From Times Square to Jacksonville: When Terrorism Is a Double-Standard

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Published on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 by FlaglerLive.com
From Times Square to Jacksonville: When Terrorism Is a Double-Standard

by Pierre Tristam


As we all know, the first of this month a crude bomb almost went off in Times Square. It was an attempted terrorist attack by a less than competent 30-year-old finance professional, an American citizen of Pakistani origin who'd recently lost his Connecticut home to foreclosure and gone radical. The man was caught 56 hours after the bomb was discovered. The hurricane of media attention lasted about two weeks. The political consequences of the attack continue, with the usual other radicals in Congress and their amen rabble on Fox seizing on the plot to declare America under attack and constitutional guarantees of due process an even bigger threat to America than terrorism.

Amazing how easily one-off dimwits with bombs can scare off the country that likes to think of itself as the strongest on the planet. That's what happens when the dimwits are Muslim and the targets are recognizably American. It's a different story when tables are reversed and Muslims are the target.

Few of you know that 10 days after the attempted terrorist attack in Times Square, an actual terrorist attack took place in Jacksonville when a firebomb exploded outside the city's biggest mosque, the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida. Some 60 worshippers were praying inside when the bomb went off and started a fire. No one was injured. The bomber is still at large.

The Jacksonville Times-Union did an admirable job of covering the story and editorializing against whatever anti-Islamic motives are polluting Northeast Florida. But aside from the Times-Union and a few broadcast media in the city, that terrorist attack drew almost no attention from the national media and barely more than passing mention in state newspapers. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks every hate crime in the country, has yet to take note of the Jacksonville attack. The FBI is on the case, but even the $5,000 reward it put up looks half-hearted compared to the $12,000 the New York City Police Department put up in the search for the Times Square bomber. The FBI didn't put up the reward in Jacksonville until four days ago, and only when the mosque, a church and a national Islamic organization each put in $5,000 of their own. ..........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/25-0

[tekisui]

1. I was appalled when I found out about the successful fire bomb

that was completely ignored by the media. Yet, the dud in Times Square led to an up-tick in our Pakistan War.

[Lochloosa]

7. It was not "successful" in that it burned down the Center.

It scorched the outside of a concrete wall and a metal door.

[Bill McBlueState]

2. k&r n/t

[Oceansaway]

3. K&R...n/t

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. Our national media is rotten and corrupt to the core

They have become merely the voice of the powerful and their main role is now to lie, distract and deceive the average American about a host of issues.

[indepat]

5. Terrorism committed by those of the right political persuasion is not regarded as

terrorism by the MSM et al. :P

[Lochloosa]

6. Ok, as Paul Harvey would say....."The rest of the story"

It's true, the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida was hit by a "firebomb". It scorched the outside of a concrete wall and a metal door. The video of the person they think did this shows, what looks to me, like a typical old local redneck.

In the weeks leading up to the attack, the Jacksonville City Commission had some very contentious meetings and votes concerning putting a Muslim on the local Civil Rights Commission. There was a lot of mis-truths concerning the nominee, mostly from our local ACT!(assholes) organization. The nominee attends the Islamic Center that was firebombed.

This was a very local incident and the FBI and local law enforcement are all over it. And a 5K reward is a large amount for this area. Normally it's 1K.

Mountain out of a molehill.