Hear about the riot in Ste. Geneviève des Bois, France where fifty Muslims attacked attacked three cars and left a man in a coma? The failed hijack of a Mauritanian airliner by a man who wanted the machine flown to Paris (for whatever purpose) because of "all the bad things they are doing to Muslims"? How about that the Utah gunman turning out to be a Bosnian Muslim, but the press completely failed to report that tiny fact even to prove it irrelevant?
Probably not, unless you did a lot of burrowing, because the MSM has shown a remarkable lack of curiosity of late about possible Jihadist incidents.
"Ultraconservative" paranoia about a non-existent threat or a press determined to manage the news because the brutish public can't be trusted with the complete facts for fear of a "backlash"? I doubt if there is any truly Jihadist motive in any of these cases, but the tendency of the press to downplay them to the point of obscurity and to not even consider the possibility of a terrorist element during a time of war is at best a matter of reckless irresponsibility.
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Evidently, one needn't be living under a rock to miss news these days.
Just an FYI: The fact that the shooter in Utah was a Muslim WAS indeed reported in the US, at least on National Public Radio. I don't know about CNN and such, and I would be surprised if it was NOT reported on FOX (though in this case I don't know as I was not listening to/watching FOX...they get nauseating after a very short while).
One reason NOT to make a big fuss about the Utah shooter's religion: It validates the act. We have had sporadic problems in the US with random shootings, and if we treat them as anything other than simple criminal acts and make a bigger fuss than they deserve we will just encourage more. A person who walks into a shopping mall and shoots random people is a criminal, nothing more, nothing less. Shoot back at him (which they did), or catch him and jail him, but don't excuse it with religious motivation.
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