Little Red Blog

Is it at all possible that any one not a sympathizer to the cause of Islamo Fascism, would consider the following line not wrongly stated:

"Members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida and other militants are turning increasingly to crime - from dealing drugs to selling knockoff shampoos and pirated CDs - to pay for attacks amid a crackdown on the movement of terrorist funds through world banks, security officials told The Associated Press."

Who are they kidding? Aside from the fact that the left has for so long portrayed Muslims as a peace loving people, just as the PLO is a government for the Palestinian people, rather than an oppressor and an instigator of terror, but for the reporter here to call them militants. It is clearly a sympathetic view of al-Qaeda being portrayed here. Poor pitiful Usama has to sell drugs to make ends meet. Sounds like their description of inner-city drug lords and the crime that goes on in neighborhoods that are run by thugs rather than law and order.

No where in the article does the reporter quote an official who calls them militants. Terrorist or other appropriate words are used:

"Treasury's efforts have made it harder and costlier for terrorist groups like al-Qaida to move and raise money,"

"If al-Qaida is replaced by smaller, decentralized terrorist groups, the premise behind the government's efforts - that terrorists need a financial support network - may become outdated."

Yet the headline and the opening call them "militants." Words have meaning, whether we want to look at them or not. And the AP's choice of wording shows us much about their position.

And another thing, if the so-called Muslims who continue to attack the U.S. and Israel are so much holier than everyone else, if their religion is rightly guided, while the remainder of Muslims are wrong for not being backward enough, then they must believe that their crimes of selling drugs, stealing, etc. are forgiven by "Allah" because of their later acts of martyrdom. This too shows the failure in the reporting, as a reporter, a journalist would want to find the truth and would therefore ask how Usama and his ilk would relate their actions to the Qur'ans passage:

"Fight in the cause of Allah
Those who fight you,
But do not transgress limits;
For Allah loveth not transgressors."
Surah al-Baqarah, Ayat 190

Perhaps Usama's answer would be:

"We are surely transgressors, did you see what we did on 9/11 to the infidels, so we've seen that we are transgressors, and once we knew that we weren't loved by "Allah", well we figured we might as well have drugs, stolen property and the like in our caves."

Maybe the AP writer, Alexandra Zavis, can get the interview with Usama. They might let women in the caves now.