If you see something, say nothing

New Criterion:

June 2013

by Andrew C. McCarthy

Changes to the AP stylebook show that we’re blinding ourselves to the connections between Islamic extremism and terrorism.

Runners at the start of the 117th Boston Marathon. Stew Milne / AP
It was a report of the now numbingly familiar sort. Witnesses at the synagogue in Paris recounted that an Iranian immigrant had been screaming “Allahu Akbar!” while he chased the rabbi and his son. When he finally caught up, he slashed away at them with a box-cutter, causing severe lacerations. Nevertheless, the Associated Press assured readers that “[a]n official investigation was underway to determine a possible motive.”

Quite a mystery, that.

It is necessary to search for some “possible” motive because to notice the actual and perfectly obvious motive is verboten in the judgment of both the legacy media and Western governments. The motive, of course, is adherence to Islamic supremacist ideology, a mainstream interpretation of Muslim doctrine commonly referred to by the shorthand “Islamist.”

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3 Replies to “If you see something, say nothing”

  1. The spineless and feckless MSM and the political class are infected and blinded by Political Correctness (i.e. Marxism) they fear the enemies of free speech, freedom and liberty, they don’t want to be accused of anti Muslim bias even if it means ignoring the obvious truth.

  2. Frank you got that right, the left is working hard to insure that no one does anything to protect the west.