Jewish Man Attacked in Brooklyn By Muslims Yelling ‘Allahu Akbar,’ Media Silent
On March 19th, I found a story on The Jerusalem Post detailing an attack by Muslim youths on a rabbinical assistant that occurred at a Brooklyn, New York subway station. The youths grabbed Uria Ohana’s yarmulke off his head then ran off yelling “Allahu Akbar,” which is Arabic for “God is great.” I have waited four days to report this story myself to see what other news outlets decide to cover the incident and how they would cover it. So far, the only U.S. news outlet that covered it was the New York Post. It has been nearly ignored by the rest of the media.
The dearth of coverage is curious because it seems a natural story for the left to get their “hate crimes” dander worked up over. After all, we have a Muslim gang attacking a lone Jew right in the middle of Brooklyn! Yet, the news gives us zip for coverage.
And this story is no mere he-said story as an arrest was made of an Arab man who was one of the attackers.
Of course, many in the media are cowed by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that claims that anti-Muslim hate crimes are on a wild tilt upward. CAIR claimed that the number of reported cases from 2005 to 2006 increased at a rate of 25.1 percent from 1,972 cases to 2,467. CAIR also claimed that true “hate crimes” rose from 153 cases in 2005 to 167 incidents in 2006.
But these claims by CAIR neither comport to the FBI’s statistics, nor do they come close to the anti-Jewish statistics in this country.
The FBI, for instance, reports that in 2006 there were 1,750 documented cases of anti-religious hate crimes. Of that number nearly 66 percent was anti-Jewish with only just under 12 percent being anti-Muslim. The FBI’s reported numbers do not match CAIR’s claims at all.
Anti-Jewish crime is up all across the world these days, yet the media stay silent. Of course, the media is all agog when ABC claimed they “discovered” anti-Muslim sentiment even though they had created it themselves, but where are the MSM stories about this real incident of anti-Jewish sentiment?
So, why has the media ignored this story? Isn’t a hate crime a hate crime? Isn’t news of a gang of Muslim youths attacking an innocent man in the middle of one of our largest cities the sort of news that people should know?
Can anyone doubt that the media would be all over this story if it had been a Muslim youth attacked on the streets of Brooklyn?
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March 25th, 2008 at 7:06 am
When trumpets were mellow
And every gal only had one fellow
No need to remember when
‘Cause everything old is new again
Dancin’ at church, Long Island jazzy parties
Waiter bring us some more Baccardi
We’ll order now what they ordered then
‘Cause everything old is new again
Get out your white suit, your tap shoes and tails
Let’s go backwards when forward fails
And movie stars you thought were alone then
Now are framed beside your bed
Don’t throw the pa-ast away
You might need it some rainy day
Dreams can come true again
When everything old is new again
And do-on’t throw the past away
You might need it some other rainy day
Dreams can come true again
When everything old is new again
When everything old i-is new-ew a-again
Too bad people dont know HOW things happened in other places. too bad they dont remember that German Fascism, and Soviet communism, started as socialism…
its much like a corn field. you dont see the corn grow. but one day, its time to harvest.
March 25th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
The media was also silent about the cheering crowds of muslims in New Jersey after 9/11.
Makes you wonder, doesn’t it ?
March 25th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Bush 41 and Bush 43 pulled the same trick on us that Nixon did – he left a thread hanging that only he could fix.
Nixon: “I have a secret plan to end the war” – used twice.
GHWB: leaving Iraq intact in 2001 – so he could make money from it several more times through Carlyle, Haliburton, KBR, etc.
There must be some reason why we just don’t kill the ones with weapons, take over, and keep the oil, right?
Because we ran Germany and Japan pretty well after 1945 – didn’t cost $2 trillion either.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:30 am
Coooo Coooo