RIDICULOUS JOURNALISM – AT 9:31 A.M. ET:  The New York Times, once a great paper, has gone completely berserk since Charleston, reflecting the radical views of its publisher.  Every second article is about race, race, race.  The paper's return to the sixties is almost complete.  And it's gone even further left on the Middle East.

Yesterday, in an absolutely disgusting display of intellectual corruption, The Times ran an editorial essentially exonerating Hamas, and stating that the extremist group could not be expected to live up to international norms because, get this, as a terrorist entity it couldn't meet those standards.  But Israel would be expected to.  Talk about cynicism.  Give the terrorists a break.  They are, after all, terrorists.  Next we'll be told that kids in school who fail should be given A's since we can't expect much of them, so why not make them feel good?

This morning The Times runs a story that equals any in cynicism, as follows:

WASHINGTON — In the 14 years since Al Qaeda carried out attacks on New York and the Pentagon, extremists have regularly executed smaller lethal assaults in the United States, explaining their motives in online manifestoes or social media rants.

But the breakdown of extremist ideologies behind those attacks may come as a surprise. Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims: 48 have been killed by extremists who are not Muslim, compared with 26 by self-proclaimed jihadists, according to a count by New America, a Washington research center.

The slaying of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church last week, with an avowed white supremacist charged with their murders, was a particularly savage case. But it is only the latest in a string of lethal attacks by people espousing racial hatred, hostility to government and theories such as those of the “sovereign citizen” movement, which denies the legitimacy of most statutory law. The assaults have taken the lives of police officers, members of racial or religious minorities and random civilians.

Non-Muslim extremists have carried out 19 such attacks since Sept. 11, according to the latest count, compiled by David Sterman, a New America program associate, and overseen by Peter Bergen, a terrorism expert. By comparison, seven lethal attacks by Islamic militants have taken place in the same period.

COMMENT:  What deceptive rubbish.   The whole purpose of that piece is to take attention away from radical Islam and put it on "right-wing" groups.

Of course domestic terror organizations will produce greater casualties.  In fact, it's stunning that there aren't more.  Domestic groups are here.  They're organized here.  They operate easily on American soil, and blend in.  Jihadist groups have a tougher task, but that didn't prevent the Fort Hood jihadist from murdering 13 people on his base.

Ignored by the story are the attempts at mass terror by jihadists that have failed, like the attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit or to set off a large bomb in Times Square in New York.  Also ignored are the terror attempts by jihadists that have been broken up by law enforcement.  And while no one really believes that white supremacist groups are trying to get weapons of mass destruction, it's a foregone conclusion that jihadist groups are working on just that.

The objective of The Times, as a leftist paper, is to link domestic terror with "conservative" causes.  It's downright dishonest, but typical.

June 24, 2015