…And Leaning to the Right wants to know why we’re not “all Egyptians now.”
Well, I certainly can’t speak for everyone, but for my part it’s because of the rampant anti-semitism in Egypt, and the fact that they don’t have many Jewish citizens. But the innocent victims of the terror attacks are in my thoughts and prayers, nevertheless.
For detailed coverage of the attacks and their aftermath, keep visting here.
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update: al Qaeda claims responsibility for the Egypt bombings. Is it that Egyptians just aren’t Muslim enough? (via Red State)
Howsabout the Turks?
And when were we ever Egyptians? The land of our nations birth is England. It was too bad that all those other kinds of people decided it looked good over here too, and then well, there went the neighborhood. I was bad enough there were already all those pesky injuns like the Churchills to get rid of and then all thos f#$&ing Irish crashed the party and started welfare and all. Now we have to be Egyptian?! The nerve. Well this is one American who refuses to be repatronized!!
I think my people beat feet out of that place after the plagues.
You know, I totally get the anti-Semitism aspect of this and I understand it.
That said, I guess I’m thinking more about the media’s focus. If we go by total dead, the terrorism in Egypt today was worse than London, and yet the focus is still on London with the stories about the suspects, almost-bombing, etc. still leading the Egypt attacks in the news. It seems an odd perspective to me. Although, since you can’t tie the Egyptian terrorism attacks to Iraq, you can’t blame Bush or Blair for that terrorism, perhaps it’s a less compelling story.
Wait a minute – you mean you cannot blame these attacks on Bush? No wonder there is so little coverage…
Just to be clear, I wasn’t criticizing you for asking the question, Athena. And for what’s it worth, I think you’re absolutely right that this attack—and the attack in Turkey—are receiving less coverage than the London bombings because it doesn’t fit within the framework of the media’s standard WOT narrative.
Though I bet when the media “examines” itself, it’ll come to the conclusion that we Westerners are racist and just don’t want to watch things about brown people dying.
Not only do they hate the Jews but they also hate the Coptic Christian minority there as well.
I’ll gladly be British or Aussie anytime. Egyptian? No thanks, I’ll pass….
While I agree that Egypt, Turkey and even Bali get less coverage than London because it does not fit the media’s template of the war, to be scrupulously fair, I suspect those in the major media would also point out their relative lack of resources in places like Egypt when compared to London also.
Good point.
To be scrupulously fair as well then that this news product is driven by ease of access and volume of rhetoric. So it isn’t actually balanced on its face. Just something else, a fictional depiction of the facts. Like an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or any Bill Moyers report. So the premise that it is manipulted and marketed to present an agenda is actually bolstered by that revelation. Then the “Template” approach to presenting the verbiage seems more the fact than not.
Egypt has been subject to Islamist terrorist attacks for years (decades?), so this is nothing new. Reason’s blurb on the bombing stated that 34 people died in bombings in that neighborhood just last year.
I think this story is getting covered differently because it’s basically just dog-bites-man.
It doesn’t help that leading Egyptian clerics promptly announced that the attacks, logically, were carried about by Israel–the logic being that Israel, somehow, had the “most to gain” from the attacks.
Meanwhile, thousands of Iraqis hold a memorial and a protest against terrorism and nobody reports on it! The Iraqis are my heroes.
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