Excusing Jihad In Boston
April 24, 2013
By Robert Spencer
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev woke up and told investigators that he and his brother Tamerlan were waging a lone jihad when they set off two bombs packed with nails and ball bearings at the Boston Marathon. He said his brother came up with the whole plot out of a desire to defend Islam. And as if on cue, the mainstream media began an all-out effort to obscure and downplay the significance of the now indisputable fact that this was a jihad terror attack an effort as energetic and inventive as their previous attempt to convince the American people that the bombings had to be, just had to be, the work of right-wing extremists.
Imagine for a moment if the attackers had indeed turned out to be right-wing extremists. Imagine that they were even that mother lode of Leftist media fantasy, Christian extremists think Robert DeNiro in Cape Fear, his body tattooed all over with Biblical quotes, muttering about the wrath of God and determined to terrorize not just a single family, but an entire city, an entire nation. Just to make it really interesting, imagine that the people these Christian terrorists happened to kill with their bombs were Muslim.
If the attackers had been people like that, the Atlantic Wire would have run a piece entitled The Boston Bombers Were Christian So? It would have complained that we confuse categories male, Christian with cause, and cautioned against stereotyping all Christians and painting Christians with a broad brush.
Meanwhile, Chris Matthews would have had on an FBI agent who would have asked about the bombers, Where was their inspiration? Where did they get the guidance?, leading Matthews to respond: Why is that important? Why is that important to is that important to prosecuting? I mean, what difference does it make why they did it if they did it? Im being tough here.
Also on MSNBC, Martin Bashir would lament about how these Christian bombers were burying the peace, compassion and kindness of the Bible. A local Muslim leader at a prayer service would have cautioned: We must be a people of reconciliation, not revenge .The crimes of the two young men must not be the justification for prejudice against Christians .It is very difficult to understand what was going on in the young mens minds, what demons were operative, what ideologies or politics or the perversion of their religion.
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Excusing Jihad In Boston | FrontPage Magazine
April 24, 2013
By Robert Spencer
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev woke up and told investigators that he and his brother Tamerlan were waging a lone jihad when they set off two bombs packed with nails and ball bearings at the Boston Marathon. He said his brother came up with the whole plot out of a desire to defend Islam. And as if on cue, the mainstream media began an all-out effort to obscure and downplay the significance of the now indisputable fact that this was a jihad terror attack an effort as energetic and inventive as their previous attempt to convince the American people that the bombings had to be, just had to be, the work of right-wing extremists.
Imagine for a moment if the attackers had indeed turned out to be right-wing extremists. Imagine that they were even that mother lode of Leftist media fantasy, Christian extremists think Robert DeNiro in Cape Fear, his body tattooed all over with Biblical quotes, muttering about the wrath of God and determined to terrorize not just a single family, but an entire city, an entire nation. Just to make it really interesting, imagine that the people these Christian terrorists happened to kill with their bombs were Muslim.
If the attackers had been people like that, the Atlantic Wire would have run a piece entitled The Boston Bombers Were Christian So? It would have complained that we confuse categories male, Christian with cause, and cautioned against stereotyping all Christians and painting Christians with a broad brush.
Meanwhile, Chris Matthews would have had on an FBI agent who would have asked about the bombers, Where was their inspiration? Where did they get the guidance?, leading Matthews to respond: Why is that important? Why is that important to is that important to prosecuting? I mean, what difference does it make why they did it if they did it? Im being tough here.
Also on MSNBC, Martin Bashir would lament about how these Christian bombers were burying the peace, compassion and kindness of the Bible. A local Muslim leader at a prayer service would have cautioned: We must be a people of reconciliation, not revenge .The crimes of the two young men must not be the justification for prejudice against Christians .It is very difficult to understand what was going on in the young mens minds, what demons were operative, what ideologies or politics or the perversion of their religion.
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