By Daily.pk
While US main corporate media units, particularly CNN and Fox TV stations, were 24-7 covering the Mumbai attacks, Humans were massacred in the city of Jos, in Nigeria. In terms of the number of the victims, Nigerian Muslim victims were double of the number of the Indian victims.
In Iraq, dozens were also killed, and scores were injured, in addition to protests against the US-Iraqi security pact, which allows US forces to stay in Iraq three more years, meaning that the Iraq war may continue for the same period.
In Afghanistan, 61 Afghanis were massacred in just two days by US-led NATO and Afghani forces.
The Israeli brutal siege of Gaza Strip continues, punishing about 1.8 million Palestinians, who began to starve and who are living in darkness after the severe shortages of food and fuel supplies as a result of the Israeli occupation government siege.
The CNN-Fox continuous coverage of the Mumbai attacks for the last five days was a golden opportunity to run away from the news they do not want the American people to know.
It has been a perfect example of how certain news are focused upon and others are ignored completely even if they are more important.
It is also an attempt to impose the defunct ‘war on terror’ on the Obama administration.
America is in need of a publicly-funded and independent TV network, which tells the American people the truth as it is, not as the special interest groups want it to be.
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December 2, 2008 at 10:02 pm
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January 9, 2009 at 5:42 pm
The purveyor/creator of the central myth set forth in this article must be either demented or ill-informed. To allude to Muslims being massacred in Jos, Nigeria, in support of his writing is reprehensible. The writer must have been relying upon the ignorance of his readers as to some of the on-the-ground realities in some of the regions he relied upon for his spurious renditions. Jos, Nigeria, is a recent hotspot in the rather historical bloodletting involving Muslims (as purposeful aggressors) and the other members of the Nigerian society. This pattern of bloodletting led to the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970). That war began as a result of the pogrom (now referred to in modern parlance as “ethnic cleansing”) perpetrated against the Igbos of the Eastern Nigeria, who just happened to be conveniently of mainly christian and animist dispositions, by the Muslim North. That has been the pattern in Nigeria. That country has enjoyed, since its inception in 1960, rulership by the mainly Muslim North. Over the decades, which included years prior to the independence of that country from Great Britain in 1960, the Muslim North would from time to time, amuse their masses with gruesome bloodletting and mass murder of people from the East of Nigeria, who were mainly of the Igbo tribe. To have someone refer to the recent events in Jos as a massacre of Muslims defies commonsense and again, on-the-ground facts. I will not concern myself with the main thrust of the writer’s effort. My objective is to address this egregious misstatement of a painful historical fact, as it relates to the Nigerian experience. I wish the writer can update his tome with a rejoinder to this comment.