MSM leave all dots unconnected in multiple arrests of Muslim terrorist suspects
Overview: this post started out as a commentary on the British nerve gas arrests, but then the Canadian terrorist arrests happened. The MSM in each case found it very difficult to call Muslims Muslims and terrorists terrorists, and would never ever connect any dots.
Why would the British authorities be searching for a chemical weapons vest in and around the home of a postal worker? This BBC story identifies the man simply as a Bangladeshi. No possible motivation is ascribed to this “peaceful” man. If you play Sherlock Holmes in reading way down in the BBC story, however, you will see that they provide enough clues to piece together an hypothesis. What’s that, you say? You already figured it out. Good — but we thought that the purpose of an MSM news organization was actually to report the news, without having to dig through clues to make sense of the story. Oh, well.
UPDATE
Along a similar PC line, take a look at this story about the arrest in Toronto of “12 male adults and five youth” on terrorism charges. They are from “various backgrounds” and have been inspired to killing for “various reasons” — care to make a wager that there is a central, unifying thing among them that must remain unnamed?
UPDATE II
This report in Macleans is scrubbed completely clean of evidence of motivation. It was probably just dumb luck that there is some place where people of “various backgrounds” might meet each other and decide to gather up three tons of ammonium nitrate. Probably just dumb luck.
UPDATE II
Surprise! When the youths of “various backgrounds” were finally described in some detail by the Star, it was in the context of — you guessed it — discrimination:
Although the RCMP would not talk about the arrests last night, community sources confirmed the names of three of the men now behind bars.
Fahim Ahmad, a 22-year-old Scarborough father, was arrested late yesterday. He allegedly rented a car last summer for two men who were later caught bringing weapons across the border into Canada.
The arrests of two other men from Mississauga — brothers-in-law Ahmad Ghany and Zakaria Amara — shocked neighbours and family who said they couldn’t believe the allegations. “I think they have it wrong. Those guys have nothing to do with (terrorism),” said Scarborough Imam Aly Hindy.
Hindy has been a high profile critic of the RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service, accusing the federal agency of targeting Muslims who criticize the foreign policies of Western governments. He believes this is what led to the arrests yesterday. “Because they are young people, and they are Muslims, they are saying it’s terrorism,” he said in an interview last night.
Look what lengths it takes for the MSM to mention “Muslims” and “terrorism” in the same sentence.
UPDATE III
Not only were the suspects describes as being from “various backgrounds” with “various reasons” for their lethal motivations, but now we learn, via Michelle Malkin, that the RCMP described them as being from “broad strata” of society. Take a look at the adults, and then we’ll ask you a question:
1. Fahim Ahmad, 21, Toronto;
2. Zakaria Amara, 20, Mississauga, Ont.;
3. Asad Ansari, 21, Mississauga;
4. Shareef Abdelhaleen, 30, Mississauga;
5. Qayyum Abdul Jamal, 43, Mississauga;
6. Mohammed Dirie, 22, Kingston, Ont.;
7. Yasim Abdi Mohamed, 24, Kingston;
8. Jahmaal James, 23, Toronto;
9. Amin Mohamed Durrani, 19, Toronto;
10. Steven Vikash Chand alias Abdul Shakur, 25, Toronto;
11. Ahmad Mustafa Ghany, 21, Mississauga;
12. Saad Khalid, 19, of Eclipse Avenue, Mississauga.
The RCMP’s attempt at political correctness was as inept as it was ridiculous. Suppose it is true that these twelve men are from “broad strata,” ie, different socio-economic, racial, and other elements of society. Just where then did they meet? Where do people of different backgrounds and strata often come together at least once a week? What does that perhaps tell us about where the police are conducting actual surveillance?
You can only take PC so far before it collapses like a poorly made Rube Goldberg contraption.