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April 13, 2009
Leftwing blogosphere and Al-Jazeera: 'Somali Pirates Are Misunderstood Ecologists'
Topics: Political News and commentariesLet's call this story today's contribution to Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Only the left could ignore ideology and greed as being the real motivation behind Somali pirates, while instead thinking of the pirates as little more than misunderstood ecologists.
As NewBusters writes:
Amid the widespread relief that the captain of the Maersk Alabama, Richard Phillips, was freed from the Somali pirates, there is a growing feeling among the left that those pirates are "misunderstood." The idea of those pirates as really being some sort of seafaring ecologists seems to have begun with Al-Jazeera last October with this article by Najad Abdullahi:Somali pirates have accused European firms of dumping toxic waste off the Somali coast and are demanding an $8m ransom for the return of a Ukranian ship they captured, saying the money will go towards cleaning up the waste.This portayal of Somali pirates as ecological warriors, not greedy robbers was also picked up by the usual suspects in the leftwing blogosphere.The ransom demand is a means of "reacting to the toxic waste that has been continually dumped on the shores of our country for nearly 20 years", Januna Ali Jama, a spokesman for the pirates, based in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, said.
"The Somali coastline has been destroyed, and we believe this money is nothing compared to the devastation that we have seen on the seas."
Posted by Hyscience at April 13, 2009 9:49 AM
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