder must complete four hours of re-qualifying training each year. The class “G” license would not cover carrying an AR-15. Omar Mateen worked for G4S Security Solutions for nearly nine years as a security guard. G4S conducted psychological evaluations on all its guards. Mateen held the firearms license for 9 years.
Gun control advocates aren’t proposing prohibiting private security guards from carrying guns; the only people that would be prohibited from carrying guns if more gun control is successful would be the victims. But then, isn’t that always the case?
Angel Mendez says
The WP would probably blame 9/11 on box cutter and aircraft violence.
UNCLE VLADDI says
A common definition of Politics is “power-trading.”
If this is a valid trade of goods or services controlled by one group for those of another group, it’s all good. But when as it so often is in stead a trade of rights for responsibilities, it’s a crime.
Political Correctness = illegal lying criminal FRAUD, putting subjective feelings before objective universal facts, to EXTORT other people!
“Our” politicians are the globalist-owned “CONTROLLED OPPOSITION” & their group identity political parties = divide-and-conquer strategies!
Political Correctness (factual incorrectness) is LYING (aka criminal FRAUD) putting feelz before fact.
And who tries to punish others by criminalizing offended / hurt feelings? Only criminals, of course!
Saying “You hurt our feelings/injured our “dignity” etc so now you owe me!” is attempted extortion!
Every time some leftopaths try to extort others based on subjectively taking offense, it’s a CRIME!
And that even goes for companies – gangster conspiracies – like Fascberg, Twitter, & ScrewTube!
In fact, that’s all the leftopaths have: slandering others for hurt feelings in order to extort them!