Ignoring terror and its causes in the UK

Vasko Kohlmeyer:

There is an important trial underway in London which is getting very little media attention. On the stand are seven Muslims accused of plotting a series of terrorist attacks ranging from poisoning the water supply to crashing a British Airways airliner. To carry out the latter, they sought to recruit up to thirty men to overwhelm whatever resistance may have arisen on board. Last week a tape was played in the courtroom of a phone conversation where one of the defendants was overheard as saying:

The beauty is they don’t have to fly into a building, just crash the flipping thing… Thirty brothers on a British Airways flight… as soon as an air marshal gets up and shoots one the others just jump him.

Despite the gravity of the plots, the proceeding has received only scant mention in the major media outlets. And when it does get reported it is usually in blatantly skewed fashion. A recent BBC news story, for instance, did not state once that the defendants are Muslim. This is not the first time. Terms such as Muslim, Islam and jihad have yet to appear in the BBC’s reporting on the trail.

The sparse coverage of this event contrasts glaringly with that given to an operation which took place earlier this month. In the evening of June 2, the British security forces conducted a massive raid on a house in east London on suspicion it contained a chemical weapons lab. In the course of the operation – which involved around 250 personnel some of whom wore chemical suits – a young Arab male was shot in the shoulder. His injuries were not life-threatening and he was released within a few days. The police did not find any chemical weapons, however, and it now appears that they acted on a flawed tip.

Unlike the terror trail, this incident has proven to be a veritable magnet for media analysis. Needless to say, almost all of it has been sharply critical of the police while strongly sympathetic to the Muslims involved....

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It tells you who the Brit media thinks is the greatest threat. This flight from reality is going to get people killed unless liberals in the UK comes to their sense quickly. It is not paranoia to think that Islamic fanatics are out to kill them. The threat is real, but the British media reaction is unreal.