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It’s a one-headline day. The Islamic terror attack
in Orlando is horrific, and the attack is one of the few stories, IMHO, that
justify wall-to-wall coverage on the media. But the TV coverage has been, what’s
the word, abysmal.
The crawl all day long on both CNN and Fox was about, not
jihad, but the worst mass shooting in recent US history. The visuals all
day long showed police cars and ambulances with flashing lights, and of course, President Obama’s address that failed to include the
term “radical Islam” or “Islamist jihad.” Instead, our Commander-in-Chief babbled about guns and hate, all interspersed with platitudes. (Mr. Trump's statement on the Islamist terror attack is here.)
Honest coverage of this attack should focus, not on law enforcement agencies or gun control or LGBT issues, but on the military. This attack is just in
another in a long line of attacks by radical Islamists, ISIS, whatever franchise name you
choose. This attack, like all the others, is sanctioned by the official Islamic fatwas, declarations of war against Americans.
If jihad continues to be framed as a law
enforcement problem, America will always be playing defense, and the result is predictable: there will be
more and still more attacks. The attacks will never end until America recognizes
that Islam has declared war against all American (and worldwide) infidels.
The TV visuals should not be images that reinforce
impressions that jihad is a matter for law enforcement. The images should show
ISIS training camps and previous jihad attacks, of which there is no shortage: the
Boston Marathon, the Paris theater Bataclan, the San Bernardino bombers, Fort
Hood, and all the others.
UPDATE Jun-13: By 9pm on Sunday evening, CNN was running a crawl describing the Orlando attack as "the worst terror attack since 9/11", while the crawl on Fox's Megyn Kelly's program was talking about gun control.
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