Buried deep in this Globe And Mail article, this startling admission;
Roughly 70 per cent of [221] journalists who responded to the survey also said they had seen the images.
Arguably, the biggest international story of the new year – one in which there was considerable Canadian coverage and controversy – and nearly one in three professional journalists surveyed admit they had not yet seen the Jyllands-Posten cartoons.
How can this be?
Our hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil media never fails to under whelm.
And now for something completely different. They are burning crosses and throwing bombs at Western embassies/stores in Iran and other parts. The authorities vow to crack down……….
None of the above.
Fear is the motivation, proving that “the sword
is mightier than the pen”.
I pick hypocrisy…
Makes you wonder what one in three ‘professional journalists’ is doing with their time. Maybe they have ‘great careers and great families’. Great post!
I haven’t seen them, nor do I want to. When the cartoons were printed, they ran around burning and killing. If they hadn’t then the western media would of never picked up the story. This is not about the cartoons for me its about the violence…
Just because they call themselves journalists and occupy positions that are supposed to be occupied by journalists does not mean that they are journalists. And this is especially true in Canada.
Public relations and marketing is their profession.
Maybe we’re talking sports journalists etc.
I would guess that about 30 percent of journalists work for the CBC or the G&M then…
It makes it easier to keep the bad thoughts out of their heads
They’re in total denial of the scope of what is taking place – and who among them wants to be the first to break ranks?
I guess they don’t mind if their children or grandchildren live under Sharia law.
My parents did, in Saudi Arabia. I will die first before I would let such a thing happen.
They are fools.
Personally, I found those cartoons rather crude and lame- Gary Trudeau, or the National Lampoon, could do a far better job. (And- who gives a rat’s ass what the MSM ‘journalists’ have to say- about anything?)
How can this be? Because the Canadian MSM/journalist pool avoid controversy and investigative/objective reporting like a lawyer avoids the truth.
Now be good little Kanukistanis , drink your media koolaid and go back to sleep…nothing to see here….nothing to get upset about….continue grazing, Nanny state’s monotonous hypnotic mewling will keep Trudeaupia’s brood comfy and safe from all the blue meanies.
It would be nice to know if there was a correlation between viewing/not viewing the cartoons and being for/against publishing them. Please excuse me but I am just a curious person (and therefore not a journalist).
On 60 minutes last night Bob Simon interviewed the Danish Imam but did not ask him why it was ok for him to disseminate the cartoons by showing them throughout the middle east but it is not ok for media outlets to show them to their readers.
Curiosity can get you in trouble I guess.
The two most cogent facts of this cartoon controversy are:
1. the appeasment of most of the Western press and governments;
2. the complete inability or refusal of the heavily orchestrated Muslim mobs to grasp the concept of Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech in a democracy.
Make no mistake about these reactions by our Western MSM and government leaders-it’s a major victory for Islamofascism and a major defeat for Democracy.
Would Canada have the guts to put down a violent protest within our own borders involving extremists from the “Religion of Peace”? That test may come soon…in which case Margaret Atwood might get enough material to write a sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale” in post-Sharia Canada.
When I show them to people tnx kate for allowing me to they go whats the big deal.
Could be a real big reason why the Liberal MSM’s don’t show them.
And if they showed this on the news there might be calls for western nations to Jihad back.
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
My vote:
1. Laziness
2. Denial
3. Don’t know how to google.
Here is something to bring a little balance to the diet of racial disharmony and fear that Kate feeds you:
Michaelle Jean decries marginalization of youth
CTV.ca News Staff
Some Canadian youth are being marginalized and this is a disgrace, said Governor General Michaelle Jean, who is on her first official visit to Ontario.
Speaking at the provincial legislature in Toronto, she said too many Canadians in Toronto, in northern Ontario and across the country are “relegated to the margins and left to fend for themselves.”
“Nothing in today’s society is more disgraceful than the marginalization of some young people who are driven to isolation and despair.
“We must not tolerate such disparities.”
She said the recent spate of gun violence in Toronto can be attributed at least in part to the marginalization of youth, who end up in desperate situations.
“While our society must fight crime, it must also get at the roots of crime.”
Jean is halfway through her first official trip to Toronto, which on Monday included an official welcome by Premier Dalton McGuinty.
The premier praised Jean, a Haitian immigrant who has risen to the vice-regal post.
“What’s truly remarkable about this story is how unremarkable it is,” said McGuinty.
“Ontario is a province of opportunity in a country of unlimited possibilities, where, for example, a young girl could flee a brutal dictatorship in Haiti to one day stand before us as our Governor General and go far beyond her dreams.”
Later today, Jean will meet with family violence workers and tour a downtown centre for street youth.
Jean was appointed last fall by former prime minister Paul Martin.
At the time, she and her husband, Jean-Daniel Lafond, were criticized by some who alleged they had separatist leanings.
Speaking in her first English-language TV interview, Jean said her problems began when a poll showed strong support for her appointment.
“When the first polls indicated that 89 per cent of people in Quebec were thrilled by my nomination, and applauded, it sent a signal that was very powerful, that some people were ready to really support a woman for the values that I’ve always defended,” she told Canada AM.
“And to some, this was not acceptable and the reaction came right there.
“But you know, what is more important is the number of people for whom my appointment and me being governor-general represents something very, very powerful, very important. The hope that it’s created.”
She also said she is very excited to have the unique opportunity to raise awareness with decisions makers, including newly-elected Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
“We need a government that is effective, and is working. And it is my responsibility to make sure this happens.”
Here’s my vote: the larger messages of the whole ‘toon fiasco challenge, if not demolish, the underpinnings of multiculturalist ideology. Rather than face reality that not all religions are morally equal and not all cultural practices worthy of continuance, they choose instead to just tune out. Ears plugged, “I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!”
Not everyone is a voyeur. Not everyone wants armed conflict with the Arab world. Not everyone thinks we should be fighting ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the yanks in Iraq. Not everyone wants to throw gasoline on fire. Not everyone is as crazy as the extreme rightwing.
Hah. I wonder how many of the 1/3 wrote irate commentary about the cartoons?
Every time you think journalism can’t get any more pathetic more light is shed on these useless sanctimonious deadbeats.
For starters, journalism is a useless degree, in my opinion. The best in the business never had one. A degree won’t buy you integrity or talent. Mark Steyn didn’t even go to college. He’s one of the most honest and talented journalists out there.
It is both sad and frightening how badly the MSM has performed in the �cartoon Crises� . By pandering to the Islamofascists and caving to their own fears they have both made the problem worse and emboldened the problem causers.
They have the story so wrong. There are no Koranic sanctions against showing pictures of the Prophet, Indeed in the Shia sect, it is a religious requirement. But since the western MSM ahave been trained like circus seals to just repeat what they are they are told without investigating anything.
This whole kerfuffle has far more to do with the despotic leadership of some Muslim nations using a manufactured issue to drip acid into the massive open wound that is the modern Arab muslim inferiority complex that changes the channel form their failed vision and leadership. Give or take a billion muslims living five centuries out of sequence, remembering past conquests and glories and nursing murderous rage at the western world that has left them so far behind in political, religious, technical and social development.
This inferiority gap widens every year as the arab muslim world remains trapped in an imam mandated mental straightjacket, as the gap widens between the world they are forced to live in and the western world that demonstrates a mental agility that leaves them further an further behind. They lash out and strike back in childish fury at what they cannot have, what they haven�t developed but what they know to be better, what they would like to have.
It�s the 1930�s all over, just a different kind of fascist menace threatens world peace. The media and the myopic socialists in the west will fall over themselves to appease the enemy, which will only make them demand more, convince them that the west is weak and the louder they shout the more we will vacillate.
But they will go too far. Hitler did in Poland.
The truly unfortunate aspect now is that the �too far� step they will take will likely involve nuclear weapons and then the real blood letting will begin.
So I take it leftdog, that if we go to sleep on the whole Islam thing that (a) Israel will be left alone (b) we’ll be left alone?
Is that the course you would have us take?
maybe “Fron North Sasketchewan” should open up them eyes a wee bit and attempt to live in the real world, not the make believe, socialist world of loving facists of any stripe. History is happening here, not a trip to Disneyland
Its their hate that motivtes them . . but those who can’t handle the truth, like From North Saskatachewan, find it more comforting to blame the messenger. its their nice comfy fur.
from newsbeat1
We gather here today to share information and knowledge. Intelligence is not merely cold hard data about numerical strength or armament or disposition of military forces. The most important element of intelligence has to be understanding the mindset and intention of the enemy. The West has been wallowing in a state of ignorance and denial for thirty years as Muslim extremist perpetrated evil against innocent victims in the name of Allah.
I was ten years old when my home exploded around me, burying me under the rubble and leaving me to drink my blood to survive, as the perpetrators shouted �Allah Akbar!� My only crime was that I was a Christian living in a Christian town. At 10 years old, I learned the meaning of the word “infidel.”
I had a crash course in survival. Not in the Girl Scouts, but in a bomb shelter where I lived for seven years in pitch darkness, freezing cold, drinking stale water and eating grass to live. At the age of 13 I dressed in my burial clothes going to bed at night, waiting to be slaughtered. By the age of 20, I had buried most of my friends–killed by Muslims. We were not Americans living in New York, or Britons in London. We were Arab Christians living in Lebanon.
As a victim of Islamic terror, I was amazed when I saw Americans waking up on September 12, 2001, and asking themselves “Why do they hate us?” The psychoanalyst experts were coming up with all sort of excuses as to what did we do to offend the Muslim World. But if America and the West were paying attention to the Middle East they would not have had to ask the question. Simply put, they hate us because we are defined in their eyes by one simple word: “infidels.”
Under the banner of Islam “la, ilaha illa allah, muhammad rasoulu allah,” (None is god except Allah; Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah) they murdered Jewish children in Israel, massacred Christians in Lebanon, killed Copts in Egypt, Assyrians in Syria, Hindus in India, and expelled almost 900,000 Jews from Muslim lands. We Middle Eastern infidels paid the price then. Now infidels worldwide are paying the price for indifference and shortsightedness.
Tolerating evil is a crime. Appeasing murderers doesn’t buy protection. It earns one disrespect and loathing in the enemy’s eyes. Yet apathy is the weapon by which the West is committing suicide. Political correctness forms the shackles around our ankles, by which Islamists are leading us to our demise.
America and the West are doomed to failure in this war unless they stand up and identify the real enemy: Islam. You hear about Wahabbi and Salafi Islam as the only extreme form of Islam. All the other Muslims, supposedly, are wonderful moderates. Closer to the truth are the pictures of the irrational eruption of violence in reaction to the cartoons of Mohammed printed by a Danish newspaper. From burning embassies, to calls to butcher those who mock Islam, to warnings that the West be prepared for another holocaust, those pictures have given us a glimpse into the real face of the enemy. News pictures and video of these events represent a canvas of hate decorated by different nationalities who share one common ideology of hate, bigotry and intolerance derived from one source: authentic Islam. An Islam that is awakening from centuries of slumber to re-ignite its wrath against the infidel and dominate the world. An Islam which has declared “Intifada” on the West.
America and the West can no longer afford to lay in their lazy state of overweight ignorance. The consequences of this mental disease are starting to attack the body, and if they don’t take the necessary steps now to control it, death will be knocking soon. If you want to understand the nature of the enemy we face, visualize a tapestry of snakes. They slither and they hiss, and they would eat each other alive, but they will unite in a hideous mass to achieve their common goal of imposing Islam on the world.
This is the ugly face of the enemy we are fighting. We are fighting a powerful ideology that is capable of altering basic human instincts. An ideology that can turn a mother into a launching pad of death. A perfect example is a recently elected Hamas official in the Palestinian Territories who raves in heavenly joy about sending her three sons to death and offering the ones who are still alive for the cause. It is an ideology that is capable of offering highly educated individuals such as doctors and lawyers far more joy in attaining death than any respect and stature, life in society is ever capable of giving them.
The United States has been a prime target for radical Islamic hatred and terror. Every Friday, mosques in the Middle East ring with shrill prayers and monotonous chants calling death, destruction and damnation down on America and its people. The radical Islamists� deeds have been as vile as their words. Since the Iran hostage crisis, more than three thousand Americans have died in a terror campaign almost unprecedented in its calculated cruelty along with thousands of other citizens worldwide. Even the Nazis did not turn their own children into human bombs, and then rejoice at their deaths as well the deaths of their victims. This intentional, indiscriminate and wholesale murder of innocent American citizens is justified and glorified in the name of Islam.
America cannot effectively defend itself in this war unless and until the American people understand the nature of the enemy that we face. Even after 9/11 there are those who say that we must �engage� our terrorist enemies, that we must �address their grievances�. Their grievance is our freedom of religion. Their grievance is our freedom of speech. Their grievance is our democratic process where the rule of law comes from the voices of many not that of just one prophet. It is the respect we instill in our children towards all religions. It is the equality we grant each other as human beings sharing a planet and striving to make the world a better place for all humanity. Their grievance is the kindness and respect a man shows a woman, the justice we practice as equals under the law, and the mercy we grant our enemy. Their grievance cannot be answered by an apology for who or what we are.
Our mediocre attitude of not confronting Islamic forces of bigotry and hatred wherever they raised their ugly head in the last 30 years, has empowered and strengthened our enemy to launch a full scale attack on the very freedoms we cherish in their effort to impose their values and way of life on our civilization.
If we don’t wake up and challenge our Muslim community to take action against the terrorists within it, if we don’t believe in ourselves as Americans and in the standards we should hold every patriotic American to, we are going to pay a price for our delusion. For the sake of our children and our country, we must wake up and take action. In the face of a torrent of hateful invective and terrorist murder, America�s learning curve since the Iran hostage crisis is so shallow that it is almost flat. The longer we lay supine, the more difficult it will be to stand erect.
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went out and got some Rosenborg DANISH blue cheese
YUM YUM it was good
Fred:
Actually, I agree with your thoughts on the Muslim/Western conflict.
I was challenging the youth crime theme here, and the continuous one sided postings by our erstwhile blogmaster.
The that I see here is that nobody looks at these items issue by issue. On this site its the extreme right wing conservative side that is supported time after time. That, in my opinion, is not free thought. Its just marching to the tune of a different drummer. MOst people here will blindly agree with the messages on the conservative blogs, SDA included. In my opinion, thats dangerous.
I encourage everyone to think about each issue, not to blindly follow Kate or anyone else’s lead.
Dave:…right on!
Martin B. …Cdn authorities wouldn’t have the Balls! (now that Mike Harris is gone and he was wrong in Ipperwash). Don’t forget our police departments have been castrated by police boards/special interest groups to the point of not being able to do a proper job. The concept of ‘community policing’ simply doesn’t work!
WalterP. …”..co-relation between viewing/not viewing the cartoons and being for/against publishing them.”…”curiosity can get you into trouble, I guess.”
I printed one cartoon of the SDA site and left it on the breakfast table for my sons (14 & 13). Their response? … “Is this what all the uproar is about?” A good discussion followed and two young minds went off to school with something new to ponder and wonder about.
There is certainly a co-relation as you questioned. But don’t fall for the shell game…this is NOT about the cartoons! This is about a VERY well organized and staged news-op designed to continue to escalate and inflame any situation available, for extremists’ political purposes. It is ‘their’ “raison d’etre’ and is is segued to their intolerance and to the hate in their soul. It will never end until the proported “Peacefull Muslims” stand up and take care of their own. A few recent SDA posts, from some who were raised in this pool of hate, are very enlightening. One should search them out.
As for your “curiosity” comment…never lose that!….curiosity and wonderment will lead to growth! We can all use a little of that, from time to time.
Regards to all.
What percentage of journalists cover subjects like science, technology, business, crime, medicine, art, film, tourism, sports, gardening, hobbies, tractor pulls, music etc?
Much more than 30 percent I’m sure.
Re:”went out and got some Rosenborg DANISH blue cheese”
I would like to boycott some Iranian products but I don’t like pistachios.
I do love Havarti cheese though.
Fred:…your post came through as I was typing mine….VERY powerful!!
Must…blindly…follow…extreme-right-wing Kate…
Kate, I think the Globe would have been more accurate if they had said that seventy percent admit to having seen the cartoons.
Fred: Wow-that’s telling it like it is!
Sara,
God bless your little trusting Canadian heart. Someone says that a cartoon is bad so you can’t see it and you buy into the whole religous hurt thing. Did you ever wonder just what was so bad? Maybe even just for the reason that if you know what it is that offends them then you won’t accidentally do something similar and offend anyone else? Did you not even wonder, even for a second, why there was no big cry in September when the evil cartoons were first published? Or why there was no protest in October when an Egyptian paper published them? If these images are forbidden to draw or show then why can an imam show it to the crowds in order to incite anger? Ever wonder how there came to be so many Danish flags in the middle east?
Sara (and leftypup) please take your head out of the sand. you’re starting to act like a journalist.
All conservative thought is “extreme” right wing. Unlike the left where everyone is progressive.
And yes, we all blindly follow like lemings.
Click on over to rabble.ca and see the diversity of thought. Make an opinion differing, count the profanities resulting and be proud of the “progressive” left.
enough
“On this site its the extreme right wing conservative side that is supported time after time. That, in my opinion, is not free thought. Its just marching to the tune of a different drummer. MOst people here will blindly agree with the messages on the conservative blogs, SDA included. In my opinion, thats dangerous.”
Where to start? Kate’s opinions are conservative. No secret there. She is under no obligation to make you happy. It’s her blog. She has ultimate rights over the content. We, the “blind” followers, endorse her opinions because, geez, for the most part we agree with her. Likeminded people tend to assemble in the same place.
Your misguided conception of free speech is puzzling. I would really stop worrying about us mindless sheeple. You need to ask yourself why you feel the need to act as nanny to intelligent adults?
This following was deemed worthy of being censored on the G&M Comments Section:
I’m not Muslim. I’m not Catholic. I’m not Hindu. However, even if I was, I live in Canada and I expect the right to be able to discuss and discourse on a variety of subjects including the personal mythologies others have chosen to adopt as their religions. Specifically, in regards to the Danish cartoons, most really are pretty non-descript. One shows Mohammed leading a donkey. Certainly not an insulting image. Another is a strange line drawing with a green star in one of his eyes. Weird, but again, not insulting. That being said, there are two cartoons that stand out as worthy of our review and debate. The first depicted a line of suicide bombers entering heaven and the greeter yelling: “Stop, we’re out of virgins!” Perhaps I’m the only one, but how can we NOT be having this debate. Various sects call for rewards in the afterlife based on committing attrocious acts in the current life. The second was the picture of Mohammed with his turban with a fuse indicating he was a bomb. Again, how can we NOT have this debate? Islam promotes “jihad”. It is only how individual Muslims interpret “jihad” that is up for discussion. Bottom Line: Offending individuals is not a reason to impose self-censorship. The other important question is where exactly does this stop? Once, we’ve kow-towed to this specific issue because it offends their sensibilities, are we next to ban pork in hot dogs being served in public? Same principle. Their religion forbids it, they are offended by it, therefore everyone else should follow their beliefs? How about women’s clothing? They prefer women to be fully clothed at all times. Should we suddenly change our dress codes to accommodate their religious doctrines? How about behaviour?
This is a very slippery slope we’re on….As Canadians if Evangelical Christians tried to impose something like this, there’d be outrage. Regardless, our freedom to explore without bias and rationally discuss issues like this is what makes us different. And while we my show compassion and look upon the cartoon images and comment that we believe they are unfair stereotypes, in the same manner Muslim Canadians MUST allow us to have that debate. It is the right not just of non-Muslim Canadians, but of Muslim Canadians to do so as well….
“The Final Solution” consisted of gassings, shootings…. beheadings.+
The New ‘Final Outcome’
Pittsburgh Tribune Review ^ | Feb. 20 2006 | Ralph R Reiland
Posted on 02/20/2006 1:14:39 PM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
Bill Clinton called them “totally outrageous” and an “appalling example” of stereotyping. He was talking about the Danish cartoons that sparked the rioting and killings throughout the Islamic world. Similarly, Sen. John Kerry was appalled by the cartoon depictions of Mohammed — one, for example, showing the prophet in a turban shaped as a bomb. “Inflammatory images deserve our scorn,” he said.
French President Jacques Chirac, likewise, urged caution in regard to upsetting anyone’s apple cart, especially if it’s a faith-based cart: “Anything liable to rub the wrong way the beliefs of others, particularly the religious beliefs, must be avoided.”
…At the Al-Omari mosque in Gaza, a cleric laid out the bottom line regarding the cartoons and retribution:
“We will not accept less than severing the heads of those responsible.” +
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1582319/posts
I may be channeling Alanis Morisette when it comes to the application of the word irony, but wouldn’t McNally Robinson’s holding of a Freedom to Read Week in Winnipeg make one go, “hmmmm, isn’t it ironic?”
Discuss among yourselves.
Burka Sale! Get your Burka now! Lefty puppies are so cute with their big eyes! You can almost forgive them for piddling everytime someone says boo!
Small Minority of Extremists & Misunderstanders of Islam
It’s like Instapundit, but all in one post! Heh. It’s the Religion of Peace update:…
Matthew “And while we my show compassion and look upon the cartoon images and comment that we believe they are unfair stereotypes, in the same manner Muslim Canadians MUST allow us to have that debate.”
No one is stopping you. We’re all spoiled for choice nowadays when it comes to media. If you don’t like the editorial standards of a certain outlet don’t bother bitching about it simply vote with your feet. That ultimately is a far more powerful form of criticism. To do otherwise is sheer ineptitude.
Small Minority of Extremists & Misunderstanders of Islam
It’s like Instapundit, but all in one post! Heh. It’s the Religion of Peace update:…
Women’s Hockey News: USA-bronze, Sweden-silver, Canada-Gold! and not a single Burka on the ice!
Hey Greg – lefty puppies have very sharp teeth! Certainly NOT afraid of you!!
Ah, leftdog is still lurking. But still no answer to the question I posed to him/her earlier…
Scroll back leftdog. Please help me understand your strategy with Islam, Israel, et al. All ears.
Piddle Piddle Piddle
According to Nealnews, Canadian Journalist feel the cartoons should be published in all our newspapers. Only 17% feel they should not be published out of respect for the Muslims. Where I stand you must earn respect and they haven’t. Which one of our dailies is going to get some kahoneys and publish the cartoons. I will bet none. Just imagine if they did, would these demonstrations they are having all over Canada remain peaceful. I say bring it on and we will see just how moderate those Muslims are amongst us. Someone mentioned T- shirts – good idea.
I’ve seen your blogsite – Rational discourse with you is likely NOT possible.
I have many images of the pedo prophet. Most came from Persia, lefty puppy, where they were used as art on the palace walls. Oh I see, maybe the Danes snuck into the palaces in the twelth to fourteenth century and drew them! Cheeky fellows those Danes, get around a lot. Burn the history books as well lefty puppy, lots of forbidden images there! Down with the museums as well, how dare they carry graven images of the pedo prophet!
Kate;
one out of three have not seen the cartoons but what caught my eye and noted by Fred is that the image of Muhammed is not banned by the Shia. Is this true anyone? If true this should be brought to the attention of Canadians. Could it be that by trying to not insulting some muslims we are insulting others? How does that go??? No good deed shall go unpunished?