According to the left’s moral compass, the only determining factor for whether something is right or wrong is whether it aids or hinders the leftist agenda.
This from frontpagemag.com.
CNN demonstrated this anew on Sunday when its reporting about a gang rape in Italy was focused not on the horror of the crime itself, but on how those all-purpose bogeymen, the “far right,” would capitalize upon it.
CNN headlined its story this way:
An alleged gang rape shocks Italy, and provides fodder for an ascendant far right.
The Italian-language il Giornale reported on Feb. 3 that Catania:
[Was] in shock over what happened to a thirteen-year-old girl, raped by a gang of seven Egyptian boys in the municipal gardens of Villa Bellini, one of the two oldest gardens in the Sicilian city.
The girl:
[A]nd her seventeen-year-old boyfriend were approached by the pack near the bathrooms of the municipal garden of Villa Bellini, at that hour almost deserted. At a later time, the foreigners threatened the couple: while the boy was beaten, immobilized and kept away, the thirteen-year-old was raped by two of the suspects while the other five looked on. Panicked and in pain, after the second abuse the young woman found the strength to free herself from her tormentor and escape with her boyfriend.
In contrast to the CNN coverage, this appalling act of violence has shaken the entire nation of Italy and has become the linchpin for a national discussion about mass moslem migration into the country.
As far as CNN is concerned, that’s the problem.
Its Sunday report asserted that:
[The gang rape] has become not only a symbol of violence against women in the country but a cause célèbre for Italy’s far-right government.
[The crime] was soon seized upon as evidence that migrants should be blocked from entering the country.
NOTE: The manner in which the Left fashions the news, in Italy, the right-wing “seizes”; and in the U.S., Republicans “pounce.”
CNN noted that the accused gang rapists:
[E]ntered Italy by boat in 2021 and 2022 as unaccompanied minors, according to Catania police. Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, one of the country’s most visible far-right figures, said on X that they should not have been allowed to stay.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, meanwhile, “expressed her solidarity with the alleged rape victim and her family.”
As reported by CNN, the heinous gang rape of a thirteen-year-old girl is not the draw of the story, rather the racism of the accusers and the manner in which the case is being handled is of prime importance. In large part because, “the prosecutor in the case has already filed additional charges tied to illegal immigration.”
CNN’s story goes on to try to minimize the enormity of what happened and to place the blame on Italy for it, by quoting Elena Biaggioni, an advocate for abused women, claiming:
[O]f course in countries where there’s a macho culture and sexism is stronger, like Italy, this violence is justified in a different way.
CNN said nothing whatsoever, of course, about the fact that moslem migrants are involved in this kind of violent behavior on a frequent basis—an obvious reason the disrespectful, abusive treatment of infidel women is sanctioned in the Qur’an.
As exemplified by the following:
In France, a [moslem] quoted Qur’an while raping his victim,
A survivor of a [moslem] rape gang in the UK said her rapists would quote the Qur’an to her and believed their actions justified by Islam,
[I]t came as no surprise when [moslem] migrants in France raped a girl and videoed the rape while praising Allah and invoking the Qur’an,
In India, a [moslem] gave a Qur’an and a prayer rug to the woman he was holding captive and repeatedly raping,
[T]he victim of an Islamic State jihadi rapist recalled: ‘He told me that according to Islam he is allowed to rape an unbeliever. He said that by raping me, he is drawing closer to God… He said that raping me is his prayer to God,’ and
In India, a [moslem] kidnapped and raped a 14-year-old Hindu girl and forced her to read the Qur’an and Islamic prayers.
The testimony is endless. Immigration policies should indeed be reevaluated throughout the non-Islamic world in the wake of this most recent attack.
And that is what worries CNN.
