The Los Angeles Times of 3/23/04 carried a headline on its front page: “Assassination by Israelis Sparks Protests, Outrage.” Written by Mark Magnier and Ken Ellingwood, the first sentence of the article reads:
“GAZA CITY -- Israel’s assassination of Hamas spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin sparked international condemnation Monday as tens of thousands of Palestinian protesters flooded the streets here demanding revenge.” (Emphasis added)
In another front-page article -- “Sharon Bets on Weakening Hamas” -- by Laura King and Ken Ellingwood, the second sentence reads:
“In eliminating Yassin, the aging, ailing founder and spiritual leader of Hamas, Sharon has wagered that the strike would leave the Islamic militant group’s disciples reeling and disoriented….” (Emphasis added)
What’s happening?
We’re witnessing a strange sight: some of the top journalists of our time – at one of the most prestigious newspapers in the country – drifting into a black hole of moral incomprehension.
The Orwellian Los Angeles Times pronounces to us that: a hideous mass killer, one of the cruelest terrorists of our age, should be considered a “spiritual leader”! Hamas – which deliberately seeks innocent women and children to blow up -- should be called a “militant group”!
This confusion of the soul – wherein evil is called good – is one of the most frightening developments of the modern age. The inability of the contemporary liberal "eye" to recognize evil – even when evil rips off its mask and leers into our face -- is truly astonishing.
Nietzsche…anyone?