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June 5, 2006
The Canadian Terrorists - From A 'Broad Strata Of Society'?
Topics: DhimmitudeWe have Police In Canada alleging this past weekend that 17 "suspects" (read radical Islamists) were involved in a plot to stage a massive terrorist attack by fashioning explosives out of three tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilizer - that's three times the quantity used in the Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people in 1995. But the press accounts suggested that the "suspects" (once again - read radical Islamists) represented a "broad strata" of Canadian society. Of course the blogosphere went nuts mocking the press accounts.
So let's see for ourselves: "Fahim Ahmad, Zakaria Amara, Asad Ansari, Shareef Abdelhaleen, Qayyum Abdul Jamal, Mohammed Dirie, Yasim Abdi Mohamed, Amin Mohamed Durrani, Steven Vikash Chand alias Abdul Shakur, Ahmad Mustafa Ghany and Saad Khalid". Just a cursory check shows there's not an Ohara, Smith, or Isaacson among them.
That's a "broad strata" of society? As Jim Geraghty puts it at NRO:
(...) When 4 out of the 11 of the released names have "abdul/abdel/abdi" in them, 2 Ahmads, 2 Saads, and 3 Mohammeds, it sends one of two messages to readers. The first is "we think you're stupid and can't figure out the common thread these suspects have in common"; the second is that "we in the media are stupid and can't figure out the common thread these suspects have in common."That about sums up the situation - just another case of being in denial.(...) The mainstream media spent a lot of time berating itself after 9/11 for ignoring international news, closing foreign bureaus, and focusing more on celebrity and tabloid stories than something hugely important, like the rise of al-Qaeda and Islamist fundamentalism around the globe. Well, today they're demonstrating that they haven't improved much. Sure, there's a lot of coverage of Haditha, and a decent amount of focus on Iran (if a bit of soft-pedalling about Ahmedinijad). And yes, a completed terrorist attack is bigger news than a foiled terror attack. But the developments in Canada and the UK are being just short of ignored; and it's tough to conclude that it's for any reason beyond it doesn't fit an agenda. (I notice that one of my favorites, Tim Russert, did not ask about either Canada or the UK with his guests Joe Biden or Hans Blix.)
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Posted by Richard at June 5, 2006 3:27 PM
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