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Deja vu — Judith Apter Klinghoffer

Judith Apter Klinghoffer

DOES THE AMERICAN MSM KNOW THE MEANING OF SOLIDARITY? SOME DO

Danish cartoonists need 24 hour protection. Another bounty was put on them today. The Le Monde cartoonist responds by drawing a portrait of Muhammad entirely made up of lines saying "I must not draw Muhammad."

What do American cartoonists do? Well, the one working for the Washington Post draws the American army as a critically wounded soldier who lost both hands and legs. The Islamists could not have asked for anything more. Didn't Bin Laden and company assure them that one more push and the U.S. will collapse just as the USSR did?

The Danish PM Fogh was on Arab television today, the interviewer asked him: "Please explain to us: why haven't you yet punished the newspapermen?" A second editor is fired. This time it is Jihad El Momeni, a Jordanian editor, who keeps alive the hope of moderate Islam. In an editorial accompanying the cartoons he asks:

"What brings more prejudice against Islam, these caricatures or pictures of a hostage-taker slashing the throat of his victim in front of the cameras or a suicide bomber who blows himself up during a wedding ceremony in Amman?"

What does MSM do? With the sole exception of a terrific report by Fox News they kowtow to the Islamists the way they kowtowed to Saddam. CNN showed the cartoon with Muhammad's face blurred. NBC is just as cowardly. Michelle Malkin uploaded the NBC News report in which the correspondent announces that they have "chosen not to show" the cartoon. Go watch, write an angry letter and then "Buy Danish."

Hamas: in one or two weeks Copenhagen will bleed. The French too are targeted. Al Akza brigade refuses to be left behind. It targets all Europeans.

French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy refuses to back down. He says he prefers "an excess of caricature to an excess of censorship." The British Parliament gets the message and defeats the law designed to appease the London bombers.

Who remain totally disinterested in the plight of their European colleagues? American MSM. They even fail to publicize acts of resistance such as our "Buy Danish" campaign.

Remember another Dylan song:

"Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head,
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

More exeptions:

ABC News , PBS with Jim Lehrer and BBC.

The FT published a list of European publications that printed the cartoons:

Jyllands-Posten (Danish); WeekendAvisen (Danish); Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German); Magazinet (Norwegian); Brussels Journal (Belgium); DV (Icelandic); Die Tageszeitung (German); France Soir (French); Die Welt (German); Tagesspiegel(German); Berliner Zeitung (German); La Stampa(Italian); El Periodico(Spanish); Volkskrant (Dutch); NRC Handelsblad (Dutch); Elsevier (Dutch); Die Zeit (German); al-Shihan (Jordanian); Le Soir (Belgium); Le Monde (French); BBC (UK); also ITV News and Channel 4 News.

No British papers printed the cartoons yet.

In New Zealand The Dominion Post printed cartoons.

Posted on Thursday, February 2, 2006 at 11:03 PM | Comments (8) | Return

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