The New York Times, like the rest of the establishment Left’s propaganda organs, is committed to concealing crimes done in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings, and does all it can to absolve Islam of all responsibility for those misdeeds. This headline is a particularly piquant example of how it is done: the responsibility for the death threats is placed not upon those who actually issued the threats, but upon the “teenager’s anti-Islam rant.” It would be akin to saying, “An accident at the lab unleashed the virus”: in such a case, the lab would be responsible. And so likewise the teenager is responsible for “unleashing” the threats, although she was actually their target, and she did not force those who made the threats to do so in any way. The Times never even considers the idea that Muslims are in control of their actions and responsible for any threats they may issue. To do so would be “Islamophobic.”
“A French Teenager’s Anti-Islam Rant Unleashed Death Threats. Now 13 Are on Trial.” By Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, July 6, 2021
PARIS — The French girl, 16, was sharing highly personal details about her life in a livestream on Instagram, including her attraction to women. Just not Black or Arab women, she said.
When insults and death threats started pouring in to her Instagram account in response to her comments in January 2020, some from viewers saying she was an affront to Islam, the teenager, Mila, dug in, quickly posting another video.
“I hate religion,” she declared. “The Quran is a religion of hatred.” She also used profanity to describe Islam and the crudest of imagery in referring to God.
The ensuing onslaught of threats after the video went viral has landed 13 people in court on charges of online harassment.
The case has put a spotlight on the roiling French debate over freedom of expression and blasphemy, especially when it touches on Islam. It is also a landmark test for recent legislation that broadens France’s definition of cyberharassment in regards to attacks on the internet, where vitriol is plentiful, modulated debate less so….
DavidR says
In a sense they were right. But more in the way of other people’s cognitive biases cocked and ready to explode as soon as they are confirmed (or something close). Without the emotion of outrage some people wouldn’t know who they were. That includes writers for the NYT.
gravenimage says
How are they right?
tim gallagher says
Yes, how dare this girl tell the truth about islam. Islam is definitely a “religion of hatred”. Anyone who reads any of the Koran can see the hatred that is continually expressed there. The Koran displays an endless hatred for non-believers. And if this girl finds that she is attracted to other females, then islam definitely would hate her and would aim to harm her and pobably kill her. Social media always has people who make threats and abuse people, but, when it comes to islam and Muslims, the scum will actually carry out their threats to kill people. The protection racket for Islam by many media outlets (as in the way the NYT tries to put the blame on the girl) has to end. They should wake up and stop defending this evil ideology, islam.
gravenimage says
Spot on, Tim.
tim gallagher says
Thanks, gravenimage. Yes, it is pathetic seeing so many in the western media running this sick protection racket for this evil ideology, Islam. No one should be helping Islam at all by excusing the bloody minded and barbaric followers of Islam, such as the scum who have been threatening this girl.
gravenimage says
+1
Michael Copeland says
If it did not so state
In the handbook of hate
It wouldn’t be there to preach.
tim gallagher says
I agree, Michael. Hatred seems to completely dominate islam. I didn’t get far when I had a go at reading the Koran, (unreadably boring I found it) but I did come away from it with the impression that it featured, above all else, an obsessive hatred towards non-believers. Definitely a handbook of hate.
gravenimage says
New York Times: ‘A French Teenager’s Anti-Islam Rant Unleashed Death Threats’
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This use of the passive voice is disgusting–as though Muslims have no choice but to threaten to murder a teen-aged girl because she said something they didn’t like.
Of course, if she had said the same about not being attracted to Christian girls, or–say–Italian or English or Swedish girls–she might have gotten a few sharp replies. But mass death threats? It wouldn’t happen.
But now one of the most powerful media sources in the world is doubling down on these death threats against this child *being justified*. Just sickening..
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
New York Times: ‘A French Teenager’s Anti-Islam Rant Unleashed Death Threats’
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This use of the passive voice is disgusting
Donovan Nuera says
Also, a Muslim man or not on the chat was trying to chat her up but was mad that she had had to explain to him that she was a lesbian, so the upset Muslim started to harass her on the chat line. It was HIS fault. She only accurately described her widely-held views of Islam to fight back against his vulgarities.
Donovan Nuera says
[correction] “A Muslim man or teen..”
gravenimage says
Thanks for mentioning this.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
New York Times: ‘A French Teenager’s Anti-Islam Rant Unleashed Death Threats’
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This use of the passive voice is disgusting
The headline is not in the passive voice; it is in the active voice: “Rant [subject] Unleashed [verb] Threats [direct object].” The complaint here is not grammatical but that the death-threateners are not identified. Who decided to threaten the ranter with death? It could not have been Muslims, because Muslims lack moral agency.
gravenimage says
I accept your quibble, Mark. But it is not Mila’s words that somehow automatically “unleased” death threats–it was Muslims themselves.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Yeah, the passive voice, as in “X was done”, is one way of failing to state Whodunit, but that is not the only way. “Violence broke out” is an active-voice way to obscure who was being violent. So references to passive voice are beside the point. Instead, let’s insist on identifying the actors.
gravenimage says
Actually, I think that this is all of a piece–a refusal to hold Muslims and other wrong-doers accountable.
Trevor Loughlin says
When I set up my own website I intend to annoy so many people (Muslims included) I will have my own personal death threat forum.
gravenimage says
This happens to anyone who criticizes the horrors of Islam, Trevor. If you do set up your site, please provide a ink here.
libertyORdeath says
When did we getto the point in the West where a teenager cannot question or have a differing opinion on the importance or validity of any or all religions? This is another case where the left insists that in order to make “progress” we must revert to pre-Enlightenment thinking. As if it’s the fault of the West that we are nearly 300 years ahead of many cultures in this respect and it is us who must devolve in order to make those whose religious mindset is stuck in the 8th century feel better. This thinking is destructive and ignorant, just like the racial idea of reverting to tribalism and segregation to somehow advance our society.
gravenimage says
+1
Søren Ferling says
I think it’s called agent shift or agent displacement.
gravenimage says
Yes.