Rabbi Holtzberg was not murdered because of a territorial dispute over Kashmir or because of Bush’s foreign policy.

As usual, Mark Steyn gets to the heard of the matter:

Shortly after the London Tube bombings in 2005, a reader of Tim Blair, the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s columnar wag, sent him a note-perfect parody of a typical newspaper headline: “British Muslims Fear Repercussions Over Tomorrow’s Train Bombing.”

Indeed. And so it goes. This time round — Bombay — it was the Associated Press that filed a story about how Muslims “found themselves on the defensive once again about bloodshed linked to their religion.”

The discovery that, for the first time in an Indian terrorist atrocity, Jews had been attacked, tortured, and killed produced from the New York Times a serene befuddlement: “It is not known if the Jewish center was strategically chosen, or if it was an accidental hostage scene.”

Hmm. Greater Bombay forms one of the world’s five biggest cities. It has a population of nearly 20 million. But only one Jewish center, located in a building that gives no external clue as to the bounty waiting therein. An “accidental hostage scene” that one of the “practitioners” just happened to stumble upon? “I must be the luckiest jihadist in town. What are the odds?” (Read it all)

Learn More:

1. Video-- Robert Spencer takes a look a the UK's Orwellian "Islam is Peace" campaign, which is actually designed to fight critics of terrorism, not terrorism itself:


(Hat tip: Drishtikone)

2. Tom Gross: How the media tries to avoid the truth-- If This Isn't Terrorism, What Is?

3. When will the media show some consistency in defining terror?

4. London Times Coverage of Mumbai Events Includes Anti-Semitic Remark

5. Previous coverage: Mumbai attack - Analysis and Comments by Mark Steyn, Bill Roggio, & others; Videos

6. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, delivers his address at the memorial service for Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg at the Chabad House in Westwood California. Video & related links.

7. During the "Mohammed Cartoon Crisis", much of the MSM did not publish the cartoons-- often claiming that this was out of a desire to avoid hurting the feelings of the world's Muslims. But was this the real reason?

8. Mark Steyn's book-- America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It

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