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As Pamela Geller said yesterday, "Clearly the media is no longer taking a passive role, or even objective reporting. The media has become an activist voice for supremacists and the far left."
The pioneering historian Bat Ye'or is the latest victim of this irresponsible advocacy. She was misrepresented yesterday as expressing regret for inspiring the mad murderer in Norway, as if she were accepting the media's relentless claim that she had some responsibility for his murders. In fact, that was not the case. Here is her statement:
The immediate rush of the press upon authors mentioned in the writing attributed to the criminal looks like a set up campaign to make them responsible for this crime perpetrated by a psychopath whom no one knew except the police. It is clear that it is a libelous campaign to suppress any criticism and free thinking.