Sanitizing the Killers

Media coverage of international Islamo-fascists is inexcusable. Why do they seemingly take up for murderous radical Muslims while in the recent past vindictively skewered certain domestic Christian sects whose worst crime was merely being strange? Remember David Koresh and the Branch Davidians? Remember how they were continually demonized? The poorly constructed buildings were always referred to ominously as their 'compound'. In the case of the Davidians, it wasn't just the media who marginalized them, virtually everyone did (starting with Generalisimo Reno on down). What a contrast when you compare how people treat the Islamo-fascist terrorists.

In her column today, Michelle Malkin makes some 'it's about time' observations:

How many times have you picked up a newspaper and read about terrorist attacks perpetrated not by Muslim terrorists, but by generic "militants" or "guerrillas" or "rebels" or, as Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes noted the Pakistan Times called them, "activists"?

Contrast the media whitewashing of our Islamofascist enemies with the press coverage of the Waco, Texas, siege in 1993 -- which constantly reminded us that David Koresh and his Branch Davidian followers were members of a "peculiar religious sect" (New York Times, March 3, 1993) and "a group of religious zealots with a known propensity for violence" (Washington Post, March 2, 1993) who were steeped in a "culture of Christian extremism" (San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 1993).

A Nexis search of the terms "Branch Davidian" and "religious" and "cult" in The New York Times for the year 1993 yielded 151 hits. The vast majority of these references were in headlines and news articles, as opposed to editorials, letters or book reviews. A Nexis search of the terms "al Qaeda" and "religious" and "cult" in The New York Times for the year 2004 yielded just one article -- a magazine piece in March.

Ms. Malkin, then continues to delineate the many terroristic atrocities that radical Muslims have perpetrated in the name of 'Allah'. It's a must read for all!

The 'uneven' coverage is more than just a little disconcerting. Surely it can't be blamed entirely on so-called political correctness. Maybe the PC movement came about to cover-up mainstream bias.....but that's a whole different topic.