60 killed as Chechen gunmen attack city

Chechen rebel attack fuels growing unrest

Chechens attack Caucasus town

Police battle militants in Russia

As Michelle points out, look how far down you have to read those stories before you are told that it is "Islamic" radical terrorists wreaking havoc and murdering innocent people, not just plain-vanilla "gunmen" and nondescript "militants" run amok.

She refers to this Bloomberg article as getting it right in the lede graf. So does this AP story(a real surprise). But so far, the only headline she or any of us have seen that puts the I-word up front, where it belongs, is this one in The Moscow Times:

Islamic Militants Raid Nalchik, 24 Dead

Scores of armed Islamist militants carried out near-simultaneous attacks on police, security and military sites in the Kabardino-Balkaria capital of Nalchik on Thursday morning, killing at least 12 servicemen and 12 residents.

Michelle noted the same trend in reporting (or rather, non-reporting) of the Beslan massacre last year, in which the New York Times referred to the killers of school children as "guerrillas" and "fighters" and "armed captors" but not "terrorists." and certainly not what they in fact were - ISLAMIC terrorists who murdered at least 250 innocent people, mostly children.

Yes, the sins of omission do continue to pile up, and the MSM is still failing to make their readers aware of the present and growing threat of Islamic terrorism, and even more importantly, that the real problem about Islamic terrorism and with Islam, is Islam itself.

The MSM who purport to report the "story" is glossing over the real story with their own versions while failing to deliver the goods - the real story, the truth. German Muñoz, in his Accuracy in the Media report writes:

The story being missed, or purposively kept away from the American people, is the direct connection between the actions of Muslim terrorists, both those at Guantanamo and elsewhere, and the commands of Allah and Muhammad in the Koran. The misleading mantra that Islam is a tolerant religion of peace that has been hijacked by terrorists prevents the elite from presenting all the relevant facts about this religion and the hold it has on jihadists. Perhaps when American soldiers in Guantanamo assist Muslims with their religious needs, including providing them with Korans and the infrastructure for prayer, something which seems unconstitutional, they are actually stimulating their violent agenda.

Our secularized political elites do not want to understand or discuss the religious base underlying the terrorists' political agenda for world domination. Since most of our leaders are not traditionally religious, they find it difficult to recognize that some people take their religion very seriously even if just to justify killing. They should have learned this when Osama bin Laden named his group the World Islamic Front Against Jews and Crusaders [Christians].

So why is it that the MSM, our media elites, haven't exposed what the Koran really says about non-Muslims and the commands to kill them?

If they would read the Koran, they will find out that Allah wants Muslims to kill the infidels (unbelievers) wherever they are found (Koran 9:5), and that peace will come only to those who submit to him (Koran 8:17, 48:29, and 65). The Koran also has Allah saying that unbelievers should be killed (Koran 2:191, 3:141, 4:104, 4:89, 8:12-16, 9:5, 9:73-74, 9:123, 25:52...), that Muslim apostates should be killed or chastised (Koran 2:39, 2:85, 3:85, 3:106, 4:89, 16:106, and 47:25-28), that the heads and fingers of unbelievers should be cut off (Koran 5:33, 8:12, and 47:4), and that Muslims should fight and humiliate Jews and Christians (Koran 5:18 and 9:29).

For Allah, warfare is good (Koran 2:216) and jihad (fighting in the way of Allah) should continue until only Islam is dominant (Koran 2:193, 3:85, 8:39, 9:33, 35:37 and 61:9). Allah wants his followers to slaughter his enemies (Koran 8:67), allows Muslims to loot (Koran 8:1, 8:41, 8:69, and 59:7), to commit suicide (Koran 2:154, 2:207, 3:140-144, 3:157, 9:111 and 47:4), and to acquire slaves (Koran 4:3, 4:23-24 and 8:67). Muhammad himself was allowed to engage in unlimited sex with female slaves and captives (Koran 4:3, 23:6, 33:50-52 and 70:30). Is this a religion of tolerance?

In addition, Allah orders Muslims not to take Jews, Christians and other unbelievers as friends (Koran 3:28, 5:51 and 9:23), and will not forgive Christians (Koran 4:48 and 4:116). Muhammad taught to put the infidels to death wherever they were found (Koran 2:191, 2:244, 4:89, 5:36, 9:5, and 9:29), urged Muslims to fight the unbelievers who are close (Koran 9:123), mentioned that fighting is obligatory (Koran 2:216), and mandated the conquering of those relatives who opposed Muslims because loyalty to Islam overrode all other human bonds (Koran 9:23-24, and 58:22).

Muhammad is also quoted in the Koran as urging fighting until Islam is the only religion (Koran 2:193, 8:39, and 61:9), seeking the death of apostates (Koran 9:73-74), accepting slavery (Koran 4:3, 4:24, 5:87-89, 23:6, 24:32-33, 33:50-52 and 70:30), supporting the slaughter of captives (Koran 8:67), the raping of women captives (Koran 4:24), beheading the infidels (Koran 47:4), and approving looting in wars (Koran 24:29, and 48:20-21). Is this the religion of diversity?

The Koran states that if Muslims do not fight, Allah will replace them with others who will. (Koran 9:39). Those who cannot fight must help fellow Muslims in other ways, including through donations of money. (Koran 8:72). Only Islamic law or sharia is lawful for Muslims (Koran 5:50). There will not be mercy on unbelievers (Koran 5:36-38 and 48:29). The end of the jihad will happen when there is faith only in Allah (Koran 2:193). Power must belong to Muslims only (Koran 63:8), and they must exert power over non-Muslims (Koran 4:141). Is this a multicultural religion?

So why are the establishment media and academia keeping all this information from the American public? Why are Americans told Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance when it is clear that peace is only for the "right" type of Muslims and tolerance has no application whatsoever for those that do not embrace Islam? Why is it that to leave Islam is apostacy - that results in death?

How can anyone with an iota of common sense call Islam a religion of peace? They can't! And they shouldn't, especially if they, the MSM, wish to report the truth.

Fortunately, there is the MSM, and then their are bloggers. The American public, at least those not living in the fog of liberalism, are learning where to go for the truth.

And by the way, in agreement with what I've read elsewhere, I am not saying here that "Muslims" are evil at all. I have cherished friendships with people in my life who profess Islam, but I believe that Islam's logical outworking is compulsion and totalitarianism, and that violence, global aspirations of control over non-Muslims, complete submissiveness of non-Muslims to Islamic law, suppression of women, and the establishment of a global caliphate are not inconsistent with it. Further, it isn't my wish to address here, nor to argue with Muslims in regard to their personal beliefs, as to whether or not Islam is true and the evidence, or lack thereof, for it exists - although my feelings on that matter should be evident.