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2004-06-09 Arabia

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Posted by Dan Darling 2004-06-09 12:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ironically enough, the BBC reporter, Mr. Gardner, was not an "infidel" or at least he didn't think he was. In fact, Mr. Gardner was a Muslim convert and was very shocked to learn that conversion to Islam not to mention left wing BBC employment weren't enough to earn favorable treatment by the Islamofacists. So sad, too bad. You're one of "us" no matter how hard you try to be otherwise, Mr. Gardner.

Per LGF, picture of the shooting scene:
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=10204

"Bullet-riddled BBC reporter cried in Arabic for help from bystanders as they watch him bleed in Riyadh"

Riddled with bullets, BBC correspondent Frank Gardner pleaded for his life in the Saudi capital shouting to bystanders to help a fellow Muslim, a police officer said on Monday.

"I'm a Muslim, help me, I'm a Muslim, help me," the British father of two daughters cried in Arabic, the officer said.

A fluent Arabic speaker with a degree in Arab and Islamic Studies, he was carrying a small copy of the Koran, the Muslim holy book, a device used by Westerner reporters to try to reassure Islamist militants

Posted by rex 2004-06-09 1:21:52 AM|| 2004-06-09 1:21:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Can't a fella Muslim get some help here? Where's Nurse Burka when ya need her?

Posted by MinneMike 2004-06-09 1:36:53 AM|| 2004-06-09 1:36:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 In fact, Mr. Gardner was a Muslim convert and was very shocked to learn that conversion to Islam not to mention left wing BBC employment weren't enough to earn favorable treatment by the Islamofacists.

As the black Muslims in Sudan are experiencing today.

I think one large reason Western news coverage coming from the Mideast and South Asia is so negative is that western news agencies use locals (or in this case a Muslim convert) to gather the news which is then disseminated by AP, CNN and all. This is equivalent to letting the Germans, or sympathetic neutrals such as Spain, write the WW2 Allied news copy. Americans used to agree that the enemy cannot have control of our information flow. What went wrong?

Posted by ed 2004-06-09 2:47:59 AM|| 2004-06-09 2:47:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 What went wrong, #3, was the perceived need for "diversity" to invade every walk of life. In the 1980's, MSM started hiring black reporters to report on black issues, female reporters to report on family, feminist issues, gay reporters to report on gay issues, so it follows that now only Muslim reporters can report on ME, Islamic issues...right? Read Coloring the News by William McGowan if you get the chance. McGowan has a website: http://www.coloringthenews.com/

Posted by rex 2004-06-09 3:00:18 AM|| 2004-06-09 3:00:18 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 It attracts a stream of villagers idiots from the surrounding countryside in search of a better life in the city.

Does anyone remember the "Village Idiots' Convention" in the Woody Allen Movie, "Love and Death"?

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-09 3:34:02 PM|| 2004-06-09 3:34:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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