Media Ignore The Fact That Man Who Alerted Police To Times Square Bombing Is A Muslim Immigrant

[grassfed]

The chief suspect in the case of the failed Times Square car bombing is Pakistani-American Faisal Shahzad, who has confessed to the plot. Much of the media has latched onto Shahzad’s Muslim faith and his Pakistani identity, making inflammatory remarks and suggestions about Muslims and Pakistanis:

– CNN contributor and Redstate.com blogger Erick Erickson complained that the words “muslim” and “Islam” are “not mentioned” enough in stories about Shahzad. He wrote, “It really is pathetic that you’re more likely to see the words “racist” and “Republican” together in the newspaper these days than “terrorism” and “Islam.” <5/4/2010>

– Hate radio host Neal Boortz tweeted, “OMG! The Times Square Bomber is a Muslim! Shocker! Who would have believed it?” <5/4/2010>

– The cover of today’s Washington Post-published Express features a black-and-white photo of Shahzad with the sensationalist headline “MADE IN PAKISTAN” <5/5/2010>

Yet one fact being ignored in the American media’s sensationalist narrative about the failed bombing is that the man who was responsible for police finding the bomb was Muslim. The UK’s Times Online reports that Aliou Niasse, a Senagalese Muslim immigrant who works as a photograph vendor on Times Square, was the first to bring the smoking car to the police’s attention.

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[mrJJ]

1. Go Figure...

Fair & Balanced... Messenger fired before the Cop

Fox affiliate refuses to air video of cops brutalizing innocent Latino, even though the video was shot by one of their own employees. Why did it take nearly three weeks for video of a Seattle police officer hurling a racial slur and then stomping on an innocent man to be shown on local television?

The video was shot the night of April 17 by Jud Morris, who worked earlier in the evening as a freelance photographer for KCPQ.

He said he first offered the footage to Q-13. At first, management was excited about the video, Morris said.

But two days later, "I was told 'We’re definitely not going to run this. It’s not egregious. The cop didn’t do anything wrong.'"

A few days after he shot the video, he was fired, Morris said.

After KIRO 7 aired the video Thursday night, Q13 put the video on its website and shared it with other local media outlets.

KCPQ had no comment on the matter.

KCPQ attorneys sent a letter on Friday asking KIRO 7 to stop showing the video and to take it down from kirotv.com.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/23492858/detail.html

Fair & Balanced affiliate... Almost got away with sweeping this under the rug

http://www.kirotv.com/video/23490379/index.html

[dmallind]

2. Hmmmm.... not really

Well into five figures on a google search for his name.

Two other claimants who spoke up first.

Neither ignored nor definitively the right guy.