April 19, 2013, - 10:52 am
Tsarnaev Bros ISLAMIC Terrorists, NOT Russian; FLASHBACK: Oprah Refused to Call Chechen Terrorists “Muslims,” Called ‘Em “Russian”
Among the biggest annoyances of this morning’s mainstream media non-stop coverage of Islamic terrorists Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and now-dead Tamerlan Tsarnaev is the refusal to call them what they are: ISLAMIC terrorists. Mostly we hear Russian terrorists or Chechen terrorists or Chechnyan terrorists. As a friend who goes by the online nom de plume, “Habib Akbarovich,” and runs the “Politically Conservative Russian Jews” page on Facebook (join me on Facebook) notes, “Chechnyans are NOT ethnic Russians, even though they’re from the Northern Caucasus (Kavkaz) region of Russia. They’re Muslims plain and simple! They’re not Slovenians!”
It’s something I noted that Oprah did on her daytime talk show back in 2004. As I noted in 2005:
[In] a September 2004 show, discussing the terrorist massacre of children in Beslan, Russia [which was perpetrated by Chechen MUSLIMS], . . . Oprah banned the use of the word Islamic, saying the terrorists “came from the mountains.” (Okay, so they were Mountainese terrorists, not Islamic ones.) Oprah stated that the Beslan massacre was “a watershed because terrorists never before killed children.” Remember those murdered Jewish kids in Ma’alot (and throughout Israel) by the DFLP? I’m sure they’d disagree with the “Queen of Daytime Talk.” If they were still around.
I saw the show, and she repeatedly referred to the terrorists as “Russian terrorists” or just “terrorists,” never Muslims.
Today, we’re seeing yet more of the Oprahfied, sanitized coverage of Islamic terrorists as “insert-any-other-epithet-aside-from-Islamic-or-Muslim” terrorists. It’s disgusting. But same old, same old.
Heads in the sand . . . and the oily, sticky ooze of political correctness. If you see something, say something . . . unless it’s about Islam.
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The Orwellian name games will always be used with Muslim terrorists, whether it’s called “workplace violence,” or whatever “creative” expressions the leftists can dream up. After checking to see the spin that such Muslim websites as Al Jazeera and Loonwatch had to say about the story, I was surprised that they hadn’t even covered the developments. It was like they were caught completely by surprise. You’d think that such dedicated spinners like them would have already been prepared with their pro-Muslim spin. But no. In time they will probably adopt the Winfrey “Russian” spin. The major media will no doubt use that spin as well. Reality is very hard to take for the left, and denial is the most frequent response to reality.
Ralph Adamo on April 19, 2013 at 11:13 am