Complicit in Jihad
American terrorism expert Steven Emerson talks with the Jerusalem Post about how the U.S. media and government are complicit in the spread of Islamic radicalism in America. He excoriates the press:
There is a criminal trial presently under way in Texas of a suspected Hamas charity. The revelations that have emerged in the trial – probably the most striking findings since those that came out in the 1949 Alger Hiss trials – are that the Muslim Brotherhood had secretly set up shop in the US under the cover of “charitable” organizations, with the specific purpose of waging jihad from within and subverting the United States until it became a Muslim country. Yet, neither The New York Times nor The Washington Post published these findings. . . .
The elite newspapers, with the exception of The Wall Street Journal, systematically censor the news in order to downplay the threat, or at worst, literally distort the facts to falsely portray radical Islamic groups in the United States as victims, which is exactly in line with the victimology propagated by these groups. If misreporting were a crime, a lot of reporters would be in jail. . . .
Though it’s true that moderate Muslims may interpret jihad as a spiritual struggle, radical Islamic clerics who aren’t trying to “spin” the West say openly that jihad means only one thing: fighting for the sake of imposing Islam. And it’s both obscene and corrupt that certain media outlets talk about it as though it were no more than quitting smoking or cleaning up the environment. The 3,000 killed on 9/11, and the 1,500 Israelis killed during the second intifada, died because the perpetrators were carrying out jihad.
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