A letter in the Toronto Star. Good on them for publishing it; one wonders if the Globe and Mail would have:
Double standard on Afghanistan
Re: Afghan governor among 20 killed in mosque blast, Oct. 9
A “massive bomb blast” in a “packed mosque” during Friday prayers in Taluqan, Afghanistan, kills 20 and wounds 35. It is just the latest in a long list of Taliban and Al Qaeda attacks against mosques and religious processions, many aimed specifically at minority Ahmadi or Shiite Muslims.
In court, the Times Square Bomber [see 3) here] calls himself a “soldier of God” who says he was “radicalized” by U.S. drone attacks — attacks seeking out the very people who bomb packed mosques. So, he is a soldier in service of those who would kill Muslims at prayer? Why will no one be radicalized by the mosque bombing in Taluqan [see second part of this post]?
A U.S. preacher threatens to burn a Qur’an and many in the Muslim world take to the streets in protest while Imams thunder about “Islamophobia” and we agonize about our “intolerance.” The preacher is easily shouted down and becomes a nobody again in no time. Everybody in the Muslim world goes back to sleep. Even a mosque bombing doesn’t wake them up.
However, if a U.S. drone had mistakenly hit that mosque in Taluqan, well, you can be sure there would be a swift reaction of outrage. At this stage is it even worth asking why the double standard [see this relevant post]?
Tony Volpe, Toronto
Via Moby Media Updates.
Mark
Ottawa
“At this stage is it even worth asking why the double standard?”
No. Its a propaganda tool being used by Liberals to regain their death grip on power, and in the Muslim world its a propaganda tool used by those presently on top to maintain their death grip on power.
Its also why I don’t get cable or the newspaper. I should pay to be spoon-fed with bullsh1t?
Well, it is nice to have a discussion about the existence of a double standard. For a lot of folks, waking up like Rumpelstiltskin from the standards of the 50′s media to find the maggoty zombie of the present media, this is where they are at.
For those of us who already know the media is biased left, and biased up to love the aristocrats, how about some discussion based upon the historical record about what always happens when the propaganda stops working, when aristocrats stop being respected, and when the peasants (those darn taxpayers) start to do what peasants always do when squeezed.
Mind you, it will be fun to watch.
Absolutely Fenris..I am going to stock up on absorbol for all that blue blood that will be coursing through the gutters..
Come to think of it, I think the maggots consumed whatever flesh was extant long ago..the MSM is now just the skeleton you find at the bottom of a well.
I wonder how many Koran’s were burned, destroyed or otherwise desecrated in that bombing?
I’m not really expecting any outrage. Are you?
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