Media cowards and the Cartoon Jihad
By Michelle Malkin
MichelleMalkin.com
I have never laughed so bitterly as I did while
reading Thursday’s lead editorial by the great
pretender-defenders of free speech at the New York
Times.
Paying obligatory lip service to the 10 cartoonists
and staffers of the Paris satirical weekly Charlie
Hebdo who were slaughtered for offending Islam, the
Times intoned:
“It is absurd to suggest that the way to avoid
terrorist attacks is to let the terrorists dictate
standards in a democracy.”
My GPS tracker of journalistic hypocrisy immediately
identified the Times editorial board’s high-altitude
location—ensconced atop their own Mt. Everest of
absurdity and self-unawareness.
The Fishwrap of Record priggishly refuses to print
any of the Islam-provoking art that cost the brave
French journalists their lives. In case you forgot
(as its own editorialists have), the Times cowered
in 2005-2006 when the Mohammed Cartoons
conflagration first ignited. And the publication is
capitulating again.
Behold this groveling bow to terrorists dictating
democracy’s standards:
“Under Times standards,” a newspaper spokesman said
in a statement to iMediaEthics.com this week, “we
do not normally publish images or other material
deliberately intended to offend religious
sensibilities. After careful consideration,
Times editors decided that describing the cartoons
in question would give readers sufficient
information to understand today’s story.”
So says the paper that blithely published a
Catholic-bashing photo of the Virgin Mary covered in
elephant dung and
defended the taxpayer-funded “Piss Christ”
exhibit thusly: “A
museum is obliged to challenge the public as well as
to placate it, or else the museum becomes a chamber
of attractive ghosts, an institution completely
disconnected from art in our time.”
While they feign free-speech fortitude, what Times
editorialists really don’t want to see is their
heads completely disconnected from their necks.
Neither do editors at the Boston Globe, ABC News,
NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC, who won’t publish any
possibly, remotely upsetting images of Mohammed,
either.
But these quivering double-talkers aren’t even the
most laughable of Cartoon Jihad cowards.
The Associated Press wins the pusillanimity prize
after invoking the sensitivity card to explain why
it refrained from publishing “deliberately
provocative” Mo toons—even though the media
conglomerate had been selling deliberately
provocative “Piss Christ” photos on its website.
After the Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney pointed
out the double standards,
AP tried to cover its tracks by yanking the pic.
More absurdity? The New York Daily News
pixelated a Mo toon carried by Charlie Hebdo as
if it were pornography. CNN did the same in 2006,
when it explained it was censoring the offending
images “in respect for Islam” and “because the
network believes its role is to cover the events
surrounding the publication of the cartoons while
not unnecessarily
adding fuel to the controversy itself.”
And therein lies the cartoon capitulationists’ grand
self-delusion. This isn’t about cartoons.
Reminder: The First Mo Toons Wars were instigated in
2005 by demagogue imams who toured Egypt stoking
hysteria with
faked anti-Islam comic strips attributed to the
Danish Jylland-Postens newspaper (whose actual
cartoons criticizing Islam were far more innocuous).
The real agenda: Islamist thugs were attempting to
pressure Denmark over the International Atomic
Energy Agency’s decision to report Iran to the U.N.
Security Council for continuing with its nuclear
research program. From Afghanistan to Egypt to
Lebanon to Libya, Pakistan, Turkey and in between,
hundreds died in insane riots under the pretext of
protecting Mohammed from Western slight. Courageous
journalists who stood up to the madness were
silenced, jailed, and threatened with beheading.
Cartoons did not start militant Islam’s fire.
Neither did the Bushes, Israel, the Satanic Verses,
the Pope, beauty pageants, KFC restaurants in the
Middle East, Mohammed teddy bears, or a YouTube
video.
The Religion of Perpetual Outrage hates all infidels
for all reasons for all time. The targeting of
Mohammed cartoonists is a convenient excuse to feed
the
eternal flame of Islamists’ hatred of the West.
If it isn’t cartoons, it’s always something else.
The grudge is everlasting.
Instead of acknowledging their gutlessness in the
face of Koran-inspired Muslim vigilantes, press
pontificators cloak their fear in the mumbo-jumbo of
“tolerance.” They demand that the rest of us to
pledge fealty to their selective multi-culti
sensitivities lest we be branded “Islamophobes.”
And then they have the audacity to play “I am
free-speech Spartacus” with those who risked life
and limb to speak truth to Islamic supremacist
power.
Sit down, fakers. You fakin’.
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2014