Mali Reveals the Media's Gaza Bias

By Noah Beck

I support France's military action in Mali. But the media's reaction to it -- when contrasted with coverage of Israel's military actions in Gaza -- reveals flagrant double standards. More on that after my reasons for supporting France's Mali operation. Islamists - like those who overran Mali last March - reverse human progress and bring misery to those they subjugate: women, religious minorities, moderate Muslims, secularists, gays, and anyone else who doesn't accept their primitive worldview. Islamists vitiate Islam, twisting its meaning and practice to advance their real aim: brute power. To that end, they break whatever Islamic and non-Islamic laws they please, engaging in drug smuggling, kidnapping, human trafficking, victimizing perceived opponents, and murdering innocents. They viciously disregard life, property, and culture. Al-Queda destroyed 3,000 American souls and the Twin Towers on 9/11. The Taliban pour acid on the faces of girls seeking an education. Ansar Dine, the Islamists in Mali, last summer ruined much of Timbuktu's archeological treasures after deeming them "idolatrous." They also imposed sharia "law," flogging.... (Read Full Article)