Over on Channel 4 Jon Snow, having thought it was a good idea to reveal information that threatened the lives of British soldiers, has now surpassed himself.
Referring to the Mumbai attacks:
The killers, announced Jon Snow at the top of the show, showed a “wanton disregard for race or creed”.
Really? Is that why they demanded British and American passports in the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel? Did they murder the inhabitants of the only Chabad Jewish centre in the city because there was .
Perhaps in Mr. Snow’s world however this was the most politically-correct of atrocities. The terrorists, keen on demonstrating that they were killing for reasons that had no creedal or racial basis, singled out specific national and religious groups for killing to ensure that they met sufficient equal-opportunity-to-be-butchered quotas? In that sort of view the Jewish centre was targeted not because of a pathological anti-semitism, but to make sure they weren’t excluded from an infamous part of Indian history.
To be fair though, that doesn’t demonstrate the “disregard” that Mr. Snow refers to. For it to be disregard they would have to have not targeted anyone. For that to be the case the events would have had to unfolded differently.
Bad reporting at the best of times, but considering that the targeting of the Chabad centre was widely known and that most witness accounts referred to the demands for British and American passports, this crosses the line into either stupidity or a more sinister wilful ignorance of the facts.
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