I noticed something interesting about the press coverage of the San Bernadino shootings. Before any facts came out, before we found out that the shooters were Muslims and ethnically Pakistani and, before the talk of radicalization hit the news, the press was freely speculating that this attack could be the result of right wing militias.
There are many who are hesitant to criticize Islam for fear of reprisal. Many news organizations refused to publish the cartoons of Mohammed that spawned violence in Europe. Yet the modern narrative is that 8right wing militia groups* are the bigger terrorist threat in the US.
If that were the case, if right wing militia groups were to be feared more than radical Islam, why is the press so free and loose with denigrating and denouncing them and so hesitant to even say “radical Islam?”
Could it be that they themselves don’t believe the words that come out of their mouths?
Or are they just stupid?
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