a tale of two stories [that are the same story]
Most recent post on NYC Indymedia:
A Muslim woman is under arrest and the media is lying to us again.
Ayesha Akter, a Muslim woman, is in New York police custody, under arrest for defending herself from a violent attack. The police say Ayesha used a cleaver to kill a woman named Farida Begum. There is no information on Farida's religion, but some have said that she was a Jew.
Akter was charged yesterday with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon. The Muslim community demands that Ayesha be freed.
Article in Newsday, that I read at 6am this morning:
A woman with a history of mental illness allegedly hacked her elderly mother-in-law to death with a meat cleaver after the mother-in-law refused to give her rice, saying it would make the daughter-in-law fat, police said.
Ayesha Akter, 32, is undergoing psychiatric evaluation after she was arrested in connection with the attack on her mother-in-law, Farida Begum, with a meat cleaver about 7:40 p.m. Saturday. Begum was repeatedly hit in the head, chest and legs and lost a finger in the savage assault, police said.
I don't even know what to say at the disparity between the Newsday story and the version that Indymedia is showing. I guess that Indy poster spent a good deal of energy jumping to conclusions this morning. Watch the post disappear into the netherworld of Indymedia when someone checks the facts.
Comments
classic.
Posted by: glenn | August 25, 2003 12:43 PM
The Indymedia server appears to be down. I wonder if Muslims attacked it.
Posted by: Scott | August 25, 2003 01:23 PM
You have generated a response:
http://michiganimc.org/newswire/display/3036/index.php
Posted by: Anonymous | August 25, 2003 01:24 PM
Haha, that's classic. I wonder if they have a clue as to where my political leanings go? Haha.
Posted by: Scott | August 25, 2003 02:37 PM
Indymedia - where the nutcases that are too extreme even for the nuts on the far left end up to spout their deranged ramblings.
Posted by: Joseph J. Finn | August 25, 2003 02:43 PM
That really is disgusting. Isn't there enough conflict between Muslims and Jews without creating more?
Posted by: Enigma | August 25, 2003 08:17 PM
That is what the future of America offers us?
Posted by: Fosto | August 26, 2003 04:25 AM
Indymedia does have some comic value. I myself, and a few others besides, will occasionally post conservative articles on their main web site. The responses are always mean spirited and sometimes amusing. It's a fun way to kill a lunch hour. I especially like the ones who claim I'm part of some CIA conspiracy to attack their website and 'blank out the truth'. They do think highly of themselves.
Posted by: Nexus | August 26, 2003 09:58 AM
Nexus:
"I especially like the ones who claim I'm part of some CIA conspiracy to attack their website and 'blank out the truth'. They do think highly of themselves. "
I think that's also a clue as to their politics.
"Leftists" tend to think of themselves as rulers. Power is what it's all about for them.
Posted by: Stephen M. St. Onge | August 29, 2003 06:44 AM