{"id":20433,"date":"2013-05-26T09:59:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T14:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=20433"},"modified":"2013-05-26T09:59:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T14:59:04","slug":"reporting-and-omitting-to-report-certain-news-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/26\/reporting-and-omitting-to-report-certain-news-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting (and omitting to report) certain news items"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Steyn<\/a> on what was top of the issue-sheet for journalists discussing the Woolwich murder and the Swedish “youth” riots:<\/p>\n

For the last week Stockholm has been ablaze every night with hundreds of burning cars set alight by \u201cyouths.\u201d Any particular kind of \u201cyouth\u201d? The Swedish prime minister declined to identify them any more precisely than as \u201chooligans.\u201d But don\u2019t worry: The \u201chooligans\u201d and \u201cyouths\u201d and men of no Muslim appearance whatsoever can never win because, as David Cameron ringingly declared, \u201cthey can never beat the values we hold dear, the belief in freedom, in democracy, in free speech, in our British values, Western values.\u201d Actually, they\u2019ve already gone quite a way toward eroding free speech, as both prime ministers demonstrate. The short version of what happened in Woolwich is that two Muslims butchered a British soldier in the name of Islam and helpfully explained, \u201cThe only reason we have done this is because Muslims are dying every day.\u201d But what do they know? They\u2019re only Muslims, not Diversity Outreach Coordinators. So the BBC, in its so-called \u201cKey Points,\u201d declined to mention the \u201cAllahu akbar\u201d bit or the \u201cI\u201d-word at all: Allah who?<\/p>\n

Not a lot of Muslims want to go to the trouble of chopping your head off, but when so many Western leaders have so little rattling around up there, they don\u2019t have to. And, as we know from the sob-sister Tsarnaev profiles, most of these excitable lads are perfectly affable, or at least no more than mildly alienated, until the day they set a hundred cars alight, or blow up a school boy, or decapitate some guy. And, if you\u2019re lucky, it\u2019s not you they behead, or your kid they kill, or even your Honda Civic they light up. And so life goes on, and it\u2019s all so \u201cmundane,\u201d in Simon Jenkins\u2019s word, that you barely notice when the Jewish school shuts up, and the gay bar, and the uncovered women no longer take a stroll too late in the day, and the publishing house that gets sent the manuscript for the next Satanic Verses<\/em> decides it\u2019s not worth the trouble … But don\u2019t worry, they\u2019ll never defeat our \u201cfree speech\u201d and our \u201cway of life.\u201d<\/p>\n

One in ten Britons under 25 is now Muslim. That number will increase, through immigration, disparate birth rates, and conversions like those of the Woolwich killers, British-born and -bred. Metternich liked to say the Balkans began in the Landstrasse, in southeast Vienna. Today, the Dar al-Islam begins in Wellington Street, in southeast London. That\u2019s a \u201cbetrayal\u201d all right, but not of Islam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mark Steyn on what was top of the issue-sheet for journalists discussing the Woolwich murder and the Swedish “youth” riots: For the last week Stockholm has been ablaze every night with hundreds of burning cars set alight by \u201cyouths.\u201d Any particular kind of \u201cyouth\u201d? The Swedish prime minister declined to identify them any more precisely […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,11],"tags":[343,47,350,213,283,101],"class_list":["post-20433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","category-religion","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-islam","tag-london","tag-newspapers","tag-sweden","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5jz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20435,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20433\/revisions\/20435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}