Why Are the German Media Silent about Iranian Terror?

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder desperately tries to energize his doomed re-election campaign by "warning" against military "adventures" of the U.S. government in the nuclear conflict with Iran. Only with peaceful means, according to Schroeder, can the Iranian government be convinced not to develop nuclear weapons. Of course, no one in German politics or in the German media would dare to oppose Schroeder's anti-war rethoric.

Not much is heard, though, from Gerhard Schroeder and the German media about some not so peaceful activities of the Iranian government. The Iranian democratic opposition sure would appreciate some help...

Why are the German media silent about Iranian terror?

On behalf of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan-Iran (DPKI) for diplomatic relations in Germany, Austria and the European parliament to the representatives of the German mass media:

My dear Ladies and Gentlemen!

... This past month the Kurdish population took to the streets of Iranian Kurdistan’s cities to voice their demand for freedom and democratic rights and to protest the Islamic Republic’s repressive policies in Kurdistan. All month the Iranian regime’s revolutionary guards (Pasdaran) have been attacking Kurdish demonstrators. As a result dozens of people have been killed, hundreds seriously injured, and some 1000 Kurdish women have been arrested.

The arrested demonstrators have been subjected to unbearable torture. People don't dare bring their wounded relatives to the hospitals for fear of being abducted by the organs of repression and tortured to death. And for a month the world, including the media, has looked on and done nothing as people in Iranian Kurdistan were brutally beaten, shot, and tortured to death in prison. Europe’s governments turn a blind eye to the systematic human rights violations and constant murders in Kurdistan to justify and sustain their economic ties to the Iranian terror regime.

But how do the media justify their silence about all the human rights violations and the massacre of Iran’s defenseless Kurdish population? Means to combat terrorism are reported and discussed daily in Europe’s mass media. That's open for debate. But one thing is quite certain in this matter: international terrorism can’t be combated while ignoring its most important spiritual and financial patron, the Islamic Republic. ...

Consequently we appeal to you in the name of democracy and human rights and in the interest of objective reporting to break your silence about the bloody events in Iranian Kurdistan. Denounce the Islamic Republic’s grave human rights violations and inhuman policies. (emphasis added)

Sincerely, Dr. Miro Aliyar

(Translation by Richard Bartholomew)

Well, Dr. Aliyar, the German media don't turn a blind eye to unbearable torture. It's just that Abu Ghraib makes a much nicer copy, with Americans involved...

We might, at some later stage, come back to your request. Don't call us, we'll call you. 

(Hat tip Gerald)

Comments

[Gabi]

Wahlplakat SPD mit Schröder in groß:

"Wer Frieden will, muß standhaft sein".

Gegen wen? Was soll dieses blödsinnige Plakat?!

[Gabi]

http://kampagne.spd.de/servlet/PB/menu/1585108/index.html

Sorry, die url fehlte

[Gabi]

Ein anderes Plakat:

"Wir stehen für den Mut zum Frieden. Aber wofür stehen die anderen?"

Das ist einfach nur noch ekelhaft.

[Pat Patterson]

Remember Sgt. Schultz?

[Dan Kauffman]

The American Media does not do a much better job I have a post on my blog called
The News and Shell Games
What I want to know, is under WHICH Shell, can you find the pea?

I mean where is the REAL News these days?

There were over 280 protests, demonstrations and riots in Iran during the month of July, where demonstrators were not only fired upon but arrested and summarily executed on the street?

But then the OFFICIAL reports may be that their injuries were self inflicted???

http://www.angelfire.com/ky/kentuckydan/CommitteesofCorrespondence/index.blog?entry_id=1067462

[PacRimJim]

I agree with the "Why are the German media" part.

[moonfarer]

It should have become obvious by now to the foreign or domestic reader that the German mass media have become hopelessly biased. Even to the point, were they resemble strongly the departed GDR in their anti Americanism.

How could this happen? Wasn't Germany at one time before the 1970ies our strongest ally in Europe?

Germany's cultural and even historical collapse was a result of its Cultural Revolution that started in the late sixties and has not ended yet.

Ever since, the German mass media has been very selective in its reporting by picking almost exclusively on atrocities committed by friends of the U.S (like Pinochet). At the same time, they stayed practically silent about those atrocities committed by authoritarian governments who are or were enemies of the U.S. (e.g. Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Cuba, etc.)

Even in the case of 15 Million expellees from East Germany, the left wing trend in the German media supported Willy Brandt and assorted German leftists by attacking the vital interests and human rights of their own German people

One may say in conclusion, nobody should be surprised if the German media prefer to attack their old ally America, as long as they don't even shy away from attacking their own people. These are German people who suffered their own deaths of murdered Millions next to the Holocaust under the Soviet Empire.

Only a complete economic collapse under a red-red-green government might be able to open the eyes of German burgers who have been hoodwinked once again (as if the 12 years under the Nazis were not enough?)

[scum of the universe]

@gabi

"Wer Frieden will, muß standhaft sein".

I always thought it was

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

Which, aside from being a millenium or two older, also has a much better ring to it.

[LouMinatti]

In response to the question, "Why Are the German Media Silent about Iranian Terror?", the answer is quite simple. Americans aren't responsible for the deaths. It really is just that simple.

[Mike H.]

PacRim,

I'll have to agree with Dan on this one. David and Ray D. do an excellent job of watching the German media, but sometimes you have to cover the entire problem and that includes the strangely quiet 'Dignity for Mankind' folks over here.

But I forgot about Cindy.....never mind.

[Dan Kauffman]

What David and Ray D do BEST is not just watch and report the bias in the European Media but help us remember there are SOME Europeans who are with us, instead of against us. This is important to remember.

While for instance Liberte J'cris Ton Nomme the French Libertarian Party has stated that probably 90% of France is pretty much anti-American the fact that 10% is not and that Liberte J'cris Ton Nomme actually held a Pro-Iraqi War march means something to this American, the fact that along with the usual "We hate America" crowd, our President was greeted on his recent stop over in Denmark with American flags being waved snd the singing of the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

And THIS American remembers that while Spain went for the Socialist Vote in the last election and rolled over for the Jihadists it was a CLOSE election and could have gone the otherway so a LARGE percentage of Spanish citizen do not deserve teh slurs cast upon them by some.

Medienkritik is important to me not just to find out what slanders the Gernan and European Media have thrown at us lately, but to remind myself that even there. WE ARE NOT ALONE.

However I do find the word Bias to be on the tame side.

It's like saying Torquemonda and the Inquisition were biased against Jews and Heretics, it leaves out the feverish desire to see us burned at the stake. ;-)