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Remember 9-11: Stop sanitizing the killers
By Michelle Malkin © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The third anniversary of Sept. 11th is upon us. We remain at war — and the media remain in denial. How many times have you picked up a newspaper and read about terrorist attacks perpetrated not by Muslim terrorists, but by generic "militants" or "guerrillas" or "rebels" or, as Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes noted, the Pakistan Times called them, "activists"? Contrast the media whitewashing of our Islamofascist enemies with the press coverage of the Waco, Texas, siege in 1993 — which constantly reminded us that David Koresh and his Branch Davidian followers were members of a "peculiar religious sect" (New York Times, March 3rd, 1993) and "a group of religious zealots with a known propensity for violence" (Washington Post, March 2rd, 1993) who were steeped in a "culture of Christian extremism" (San Francisco Chronicle, April 20th, 1993). A Nexis search of the terms "Branch Davidian" and "religious" and "cult" in the New York Times for the year 1993 yielded 151 hits. The vast majority of these references were in headlines and news articles, as opposed to editorials, letters or book reviews. A Nexis search of the terms "al Qaeda" and "religious" and "cult" in the New York Times for the year 2004 yielded just one article — a magazine piece in March. Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-09-08 |
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