So light you’ll hardly notice it, unless you look
Maryam has a piece replying to David Shariatmadari in the Guardian today…eleven days after she asked them for a right of reply. They heavily edited her piece, so she published the unedited version in a post. She introduces it:
On 8 October, the Acting Editor for Comment is Free wrote to say a “very light edit” had been done on my article including “a few tweaks for flow, house style, and to make the piece as accessible as possible for non-expert readers.”
Shockingly, the “light edits” included substantial changes, including the removal of references to Ali Shariatmadari and CAGE prisoners as well as all the relevant links, which would have helped “non-expert readers.”
Moreover, where I mentioned Islamism as a killing machine with an example of Bangladesh, Islamism was changed to “violent jihadis”. After asking that it be kept as is (since even those not deemed violent jihadis by the Guardian are killing people via “Sharia” laws for example), it was changed to “violent Islamists”, which I again challenged. The sentence was then tweaked to what it is now.
Despite my insistence, however, references to Ali Shariatmadari and CAGE were not included (which meant I had to remove the Emwazi reference as it was linked to the CAGE example). I was told: “The line about CAGE and defensive jihad was removed on the advice of our lawyers” and that “the description of the Islamic cultural revolution as “Ali Shariatmadari’s ‘Islamic cultural revolution’” would be confusing to readers.”
Clearly, the problem is not just David Shariatmadari’s but the Guardian’s editorial line in favour of the Islamists.
You can see a side by side comparison of the two here.
Christ, I can remember when reading The Guardian was the best thing this side of heaven.
Now it’s on the far side of Pravda.
Well, the last paragraph sums up the situation, we need, desperately, to ‘reclaim the left’, if we can find it.
There seems to be a campaign by apparatchiks of the “Left” to present Islamism as a totally separate ideology, when in fact it’s just another aspect of Islam, the Guardian’s creative editing seems to confirm the trend.
Why was the acronym ‘ISIS’ changed to ‘Isis’?
Wow. I commented on the Guardian article, saying the it was edited and giving the title of Maryam’s piece without linking. It was removed as not meeting their community standards. I reviewed the community standards, all ten, and my simple comment did not break one of them. I’m awaiting my next comment deletion, which was just stating that the prior comment did not break any of the rules.
…Yep, in the time it took to write above, they deleted my second comment.
Jeezis.
Guardian — of what, one may well wonder.