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According to the left’s moral compass, the only determining factor for whether something is right or wrong is whether it aids or hinders the leftist agenda. CNN demonstrated this anew on Sunday when its reporting about a gang rape in Italy was focused not on the horror of the crime itself, but on how those all-purpose bogeymen, the “far right,” would capitalize upon it.
CNN headlined its story this way: “An alleged gang rape shocks Italy, and provides fodder for an ascendant far right.” It was referring to an incident that took place on Jan. 30 in the Sicilian city of Catania. The Italian-language il Giornale reported on Feb. 3 that Catania was “in shock over what happened to a thirteen-year-old girl, raped by a gang of seven Egyptian boys in the municipal gardens of Villa Bellini, one of the two oldest gardens in the Sicilian city.” Three of the Egyptians were minors.
The girl “and her seventeen-year-old boyfriend were approached by the pack near the bathrooms of the municipal garden of Villa Bellini, at that hour almost deserted. At a later time, the foreigners threatened the couple: while the boy was beaten, immobilized and kept away, the thirteen-year-old was raped by two of the suspects while the other five looked on. Panicked and in pain, after the second abuse the young woman found the strength to free herself from her tormentor and escape with her boyfriend.” This appalling has shaken the entire nation of Italy and has become the linchpin for a national discussion about mass Muslim migration into the country.
As far as CNN is concerned, that’s the problem. Its Sunday report asserted that the gang rape “has become not only a symbol of violence against women in the country but a cause célèbre for Italy’s far-right government.” The crime “was soon seized upon as evidence that migrants should be blocked from entering the country.” In Italy, it seems, the right-wing “seizes”; in the U.S., Republicans “pounce.”
CNN noted that the accused gang rapists “entered Italy by boat in 2021 and 2022 as unaccompanied minors, according to Catania police. Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, one of the country’s most visible far-right figures, said on X that they should not have been allowed to stay.” Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, meanwhile, “expressed her solidarity with the alleged rape victim and her family.”
This being CNN, we’re told that the real story here is not the heinous gang rape of a thirteen-year-old girl, but (you guessed it) racism: “the ways in which the cases between those with Italian suspects and those with Egyptian suspects are being handled are already drawing scrutiny.” This was because the Egyptians “have been granted fast-track trials, their lawyers told CNN, which means they will be held behind closed doors and sealed.”
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Ian Senior says
Do CNN support the FAR LEFT who have imported violence against women and girls??
FAR Right aim to preserve and defend Christian Western Values and Beliefs.
FAR right aim is to defend women and girls from these rape gangs.
FAR right plan to make our host countrys safe again.
FAR right are normal thinking people who want their country back.
Niemoller says
It’s like the Norm McDonald joke; his leftist friend worried that if jihad terrorists get a nuke and level NYC, the subsequent “islamophobia” would be intense.
Keith O says
When I read stories like this put out by the extreme left media it simply reinforces to me that the left don’t just have sick deluded minds but sick souls as well.
James Lincoln says
I am a married white, straight, Christian, male – and retired U.S. Navy.
I support Pres. Trump, believe in law and order, the U.S. Constitution – and putting America First.
So, to the Left, I am a Far Right Deplorable – the worst of the worst.
Hudders. says
Disgusting. They care more for islamic rapists, than the innocent victims.
Heads is tails. Up is down. Black is white.
And evil is good to these satanic slime.
Truly the lowest of the low.
It is clear which master they serve.