If you received this photo by email: Please read the following:Urban Legends

This is a very timely reminder from Baron at Gates Of Vienna about a photo that was widely circulated around the Internet and surfaced on many blogs. I got this and set it aside and decided NOT to publish the photo. As Baron mentions, there was something that did not seem on the level or quite right with the photo. Turns out my hunch was spot on but I never thought to mention here. I am a bad dog for that one as I should have. Baron has summed this up quite well. I have deleted for good from the computer.

This one of the major reasons I think so highly of Gates Of Vienna. Baron and Dymphna are first class people all the way, with extremely high morals and ethics. They set a very high standard and maintain this at all times. Their site is one of the best you find out on the Internet. Long before I started PC, I spent a couple hours a day at Gates Of Vienna. I did not realize this at the time but I was getting an education about proper blogging manners and protocol. So to Baron and Dymphna, thank you for the standard you set long ago and work so very hard to maintain at all times.

Roger Gardner who started Radar Watch also had a very profound influence on me and how I comport myself here. Roger is the one who pushed me out of the nest as one can call it. He was the main person who encouraged me to start PC. Roger, I know you can see and hear from where you are, rejoicing with the Lord. Thank you, I owe you much.

If I could figure out a way to make a living at this I would do it 24/7, or damn close to that. Reality is a cruel mistress and very few bloggers make a supportable or even a supplemental wage from their sites. I have thought about taking donations but do not feel that is quite right at this time, and perhaps that will never happen here. I do track hits and numbers but that is NOT why PC exists. Those of you who tread here on a regular basis(THANK YOU!)you know it is about stopping islam, sharia law and being a Constitutional conservative. I am align myself with NO party. I am a Constitutional Conservative and a staunch counter jihadist, period, end of story. 

You will find one comment from Zenster, who is a contributor here at PC, from time to time. It is below the article and fits well with Baron has to say. Read the comments at G Of V for some great commentary on this subject.

Here is Baron's article.

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Watch Out for Urban Legends

By Baron Bodissey

A few weeks ago a particularly gory photograph was being sent around by email and presumably posted on various websites. It purported to show a Christian woman in (I think) Iraq who had had her heart ripped from her chest and a cross shoved down her throat by Muslim fanatics.

The photo was sent to us two or three times, and I hastily deleted it from our webmail to try to keep Dymphna from opening it. She has PTSD, and can be triggered by seeing gruesome images and reading tales of slaughter and horrific suffering.

I declined to post the photo for the same reason, and also because it was totally undocumented. Lurid images and tales that get passed around by email are more often than not urban legends of one sort or another. Remember the Palestinian “child brides”? That video is still being passed around with the inaccurate explanation attached.

As it turns out, in this case I was right to be suspicious, if what our commenter Benny D. says is correct:

The image of the woman with the cross down her throat in the youtube clip about Aramaean Christians is taken from the film “Inner Depravity” by Remy Couture, a gorefilm producer. Here’s the ‘just before’ shot.

It has NOTHING to do with Muslims murdering Christians!

This sort of thing is the Christian equivalent of the “blood libel” about Jews that remains so popular among Muslims. Retailing spurious information about Muslims can only harm our efforts. The truth, though often less gory, is sensational enough — why opt for sensational lies?

I recommend that any unsourced information, especially a photo forwarded by email, be researched to establish at least a minimum of plausibility before it is published or forwarded again.

Charles Johnson is notorious for using photographs (even doctored ones) without any context, as an indictment of persons or groups he opposes. We should decline to use the same tactics ourselves. 

Zenster said... 1 The truth, though often less gory, is sensational enough — why opt for sensational lies?

Actually, Muslims too often provide the world with acts of equal or even greater depravity. So why the need to fabricate when these cretins will do the job for you? Wasn't slitting the throat of a three-month-old infant depraved enough?

Baron, it is to your eternal credit that you continue to post these corrections and clarifications whenever they come through. Far too many others simple dodge the bullet or duck out on their journalistic obligation to uphold the truth. All of which perpetuates a perception that the counterjihad is some ragtag flash mob instead of a growing and organized power to be reckoned with.

It is your strict adherence to a high standard of ethics, among many other worthy attributes, that keeps Gates of Vienna at the top of the blogsphere's heap for quality reporting on Islam and the counterjihad.

Thank You Very Much,

Zenster

Original article is here.