If all human lives are equally valuable, as the so-called “mainstream media” pretend, why do they highlight some while completely ignoring others?
Take the recent Israeli/Palestinian conflict. For two weeks, day after day, hour after hour, the media showed emotionally-charged videos, pictures, and provided regular updates of Palestinian lives lost, with 248 being the most recent figure.
If the average American was asked why the media so dwelled on this conflict, including by providing regular and updated statistics, their response would likely be that any human death is a terrible and therefore newsworthy matter—hence the media are only doing their job, objectively and fairly.
But if that was really the case, why do the media completely ignore so much other suffering and death—often exponentially worse than what the Palestinians experienced in both quality and quantity—around the world?
Consider the ongoing genocide of Christians in Nigeria, for example. In that west African nation, 248 is about the number of Christians killed by Muslims every few weeks, going back for some two decades now. According to the most recent report, between January and April of this year alone, 1,470 Christians were hacked to death. On average this comes out to about 368 Christians killed every month for four months straight.
According to a more general report, “Not less than 32,000 Christians have been butchered to death by the country’s main Jihadists” between just 2009 and the first quarter of 2020; 13,000 churches were additionally destroyed by “Allahu Akbar” screaming Muslims since just 2016.
It is only slightly better for Christians in other sub-Saharan nations: in Mozambique, the Central African Republic, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Burkina Faso, Muslims are terrorizing and slaughtering Christians, and have been for many years now.
Yet one expects that only a tiny, miniscule percentage of those Americans who heard about the Palestinians ever heard about the slaughter of tens of thousands of Christians all throughout Africa, since the media seldom report on and certainly never dwell on the latter.
This is all the more irresponsible considering that the reason Christians are being brutally slaughtered—because they are Christians, because Muslims are taught to hate and subjugate the “other”—is certainly more newsworthy, than, say, why Palestinians get killed (terrorism crackdowns and other mundane factors).
Is the media racist, then? Do black lives not matter?
In fact, no lives intrinsically matter for the media; only those that can help push a certain narrative have any value for and are therefore worth reporting by the media. And, increasingly, wherever one looks, that narrative is about demonizing the innocent and/or law-abiding and exonerating the guilty and/or law-breaking.
Thus, every year in America, several thousand blacks, including children, are tragically killed by other blacks (324,000 between just 1979 and 2014). The media could care less. Yet, when one black man, George Floyd, was inadvertently killed during an arrest, the media went ballistic in an effort to further the narrative that all police are “racist.”
Of course, the media never cared about George Floyd; they only cared about using him to demonize the police, whose job it is to maintain law and order.
Similarly, the media do not care about the Palestinians; they only care about using them to demonize Israel, which is also trying to maintain law and order, including by defending itself against nonstop terrorist attacks from its Muslim neighbors.
From here, one also understands why it is that when the shoe is on the other foot—when the guilty butcher the innocent, as Muslims are doing to Christians, not because they are trying to maintain law and order, but because they hate “infidels”—the media is silent: that status quo is apparently fine as is and requires no attention, certainly no amelioration.
True. The MSM does not care how many innocent people die. …
… and I would dare say that they not only don’t care, but the hard-core leadership gets a kick out of knowing that they are helping the killers.
… If anyone does not believe that, he is naive.
Leftists believe normal people are evil, and criminals, rapists and murderers are just victims who have snapped due to the horror of living with people who don’t hate, don’t kill, don’t rape,
… and generally don’t do anything wrong other than fret about whether they can cheat on their taxes and still go to Heaven …
*** May God watch over Raymond and his family,
… and give us the grace to pray for our enemies to repent and be saved.
Correct,
“Trial by media” is commonplace.
Media nevertheless continue to print opinion, and verifiable fact takes a holiday- once a fundamental for proper ordering of news.
Media seldom print the nitty-gritty, because the populace is indoctrinated by TV, so deeply
that screenwriters all know to fit in with the bottom line: Don’t make the viewer feel bad.
Builders of the Roman Coliseum would be very comfortable with that attitude.
But this is what is prevalent in the west, and the book “Islam and the Suicide of the West” is a cogent title for that book by Solimeo.
The West sit in comfortable armchairs balancing a beer on their stomachs, watching the nice bits while Christians are butchered all over again and again.
The fastest growing religion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Carribean (Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic,Bahames etc), Central America (Guatemala, Honduras etc), South America (Guyana, Suriname etc) is Pentecostalism.Look the religion map of Africa here: https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Religion_distribution_Africa_crop.png
Can’t agree more! Us Christians are faulty of not trying to get the media and politicians to act fairly on this.
Blessings
The fastest growing religion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Carribean (Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic,Bahames etc), Central America (Guatemala, Honduras etc), South America (Guyana, Suriname etc) is Pentecostalism.Look the religion map of Africa here: https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Religion_distribution_Africa_crop.png
I was thinking that but Raymond Ibrahim expressed it so billiantly. BLM but they don’t matter so much it seems when they’re Christian or Jewish.
Thank you for this article, sir. I I truly enjoy reading your articles, they are such an eye-opener. As a Christian and a Black woman, I have come to the simple realisation that not only is it a crime to be a person of African descent, especially the Bantu, but a crime to be a Christian as well. I often read comments on social media when something happens in Africa, and they leave me speechless as to the amount of hatred people who know nothing about us have for us. Even in my own country as a South African we still suffer the same, even though we’re depicted as a rainbow nation.
Don’t get me wrong, I have seen across the border loving people of all race and religious background and do acknowledge that as Black persons we also do err against people of other races and descent – especially our African brothers and sisters, a matter that makes wonder how we can hate so much when we know how painful it is to be hated just because of who you are…
As a Christian, I do take comfort in the scriptures, knowing that our Lord Jesus never hid from us what we would go through (Matthew 24:9), for example. If my Master and Lord was hated by this world, I am no greater than Him, and should therefore not expect any less than what He suffered – persecution and hatred in this world. I am encouraged by my Chinese and North Korean brothers and sisters in the Christ, whose faith in Christ Jesus is so strong despite their persecution. They never complain, or wish misfortune on their persecutors.
Am I saying that the ruthless killing of innocent people daily because of their faith in the Lord Jesus is nothing to be concerned about? No, it is a tragedy. A tragedy rather for those who commit these acts for they kill the body while our departed brothers and sisters though dead are alive, we shall rejoice with them eternally…These killers on the other hand, if they do not repent, their fate is worse off. A fate no one should have to meet.
So you see, weekly we pray for the persecuted church all over the world in my church, and praying has taught me this one thing, to love the church’s enemies and pray for those who persecute us, plead for their souls to be saved from eternal damnation. What else can we do except love them like our Lord has loved even them, giving His life on the cross for all…?
I should stop here…
Continue doing the good work you do, sir, and may the good Lord bless you.
The fastest growing religion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Carribean (Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic,Bahames etc), Central America (Guatemala, Honduras etc), South America (Guyana, Suriname etc) is Pentecostalism.Look the religion map of Africa here: https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Religion_distribution_Africa_crop.png
The Arabs are good at deceiving people. Hamas sacrificed women, children and some soldiers in order to get the world to be on their side. Human sympathy is always with the underdog. But the wise do not rally to support the evil Hamas has done to its own people and to the Israelis.
May the Prince of Peace reign in Jerusalem.
The fastest growing religion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Carribean (Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic,Bahames etc), Central America (Guatemala, Honduras etc), South America (Guyana, Suriname etc) is Pentecostalism.Look the religion map of Africa here: https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Religion_distribution_Africa_crop.png
The fastest growing religion in Sub-Saharan Africa, Carribean (Haiti, Jamaica, Dominican Republic,Bahames etc), Central America (Guatemala, Honduras etc), South America (Guyana, Suriname etc) is Pentecostalism.Look the religion map of Africa here: https://pt.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Religion_distribution_Africa_crop.png