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More people awaken every day to the fact that the establishment media news outlets aren’t really news outlets at all, but propaganda arms for the hard left. Still, few are aware of the deceitful tactics they use on a regular basis to push public opinion in the direction they want it to go. A recent case of attempted vehicular homicide shows how they do it.
The venerable French news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) ran this headline Saturday: “Woman jailed over car-chase with Norway anti-Islam activist.” The manipulation begins in the headline itself. Those who are unaware of the incident that AFP is talking about might get the impression that this was a story about speeding, or maybe even about racing in the streets, or else that the evil “anti-Islam activist” (note also: his activism is presented as his being against something, rather than for something, an honor the media reserves only for those with whom it agrees) was chasing down this woman, no doubt with some terrible and likely misogynistic right-wing intent, but that she ended up being the one who got punished.
Then the first sentence of the article dispels that false impression, but creates some new ones. “A Norwegian court,” it says, “has jailed for 19 months a woman who chased and then rammed a vehicle carrying an anti-Islam extremist who had just burned a Koran.”
Okay, so the person who chased and rammed the car is described as a “woman,” and this description is repeated as the story goes on. That’s it. A “woman.” Then, opposing this “woman” is a man who stood up for the freedom of expression at risk of life and limb, and for doing so, is called an “extremist.” The “extremist” was not the person who caused an accident trying to harm someone who had defended the right to dissent, but was, rather, the defender of the right to dissent.
AFP goes even further later on in the article, calling others who have likewise stood up for the freedom of expression “militants,” as if they were toting Kalashnikovs and holding non-Qur’an-burners hostage. Remember also that “extremists” and “militants” are common euphemisms the establishment media uses for terrorists. At the time this attack took place in July 2022, the French publication Le Progrès demonstrated the same bias, headlining its article “Un extrémiste anti-islam percuté en voiture après avoir brûlé un Coran,” that is, “An anti-Islam extremist hit in car after burning Quran.”
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Mike says
the media for years has always told the public who to hate
whether it’s a person or a nation
it’s the same Putin & Russia, North Korea & their leader.
your expected to love the CCP & XI, All Muslims are good along with Ukraine
It’s just the opposite.
Wake up to the facts and truth
CCP is the & Ukraine is the enemies
North Korea & Russia are the scape goat of the left and both countries do not trust the Democrats
The CCP, Muslims & Ukraine own the democrats
Under Trump we got along with Russia & North Korea & under Obama & Biden they are the enemies
wake up the Media is in part the enemies controlled by Obama
Just an example once Obama was elected, comedians stopped telling jokes about the Democrats and Obama. Only Trump & GOP are allowed
WPM says
So someone chasing an unarmed man who has not threaten violence or done it to anyone he is chased by a “woman ” who tries to do physical harm to him by ramming her car into his on purpose .The reason he is chased is because he has burned a book he owns publicly? How is she justify attacking this man? Who is the greater threat to the public in general the book burner or the crazy lady?
deze MN bee says
PJMedia indicates two women.
What happened to the second one?
Ray Jarman says
The AFP reports this story only because it is given the opportunity to attempt to make someone with whom they disagree, especially one who is anti-Islamic look evil. It backfires completely. “Woman jailed over car-chase with Norway anti-Islam activist.” Attempting to make a patriot the perpetrator of the crime until the last sentence is par for most rag sheets.
The AFP becomes all upset because Lars Thoren burned some trash while people in Iran are being tortured and even killed for the terrible crime of reading a book about the true redemption of one’s soul. Not living in France I have no way to know but I would still bet that none of the deaths of these poor souls are ever mentioned. Yet it will report on an incident where an honorable person is turned into the villain in a distant nation just to appease those whose only reason to exist is to slaughter anyone and everyone not of their disgusting cult referred to as a religion.
tgusa says
Above all, the leftist establishment media despises cross examination. The leftist establishment media prefers people who will stare at the screen, put their ear close to the radio, accept whatever is broadcasted, as unquestionable truth. Yeah I know, that sounds like a person sitting in a chair, staring at the screen, in the community room, of a mental hospital.
OLD GUY says
Amazing how a person or group can get so worked up about someone burning paper with ink on it. If Allah and Mohammad are so great why is paper and ink so important? The way things are going won’t be long and the printing of books will no longer be used. Everything will be on a computer/cell phone. Oh hell I forgot Islam is 1400 hundred years behind the rest of the world.
davidafoot says
Allah: “Best Deceiver” (3:54) War is deceit
Halal to lie to non-believers
Islam has a doctrine of deceit it is halal to lie to the non believer even to kill him 8:12 etc The doctrines of deceit are incorporated under their names as tawriya, taqiyyah, muruna, kitman
A Moslem civil servant, judge, legislator, doctor: Which law to precede Law of god or of man?
A Moslem cvil servant, judge, legislator, doctor: Which society to favour ummah or non believer’s? (As you can verify in the clip above!)
Nobody professing loyalty to the “Best Deceiver” should hold public office of a any description in any not Islamic state BECAUSE Islam is not a religion it is a state and it expects acolytes to be loyal to its laws which are camouflaged under the name of “Islamic cult or religion”. If you don’t believe that there is deception eveywhere then tell me that you can call Islam the “religion of peace”! Islam is ALL lies of a warlord!