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For two weeks running, stunning stories about radical Islam in America - and its implications for Jews - were muffled by the mainstream media.
First, there was the foiled plot by four ex-convicts, who converted to Islam in prison, to bomb synagogues in the Bronx. The real news here is that radical Islam has come to America and Jews will be its targets. Yet you had to go to page 26 in the New York Times' report to discover that the culprits were Muslims. In the same article that acknowledged the plot's Islamist motivations, die Times reported that the religion of die plotters "remained uncertain." Huh?
A week later, die Associated Press reported the conviction of five ringleaders of die Holy Land Foundation, a Muslim Brotherhood front group garnering funds for Hamas in die U.S. The Bromerhood is die central source of nearly all modern jihadist operations.
Yet die AP headline - "Muslim charity member gets 65 years in prison" - and its description of American agents of Hamas terrorists as "militants" seemed intended to illicit yawns. The real news here is diat prosecutors in die trial of die HLF - formerly die largest American Islamic charity - uncovered a network across die U.S. whose goal it is to radicalize die American Muslim community.
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