Note the despicable New York Times headline and lead paragraph: it was “flattery of President Trump,” you see, not Qur’an-justified violence, that proved “fatal” for this man, as if it gave him some incurable disease. What really happened is that the Taliban murdered him, as the Times gets around to explaining only in the third paragraph. A responsible news organization would make the focus of the story be the Taliban’s violent intimidation of anyone who stands with the Americans. Instead, the Times seems to think this man had it coming.
“Flattery of President Trump Turns Fatal in Afghanistan,” by Rod Nordland and Fahim Abed, New York Times, May 28, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan — Flattery of the American president may work in North Korea and Washington, but in Afghanistan it is proving dangerous and even fatal.
An Afghan man who admired the president so much that he legally named his son Donald Trump has now said he no longer feels safe and has fled Afghanistan.
That came three days after another Afghan who helped organize the minting of a gold medal thanking President Trump for his support of Afghanistan was killed by the Taliban, according to police officials in Logar Province and to the insurgents themselves. A third Afghan, also involved in making the medal, said he, too, would flee the country because he no longer felt safe.
Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesman for the Taliban, said in a statement on WhatsApp that the insurgents were responsible for the killing of Gul Nabi in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Logar Province, in revenge for his “criminal” role in making the medal. Shapoor Ahmadzai, a spokesman for the Logar Provincial Police, said Mr. Nabi, a prominent tribal elder in the province, had been killed by a bomb attached to the underside of his car last Friday.
On his Twitter account, Mr. Mujahid posted a photograph of Mr. Nabi along with a statement that he had been killed.
In January, Mr. Nabi and his friend Farhad Akbari, an Afghan Local Police commander in Logar, raised funds to create a medal out of gold to thank Mr. Trump for taking a critical stance against Pakistan, something many Afghans have long demanded, blaming that country for providing safe havens to the Taliban….
Japetto Danatelli says
We shouldn’t be too surprised at this, it’s little better here in the West. Here you get fired, or sued, or ostracized, or assaulted, or get a fatwa on your head for supporting our president or speaking against the criminality of islam. We’ve had cartoonists and activists who’ve had to slip into hiding for their creative projects or views, like Molly Norris who is currently on a muslim hit list because of her “Everyone Draw Muhammad Day.” They’ve tried to kill Spencer–twice. Islam is really like organized crime, with muslims using their religion as an excuse to murder and extort us. To call it a “religion of peace” is to encourage the crime it does, but that’s what most our politicians and media do. Islam is more than simply a collection of ignorant and superstitious ideas, it’s a political and social construct built on fascist methods, bigotry, and murderous intolerance. If islam is “peaceful” then Hitler was a humanitarian.
Logic&Reason says
The West’s MSM remains complicit with taqiyya, kitman, tawriya, and muruna.
The Taliban aren’t “Islamic terrorist supremacists”. No, they’re simply “insurgents”.
As usual, not ONE mention of Islam and its hatred of the West. But be sure to slam Trump, though!
Journalistic jihad by our own craven news agencies.
The “Charlie Hebdo” massacre and the Danish cartoonist fiasco have reinforced a 1400-year-old directive: Shine a light on the vile nature of Islam through speech or any other medium, and you WILL pay!
mariam rove says
The writing is Dari/Farsi. It says:
Medal of/for Bravery to Donald Trump President of America! M
Jenny H says
Pakistan should have, long before it happened, been prevented from receiving any more US Government funds. In general the Pakistan Government is no friend of the USA.. I believe Pakistan holds the USA in contempt, in the same way that a con-artist holds the victim he’s successfully fleeced in contempt. More power to President Trump for recognising the obvious and stopping the flow of funds. Pakistan also meddles in Afghanistan’s affairs with no concern for the well-being of the Afghan People or that Country.
Such a shame about the murdered man and I well understand why the others don’t feel safe.
mortimer says
Gul Nabi is evidence that many Muslims are becoming so sick of the violence that they are willing to pay a price to stop it.
Granddaddy says
“Muslims murder man who made medal thanking Trump” — Mr. Spencer is right, it is despicable. I’m surprised they ran it, it still speaks on the hate and violence of Islam. Maybe we should warn the writer he might be next (it sounds Islamophobic to me).
Granddaddy says
This really is despicable, you know? Just like Mr. Spencer says. And it’s slick; it almost got by me, I am so used to the Left’s hateful bias, I nearly don’t see it any more. At the bottom of the article it says,
“Hajji Gul Nabi thought the Americans are our friends and can help us,” he [Akbari] said. “In fact, we were deceived because we thought the Americans really appreciate our work and our intentions…We thought the U.S. is a superpower and values friendship, but they don’t,” he added.
Like we owe them something. We’re not over there to hold their hand. I have a really hard time believing anything the Times says any more. You don’t know if any of this is true or not.
Kepha says
My guess is that the guy who made the medal thanking Trump was probably also a Muslim.
gravenimage says
True–but obviously a very bad Muslim.
Muslims have never had any problems with slaughtering the “insufficiently Islamic”.
gravenimage says
Ramadan in Afghanistan: Muslims murder man who made medal thanking Trump
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This poor man–and the MSM take on this is just repulsive.
J D S says
They wouldn’t know what a journalist is if one bit them in the butt…….but by biting a NYT writer in the butt the poor biter would get rabies ending a fine career.
Back to the more serious ….In reading today’s JW articles…it seems that Ramadan is running rampant worldwide……AND nothing is being done to curb it,