Muslims more than ever are in the eye of the storm. No matter that Paris killings were less about terrorism and more about false flag deception. State terrorism. Using Kouarchi brothers and Coulibaly as convenient patsies. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy called Charlie Hebdo killings “a war on civilization.” Blaming Muslims for “barbarity.” Ignoring French involvement in US-led NATO aggression. Murdering millions of Muslims. Mostly defenseless men, women and children. Media scoundrels marching in lockstep with imperial lawlessness. Ignoring genocidal high crimes. Feigning concern about 17 French deaths. “(D)efending the (selective) right to offend,” said Media Lens. Western offensiveness against Muslims. The other way around called terrorism. “The Western tendency to act with ruthless, overwhelming violence is, of course, a key reason why” some Muslims retaliate, said Media Lens. “(W)e live in a time when a ‘war for civilization’ is seen as something more than a grotesque contradiction in terms.” Perhaps the bloodiest modern attack on European journalism occurred on April 23, 1999. US-led NATO bombed Serbian state radio and television. An act of cold-blooded murder. Killing 16. Injuring 16 others. Victims included an editor. Program director. Cameraman. Make-up artist. Three security guards. Other support staff. Additional media outlets throughout Serbia were attacked. Amnesty International called bombing iits state media “a deliberate attack on a civilian object and as such constitutes a war crime.” A Pentagon spokesman outrageously called it “part of Milosevic’s murder machine…right up there with security forces and the military.” It bears repeating. When Muslims retaliate against crimes harming their lives and wellbeing, it’s called terrorism. US-led NATO raping Yugoslavia was called liberating it. Terror bombings reflect longtime US strategy. Willfully targeting civilians. Killing them in cold blood. In all US wars. Post-9/11, murdering millions of Muslims. Journalists are prime targets. In November 2001, US air strikes targeted Al Jazeera’s Kabul, Afghanistan satellite TV station. In April 2003, a US tank shelled Baghdad’s Palestine Hotel. Where many foreign journalists were based. Striking a 14th floor balcony. Sky News journalist David Chater was in the hotel at the time. Saw the tank aiming in his direction before firing. Asking at the time how Western journalists could continue working if US forces targeted them. American bombs killed Al Jazeera’s cameraman Tareq Ayoub. Injured a Reuters reporter, photographer, technician and cameraman. In July 2011, US-led NATO bombed Libyan media in Tripoli. Killing three media workers. Injuring 21 others When US-led NATO warplanes commit cold-blooded murder, it’s called liberating oppressed people. Humanitarian intervention. Responsibility to protect. Making the world safe for plunderers ready to take full advantage. When Muslims defend themselves, they’re called cold-blooded killers. When Israel murders over 2,200 mostly Palestinian civilians, injures thousands more, turns large parts of Gaza to rubble, it’s called self-defense. Including willfully targeting and murdering 17 Palestinian journalists. Preventing them from reporting Israeli atrocities. Bad guys are them. Not us. Western reports on Charlie Hebro killings are one-sided and then some. Hypocrisy taken to a higher level. In France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Romania and Israel, holocaust denial is criminalized. If Western media mock or vilify Islam, it’s OK. Muslims are targets of choice. Imperial wars rage against them. Homeland repression targets them. Expect worse ahead post-Charlie. Across Europe. In America. Media scoundrels hype nonexistent threats. On January 14, Wall Street Journal editors headlined “France’s War on Terror.” Instead of explaining its war OF terror. Against Muslims. Anyone legitimately against lawless state policy. Exercising their free expression right to say so. Not according to Journal editors. Hyping the need to defend against “Islamist terror.” Applauding France’s response. Turning the country into a militarized armed camp. Likely with orders to shoot to kill resisters. Mass arrest others. Imprison them for exercising their democratic rights. What free societies champion. French legislation being drafted eviscerates them. Bravo, say Journal editors. Keep “boost(ing) counterterrorism capabilities.” Forget about longstanding rule of law principles. Ones all free societies respect. Protecting monied interests from political, economic and social justice matters more. “To prevent future attacks, the French government should do more,” said Journal editors. Maybe they have criminalizing all Muslims in mind. Targeting them for praying to the wrong God.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 22:35:14 +0000
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