The establishment media in the West seems to have determined that it is a top priority for them to whitewash Islam’s image as much as possible. Any news that reflects poorly upon Islam must be reported as if Islam had nothing whatsoever to do with it; all aspects of Islamic jihad attacks that make them identifiable as such must be downplayed or ignored altogether. This is a consistent pattern I’ve observed repeatedly for 23 years. No one ever breaks ranks, but the same establishment media outlets that regularly whitewash Islam also all turn around and wring their hands over “Islamophobia,” reporting with a straight face that Muslims and Islam are negatively portrayed in the media.
“How Nigeria’s Media Rewrites Massacres into ‘Clashes,’” by Mary Kiara, TruthNigeria, September 19, 2026:
(Abuja) – As Fulani-tribe terrorists slaughtered 25 sleeping Christians in Plateau State in August, state-influenced press pipelines sanitized the massacre into a minor communal clash, deceiving international newsrooms.
On August 18, 2026, armed Fulani ethnic militia invaded Binper village, a predominantly Christian community in central Nigeria’s Plateau State at midnight, moving house-to-house to execute sleeping women and children.
Eyewitnesses described raiders chanting “Allahu Akbar” while hacking women children with machetes.
Yet, within hours, the truth underwent a deliberate transformation.
The Spin Machine
The moment local village leaders documented 25 murdered civilians; government security forces activated Abuja’s Wash-and-Spin Machine. First, top police authorities “condemned” the attack.Second, State Commissioner of Police Faniyan CP Ayodeji started the wash. He assured the public that “the Command will do everything within its constitutional powers to identify, arrest and prosecute those responsible,” according to the Police press release.
TV News Central added the bleach. It breathlessly reported the attack on August 20 and deplored its cruelty at length, yet without a hint of embarrassment, neglected to report who the attackers were, although the attackers were speaking the Fulfulde language of the Fulani tribe.
The TV reporters, all savvy professionals, likely had seen the TruthNigeria headline the previous day: “Fulani Militia Kill 27 in Concurrent Attacks in Nigeria’s Plateau State.” But News Central had the good news: after 27 deaths a single suspect had been arrested. Identity of that person, charges filed against him? Silence.
To appease state broadcast regulators, local Nigerian newspapers sanitized headlines to read “fresh Plateau attack,” completely avoiding any mention of religious targeting. By the time the news reached Western wire services, the spin cycle was complete: the world was told the slaughter was merely a “farmer-herder conflict driven by resource competition”, according to Reuters. (Oddly, Reuters on the scene: their story was filed by two men, one in Kano and another in Maiduguri, both cities far from Mangu County.)…
When American newsrooms repeat sanitized phrases such as “farmer-herder clashes,” Washington policymakers receive a false narrative. Relying on flawed reporting, foreign officials fail to recognize that radicalized militias are systematically displacing native-Christian populations.
Raja says
Having been in media I know how much of news is controlled by govt. But Reuters and others have gone one up whitewashing religion-inspired massacres. Immoral Left, like Islamists can go any length to manipulate news for allah, who incidentally is epitome of all things evil found in the Judeo-Christian values.
somehistory says
Ah, yes the “image”…..must be worshipped; life and death are involved.
‘ 5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to blaspheme God, and to slander his name and his dwelling place and those who live in heaven. 7 It was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language and nation. 8 All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast
The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.”
Just a little bit from Revelation 13.
This is why the governments and media hide the Truth about the “beast and its *mage*”