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What Israel and Josef Fritz have in common
02-May-2008
- The BBC and pretty much every outlet has, in reporting the Amstetten incest story, consistently used the word ‘fathered’ — as in Josef Fritzl has fathered seven children with his daughter. The word has irritated me all week but I thought if all of the English-language media can’t think of a better word how can I? Then I came across this story in Der Spiegel’s English service. It had found the word that eluded both the BBC and me: Fritzl sired children with his daughter. Ah, doesn’t that feel better.
- The only good news about the Amstetten story is that Josef Fritzl is not a Muslim. Note how the media doesn’t report ‘Christian man keeps daughter under locks for 24 years’. Had he been a Muslim so-called expert after expert would be offering amateur dissections of the ‘Islamic’ mind and how it is predisposed to such barbarity. Had Fritzl been Muslim, consumers of Westerner media could rest assured that such barbarity belongs not to Us, but Them, the darkie orientals. But no, Fritzl is white and as far as I know, Christian. Phew.
- Rightly, the people of Amstetten are reporting to be soul-searching and wondering how such horror could be going on under their noses. On the day this news arrived, news also arrived that Israel had killed four Palestinian children. Gaza, like the basement in Amstetten, is ignored by its neighbours while Israel’s policy of collective punishment carries on unchallenged, as it has done since its inception 60 years ago. How can four children be killed in one day, a people deprived of fuel for basic needs, how can they suffer zero healthcare, and poverty and how can we allow the Fritzl’s that are Israel’s spokesmen to spout their bile, while Palestine’s children pay the price? Perhaps it is their fault that they were not born in Tibet and that their cause is not as fashionable as it is morally upright. Boycott China in today’s world say Happy Birthday to Israel. It’s okay for a state to be a torturer and a murder, if not an individual.
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It's frightning to know that
by n.zanincanadai1 (not verified) on Thu May 01, 2008 06:28 PM CDTIt's frightning to know that people are so distanced from each other that none of the neighbours noticed anything. In Iran, you had mehmoons and the whole town knew!
very well said
by IRANdokht on Thu May 01, 2008 05:51 PM CDTGreat analysis
Thank you
IRANdokht
well said
by Bahram the Iranian on Thu May 01, 2008 03:24 PM CDTthanks for such fine analiysie , so few pepole here reliaze the double standard applied by big power, thanks god their power is dwindling and in decline.
Reader Beware
by Nazy Kaviani on Thu May 01, 2008 11:56 AM CDTThank you, Peyvand. Your post was thought provoking, as usual. "Sired" or "fathered his own grandchildren" make little difference to the essence of the human travesty this was.
I agree that news is headlined and delivered in ways that set public opinion in pre-determined directions. "Reader Beware" seems to be the responsibility we each have to bear, a responsibility of which many, including us, fall short.
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