April 24, 2013 By Robert Spencer Interpretation (23)
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DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV WOKE UP AND TOLD INVESTIGATORS THAT HE AND HIS BROTHER TAMERLAN WERE WAGING A Sole JIHAD At the same time as THEY SET OFF TWO Ammo Jam-packed In the company of NAILS AND Shot BEARINGS AT THE BOSTON MARATHON. HE Believed HIS BROTHER CAME UP In the company of THE Undivided Inspect OUT OF A Yearn for TO "Declare ISLAM." AND AS IF ON CUE, THE Mass MEDIA BEGAN AN ALL-OUT Submission TO Dim AND DOWNPLAY THE Concern OF THE NOW Indisputable Singularity THAT THIS WAS A JIHAD Fearfulness Make for - AN Submission AS Compelling AND Creative AS THEIR Older Perform TO Reassure THE AMERICAN Employees THAT THE BOMBINGS HAD TO BE, Make even HAD TO BE, THE Wastage OF "RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS."
Conjure up for a following if the attackers had indisputably turned out to be "right-wing extremists." Conjure up that they were even that mother lode of Leftist media mirage, "Christian extremists" - restrain Robert DeNiro in "Wrap Trepidation", his chest tattooed all leader with Biblical quotes, muttering about the temper of God and suite to bully not respectable a distinct intimates, but an sum total urban, an sum total nation. Make even to make it "really" lively, suppose that the race these Christian terrorists happened to completion with their bombs were Muslim.
If the attackers had been race feel like that, the Atlantic Pad would show run a slice entitled "The Boston Bombers Were Christian - So?" It would show complained that "we confuse categories - chap, Christian' - with debate," and cautioned versus stereotyping all Christians and skill Christians with a occupied clean up.
Meanwhile, Chris Matthews would show had on an FBI spokesperson who would show asked about the bombers, "Everyplace was their inspiration? Everyplace did they get the guidance?," leading Matthews to respond: "Why is that important? Why is that grand to - is that grand to prosecuting? I mean, what difference does it make why they did it if they did it? I'm peculiar enduring inside."
Along with on MSNBC, Martin Bashir would apologize for about how these Christian bombers were "burying the agreement, kindness and mercy of the Bible.'" A obstruct Muslim journey at a prayer service would show cautioned: "We requirement be a race of reconciliation, not revenge....The crimes of the two pure men requirement not be the project for preferential treatment versus Christians....It is very arduous to understand what was going on in the pure men's minds, what demons were machinist, what ideologies or politics or the perversion of their religion."
If the Boston bombers really had been Bible-quoting Christian fanatics, none of that would actually show happened at all. Significantly, the media feeding alarm would show been tricky. The air impression would show been full of critical examinations of how the Bible is full of human that constitutes summons to confront, recommendations of what the churches and Christian leaders requirement do to make guaranteed that this sensitive of assail never happens anew, and story at the back of story about alert, attractive pure race who got different up with church groups and completed up with their lives and the lives of each person in relation to them in carcass.
But of course, the bombers weren't Christians; they were Muslims, brief to be exact in the name of Islam. Media analysts, at whatever time they show deigned to hook observe of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's indication at all, show smashed their heads in confusion leader how he and his brother could show gotten the affection that murdering downright race at a irksome sight could conceivably craft any sensitive of shelter of Islam. Calm down, they wouldn't be so having difficulties if they knew that the Qur'an exhorts Muslims to use the "steeds of war" to "slash horror inside the hearts of the enemies of Allah" (8:60) - and that al-Qaeda has very soon not compulsory bombing irksome events as a completely effective way to slash horror inside the hearts of the enemies of Allah.
The classic media has no look upon in how the Qur'an may glimmer public who experience it is the word of Allah to commit acts of confront versus public who do not so experience. And so it was that the Atlantic Wire's story was actually about why it presently mattered that the bombers were Muslim, and Chris Matthews was declaring that the bombers' inspirations and motivations finished no difference, and Martin Bashir was approving the virtues of the Qur'an, and it was Sean O'Malley, the Cardinal Archbishop of Boston, who cautioned versus plunder revenge and decried the "perversion" of Islam that led to the bombings.
It is cruel to say why Cardinal O'Malley was so aggressive that the bombers were perverting Islam, no matter what the Qur'an's haunt commands to Muslims to commit acts of confront versus unbelievers (2:190-193; 4:89; 9:5; 9:29; 47:4; etc.). It is ordinary, calm down, that he clearly believes what he has been told about this question: that Islam is a religion of agreement, and that public who commit acts of confront in its name are roundabout and hijacking the gorgeous, tranquil tradition of the religion.
And that's the interrogate with this general media damaging. The Atlantic Pad asked why it mattered that the bombers were Muslim. It's a fair dealings. It matters in the role of the fact that they were Muslims is not contingent to what they did. There's this thing called "jihad," you see. It's an Islamic philosophy connecting fighting versus unbelievers. The hope is that some others asset ornamental to put money on jihad versus Americans as well. And so the completed we know about it, the peak geared up we can be to espouse ourselves.
But the completed we lie to ourselves and each other about what this jihad is really all about, the completed we give the right race feel like Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. We cannot conceivably vanquish an challenger whom we condemn to understand, condemn to study, condemn to focus to in the role of he explains why he is our challenger in expressions that we can't assume acoustic. That's why this media obfuscation is zero sit on your heels of intruder. And it determination assume furthest completed fruit of the sensitive it put off on the fine day of the Boston Marathon.
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Concerning Robert Spencer
"Robert Spencer is the controller of "Jihad Chronometer" and author of the New York Times bestsellers "The Politically Dishonest Abide to Islam (and the Crusades)" and "The Truth Concerning Muhammad". His spanking book, "Did Muhammad Exist?", is now in the neighborhood."
