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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on March 08, 2026, 05:30:16 PM
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New York City has not only just experienced yet another jihad terror attack; it also has just given us a particularly revolting example of the leftist tactic of DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. In New York and in the establishment media today, when Islamic jihadis strike, it’s another instance of “Islamophobia” and Muslims are the victims.
New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani was full of righteous indignation. “Yesterday,” he wrote early on Sunday afternoon, “white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion rooted in bigotry and racism. Such hate has no place in New York City. It is an affront to our city’s values and the unity that defines who we are. What followed was even more disturbing. Violence at a protest is never acceptable. The attempt to use an explosive device and hurt others is not only criminal, it is reprehensible and the antithesis of who we are.”
Anyone reading that would get the impression that “white supremacist Jake Lang” or his followers were the ones who attempted to “use an explosive device and hurt others.” That would have been a reasonable assumption if one formed one’s opinions solely on the basis of establishment media reporting about this incident.
In reality, while Mamdani doesn't name the perpetrators, the violence came from two Muslims who came to protest against Lang’s group, and lobbed an IED at them while screaming “Allahu akbar.” None of the coverage, however, talks about Islamic jihad violence. Instead, the establishment media, like Mamdani, works hard to give people an idea of this incident that was just the opposite of what really happened.
CBS News’s Sunday afternoon story on the incident begins by giving the details of the “anti-Islam protest” under the headline “Improvised explosive found at protests near Manhattan's Gracie Mansion, Mamdani's official residence, NYPD says,” giving the impression that the “anti-Islam” protesters targeted Mamdani.
Only in the sixth paragraph, at a point where most readers have stopped reading, does CBS get around to noting that “a counter-protester, identified as 18-year-old Emir Balat of Pennsylvania, lit and threw an ignited device toward the protesters.” Then in the seventh paragraph, we learn that “in videos depicting the chaos, a man appears to yell ‘Allahu Akbar’ just as Balat throws the device that Tisch described as ‘a jar wrapped in tape, importantly with nuts, bolts, and screws along with a hobby fuse.’”
That’s what’s known as an Improvised Explosive Device, or IED, unless the person throwing it is a Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” in New York City. Other media outlets, meanwhile, were just as bad or worse than CBS. NBC New York ran with the headline “Mayor Mamdani was home when protesters lit device outside Gracie Mansion,” as if he had been the target, and while it named Jake Lang, it identified the two Muslims who actually threw the IED, Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi, only as “two young men from Pennsylvania,” once again giving the impression that they were part of Lang’s group.
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2026/03/08/there-was-a-jihad-bombing-in-new-york-city-and-heres-how-mamdani-and-the-media-framed-it-n4950412
You can't hate the legacy media enough.
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white supremacist Jake Lang organized a protest outside Gracie Mansion rooted in bigotry and racism
translation: Jake Lang was exercising his first amendment rights outside Gracie Mansion and Zohran the Lesser got butt hurt and blamed Lang for a terrorist attack Lang didn't do.
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I saw a YouTube from some news organization, with some title like "Explosive device found at protest outside Mamdani's home". I thought, "Hmmm, what are you not telling your audience?". ::)