I just took a brief vacation but fool that I am I continued to read the New York papers.
On July 18 The New York Times ran a front-page story on the Sudan headlined Despite Appeals Chaos Still Stalks the Sudanese. A photo of a skeletal dying child in her mother’s arms cried out to all with eyes to see. Is chaos responsible for this child’s death and for the torture famine and genocide that has been perpetrated on nearly two million people over the past twenty years? Surely the paper of record will tell us. But not willingly. The plot unfolds like a puzzling murder mystery.
The article has 39 paragraphs. We do not learn much in the lead paragraph. Only in paragraph two do we learn that gunmen stormed a girl’s school shackled the children together and set the school on fire. Gunmen? From Mars perhaps?
In paragraph three we are told that the Sudanese government has promised to rein in the Janjaweed militia. Are they the gunmen of paragraph two? Is there more than one militia sowing chaos in Sudan? What are the names of the other militias?
In paragraph four we again learn that the government has promised to rein in unidentified militias. By now most readers eyes glazed over have probably moved on to another story. Not I. Grimly I soldier on and am rewarded.
In paragraph five the writer admits Arab militias have continued to drive the African residents of Darfur out. Finally the reporter Marc Lacey has identified the perpetrators of chaos as Arab. But amazingly we are never told that the Janjaweed militias are both Arab and Muslim and that they’ve been functioning as state-sanctioned genocidal maniacs against African Muslims. This genocide is an ethnic Arab Muslim attack on black African Christians Muslims and animists and is therefore almost invisible.
Only a satirist could do justice to the politically correct typo that finally appears in paragraph eighteen of this story. Where Lacey may have meant to write Arab Muslim we read instead that Arab Arab militias have been attacking black Africans.
Was Lacey afraid to describe the perpetrators as Arab Muslims or did his editor delete the word Muslim? Does someone over there believe that the use of the word Muslim is tantamount to racial profiling?
Is the torture and murder of Muslims utterly unimportant unless it is carried out by Americans in uniform or by Israelis in self defense? Does the politically correct liberal media not really care about the relentless slaughter of innocent civilians if ethnic Arab Muslims are doing the slaughtering?
If a newspaper does not describe things accurately it will never ever be able to help its readers understand what is going on or how to defend themselves in the war that has been declared against us.
For those who flinch from the truth let me set an example. Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 terrorists were Arab Muslims from Saudi Arabia. There I’ve said it.
Am I saying that all Arabs Muslims and Saudis are terrorists? I am not. But I am saying that al Qaeda which is a terrorist network is all-Muslim and mainly all-Arab and that if the liberal media does not yet understand this the West is doomed lost.
My good friend Jerome Gordon reminds me that the Gray Lady aka The New York Times did not cover the Holocaust very well either. The Times buried the news about the extermination of the Jews on back pages and minimized it until the war was over as David Wyman and Raphael Medoff make the point in their recent book A Race Against Death: Peter Bergson America and the Holocaust.
Thus the Times did not cover the genocidal slaughter of six million European Jews while it was happening and it has not until recently covered the systematic twenty-year enslavement forced starvation and genocide carried out by Arab Muslims against African Christians Muslims and animists in Sudan.
I went back and re-read the Times piece one more time. Aha! Finally I got it. Lacey posted his story from Nyala Sudan. Perhaps he’s still there. If Lacey were to write the truth about who is doing what to whom he might lose his access get thrown out of the country or worse – be kidnapped by gunmen or militia or Janjaweed militia and beheaded by Arab Muslims on video. I am not lighthearted about any of this. I take it all quite seriously.
In fact from this point of view I can understand Lacey’s exquisite restraint about exposing the evil-doers clearly by name.
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