All the news that's fit to twist

Check out this sensationalist headline on LGF.

'Honor Killing' Epidemic in Britain

In a post which includes a devastating one line of commentary from the 'lizard clown' himself he states.

At least 17,000 women are victims every year.

You would conclude that 17,000 women are being killed in Britain every year because of the 'epidemic' of this barbaric practice.

The first line of the piece however (which Charles quotes) puts it into context.

Up to 17,000 women in Britain are being subjected to “honour” related violence, including murder, every year, according to police chiefs.

So that's not 17,000 murder victims then, despite what Charles misleadingly states in the headline and his one line post. Police estimate the number of killings at about 12, which itself is a horrific figure but not exactly an 'epidemic' as Charles states.

Now we here at LGFW believe that one victim who suffers because of an 'honor crime' is too many, but as a label 'honor crime' is useless and unrepresentative.

Obviously Charles highlights this on his blog in the context of painting Britain as being 'Islamized' and the dreaded Muslims importing their religious fanaticism, but in reality 'honor killing' is far from being a uniquely Islamic problem. Immigrants from South Asia are the most likely to be the victims of these crimes and many cases have involved Sikhs and Hindus. Even Christians have been found to indulge in the practice.

None of the world's major religions condone honor-related crimes. But those who are guilty have sometimes tried to justify their actions on religious grounds. I suppose this is good enough for bigots like Charles Johnson.

The Genius of Charles Johnson

In response to this piece by AFP (Which he headlines 'AFP Shills for Hamas again'), it is quite obvious that Charles Johnson is either so ideologically blind that he reads bias and twists news at will or that he is a complete and utter moron.

Here's the AFP piece.

RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AFP) - Seventy-year-old Naim Ahjazi needs just a half-hour — 45 minutes at most — to run across the border to Egypt and pick up the desperately-needed farm supplies that he paid for last week.

But the Hamas gunmen standing guard at the frontier are not moved — after nearly two weeks of unfettered access between Gaza and Egypt, the border is shut again.

“I paid for the supplies, but the shop was closed all day yesterday so I couldn’t pick them up,” says Ahjazi, his tanned face etched with despair and resignation as he looks over at the border just metres away.

Quite how this is 'shilling' for Hamas when the piece quite clearly points out that the Hamas gunmen were'nt moved by the plight of Naim Ahjazi. How is this 'shilling' for Hamas?

Oh and Charles Johnson's advice to 70 year old farmer Naim Ahjazi regarding his problems?

Easy way to make things better: stop trying to kill people.

Yes, because all Palestinians are terrorists aren't they Chuckles?

(http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=28829_AFP_Shills_for_Hamas&only)

Quote of the year....

...and we're only in June!

Chuckles Johnson over at Killing an Arab has his bike shorts in a bunch. Why? Well, because that’s what he does. He sits around waiting for something, preferably involving a darkie, to cross his computer screen that he can be offended by.

Mister Leonard Pierce

Helping Charles find his place

The lizard-king asks (in response to a pretty non-descript piece Chicago Sun Times)...

"Right-wing.” Don’t you wish LGF was that easy to classify(?)

Ok, Charles you have a point. To describe your site and the bunch of genocidalist racist morons you have as commenters as 'right-wing' is quite misleading. It insults the decent right-wingers, the ones that don't want to nuke Mecca, the ones who don't want to put Muslims in camps, the ones who don't want to start wars every five minutes, the ones who don't mock the tragic loss of life in Palestine, the ones who don't charge around the internet like a group of sycophantic brownshirts, the ones who don't use their alleged 'support' for Israel to justify anti-Arab racism, the ones who don't cheer the death of journalists and peace activists, the ones who don't make death threats, the ones who don't see 9/11 as the coming of armageddon, the ones who......you get the drift.

So rather than "right-wing" how about the more apt "bigoted genocidalist"?

Source: littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=25065&only&rsssmall