Friday, December 05, 2008

World Media Choses Sides in Mumbai India : Murderers Are Victims

This is only the beginning - the world knows that Obama is not likely lift a finger to stop the killing of Jews or any other group that opposes the total transformation of Western life.

Obama's history can't be hidden as well as his university records or his birth certificate. I see no reason for him to make a 180 on his life long philosophy of Marxist socialism as the best way to remake America into another "third world socialist state".

He has all the pieces in place to begin the transformation along with the media to spin the needed information to a public. It seems many are ready to surrender freedom for generations to come for a quick fix to their inability to cope with the new reality of sacristy. What ever happened to pride in self and country? Have we grown so mentally weak that we must stand around, wringing our collective hands waiting for others to make physical and moral decisions for us?

Do not rely on the main stream press to make decisions for us. They are agenda driven. Search out other forms of information - use common sense - stand against the tide of ignorance and complacency. You must know that we can never go back to the old days.

The "change" that Obama talked about is here. Now we must deal with it by demanding real life solutions, not quick fixes to gain political favor. This thinking will destroy us.

Keep the Faith - watch your flanks and over your shoulder when headed to the battle field, your friends may not be close behind.


MUMBAI: DEADLY MEDIA EUPHEMISMS
By ABRAHAM COOPER & HAROLD BRACKMAN/December 2, 2008/ --

THE international media have already morphed the horrific slaughter in Mumbai into the murky realm of euphemism and apologetics. Al Jazeera and The Guardian label the terrorists "gunmen"; CNN calls them "militants." Some analysts identified the underlying cause as the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan. Psychological guru Deepak Chopra called it the result of "collateral damage" from the US war on terrorism and the Iraq war.

But how does the especially bloodthirsty attack on Mumbai's Nariman-Chabad House fit into this puzzle palace? The New York Times theorized that Chabad House may have been an "accidental hostage scene." The BBC initially chose to hide the Jewish character of the target by describing it as just "an office building." Al Jazeera refused to show Chabad House as the site of the carnage.

Some Western media outlets unsympathetically labeled victims there as "ultra-Orthodox" or "missionaries." Contrary to these fantasies, the all-too-obvious truth is now being confirmed:* The Times of India reported that some of the terrorists, claiming to be Malaysian students, rented nearby space in order to scout out Chabad.* The Indian doctor who conducted the post-mortems related in a shaken voice that: "Of all the bodies, the Israeli victims bore the maximum torture marks.

It was clear that they were killed on the 26th [the first day of the attacks] itself. It was obvious that they were tied up and tortured before they were killed."*

The only captured terrorist, Ajmal Kamal, confessed under interrogation that his fellow murderers were specifically ordered to target the Jews killed at Chabad.

It's not only close India-Israeli ties that the terrorists wanted to destroy. It's likely that Mumbai's age-old history of hospitality to Jews made the Nariman-Chabad House a strategic target. Mumbai is notable for two distinctive Jewish communities: Bagdhadi Jews, whose ancestors first arrived as traders about 250 years ago, and the Bene Israel, descendants of Judean Jews shipwrecked off the Indian coast 2,100 years ago.

Among traditional Hindus forbidden to press oil from seeds, the Bene Israel found a welcome niche as the "Saturday Oil Presser Caste." Experiencing almost no discrimination, they were accorded high status in Indian society - one served as Gandhi's personal physician. Now the survivors and loved ones of all the innocent victims of the Mumbai massacres begin the heartbreaking task of picking up the shattered pieces of their lives.

But the families of the Chabad House victims have to also live with the double standard that lets the world look the other way when Jews are targets of terror.

At a house of fellowship and prayer, nine religious people were bound, tortured and executed because they were Jews - just as Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl had his head cut off in Pakistan because, as he told his kidnappers, "I am Jewish."

Terrorism may not succeed in destroying our civilization - but politically correct euphemisms and apologetics are already crippling our ability to defend it.

One cameraman who saw armed police refusing to open fire on the Mumbai terrorists lamented that he didn't have a gun instead of a camera. Yet what the world desperately needs today is not armed media, but reporters brave enough to tell the truth./

Rabbi Abraham Cooper is associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Harold Brackman, a historian, is a consultant for the center./Home http://www.nypost.com/

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