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Wednesday, May 5, 2010

But it Doesn't Fit the Narrative . . .

Yes, the confessed Times Square bomber was a Muslim. But so was the first guy to report the bomb. A vendor from Senegal, who, due to poor English, asked the T-shirt vendor we've all heard about to talk to the cops.

Funny how that doesn't make the front pages.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Maybe because it is largely irrelevant?

It's not like his identity as a Muslim helped him foil the attack, it was his proximity to the van. It could quite have easily been a Mexican, Polish or Australian guy...

What does this piece of 'news' demonstrate? That there isn't some kind of homogeneous, monolithic international Muslim conspiracy?

Wow, shock horror...