NationStates Jolt Archive

From some Quotes from the Hill (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1503&ncid=1503&e=23&u=/afp/20040512/ts_afp/iraq_us_beheading_reax_040512065443)

"I am eagerly awaiting public apologies and condemnation from leaders in the Arab world expressing their own personal outrage at the barbaric murder of Nick Berg, an innocent civilian," said Representative Tom Tancredo of Colorado. "And if such an apology is not forthcoming from the Arab world, their silence should be condemned by the civilized world."


Really? It's up Egypt to apologize for what those people did? Condemnation I can see - but apologies?

Gimme a firken break. It took a stick of media dynamite to pry an apology out from GW's face for the Abu Ghraib photos - and those WERE people under his command. And even then he did it off camera to the King of Jordan! You expect the house of Saud to apologize for what happened by people of unknown origin in IRaq?

Get real.

Nice add-on at the end though. The comment that fairly clearly indicates that you believe all Muslims to be uncivilized.

With people like this contributing to the US public relations machine.... it's really makes you wonder why some Muslims believe that there is a religious/ethnic motivation for the war....doesn't it?


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-Z-

They're what we call 'hypocrites', Z.

Hypocrites!?!? Its American justice!

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They're what we call 'hypocrites', Z.

Hypocrites!?!? Its American justice!

:lol:

Hey... well, of course even the media gets into the act.

The AP screams out the headline Arab Media Play Down, Ignore Beheading (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&e=9&u=/ap/20040512/ap_on_re_mi_ea/arabs_american_beheaded)

Then you read the article.

What is there complaint?

THAT THE NEWS DIDN'T SHOW THE ACTUAL BEHEADING!

That is downplaying it? Because they didn't show the exact same thing we didn't show?


You read on and it turns out that virtually every major news group in the Middle East lead off with this story, and that the general concesus was that they were equally outraged at the indecency of it.

Oh yeah - that is "downplaying and ignoring it!"



Of the newspapers that did not run the story, Al-Ahram (one of the big Saudi papers) editor, Ahmed Reda, said the news came too late Tuesday night for the paper to confirm the video's authenticity with the U.S. government before going to press. That is believable given the time zones.



And Syria didn't report it. But then again, given GW just put economic sanctions in place on them yesterday - so I doubt very much if they are feeling all that well discposed towards the US right now anyway.


But if all you do is scan headlines - which a lot of people do - you would have walked away thinking that this really had received poor coverage in the Middle East.

Frankly, I'm suprised at AP. Usually they are a lot better than that.


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