[WS:] Indeed. This is consistent with my theory of Islamic terrorism as a reality show writ large. The perps do it mainly for the media shock effect, and the spectators are duly shocked. People die from gun related violence in the US on a daily basis and that hardly attracts any attention except the local news. But throw in the label "Islamic terrorism" and the same act of violence becomes front page international news for months to come.
Wojtek
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Gary Mongiovi <MONGIOVG at stjohns.edu> wrote:
> The Zeitgeist seems to be having some difficulty accommodating the
> possibility that the bombers might not have been Islamic extremists. This
> morning's FT had a piece which refers to "the brothers' APPARENT Islamic
> extremism" in a story that in fact finds no evidence at all that they were
> jidadis. Another FT story on the same page is headlined "US 'Slow' to
> Tackle Threat of Homegrown Jihadism", even though, once again, there is as
> yet no indication that these maniacs were Jihadis.
>
> In the NY Times, we find a story that indicates the older brother was a
> sad, lonely, disaffected person who never really found a way to fit in. But
> the headline suggests that his religious beliefs were a causal factor: "A
> Pilgrim in a Violent Land: 'Listen to the Call of Prayer."
>
> It may turn out that the were religious radicals But, man, it is
> astonishing how the story is being subtly spun that way before anyone has
> had a chance even to talk to the surviving suspect.
>
> This on a day when the Business section of the NY Times ran a story about
> how CNN, in its haste to scoop its competitors, misreported that a suspect
> had been apprehended before that was the case.
>
> The despicable call to try them as enemy combatants is of a piece with
> this almost blanket disregard for getting the facts before spouting off .
>
> Gary
>
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> Subject: [lbo-talk] No rights for Tsarnaev?
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> I don't get it. Why no rights? I mean why not use due process to convict
> him if he's guilty?
>
> Joanna
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-- Wojtek
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