More Muslim Deception

Here, with the aptly titled posting “Kill Jews, But not Here”, is another example of takiyya and kitman, the religiously-sanctioned deception to protect or promote Islam:

As an indicator of how out-of-control the jihad incitement has gotten in the Middle East over the Lebanon War, the sheikhs of the Al-Azhar Mosque, considered among the world’s highest authorities on Sunni Islam, had to issue a special fatwa forbidding the random murder of Jews: Egypt’s Muslim authorities disown fatwas on killing Jews.

Jews in Egypt, anyway. Jews elsewhere, well, they don’t really specify.
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They justify this counter-fatwa under Islamic law, by saying that Israelis who’ve been granted visas by Egypt are protected as dhimmis.

The Corruption of the Media

I have covered this topic here (don’t forget to scroll down).  Now EU Referendum has completed the report which provides conclusive evidence that many of the scenes presented by the MSM were in fact fake:

For whole sections of the international media, the “Qana massacre” at Khuraybah was a godsend. It provided tangible support for the narrative they had been running ever since the re-opening of hostilities in Lebanon – and before – that Israel was the pitiless aggressor which would stop at nothing to get its way, including “murdering” innocent women and children…

The only problem for it, and the hundreds if not thousands of newspapers and TV channels that reproduced this and many other images, was that they were fake. Not fake in the sense that they had been doctored – as in the infamous photographs taken by Reuters’ Adnan Hajj – but in the very real sense that the scenes has been staged. They were artificial, devised entirely to create shots that the media would lap up - a grisly exercise in propaganda by a terrorist organisation which had its own agenda. And the media lapped it up.

Here is the damning conclusion:

Thus, at last, we offer our conclusions. In so doing, we pose the questions that pervade this report, and answer them. Firstly, were many of the scenes during the rescue/recovery effort at Khuraybah on 30 July 2006, staged? The answer has to be yes.

Secondly, were journalists (with or without cameras) aware of the staging and complicit in it? Again, the answer has to be yes.

Third, did the media (the western media in particular) accept the images uncritically, without in any way inquiring as to their authenticity – even though there were good grounds for suspicion? Here, the answer almost certainly has to be yes.

Finally, has there since been a cover-up by the agencies and other media organisations which produced or used the material, and a sustained campaign by them either to ignore the issue or neutralise criticism? Once again, the answer has to be yes.

In defence of the media, if it can be considered thus, one can only postulate that staging scenes such as these is so common a practice, and so deeply embedded in the whole fabric of photo-journalism, that no one at the incident saw anything wrong with what transpired or, so familiar were they with the techniques used that they simply did not register what was happening. And for others, in their air-conditioned offices, hundreds and thousands of miles away from the action, did they care one way or the other? After all, or so one media representative implied, the greater truth was being served. “Is the child dead?”, he asked. “Was the child killed by Israeli bombs?” Thus, did he say:

If so, the picture illustrates the story. If the picture does not alter the truth of the story, we’re not being disingenuous. And the truth of the story is this: Israeli bombs killed several civilians in Qana, many of whom were children.
That is the nearest to an admission we have that it is acceptable to stage photographs.

But, by their actions and inactions are the rest condemned. Meanwhile, “Green Helmet” has entered the political vocabularly and the name “Qana” is now associated in the minds of perhaps millions of people with a media that seems to have lost its moral base and has forgotten entirely the purpose for which it exists.

Before preparing this report, we offered a challenge to the news agencies at the centre of this affair, calling for them to admit the wrongdoings carried out in their names, and to clean up their acts. Their response to that has been silence. This is our response. It stands as testimony to their failures which, if they are not addressed, will come back to haunt them.

We will be waiting, and watching.