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CONTOURS OF DISCOURSE

 

The old bankrupt leftist media groups of the West, seeking subsidies from governments, may say the internet is killing them.

But they are being killed solely by their refusal to report the news.

Here is the news.

On Sunday Hatun Tash was stabbed by an assailant at Hyde Park Corner in London, England.

There is no other news in Ireland, Britain, Canada, America, Australia, New Zealand, Israel or Europe.

That is to say, there is no other news in what is left of the free world.

Hyde Park is the heartland of the British tradition of free speech.

Anyone can speak there about anything.

Hatun Tash has regularly spoken there and has routinely defied any limitations on her critique of Islam.

The red lines on discourse which Muslims seek to establish by murder and violence and the threat thereof, preventing critical assessment of the Quran or the Prophet Muhammed, Hatun simply ignores and says whatever it is she has to say.

Muslims have attacked her frequently in recent years.

They must be really frightened of her.

When she was stabbed I waited for news of the incident to appear on the BBC and on other supposedly main stream news networks.

It didn't.

A day later there was a mention on the BBC's Twitter feed no less.

The BBC mention did not give Hatun's name.

The BBC did not say that she was a leading critic of Islam.

The BBC did not say that she was a former Muslim.

The BBC did not say that she was the daughter of an Imam.

The BBC did not say that she was originally from Turkey.

The BBC did not say that she had converted to Christianity.

The BBC did not say that on Sunday when she was stabbed, she was wearing a tee shirt with the logo on it of a French satirical magazine called Charlie Hebdo, a magazine which itself had been targetted for a Muslim Jihad attack in 2015 killing a dozen people.

No mention of any of this.

No mention of anything for a day.

Then. 

Just:

"A woman has been stabbed at Hyde Park and has been taken to hospital, police say."

This is why the BBC is passing into the night.

And the New York Times.

And the Washington Compost.

And the Guardian.

And RTE in Ireland.

And Independent Newspapers in Ireland.

And the Irish Times. (Guess where.)

And the Times of London.

And the super soaraway Sun.

And the Boston Globe.

And NBC.

And CBS.

And ABC.

And the Wall Street Journal.

They're all going, going, gone.

Because they have made themselves utterly irrelevant.