The world was shocked after the news broke of a deadly suicide bombing at the Manchester arena in England at about 10:30 PM (UK time) on Monday. The bomber, who has now been identified as UK born Libyan origin 22-year-old man Salman Abedi, reportedly blew himself up near one of the exits just as the crowd was filing out of a music concert.
The attack resulted in the death of 22 people, mostly young women and teenagers including an 8 years old girl. Reports suggested that the ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, the bomber Salman Abedi also reportedly had ties clear ties to the Al Qaeda and had also received terrorist training abroad.
The report also claimed that Abedi’s own family members had previously informed about him to the police. Also the bomb used is being thought to be too big and sophisticated and was made using material that were hard to obtain in Britain, hence it was possible that the attacker might have had possible help from others.
However, most of these pieces of information was presented (and some denied) with ‘liberal’ dash of political correctness. This behavior was nothing new as in the past too we had reported how the Berlin terror attack in December last, where a terrorist drove a truck through a busy street killing 12 people, was styled as a “lorry attack” by various media houses.
Here are a few instances:
Some publications took on themselves to highlight religion of people who were helping. A user on twitter had posted a picture of a Sikh cab driver who was offering free rides to victims. Cosmopolitan, a glamour magazine, got in touch with him asking permission to use that picture, to which the user readily gave. When the report came out people found that the magazine had used the Sikh cab driver’s picture for a “Muslim Taxi drivers took kids trying to escape the Manchester Ariana Grande concert home form free” article:
This is why 5-simple-tips-to-remove-makeup types magazines shouldn’t attempt serious journalism.
(SS – @AapkiMallika) pic.twitter.com/J7C0qO5z9s— Spaminder Bharti (@attomeybharti) May 23, 2017
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“Muslim drivers in Manchester helped people ride home free”
We cldnt get one pic of them, so here’s our proof, a Sikh driver.— Adi (@reviewero) May 24, 2017
The media houses also started to give new novel politically correct names to terrorist attacks. In April after a attacker had mowed down 4 pedestrians using a truck in Stockholm, the Economist had proceeded to report it as “vehicular terrorism”.
This time they found a way not to use “suicide bombing” in the reports:
@AP Uhhh. You mean scuicide bomber? Or is that too provocative a term to use nowadays.
— Tammy Geraldson (@TammyGeraldson) May 23, 2017
Some could give the terror attack altogether new spin – it was about gender:
Ingenious way for leftists to avoid talking about Islam. Just blame all men. pic.twitter.com/ydzuJ9iKWL
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) May 23, 2017
All such attempts were done apparently to save Muslims and Islam from backlash. To which a user had this reaction:
The children of Manchester are pulling pieces of other humans’ flesh out of their hair and people are worried about ‘Islamophobia’
— Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon) May 23, 2017
A user also questioned Twitter over its decision to limit his account even though he had just tried to shut up a writer who had cracked an utterly distasteful ‘joke’ after the attack:
Great priorites, @twitter. Limiting my account rather than his says it all. pic.twitter.com/YC0O3yfuVM
— Shyam (@pronouncedsham) May 22, 2017
One gave suggestions which the politically correct media could implement:
We don’t want to give the Manchester bomber the celebrity he craves. Therefore, we shall refer to him by the pseudonym, “David Duke.”
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) May 23, 2017
A media house carried an article which touted the same old cliched line:
There’s only one way Britain should respond to attacks such as Manchester. That is by carrying on exactly as before https://t.co/EeVHOry3lG pic.twitter.com/sHFU4bhmpM
— The Independent (@Independent) May 23, 2017
The positive responses to it were given a smart reply by an user:
@GodfreyElfwick I keep getting robbed because I leave the front door open. I could close it but I feel doing that would be a victory for the thieves.
— Nick Soapdish (@Nick_Soapdish) May 23, 2017
Another ‘liberal’ reaction in wake of terror attacks is “let us keep politics away” – this political correctness was also called out this time:
Why do we suspend politics when a terror attack happens? I want to know how our politicians plan to stop these attacks. Or don’t they know?
— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) May 23, 2017
