NY Slimes Carries Water for hamas

The media positions itself as the enemy of western civilization since it carries water for the jihadists. As to the NY Slimes and other media outlets portraying hamas as “moderate”, as long as hamas limits its goals to the obliteration of Israel and the genocide of Jews, the western elites in the media and academia will view it as “moderate”.


Israpundit:

Bias and Deception in the Media’s Coverage of Mideast Turmoil
By Matthew M. Hausman

Showing that the line between advocacy journalism and deceptive reporting is very fine indeed, the American media has abdicated any pretense of objectivity in its coverage of the Arab-Muslim world. Rather, it is guided by an absurd political sensibility that downplays the totalitarian and supremacist aspects of Sharia, eschews any rational discussion of the scriptural underpinnings of Islamist extremism, and disregards clear radical influences in the Arab Spring. Some journalists come by this sensibility through simple ignorance, while others take their cues from a liberal press establishment that inexplicably finds common cause with the Islamist repudiation of western values, and accepts the canard that Muslim extremism is an understandable reaction to the past sins of European colonialism.

This useful idiocy is on full display when Hamas is portrayed as a legitimate political entity with which Israel must negotiate, or when the Muslim Brotherhood is regarded as a positive force for change in Egypt. In recently reporting on the murder of Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian, pro-Palestinian activist, the New York Times offered a case study in dissimulation as it subtly attempted to draw artificial distinctions between Hamas and Al-Qaeda, implicitly portraying one as moderate and the other as more radical, when in fact both were spawned by the same parent organization and each is as extremist as the other in word and deed.

The Times reported that Mr. Arrigoni “died at the hands of a fringe group of Palestinians, inspired by Al Qaeda.” According to the article in the Times, the murder of Arrigoni:

Raised embarrassing questions for Hamas about the security it has restored in the Palestinian coastal enclave since it ousted its secular rival, Fatah . . . It also raises the specter of a growing boldness on the part of more extreme virulently anti-Western Islamic groups in Gaza, which pose a challenge not only to Hamas but to foreign activists promoting the Palestinian cause.

(“Killing of Pro-Palestinian Activist in Gaza Deals a Blow to Hamas,” Fares Akram and Isabel Kershner, New York Times, April 16, 2011.)

By stating that the acts of a “fringe group … inspired by Al Qaeda” could somehow embarrass or pose a challenge to Hamas, the Times implies that Hamas is not really extremist, but instead is moderate when compared to groups such as Al-Qaeda. This analysis is beyond absurd, however, ignoring as it does that Hamas is included on the U.S. State Department’s List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and overlooking the fact that Hamas arose out of the Muslim Brotherhood – the world’s oldest and largest Islamist movement.

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