Reportar MensajePART 2
Geller says in case you’ve ever wondered why you never got the straight story on Islam directly after Sept. 11, 2001, and still haven’t, as well as “why the media seems in the tank for jihad, here’s a clue.”
Author Pamela Geller “A couple of weeks after 9/11, the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) issued a directive about how to cover Islam. For sheer propaganda, their ‘Diversity Guidelines’ are hard to beat. In fact, the enemy who attacked our
country in an attempt to bring it down may just as well have been writing the narrative.”
The guidelines, adopted less than a month after the terrorist attacks, urge journalists to “take steps against racial profiling in their coverage of the war on terrorism and to reaffirm their commitment to use language that is informative and not inflammatory.”
Some of the recommended steps include seeking out people from a variety of ethnic and religious backgrounds when photographing Americans mourning those lost in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania, and seeking truth through a
variety of voices and perspectives that help audiences understand the complexities of the tragic events.
The translation, says Geller, is “despite the horror, murder, and bloodshed of jihad, don’t tell the people. That is what is important: the scrubbing of the truth. In effect, they are aiding in the self-enforcement of the Shariah (blasphemy laws).”
Another recommended step to deflect attention away from the Islamic character of jihad, reporters have been instructed to “portray Muslims, Arabs, and Middle Eastern, and South Asian Americans in the richness of their diverse experiences.”
“Portray the beheaders, the homicide bombers, and the infiltrators in the ‘richness of their diverse experience’?” asks Geller. “You mean the stonings, amputations, Shariah law, clitorectomies, Jew-hatred, Hindu-hatred, the brutal conquests of India and Persia, and the caliphate? Yes, infidels, that is the
poisonous fruit of the revered institution of multiculturalism.”
In her book, Geller gives an in-depth examination of how those who work at American news agencies are being turned against the very people for whom they report.
“The SPJ is telling journalists to throw Americans under the bus and kiss the adherents to the Islamic ideology that murdered our people and want to take over this country.”
From Defending the Weathermen to Muslim Anti-Semitism . . . Obama’s controversial ambassador to Belgium.
Daniel Halper
December 4, 2011
The U.S. ambassador to Belgium, Howard Gutman, has been under fire for saying that Israel is responsible for Muslim anti-Semitism, comments he made last week at a European conference on anti-Semitism.
Audience members, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported, “were visibly stunned by Gutman’s words.” And already Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has called for President Obama to fire Gutman. “Pres Obama should fire his ambassador to Brussels for being so wrong about anti-semitism,” Gingrich tweeted yesterday.
But who is Gutman?
For starters, he was a major fundraiser for Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. He bundled at least $500,000 for Obama, according to OpenSecrets.org, and has been a major donor to the Democratic National Committee.
And that is why, after Obama’s election, Gutman was given an ambassadorship, which has traditionally been a way for president’s to thank those who have provided help along the way.
Yet Gutman was just the kind of person candidate Obama seemed to dislike.
For decades, Gutman was a Washington lawyer and lobbyist, seemingly representing just about anyone who would pay him, regardless of his clients’ moral standing. As Hot Air reported, Gutman “was once a lobbyist, but more recently a lawyer whose clientele included Susan L. Rosenberg. Who is she? Rosenberg is a one-time member of the Weather Underground terrorist group who was charged in the notorious 1981 Brink’s robbery that left a guard and two police officers dead. Her pardon was blasted across the political spectrum.”
(Hmm. What is it with Obama and the Weather Underground?.. Ayers/Dohrn)
Additionally, as the Washingtonian reported, Gutman “represented former Bolivian president Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada against charges of human-rights abuses.” During this time, Los Tiempos reported, “67 people lost their lives during severe street protests in 2003, whilst Sanchez de Lozada was in power. Sanchez de Lozada and the other two ministers left the country during the unrest.”
In 2008, his last year before taking his government pposition, Gutman earned a cool $1.8 million.
“I have done more to take on lobbyists than any other candidate in this race — and I’ve won,” then-President elect Obama said after the 2008 election. “I don’t take a dime of their money, and when I am President, they won’t find a job in my White House.”
Gutman’s not in the White House—he’s in Belgium. He also had the good fortune of not being an official lobbyist for a few years before fundraising for Obama, even if he seems to have engaged in lobbying-like activities as a lawyer.
Fortunately for Gutman, even if the White House does the right thing by recalling him from his post, he will find a rich market in Washington for lobbyists willing and eager to blame Israel for the anti-Semitism of the Muslim world.
