Comments on: Report: Czech jihadis plotted to kidnap, incinerate “dozens of Jews”

By: Right Voices

Right Voices — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 13:07:36 +0000

Islamic Extremists Planned to Kidnap Dozens of Jews in Prague…

Islamic extremists planned to kidnap dozens of Jews in Prague and hold them hostage before murdering them, the daily Mlada Fronta Dnes reported on Friday.
The Czech Republic’s leading newspaper quoted unidentified sources close to intelligence ag…

By: Christoph

Christoph — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 12:26:13 +0000

Non sequitur: Reuters News Agency. HerrMorgenholz

Ouch... touché. I think Herr Morgenholz discovered one that I and even Allah missed!

By: Christoph

Christoph — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 12:22:30 +0000

EFG, calling the people who planned to literally incinerate Jews all over again “extremists” several times before describing their plans as “terrorist” once is a big improvement over “miltants” and “militant actions”.

It’s a baby step. Maybe someone in Reuters decided to write something resembling the truth because he or she or they remembered that, yes, the Nazis were sonofabitches and that people emulating them can’t be very good.

By: EFG

EFG — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:18:44 +0000

Also, they only used the word "terrorist" to describe an attack, not the people responsible for it.

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Islamic extremists planned to kidnap dozens of Jews in Prague and hold them hostage before murdering them, the daily Mlada Fronta Dnes reported on Friday. The Czech Republic's leading newspaper quoted unidentified sources close to intelligence agencies as saying the captives would have been held in a Prague synagogue while the captors made broad demands that they knew could not be fulfilled. When those demands -- which were not specified by the sources -- were not met, the extremists would blow up the building, killing all who were inside, the paper added. The paper, which gave other few details, did not say whether any arrests were made and did not specify the identities of the extremists.

Only at the very end does the offensive word make it's debut.

Prague has not been a target of terrorist attacks in the past, although strict security precautions were taken several years ago to protect the downtown headquarters of U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe.

So this seems just like business as usual for Reuters.

By: EFG

EFG — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:13:24 +0000

I was just surprised..nay, even shocked…to read the word “terririst” in a Reuters article.

I suppose that now, in some Reuters office, heads are rolling.

Blaise on October 6, 2006 at 9:47 AM

Yes, spell-checking is going straight to hell over at Reuters if they let “terririst” slip past their editors…

Sorry…

By: Blaise

Blaise — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:47:56 +0000

I was just surprised..nay, even shocked…to read the word “terririst” in a Reuters article.

I suppose that now, in some Reuters office, heads are rolling.

By: insomni

insomni — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:20:51 +0000

theholyhermit: If only the policeman were more sensitive and understanding. After all, kleptomania is a disease (as Islamist terror is just part of a culture)! (It's sad, but this metaphor may not work much longer the way our justice system is headed.)

By: theholyhermit

theholyhermit — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:09:41 +0000

Way to go, Christoph.

insomni – that blasted policeman, if only he would leave me alone, I would finally be able to steal that candy bar, and then I would never feel the urge to steal again.

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By: insomni

insomni — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:13:52 +0000

mikeyboss: Someone reading the story might also wonder what's for dinner, but you don't see that in the article. If the terrorists didn't state that their plan was in response to the presence of Czech troops in Afghanistan or Iraq, why should it be included? Because Reuters believes the "root causes" of terrorism are somehow the same as the West's responses to terrorism (which requires the same "logic" that would blame a shoplifter's crime on the fact that a policeman arrested him afterwards), and wants make sure the rest of the world sees it that way also. When I read the article that paragraph stuck out like a sore thumb. Too bad Christoph beat me to it!

By: HerrMorgenholz

HerrMorgenholz — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:27:05 +0000

Non sequitur: Reuters News Agency.

By: mikeyboss

mikeyboss — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:23:38 +0000

I respectfully disagree about the non-sequitir. Of course the presence of Czech troops in Afghanistan or Iraq is not justification for terror. However, a person reading the story might wonder whether the Czech Republic is participating in those areas. It seems to me like good journalistic practice to anticipate and answer the questions of readers.

By: Allahpundit

Allahpundit — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:14:16 +0000

Christoph wins!

By: DJ Dubya

DJ Dubya — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:09:56 +0000

Non sequitur (absurdism), a comment which is humorously absurd or has no relation to the comment it follows:

Prague has not been a target of terrorist attacks in the past, although strict security precautions were taken several years ago to protect the downtown headquarters of U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe.

By: Defector01

Defector01 — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:50:22 +0000

EFG; that was Naziism which is its own evil
but yeah my mother’s side of the family ran like hell from that place along with a small percentage of the jewish community there. The survivors mostly settled in the UK/US and had no interest in returning, the rest were murdered. Czech’s jewish population is 1/10 of what it was pre WWII

By: Iblis

Iblis — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:50:10 +0000

Ah, missionaries from the religion of peace.

By: EFG

EFG — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:48:35 +0000

The country’s once-flourishing Jewish community was decimated during World War Two.

Prague has not been a target of terrorist attacks in the past,

Decimating the Jewish community in WWII certainly sounds like terrorism to me.

Is this the non sequitur?

By: Christoph

Christoph — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:29:53 +0000

The Czech Republic has a small military unit in Afghanistan and military police instructors in Iraq.

By: Defector01

Defector01 — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:25:11 +0000

Ahhh makes me feel right at home in the Czech republic
Wonder why my grandfather (may he rest in peace) ever wanted to leave. Minus the fact that when he left and today sounds awfully similar.