The so-called mainstream media’s approach to and apologias for Islamic terrorism have become as predictable as they are farcical. In a recent piece entitled, “A Mysterious Act of Mercy by the Subway Bombing Suspect,” the New York Times’ Jeffrey Gettleman portrays would-be suicide bomber Akayed Ullah — whose foiled attempt at Times Square subway last month could have massacred countless Americans — as just another Muslim youth angered at and responding to the mistreatment of Muslims, that is, a Muslim with legitimate “grievances.” This is clear from the opening sentences:
Before Akayed Ullah returned home to New York from his native Bangladesh … he had one last thing to do — an all-night bus ride by himself to help Rohingya refugees [Muslims]. After visiting relatives here in the capital city, Dhaka, he traveled across the country, slept in a mosque and under a tree, and passed out a few hundred dollars of medicine in the crowded refugee camps. “When he left [America], he seemed happy,” said his mother-in-law, Mahfuza Akhter. “But when he returned, he was so upset. He said those people were living in hell, each and every minute.”
“That lonely trip across Bangladesh in September remains a mystery,” Gettleman goes on to opine, wondering whether Ullah was “following his own heart, reflecting some sort of inner struggle as he headed toward his first known act of violence and self-destruction.” Gettleman claims to base this “tragic hero” image of the would-be Muslim suicide bomber on “extensive interviews with more than a dozen friends, relatives and acquaintances,” all of whom (opportunistically?) say that Ullah was “outraged by injustices inflicted on Muslims. He was also described by several people who know him well as loving and giving.” According to Gettleman, such claims “still leave a hole as to why Mr. Ullah did this.”
And so it goes. To anyone paying attention, the NYT’s portrayal of Ullah is virtually boilerplate; the duplicate structure of the portrayals of all Islamic terrorists who strike at the United States. Recall, for instance, when Abdul Razak Ali Artan — an 18-year-old Muslim refugee from Somalia, who was receiving aid from Catholic charities — rammed his car into a building at Ohio State University, then got out and stabbed people with a butcher knife, hospitalizing some 13 people. CNN, NBC, the Washington Post and many others sought to rationalize away Artan’s violence by citing one of his Facebook posts where he wrote, “Seeing my fellow Muslims being tortured, raped and killed in Burma led to a boiling point. I can’t take it anymore.”
The problem with both Ullah’s and Artan’s supposed “grievances” is twofold…. Keep reading
StellaSaidSo says
Another ignorant libtard giving journalism a bad name, Gettleman goes thru the usual hoops in order to convince himself that there is such a thing as a ‘legitimate grievance’ which motivates atrocities committed by Muslims. There is not. There are only excuses. Gettleman should take the trouble to read the Koran sometime, if he really wants to know why Muslims are so keen on slaughter. Maybe then he will start telling his readers the truth for a change.
blitz2b says
Three stages of becoming a liberal
Ignorance about Islam is the first criteria of being a liberal leftist…
Unwillingness to questioning or criticizing Islam is the second….
Consequently pandering to Muslim’s faux victim hood is third.
MFritz says
A cowardly murderer does not become a hero in a free society.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
stellasaidso, in thé same reason one needs to make reference to mithraist pagan Bible líke à verse in Samuel 15:3 to know why wicked filthy have been committing genocide as they during crusade wars, holocauste ,bosnia, Iraq ,Libya, central African Republic and mor heinous transatlantic slave where more than 17million Africans thrown into deep sea
StellaSaidSo says
Ibrahim the Idiot once again displays his spectacular ignorance, this time on the subject of the history of the slave trade.
No, you stupid boy, 17 million Africans were not ‘thrown into deep sea’ by Atlantic slave traders. The Atlantic slave trade, hideous as it was, was relatively short-lived, and could not have operated without the MUSLIM slave traders in Africa who supplied the slaves, and who had been engaged in the business for CENTURIES before Europeans got involved – and who are TO THIS DAY buying and selling other human beings for profit.
Do you know the origin of the word ‘slave’, Ibrahim? Look it up. The term was first used to describe the Slavic people of Europe who were taken captive in their thousands by Arab slave traders, who conducted raids as far north as Iceland, and abducted the populations of entire towns. Approximately 2 million Europeans were enslaved by Arabs – a far greater number than the Africans traded by Europeans. Slavery is alive and well in the Muslim world today. Though officially abolished in Saudi Arabia in 1962, it is nevertheless widely practised. And, as everybody knows, Muslims dominate the sordid business of human trafficking.
So enough with your lies, Ibrahim. Pull your head out of your silly fantasy book, and read some REAL books for a change. Books that tell the TRUTH. You might be surprised by what you can learn.
blitz2b says
. Mohammed Itace … With what face do you come here to spout your nonsense. The whole world is terrorized by the demonic religion you profess, yet you try to excuse this evil cult you follow by pointing out faults in the Bible… Shame on you.
How can anyone be so brainwashed to believe Islam is even a religion is beyond belief…
MFritz says
Don’t feed the criminal.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
…mor heinous transatlantic slave…
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One presumes he means the slave trade, which was run by Muslims.
Moreover, it was the West that *abolished* slavery.
Not only does slavery still continue in the Muslim world, but Ibrahim itace muhammed *himself* has condoned slavery and sex slavery.
gravenimage says
Raymond Ibrahim: Islamic Terrorists or Tragic Heroes?
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Sympathy for the devil.
Of course, there is nothing mysterious about this Jihadists actions–as Islam itself says, Muslims are merciful to one another but harsh to the unbelievers.
gravenimage says
Jihadist’s
Guy Forester says
That self appointed “journalist” is enough to make me puke with his nonsense. Never mind the local Buddhist population in Myanmar that have been brutalized by these unwanted migrants for decades. Bangladesh is systematically eradicating any non muslims from that country. No one talks about that genocide.
mummymovie says
Oh, the poor, poor Rohingya!!
Unbelievable, what “journalists” can get away with writing here in the States!
The Times has sunk to an all-time low with the publication of this piece (of sh*t journalism)
It’s amazing that Jeffrey Gettleman can walk out the door of the NYT offices without being publicly shamed and humiliated for generating this highly offensive article.
I guess he mustered up the nerve to do it, perhaps, only because no one was killed in the attack (much to the chagrin, one can be sure, of Gettleman).
StellaSaidSo says
Rest assured, Gettleman would have spun that too.
I hear that the NYT is tanking. Maybe Gettleman will soon be looking for another job.
mummymovie says
-and to the chagrin of the New York Times.
Geppetto says
The indoctrinated media cannot help themselves. To portray these obvious Muslim terrorists as evil will require them to portray the “truly evil” west as victims, a narrative that violates every false premise inculcated in their malleable brains, an utterance that makes their skin crawl. These so called journalists wear their supercilious, condescending smirks convinced that their “superior intellect” renders their opinions sacrosanct and impervious to any negative critique regardless of the much more experienced and knowledgeable sources. They need not burden themselves with facts. It’s their feelings and their belief that all of humanity is innately peaceful and loving and if the imperial west, the so called civilized world, would just stop their evil, homophobic, misogynistic, xenophobic, imperialistic behaviors, we’ll finally achieve that euphoric state of Nirvana. Globalization on steroids.
This crowd needs victims to gratify and support their convictions. The Islamic Jihadists are only too happy and clever to fill this role.
CRUSADER says
What’s heroic was Tua’s performance in the National Championship in collegiate football.
‘Bama had Tua from Hawai’i QBing them !
Darned St Lo Crusader ! 😉 DEUS VULT !
CRUSADERS rule, wherever they are….
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