NY Times Runs Glowing Profile of Islamist Rapping Lunatic, Leaves Out “Islamist Rapping Lunatic” Part
While the New York Times may, in other instances, plausibly defend their printed errors by pointing to their quarterly cutbacks and belt-tightening, that argument simply does not carry merit as an excuse when an entire article can be thrown into question by…ahem…
The very first hit that comes up when its subject is Googled.
Neil MacFarquhar of the NYT currently has the following piece up on their site:
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Young Video Makers Try to Alter Islam’s Face
When Ali Ardekani started fishing around on the Internet a couple of years ago for video blogs about Muslims, he did not like what he found: either the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims were depicted as bloodthirsty zealots, or they were offering defensive explanations as to why they were not.
“Arabic sounds foreign and scary — you don’t know what is going on,” Mr. Ardekani said in an interview at his small Sherman Oaks apartment, its walls decorated with Koranic verses. “Or they show a woman with the veil, who doesn’t speak, and it is assumed if she did speak she would say, ‘Help me!’ ”
So Mr. Ardekani, a 33-year-old Web designer, cast himself on his video blogs as Baba Ali, an outsize character with a serious religious message who both dissects and lampoons the lives of American Muslims.
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The role model is Bill Cosby, who young Muslim filmmakers believe changed the perception of African-Americans by depicting them as ordinary.
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Ali Ardekani…Ali Ardekani…
Where have I heard that name? Trying Google…
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Oh, of course! Ali Ardekani, founder of psychopath Islamist rap group “Soldiers of Allah”!
Seriously, NY Times. It’s. The. First. Hit. On. Google.
Here’s some of Soldiers of Allah’s Bill Cosby-esque lyrics.
Remember that episode where little Rudy was all, “we won’t die for these Kafirs!” And Cliff Huxtable was like, “Peace in the Middle East / Never was / And never will be /Until kufur regimes slap their head on the ground bowing down to Allah!”
Man, I miss that show.
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May 9th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Good catch!
May 11th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Very good indeed! the Times is increasingly submerging itself in the mire of its own making, alas.
May 11th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Thanks! Unfortunately, this kind of whitewashing seems par for the course over there.
May 11th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Ahh the New York Times (Slimes) - all the news that’s fit to fabricate