A recent trend has been Middle Eastern immigrants, mostly Muslims but also Armenians, objecting to the Establishment pushing the gay and trans agenda. Sometimes they do it admirably through the parents rights movements, sometimes despicably through street violence.
For mainstream newspapers pushing the Democratic Party line, this immigrant vs. LGBT stuff is tricky because it raises questions about inherent tensions in the Democrats’ Coalition of the Fringes grand strategy. On the other hand, a gay was murdered in a hate crime, a black gay! So the story is too On-Narrative to not push heavily.
But the stabber is a Muslim teen whose friends objected to the gay display as offensive to Islam. So that’s Off-Narrative.
The usual solution is to hope that readers assume, out of racist bigotry, that the Brooklyn stabber must have been Archie Bunker IV, and hope the public doesn’t pry too much into the facts.
Here’s how the Daily Mail (purveyor of masses of facts to the Awkward Squad), New York Times, and Washington Post handle the Off-Narrative fact that the black gay vogueing to Beyoncé music in a Brooklyn parking lot was stabbed to death by a Muslim.
Three days ago, the Daily Mail reported:
Dancer O’Shae Sibley is shown vogueing at Brooklyn gas station before being stabbed to death by ’17-year-old Muslim suspect’ in ‘anti-gay hate crime’ as Beyonce pays tribute
O’Shae Sibley was stabbed on Saturday at a Mobil gas station in Midwood
Police have identified a Muslim 17-year-old as their suspect but have not yet arrested him
By JEN SMITH, CHIEF REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 08:50 EDT, 2 August 2023 | UPDATED: 09:47 EDT, 2 August 2023
Surveillance footage captured dancer O’Shae Sibley vogueing in the parking lot of a Brooklyn gas station on Saturday, moments before being stabbed to death in what police now say was an anti-gay hate crime.
Sibley, 28, was attacked at the Mobil Gas Station after being confronted while dancing with his friends to a Beyonce song.
He was shirtless and wearing shorts, which offended a group of young, ‘Muslim‘ teens nearby.
One is said to have yelled at him to stop dancing, shouting: ‘I’m Muslim‘.
So, the Daily Mail puts the fact that the stabber is a Muslim in the headline half a week ago.
In the New York Times today, three days after the Daily Mail revelation, there is an article about the arrest of the Muslim teen. But the role of Islam is buried down in the 11th paragraph and then is immediately wished away:
Summy Ullah, a 32-year-old gas station attendant who witnessed the confrontation, said one of the men who approached Mr. Sibley and his friends had said: “I’m Muslim. I don’t want this here.”
At the news conference on Saturday, flanked by leaders from the city’s gay and Muslim communities, Mr. Adams emphasized that Mr. Sibley’s killing was not evidence of hatred directed at L.G.B.T.Q. people by Muslims in New York, and spoke about how both groups have been victims of hate. The two communities “stand united against fighting any form of hate in this city,” he said.
And in the Washington Post today, there’s a 19-paragraph article on the arrest of the Muslim youth that goes on and on about anti-gay hate crimes and yet never mentions a single thing about the killer being Muslim.
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