Or…. How the L.A. Times manages to stop a reader who reads between their usually carefully nuanced lines, dead in his tracks…
Regarding the story breaking today about the suspect arrested trying to his blow up a U.S. military recruiting center:
Arrest made in plot to blow up Baltimore-area military recruiting center
A 21-year-old Baltimore man has been arrested for attempting to blow up a military recruitment center in Catonsville with a fake bomb supplied by federal agents.
Federal authorities say Antonio Martinez, also known as Muhammad Hussain, …
“Also known as” who’s that now?
So he obviously changed his name to reflect his Islamic preference. But that totally benign name thing notwithstanding, they go on, using “Martinez”:
Court records paint Martinez as obsessed with Jihad and intent on punishing the military. He praised Nidal Hassan, the U.S. Army major who killed 13 people at Fort Hood, and discussed obtaining weapons and shooting up military installations, records show.
In November, he was observed on a public computer in Woodlawn viewing videos of Osama bin Laden and an Iraqi martyrdom. He discussed in public postings on his Facebook page how the “reign of oppression is about 2 cease.”
It was through the social networking site that he communicated at times with an FBI informant, saying he wanted to go to Pakistan or Afghanistan and join the ranks of the “mujahideen.”
He told the confidential source that if the military continued to kill Muslims, “they would need to expand their operation by killing U.S. Army personnel where they live,” records show. They discussed attacking military installations and the possibility of using gas or propane tanks. …
At least there’s no terrorism link. But there’s no getting around the obvious link here, with….. America and its incessant “killing of Muslims,” am I right, L.A. Times?
While we’re here, lets recall what the media called a couple of characters in the very recent past, and their own also known as names (the names they preferred to be known as, so much so that they adopted these names):
Jose Padilla (the “dirty bomb terrorist plotter) = Abdullah al-Muhajir.
Richard Reid (the airline shoe bomber) = Abdel Rahim.
The underwear bomber confused us all. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was also referred to as Umar Abdul Mutallab and Omar Farooq al-Nigeri. I have no doubt the media would have preferred to call him Tony Jones. Or better yet, Tony Hayward.
They changed their names, but the media will have none if it. NO NO! You have no right to change a name just willy-nilly for your own purposes!
But they have no problem changing the name of Christmas to “holiday”, even though virtually nobody wants them to and they have no credible business doing so.
The media, studiously protective of the PC mantra which studiously confuses “racial profiling” with “criminal profiling”, or more properly “enemy combatant profiling”, or even better, “fitting the description” , informed us that Mohamed Osman Mohamud (that was his only name, darn the luck) was the one whom the FBI mercifully stopped
from his plan to set off a bomb at a Christmas tree lighting celebration at an Oregon town square.
But the liberal-left media in Oregon and elsewhere hideously kept referring to the celebration as a “holiday” tree lighting, even though the Muslim terrorist himself identified it as a Christmas tree, and of course the very fact that it was a Christmas tree was the point. “Mohamud then told (the FBI operatives) that he had identified a potential target for a bomb: the Christmas tree-lighting ceremony in Portland’s Pioneer Courthouse Square on Nov. 26, 2010,” according to their reporting. Their headline thus naturally referred to it being a “holiday tree”.
I think the media should go ahead and call people what they are called, and call Christmas Christmas.
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