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 Posted: 07 July 2009 at 10:00am |
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"I guess we did hear about it in the US."
Yeah, you're right. The coverage is astounding.... four links, one from Australia, one a blog, one copied from the AP and all a week after it happened and writing about how angry the Egyptians are and how many attended her funeral.
Your ABC link was in Australia and they reported on how many Egyptians attended the funeral: Egyptians flock to court stabbing victim's funeral
Posted Tue Jul 7, 2009 11:31am AEST
The LA Times was a blog from Cairo: EGYPT: Nationwide rage over the death of an Egyptian in Germany
CNN: Egyptians angry over German court slaying
Fox: Egyptians Claim Racism in Brutal Slaying of Pregnant Woman in Germany
Monday, July 06, 2009
 Seriously, if a pregnant white American or European Christian woman had been stabbed to death in a court room in Egypt by a Muslim man she was suing for accosting her in a public park for wearing a crucifix there would be no other headlines. Period.
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Posted: 07 July 2009 at 10:38am |
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believe what you want, this did not involve an american at all so why would it be all over american news? Had it involved an american yes I believe you would here a lot about it because it would involve an american. Nice though how something like this happens and you still find ways to fault america for it.
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Posted: 07 July 2009 at 1:32pm |
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Too much sad this story. Obviously, if in the "justice" building someone is killed, it shows lot of problems: first of all, security problem... how that man (God give him what he deserves) came inside the Court with a knife????? What about the security system? Another point is the social one, and sorry to tell you but I think you cannot value the whole Europe or America because of a mad o thousand mad people. Come on!! We are millions and you are focusing only in the worst part of our societies!!! But in the same way, everytime we are trying to show you the same, you answer very fast that they are fanatics... This man was fanatic, or maybe only st**id, or mad... who knows? But it's one story, it's not the daily life of every headscarved in Europe or America. I see headscarved women everyday, in the bus, in the market, in the street, and nobody insults them, or beat them, and even they don't look at them... It's not fair.
God/Allah take care of her in Heaven, where I know she is in peace. Really, I have to congratulate her family for having such a brave woman, who was facing this man, who was taking him to the court... I really admire her even without knowing.
I'm sorry for her family.
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Posted: 08 July 2009 at 3:21am |
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I'm not faulting America, unless you define America as the media. I am pointing out an obvious double standard.
The woman Neza who was killed in Iran wasn't American, but she is all over the American news because we are supposed to hate the Iranian government. They are the next great evil.
When the Taliban kidnapped those S. Korean missionaries in 2007 that was all over the American news. No Americans involved there. But the equally evil Taliban was holding missionaries. Big story everywhere.
So I guess it really doesn't matter if Americans are involved or not as long as the perpetrators are who the media want to demonise.
If every word of this story remained the same, but the woman killed were a Jew, then every paper in the world would have picked up on the story. Pregnant Jewish woman stabbed 18 times in a German court room full of armed police by a man who made anti-semetic remarks. Oh wait, that would never happen since anti-semitic remarks are illegal in Germany so she would never have had to sue the man. He would have just been arrested for a hate crime.
Too bad this woman wasn't afforded the same protection under the law, or after. But since she was only a Muslim, what difference does it make?
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Posted: 08 July 2009 at 5:28am |
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This story is very sad- How did the man get a knife into court? Do they not have metal detectors?
Are you saying that the Islamic Republic is good and fair - people should not be protesting for a fair vote?
Government is supposed to represent the people. My understanding is that the little guy president is leading the Iranian people in a way they do not want to go.
It was not found out until much later that Neda was a Christian. Are you saying that a Christian can not represent the people of Iran?
Shasta please read-
Arabs are a semetic people. Muslim is not a race- Islam is not a race.
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Posted: 08 July 2009 at 7:52am |
Maybe you forget about the German-Jew past, that is why it is illegal to make remarks like that just like it is illegal to display a swatchika in public. As far as not getting air time, our own soldiers who died this past week didn't even get any airtime because of MJ. Some pervert dies and all of sudden the world stops to honor his life. Even on this board you all talked more about him than what is going on in Iran, Muslims being killed for peaceful protests. Yeah just an American problem though
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Posted: 08 July 2009 at 9:28am |
A U.S. Marine from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, 1st Battalion 5th Marines pauses briefly in the heat to rest with his heavy pack filled with mortar equipment, ammunition, food, and water in the Nawa district in Afghanistan's Helmand province Saturday, July 4, 2009. Taliban militants attacked a U.S. coalition base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday with an explosives-laden truck that blew up outside the gates, sparking a two-hour gunbattle and killing two American troops, officials said. AP |
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Posted: 08 July 2009 at 10:47am |
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"Even on this board you all talked more about him than what is going on in Iran, Muslims being killed for peaceful protests."
I didn't talk more about him. There are a few threads but the posters are Muslim and non-Muslim. However, the24/7 media coverage of his death in the Christian majority U.S. has nothing to Muslims.
"Some pervert dies and all of sudden the world stops to honor his life."
Believe me, the Middle Eastern channels are still covering the protests in Iran and giving much more comprehensive coverage to the war in Iraq than we have ever seen. They keep track of the American soldiers that have died AND the civilians. Like the 40+ killed by U.S. drones in Pakistan while attending a funeral. Apparently not everything came to a stop.
And the warmongering evangelical Christian Bush is the original reason the U.S. soldiers needlessly killed got no airtime. They seem to be getting more now.
"It was not found out until much later that Neda was a Christian. Are you saying that a Christian can not represent the people of Iran?"
What? I said she was not American, I didn't mention her religion at all.
Shasta please read-
Arabs are a semetic people. Muslim is not a race- Islam is not a race.
Yes, we know that Arabs are semitic. Perhaps someone should tell the Jews, the U.S., and all of the European countries that have anti-semitic hate laws that do not include Arabs.
Islam isn't a race? Really? I'm confused....
As far as I know Hate Laws apply to race, religion, sexual orientation and disability.
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