This piece on the Arizona shootings and radical Islam caught my eye. The media’s look at the Arizona shootings has been long on linking the shooter to talk radio (non-existent), conservatives (nada), and Sarah Palin (nope). But is the media ignoring the issue of Jared Loughner and anti-semitism? And does it mimic the way the media looks (or fail to look) at radical Islam? Worth thinking about. From the Jerusalem Post:
“Mainline American sources and government officials are avoiding, or treating in the most circumspect manner the issue of anti-Semitism. Police and prosecutors are staying away from the description of this as a hate crime. The New York Times website has a prominent article headlined ‘Federal Charges Cite Assassination Plan,’ which is squeaky clean of reference to ethnicity or religion.
National Public Radio’s web site reported about an FBI official who was asked about possible motives after the shooter was arraigned. The response: ‘It’s a bit too early to speculate.’
This resembles the efforts of ranking politicians to do everything they can to absolve Islam from any responsibility for terror. The distance from ethnic profiling in airports and other sensitive places insisted upon by officials concerned about security in the context of what is politically correct.
All this is understandable in the case of a society that has been multi-ethnic since its founding, and has invested the most recent half-century working to cleanse racism from its culture.
There are costs. The awkward avoiding of realities means that lots of us old folks with European faces have to go through the same screening as dusky young people with Middle Eastern accents. Those who protest efforts to boycott Israeli products or personnel do what they can to avoid accusing their opponents of anti-Semitism – and Mein Kampf is just another item on a reading list.”
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